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The Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara

FOG OF WAR – DVD MovieThe Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a ton of archival material, including LBJ’s fascinating taped conversations from the Oval Office, Morris probes the reasons behind the U.S. commitment to the Vietnam War–and finds a

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SCTV: Second City Television Network – Volume 3

• SCTV Volume 3 serves up the final nine 90-minute episodes from the show’s acclaimed fourth season (and first on NBC), which found the creative team of actors and writers at the top of their game – inventive, silly, clever and always entertaining. Martin Short joins the cast for the last three episodes of the season, and his comic gifts find a perfect home with the SCTV cast and crew. One lo

This volume offers nine 90 minute shows from the fourth season to feed the demand for more SCTV. Broadcast on NBC in 1982, these episodes introduce new cast member Martin Short and Chronicle the height of success for characters Bob & Doug. It is here where the Shmenge Brothers (John Candy and Eugene Levy) make their first appearance and the Great White North gets the special Treatment in the “Great White North Palace” featuring Tony Bennett. Celebrities Bill Murray and Carl Perkins join the fray

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The Rifleman, Volume 1

Exciting western action, topflight production values and a strong and consistent cast of characters made “The Rifleman,” starring Chuck Conners, into a highly successful TV series during the late 50s and continuing into 1963. Connors, as a lightning-fast, super accurate marksman and devoted, single father, imbued many of the episodes with a wholesome, moral lesson. The relationship between Lucas McCain (Connors) and his young son, Mark (Johnny Crawford), is both believable and admirable, another

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The Best of Spaghetti Westerns. In the Tradition of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”

In the spirit of such great Spaghetti Westerns as A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and For a Few Dollars More, TMG presents this blockbuster collection of some of the most rip-roarin’ action packed westerns ever produced by Italian, German and Spanish directors in the badlands of Almeria, Spain. Starring some of the most recognizable faces in Spaghetti Westerns, including Giuliano Gemma, Klaus Kinski, Anthony Steffen, Stephen Boyd and Loradana Nusciak, these 20 Westerns

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Robot Chicken: Star Wars – Episode II

• Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2 brazenly combines the satirical sensibilities of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s (Stoopid Monkey Productions) Robot Chicken with the unforgettable moments and favorite characters of the Star Wars universeamong them, its creator himself, George Lucas. Transformed into the stop-motion animated characters that are the hallmark of Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, and in conjunc

Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2 brazenly combines the satirical sensibilities of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s (Stoopid Monkey Productions) Robot Chicken with the unforgettable moments and favorite characters of the Star Wars universeamong them, its creator himself, George Lucas. Transformed into the stop-motion animated characters that are the hallmark of Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, and in conjunction with ShadowMachine Films (Alex Bulkley/Corey Campodonico), the Star Wars galaxy takes on an ent

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Super 8

JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg join forces in this extraordinary tale of youth, mystery, and adventure. Super 8 tells the story of six friends who witness a train wreck while making a Super 8 movie, only to learn that something unimaginable escaped during the crash. They soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is what it wants. Experience the film that critics rave is, “filled with unstoppable imagination and visual effects to spare. It will put a spell on you.”

Contagion (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne and Bryan Cranston, along with medical journalist Sanjay Gupta, explore the real science of global viruses and what they mean to the human race. The world is preparing for the next biological disaster…but is it too late? Steven Soderbergh alternates between films about individuals, like Erin Brockovich, and multi-character thrillers, like Contagion, which takes a Traffic-style approach to a deadly pandemic. It also represents a reunion

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Wanted [Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy]

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/28/2011 Rating: RAs the impresario behind gravity-defying Russian blockbuster Night Watch, it’s inevitable that Hollywood would come calling for Timur Bekmambetov. With a studio budget and an international cast, including two Oscar winners, Timur cooks up a Hong Kong-styled actioner bursting with fast cars and big guns. Our unlikely hero is mild-mannered Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (Atonement’s James McAvoy), whose father died when he was a to

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The Falcon Mystery Movie Collection, Volume 1 (3 Discs)

Miscreants beware! The Falcon is on the hunt! Suave, sophisticated, hard-boiled and high-minded, amateur sleuths Gay and Tom Lawrence AKA The Falcon were a perfect fit for the acerbic styling of siblings George Sanders and Tom Conway. Follow the saga from the start with this 3-disc, 7 film collection.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.

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The Wild Bunch [Blu-ray]

• Director Sam Peckinpah’s film The Wild Bunch is a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honor. It is said that The Wild Bunch rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all filmsRunning Time: 145 min. Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 085391142669 UPC: 085391142669 Manufacturer No: 114266

Director Sam Peckinpah’s film The Wild Bunch is a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honor. It is said that The Wild Bunch rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all filmsHere’s how director Sam Peckinpah described his motivation behind The Wild Bunch at the time of the film’s 1969 release: “I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times. The Wild Bunch is simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. The strange

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