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When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors $9.83 Written and directed by Tom DiCillo ("Living in Oblivion"), this acclaimed documentary presents a gripping overview of the musical and cultural impact of The Doors. Through archival footage and rare performances spanning the history of the group, the film examines how vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore helped reinvent rock 'n' roll. ...

Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan $8.54 In his opening narration, director Gerald Barclay reveals that he grew up with members of the Wu-Tang Clan. That makes his profile a first-person feature, even if he doesn't turn the camera on himself. As a video producer, Barclay contributed to the hip-hop collective's early success, so he isn't exactly a disinterested observer, which gives him access, but can also result in a limited perspective...

Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Greek Myths $19.94 One of Jim Henson's finest hours was the Storyteller series that aired on HBO in 1987. As with his other non-Muppet creations (Labyrinth), Henson fills the screen with wonderful creatures that have a wisp of a J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy. Half of the eight-part series was adapted from Greek myths by Anthony Minghella, who became an Oscar-winning filmmaker a decade later with The English Patient. Minghe...

CNN: Cold War (8pc) [VHS] $99.98 If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam dragged on, providing the traditional images of modern warfare, some of the conflict's most dangerous battles were invisible--tactical, intellectual, and fought primarily in the minds and war rooms of U.S. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, Krushche...

Ancient Greece (Schlessinger Ancient Civilizations for Children) [VHS] $49.99 ...

The Travelling Players - 2 tape set [VHS] $29.95 ...

Rome: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] $48.99 Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic (and sometimes brutal) sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome, HBO's madly ambitious series that transfixed viewers with its lavishly mounted spectacle and human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Set in 52 B.C., Rome charts the dramatic shifts in the balance of power between former frien...

Clash of the Gods: 3 - Disc Set $10.99 It's paradoxical that the most heavily invented and imagined parts in this 10-episode Clash of the Gods series are so much less riveting than the simple storytelling by scholars cast to recap the myths in classroom-lecture style. In these hour-long episodes, myths are dramatized with acting that borders on farce. Men pumping their muscles and grunting or monsters' eyes glowing flaccidly into the c...

Peter & Paul DVD $12.45 This religious epic tells of the early days of Christianity and how Peter and Paul struggle to spread the word of the Gospel. Set over three decades, the drama features Robert Foxworth as Simon Peter and Anthony Hopkins as Paul of Tarsus through such events as the stoning of Stephen, Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus, their clashes and their demise in A.D. 64. With Eddie Albert, Jean Peter...

Foundations of Western Civilization - DVD - The Teaching Company $129.99 You can discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization from its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the modern world. With these 48 lectures on the people, places, ideas, and events that make up The Foundations of Western Civilization, award-winning scholar and teacher Thomas F. X. Noble of the University of Notre Dame in...

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