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off- Instant Expert: Ancient History: Egypt DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. Long before the Romans built their first mud huts, ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental… [ read more ]
$14.95- $11.99
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off- Instant Expert: World History: The French Revolution DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. A dethroned king, a flamboyant queen, the storming of a fortress prison and an infamous bloodbath known as the Reign of Terror ?… [ read more ]
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- Democracy in Action Classroom Edition DVD
- "Democracy in Action Classroom Edition One of the most important factors in American government is the right of all citizens to participate and influence government decision making. This new Classroom Edition set gives students an in-depth view of our democracy by delving into the formation… [ read more ]
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- 8 1/2: Essential Art House DVD
- Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning 8½ is the Italian maestro’s iconic story of a director’s creative block, and the ultimate movie about movies. Marcello Mastroianni charmingly embodies adulterous scamp and world-famous director Guido Anselmi, whose romances, dreams, and memories become the… [ read more ]
- $19.95
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- America In Transition: Interactive Lesson Plan with DVD
- AMERICA IN TRANSITION includes: ELLIS ISLAND - First-person accounts from immigrants - what America meant to them, what or who they left behind, what they brought in their lone wicker suitcase as they crossed into an unknown future - are the foundation of this compelling documentary on… [ read more ]
$145.00- $55.99
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- HISTORY takes a fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic and truly ruthless leaders, the new series Absolute Tyrants cuts through the folklore to present an accurate portrait of characters from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, Caligula to Cleopatra. [ read more ]
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- Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films DVD
- In 1999, Polish director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Academy Award(r) for his body of work-more than thirty-five feature films, beginning with A Generation in 1955. Wajda's second film, Kanal, the first ever made about the Warsaw uprising, secured him the Special Jury Prize at Cannes… [ read more ]
- $79.95
- Au Hasard Balthasar DVD
- A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, director Robert Bresson's AU HASARD BALTHAZAR follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar,… [ read more ]
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- Au Revoir Les Enfants DVD
- The long shadow of Malle's autobiographical memoir of occupied France continues to fall heavily across subsequent representations of World War II, boarding school, and male adolescence--in fact, it would be difficult to identify a recent film that addresses these concerns and does not, in… [ read more ]
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- Ballad of a Soldier DVD
- Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he singlehandedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual… [ read more ]
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- Ben Franklin: Interactive Lesson Plan with DVD
- A writer, scientist, politician, ruthless competitor, diplomat and a founding father of this great nation. To use a purchase order, please call 1-800-344-6336. To contact your regional History Education Sales Representative for volume sales, c [ read more ]
$39.95- $27.97
- Bicycle Thieves DVD
- Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of… [ read more ]
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- Breathless DVD
- There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of… [ read more ]
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- Che (Spanish) DVD
- Far from a conventional biopic, Steven Soderberghs film about Che Guevara is a fascinating exploration of the revolutionary as icon. Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero,CHE paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (with a stunning,… [ read more ]
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- Cranes are Flying DVD
- Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines...and then communication stops. Meanwhile, Veronica tries to ward off spiritual numbness while Boris' draft-dodging cousin makes increasingly forceful overtures.… [ read more ]
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- Danton DVD
- Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extemist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to Polish… [ read more ]
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- Early Expansion: Interactive Lesson Plan with DVD
- A look at the growth of our fledgling nation; the people and events important to this influential time. To use a purchase order, please call 1-800-344-6336. To contact your regional History Education Sales Representative for volume sales, click [ read more ]
- $145.00
- Essential Art House Beauty and the Beast DVD
- Once upon a time, in a world of magic and wonder, the true love of a beautiful girl may finally dispel the torment of feral but gentle-hearted beast. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (La Belle et la Bete) is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy, in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures… [ read more ]
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- Essential Art House: Brief Encounter (English) DVD
- One of cinema’s most timeless love stories, David Lean’s BRIEF ENCOUNTER stars Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson as a married doctor and a housewife who meet one gray evening on a London train platform and embark on a tentative, forbidden romance. Lean directs this exquisite adaptation of a… [ read more ]
