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Films of Michael Sporn Box Set, The
This new Collector’s Edition Box Set includes 12 films on 6 discs from the award-winning animator Michael Sporn. Including: Whitewash , The Talking Eggs, The Hunting of the Snark and more!



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Films of Michael Sporn Vol. 1, The
Enjoy two wonderful films on this DVD from the celebrated animation studios of Michael Sporn. Volume 1 (40 Minutes) includes the award-winning, true-life stories Whitewash and Champagne, with voices by Ruby Dee and Linda Lavin.



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Films of Michael Sporn Vol. 2, The
Two more films from the celebrated animation studios of Michael Sporn. Volume 2 features the voices of James Earl Jones and Danny Glover in the Lewis Carroll tale The Hunting of the Snark and the Creole folk tale The Talking Eggs.



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La Sierra
This award-winning film is the story of three inhabitants of La Sierra, a barrio in Medellin, Colombia, the cocaine capital of the world. Here, lives are defined by drugs, guns and violence.



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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
In 1975-79, the Khmer Rouge waged a campaign of genocide on Cambodia’s population. The detention center 'S21', where 17,000 people were tortured and killed, is now a museum where former Khmer Rouge are employed as guides.



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Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial.



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Sacred Family, The: Global Lens Collection
In this comedy drama from Chile, Marco brings his beautiful new girlfriend to meet his parents at their beach house, but her manipulative ways soon expose latent frictions, sexual tensions, and the unspoken rules that tie the family together.



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Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
The Mariinsky theater (also known as the Kirov) of St. Petersburg has somehow maintained its artistic excellence through war, revolution and the collapse of Communism.



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Save Me
A World Premiere at Sundance, this acclaimed drama is a nuanced and sympathetic look at both sides of one of the most polarizing debates in America: the conflict between homosexuality and Christianity.



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Save Me (theatrical cover)
A World Premiere at Sundance, this acclaimed drama is a nuanced and sympathetic look at both sides of one of the most polarizing debates in America: the conflict between homosexuality and Christianity.



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Search for Mengele, The
Josef Mengele was the most notorious SS doctor at Auschwitz. After the end of World War II, Mengele was one of the world’s most wanted war criminals – yet for the next forty years he escaped justice.



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Seaside
In a small beach town in France, beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn’t understand Marie’s dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love.



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Second Track, The
In this rare noir classic from the legendary DEFA Film Studios, a train station inspector witnesses a robbery, setting in motion an explosive unearthing of dark secrets from the Nazi era.



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Secret Society
A Film by Imogen Kimmel. The story of Daisy, twenty years old and plump as a dumpling, and her adoring husband Ken. When Ken discovers that Daisy has joined a "secret society" of women sumo wrestlers, Daisy is forced to make a difficult decision.



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Secret Things
Two young women discover the power of sex to get what they want in the male-dominated business world. Starring Sabrina Seyvecou, and told in voiceover by her character Sandrine.



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Seduction: The Cruel Woman
A Film by Elfi Mikesch & Monika Treut. Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.




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Senator Obama Goes to Africa
Part personal odyssey and part chronicle of diplomacy in action, this timely documentary follows Barack Obama as he takes an emotional journey to Kisumu, Kenya - land of his ancestry.



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September 11
Eleven acclaimed directors each make an 11 minute short film in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The result is a daring and moving global cinematic reply that "forces us to look at the entire event afresh." (The New York Times).



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Sergio Vieira de Mello: En Route to Baghdad
Award-winning documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the diplomat who was one of the most tireless and effective advocates for peace and stability the world has ever known.



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Sex & Justice
Narrated by Gloria Steinem, Sex & Justice presents the highlights of the dramatic confrontation between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings before the United States Senate in 1991.



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Sexy Gay Favorites
Three Feature Films on DVD: Coming Out, The Fluffer, Midnight Dancers.



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Shadow Kill: Global Lens Collection
In 1940s southern India, a hangman named Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out.



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Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom
The legendary actress introduces us to Shakespeare through the roles that she played including Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Lady Anne and Gertrude.



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Sherman's March
A Film by Ross McElwee. An autobiographical quest for true romance along the original route of General Sherman's Civil War March.



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Silent Star, The: DEFA Collection
The first sci-fi film made in East Germany by the legendary DEFA film studio, The Silent Star is a masterpiece in story, art and set design, and technology.



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Silent Waters
Silent Waters is set in 1979 in Pakistan, when General Zia-ul-Haq took control of the country and stoked the fires of Islamic nationalism.



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Singing, Ringing Tree , The: DEFA Collection
A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. To win the love of a beautiful but conceited princess, a price sets out to find the singing, ringing tree, which she deeply desires.




