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In this timely documentary, Barack Obama returns to his family's roots on an emotional journey to Kisumu, Kenya - land of his father. Part personal odyssey and part chronicle of diplomacy in action, Senator Obama Goes to Africa follows Obama from South Africa to Kenya to a Darfur refugee camp in Chad as he explores the vast continent that is gaining increasing importance in this age of globalization.

More First Run films about presidents and presidential hopefuls include One Bright Shining Moment, Feed, Brothers in Arms, and With God on Our Side.

Rabble-rouser, radio host, oral historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author Louis "Studs" Terkel, who appears in our doc Sacco and Vanzetti, passed away at his Chicago home on October 31st. Terkel was known as a champion of the common man, conducting thousands of hours of interviews for his Chicago radio show and publishing multiple oral histories of the American people. Terkel once famously said that he "never met a picket line or petition [he] didn't like," and though his leftist politics got him blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he quickly bounced back and continued to work until his death at age 96. His final book, P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening, will be released on November 3rd.

Now available on DVD, the widely acclaimed Constantine's Sword follows former priest and National Book Award winner James Carroll on a journey of remembrance and reckoning. Carrol's search for the truth leads him to confront persecution and violence in the name of God – today and in the Church’s past. He discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries: from the Emperor Constantine’s vision of the cross as a sword and symbol of power, to the rise of genocidal anti-semitism, to modern day wars sparked by religious extremism. Is the fanaticism that threatens the world today fueled by our own deeply held beliefs?

The German weekly Der Spiegel, founded in the ashes of the Third Reich, has long been one of the most important sources of news in Europe, uncovering political misconduct and countless scandals, and earning the nickname "Sturmgeschütz der Demokratie"- the "assault gun of democracy." In 1988 Der Spiegel started a television division with an eye towards making factual documentaries; today, they are one of the pre-eminent producers of award-winning non-fiction films, many of which confront the history of the Nazi era.

We're proud to have released several Spiegel-TV titles, including Television Under the Swastika, The Reich Underground, Firestorm, and one of our biggest sellers, The Goebbels Experiment. Check out these provocative, informative DVDs.

At the annual auction of Swiss Art in Zurich on December 1, 2008, Christie’s will offer the most important work by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss ever presented at auction: the installation The Way Things Go (1987) and the 16mm reel of the iconic short film The Way Things Go, one of the most viewed art videos of all time.

In this ingeniously choreographed film, Fischli and Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items - tea kettles, tires, old shoes, balloons, wooden ramps, etc. Then, with fire, water, gravity, and chemistry, they create a spectacular chain reaction, a self destructing performance of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely-crafted chaos.

The ancient Maya of Central America recorded their history in an intricate hieroglyphic script for nearly 2000 years before 16th-century Spanish invaders burned their books and ruthlessly extinguished hieroglyphic literacy. By the 18th century, when stone inscriptions were found buried in the jungles of Central America, no one on earth could read them. Breaking the Maya Code is the story of the 200-year struggle to unlock the lost secrets of this ancient civilization.

Other science documentaries in our collection include Proteus, a dazzling tapestry of biology, oceanography, poetry and myth, and Death by Design, a delightfully imaginative journey into the invisible world of cells.