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- FDR CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- FDR: A PRESIDENCY REVEALED - Using previously unreleased pictures, oral histories, home videos, secret White House recordings and a cousin's diary, this program explores the character of the man who stood at the epicenter of American politics for 12 of the most turbulent years in the… [ read more ]
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- For All Mankind (English) DVD
- In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of: landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert’s documentary, For All Mankind, is the story of the… [ read more ]
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- General Idi Amin Dada (English) DVD
- In 1971, the small African nation of Uganda was taken over by self-styled dictator General Idi Amin Dada, beginning an eight-year reign of terror that would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. In this chilling yet darkly comic documentary, director Barbet Schroeder turns his… [ read more ]
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- Great Adaptations (English) DVD
- Criterion presents four classic literary adaptations together in a single set at a special price. Featuring the previously-released editions of David Lean's Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, plus Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies and Ernest B. Schedsack and Merian C. Cooper's The Most… [ read more ]
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- Great Expectations (English) DVD
- David Lean's handsome adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel captures the warm humor and richness of character that so many filmmakers miss in their reverent recreations of Victorian England. From the nightmarish opening sequence on the windswept graveyard where young orphan Pip… [ read more ]
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- Hamlet (English) DVD
- In the opening scene of Hamlet (1948), Laurence Olivier's voice-over describes the play as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind." But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. Drawing on his experience playing the… [ read more ]
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- Harlan County USA (English) DVD
- This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a… [ read more ]
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- Hearts and Minds (English) DVD
- A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources-from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad-Davis constructs a… [ read more ]
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- Henry V (English) DVD
- Laurence Olivier mustered out of the Navy to film this adaptation of Shakespeare's history. Embroiled in WWII, Britains took courage from this tale of a king who surmounts overwhelming odds and emerges victorious. This sumptuous Technicolor rendering features a thrilling recreation of the… [ read more ]
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off- Instant Expert: American History: Ben Franklin DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. He negotiated an alliance with France, helped write the Declaration of Independence and was the first to tame lightning. Yet… [ read more ]
$14.95- $11.99
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off- Instant Expert: American History: The Mayflower DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. The epic saga of the pilgrims and their journey to and colonization of the New World is one of the fundamental narratives of our… [ read more ]
$14.95- $9.99
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off- Instant Expert: Arts & Literature: Beowulf DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. Myths are often the first stories we learn as children-iconic tales where good and evil clash, and humanity and fantasy collide.… [ read more ]
$14.95- $5.99
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off- Instant Expert: Science & Technology: Oil DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. An energy source unrivaled in efficiency and power, oil is the driving force behind today's industries and economies. It touches… [ read more ]
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- Ivans Childhood DVD
- The great Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature, IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Ivanovo detstvo), is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the… [ read more ]
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- JFK CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- JFK: A PRESIDENCY REVEALED - Using primary sources, audiotapes and first-hand accounts from staff and family, this program follows the life of the nation's magnetic 35th president from the Cuban Missile Crisis through his tragic assassination in 1963. (1 CD-Rom; 2 DVD approx. 300 minutes.) [ read more ]
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- Jules and Jim DVD
- François Truffaut's third feature, though it's named for the two best friends who become virtually inseparable in pre-World War I Paris, is centered on Jeanne Moreau's Catherine, the most mysterious, enigmatic woman in his career-long gallery of rich female portraits. Adapted from the novel… [ read more ]
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off- Korean War: The Making of A Blood Bath Part 1 DVD
- An examination of the Korean War, which set all the rules for East/West conflict during the nuclear age, and in so doing, brought an unknowing world closer to all-out atomic war than has ever been told. In this episode, a North Korean surprise attack finds desperate and unready U.N. forces… [ read more ]
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- La Strada DVD
- Federico Fellini had been making films for a few years, but with the 1954 release of La strada, the Italian director set himself on his way to becoming one of international cinema's household names. A delicate, immensely moving tale of love and loss between strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn)… [ read more ]
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- Latin America CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set 2 with DVD