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Six O'Clock News- VHS
A Film by Ross McElwee. In Six O' Clock News, McElwee chases after murder, mayhem and catastrophe in the same way he pursued young Southern women in Sherman's March.



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So Close To Paradise
A Film by Wang Xiaoshuai. A striking noir gangster film reminiscent of Hollywood 's classic B movies from the 1940s and 50s.



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Soft Skin on Black Silk
A film by Andre Hunebelle. A sexual tale of lust, passion, and revenge...



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SoleJourney
This film reveals how courageous individuals, following in the footsteps of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., use non-violent resistance and acts of civil disobedience to confront anti-gay rhetoric as well as religious and political oppression.



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Solo Sunny: DEFA Collection
Directed by Konrad Wolf, this mesmerizing portrait of the longings and frustrations of East German’s youth also captures the gritty-glitzy Berlin of the 70s in its visuals and its catchy soundtrack.



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Something to Do With the Wall
In 1986, Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the Berlin Wall. But in 1989, as the original film neared completion, the Wall came down. They returned to Berlin, this time to capture the radically different atmosphere of the city.



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Somewhere in the City
A Film by Ramin Niami. This hilarious underground comedy deftly threads the overlapping stories of six strange but lovable residents of a NYC tenement apartment building. With Sandra Bernhard.



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Sons of Great Bear, The: DEFA Collection
In this Western created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, Gojko Mitic stars as the fearless chief Tokei-ihto, whose Dakota tribe is being driven from the land of their ancestors.



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Spark Among the Ashes
In this emotional documentary, a 13-year-old Connecticut boy stands at the center of a complex human drama that attracts world-wide attention when he travels to Cracow to participate in the first bar mitzvah there since the War.



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Speak Up! It's So Dark...- VHS
A Film by Suzanne Osten. The provocative and penetrating story of a Jewish psychiatrist whose relatives were killed at Auschwitz and his patient, an unapologetic racist and neo- Nazi skinhead.



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Special Treatment
In this darkly erotic drama, Isabelle Huppert stars as a prostitute who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele. When she crosses paths with a neurotic psychoanalyst, the two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two in common.



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Split Decision
Talented boxer Jesus "El Matador" Chavez is deported back to Mexico to face new battles: the fight to return to his life in the U.S. and to find acceptance in the land of his birth.



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Split Decision - Spanish Version
Talented boxer Jesus "El Matador" Chavez is deported back to Mexico to face new battles: the fight to return to his life in the U.S. and to find acceptance in the land of his birth.



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Steamy Art House Hits
This scintillating box set includes the following four films: Secret Things, House of the Sleeping Beauties (Maximilian Schell), Torremolinos 73 (Javier Cámara) and Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (Elodie Bouchez).



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Stolen Life: Global Lens Collection
A young girl, Yanni, is taken to live with her aunt and grandmother in Beijing. Surprising everyone, she is accepted to college. But as she prepares to begin her new life, an encounter with a delivery man triggers a series of unexpected events.



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Stonewall Uprising, The
Filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner explore the dramatic 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn that gave birth to the modern gay rights movement.



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Story of Little Mook, The: DEFA Collection
A Wilhelm Hauff Fairy Tale. Germany's most beloved children's film takes you into the magical setting of the Arabian Nights.



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Strangers In Good Company
A Film by Cynthia Scott. The surprising hit about seven old women stranded at a deserted farmhouse miles from civilization who turn a crisis into a magical time of humor and spirit.



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Successful Man, A
Cuba’s history before the Revolution is chronicled through the story of two brothers, one a revolutionary man of action, the other an unscrupulous politician trying to steer a treacherous middle path between opposing political ideas.



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Suddenly: Empire Collection
A sexy road movie with a raw freshness reminiscent of early Godard or Jarmusch, Suddenly is the story of Marcia, a lonely salesclerk in Buenos Aries who dreams of escaping her dreary life.



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Suitors, The
A well-to-do Iranian arrives in Manhattan from Teheran with his reluctant new bride, but a bizarre series of events follows.



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Sun Seekers: DEFA Collection
East Germany, 1950: two young people are arrested after the police raid a barroom brawl. Instead of a prison sentence they are forced to work in a uranium mine in Wismut. Emotions collide, as well as fists.



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Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker
Paul is a skeptic about life on other planets until one night when he encounters Suroh the Alien Hitchhiker, a complex being crash-landed from another world who gives Paul a new understanding of what life on Earth means.



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Suspended Animation
A film by John Hancock. Animator Thomas Kempton gets more than he bargained for when a snowmobile trip turns to terror in the wilds of Northern Michigan.



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Sweet Ecstasy
A Film by Max Pecas. Elke Sommer plays a voluptuous vixen in this steamy beach romance filmed on the exotic French Riviera!










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