- The Latin America 3 pack set includes Ponce de Leon, Mexico: Courage and Conquest, and The Maya. These CD-ROM lesson plans include short video clips organized by theme, primary source documents, maps, and other historical images, discussion and review questions, internet-based student… [ read more ]
- $110.00
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- Lewis & Clark CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- LEWIS AND CLARK - This documentary uses journals and firsthand sources in a colorful exploration of the classic westward journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. (1 CD-Rom; 1 DVD approx. 50 minutes.) [ read more ]
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- The story of the great battle's aftermath and the events leading to the dedication of the national cemetery and President Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address. [ read more ]
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- M DVD
- A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. “Who is the Murderer?” pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert, played by Peter Lorre (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon), closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing… [ read more ]
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- Naked Lunch (English) DVD
- You are now entering Interzone, William S. Burroughs's phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia, and crawly things. Best travel advice: "Exterminate all rational thought." In David Cronenberg's superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, the novelist himself becomes a main… [ read more ]
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- Nanook of the North (Silent) DVD
- Robert Flaherty's classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region. Enormously popular when released in 1922, Nanook of the North is a cinematic milestone that continues to enchant audiences.… [ read more ]
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- New World Order CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set 6 With DVD
- NEW WORLD ORDER includes: JFK: A PRESIDENCY REVEALED - Using primary sources, audiotapes and first-hand accounts from staff and family, this program follows the life of the nation's magnetic 35th president from the Cuban Missile Crisis through his tragic assassination in 1963. (1… [ read more ]
$110.00- $42.99
- Night and Fog (French) DVD
- Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps'… [ read more ]
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- Oliver Twist (English) DVD
- Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Lean's Oliver Twist with a nightmarish quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Here Alec Guinness is the… [ read more ]
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- Olivier's Shakespeare Collection (English) DVD
- Dubbed the greatest actor of the twentieth century, Sir Laurence Olivier, the classically trained and majestically handsome English theater veteran, first transplanted his passion for Shakespeare to the big screen in the 1940s, and in so doing, allowed Elizabethan verse to break free of its… [ read more ]
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- In 1969 Nixon said that the 1970s "must be the years when America pays its debts to the past by reclaiming the purity of the air, its water and our living environment." Join Steve as he explores the environmental movement that kicked off in the 70s, from Niagra Falls and Love Canal to the… [ read more ]
$24.95- $19.99
- Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (English) DVD
- All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson (1898–1976) was a towering figure and a trailblazer many times over. He made perhaps his biggest impact, however, in the medium of film. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a… [ read more ]
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- Ponce De Leon CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- As one of the world’s most daring early explorers, Ponce de Leon traveled thousands of miles across unknown seas in search of the mystical fountain of youth. Under the auspices of the Spanish crown, de Leon led trailblazing expeditions to Puerto Rico andFlorida. This video-based interactive… [ read more ]
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- Pygmalion (English) DVD
- George Bernard Shaw wrote the screenplay adaptation of his own beloved stage masterpiece about Professor Henry Higgins's wager to turn a low-class flower vendor into a 'proper lady' and won an Oscar for his efforts. Pygmalion, which would later be adapted once again, as the musical My Fair… [ read more ]
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- Richard III (English) DVD
- Following his triumphant screen versions of Henry V and Hamlet, director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier assembled a stunning cast (including Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, and Claire Bloom) for a grand realization of Richard III, produced by Alexander Korda. A Technicolor and… [ read more ]
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- Seven Samurai DVD
- Hailed as the greatest film in the history of Japanese cinema, Seven Samurai is director Akira Kurosawa's undisputed masterpiece. Arguably the greatest of all jidai-gecki (or historical swordplay films), Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of… [ read more ]
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- Shop on Main Street (Czech) DVD
- An inept Czech peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the Nazi-backed bosses of his town appoint him "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop. Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of one cowardly man's complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime.… [ read more ]
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off- Special Presentation: Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Twilight DVD
- Rod Serling narrates the history of Arab-British-Hebrew relations in Palestine from the turn of the Century through the 1960's. [ read more ]
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- Teaching Physical Science 14 Disk DVD Set
- "HISTORY presents the world of Physical Science at your fingertips! Students will explore the methods and discoveries of noted scientists and inventors, including Newton, Einstein, Edison, Pascal, and Tesla, gain an in-depth understanding of elements and compounds such as Carbon, Iron, Salt… [ read more ]
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- The 400 Blows: Essential Art House DVD
- In 1959, François Truffaut burst upon the scene, heralding the French New Wave with his emotional, autobiographical tale of a boy named Antoine Doinel, neglected by family and school, who must ultimately fend for himself on the streets of Paris. A showcase for the talents of not only… [ read more ]
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- The Burmese Harp DVD
- An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close World War II and finds harmony through song. A corporal, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon… [ read more ]
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- The Founding of a Nation CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set 1 with DVD
- A look at the people and events responsible for the birth of our nation. To use a purchase order, please call 1-800-344-6336. To contact your regional History Education Sales Representative for volume sales, click here now . [ read more ]
- $145.00
- The Importance of Being Earnest (English) DVD
- Oscar Wilde's comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to… [ read more ]
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- The Last Emperor (English) DVD
- Bernardo Bertolucci s The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and starring an international cast. Yet the power and scope of the film was, and remains,… [ read more ]
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- The Maya CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- Unearth the secrets of the great temple-city of Palenque, the center of the Mayan world to understand why the Mayans altered their historical records before abandoning it mysteriously in 835 AD. This CD-ROM lesson plan includes short video clips organized by theme, primary source documents,… [ read more ]
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- The Sahara CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- For centuries, a mystique has surrounded the vast swath of land known as the Sahara, a desert covering three and a half million square miles across eleven African nations. This lesson traces the Sahara’s mysterious history from climate and geographical changes to political and religious… [ read more ]
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- The Seventh Seal: 2 Disc Edition - The Criterion Collection
- Few films have had as large a cultural impact as Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet). Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much… [ read more ]
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- The Underground Railroad CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- One by one, for more than a century, thousands of slaves made the dangerous journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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- Three Penny Opera (German) DVD
- The sly melodies of composer Kurt Weill and the daring of dramatist Bertolt Brecht come together onscreen under the direction of German auteur G.W. Pabst (Pandora’s Box) in this classic adaptation of the Weimar-era theatrical sensation. Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian… [ read more ]
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- Throne of Blood (Japanese) DVD
- The greatest screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Akira Kurosawa’s visceral THRONE OF BLOOD (Kumonosu jô), starring Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada as the ambitious warrior and ruthless wife who try to murder their way to power and glory. Featuring some of the Japanese master’s most… [ read more ]
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- Tokyo Story DVD
- Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception, however, is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them… [ read more ]
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- USA Map Wall Decal
- The USA Map Wall Decal makes it easy and fun to plan a road trip, or teach your kids about US geography. With the included dry erase marker, you can mark it all up and easily clean the marks away. The Map is also fully respositionable and won't leave sticky stuff on your wall. The USA Map… [ read more ]
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- Vietnam in HD (Classroom Edition) DVD
- Their story is in danger of being lost to history. These are the men who won every battle in a lost war. Through a collection of color Vietnam footage never seen by the public from private collections, museums, the U.S. government, veterans’ and news organizations, as well as sources from… [ read more ]
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- Wise Blood (English) DVD
- In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston brings to life a world of vivid, poetic American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church… [ read more ]
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- World Map Wall Decal
- Keep your future destinations in sight with the World Map Wall Decal. Fully repositionable, this map is also dry erase! Plan out your next trip, use the included dry erase marker to show your stops along the way! Also great as an instant geography reference for kids—get them into geography!… [ read more ]
- $21.95
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- Years Of Crisis CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set 5 With DVD
- YEARS OF CRISIS includes: THE GREAT DEPRESSION - The crash of the stock market shocked Americans, and thrust the nation into the biggest economic crisis in years. This documentary brings together stories of the leaders, cultural outlets, and community efforts which lead the nation… [ read more ]
$110.00- $42.99
- Yojimbo DVD
- The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone (A Fistful of… [ read more ]
- $39.95
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