New Videos - June 2007
On DVD:
Fast Food Nation - DVD TAC-1330
When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Svalt (Hunger) - DVD TAC-1350
Set in 1890, presents the realm of the starving writer living in a landscape of obsession. Pontus is a genius and madman, who will waste away before jeopardizing his talent, integrity, and soul.
News War: What's Happening to the News - DVD TAC-1351
America's major network news divisions and daily newspapers are under siege, facing mounting pressure for profits from corporate owners, and growing challenges from cable television and the Internet, which are remaking the economics of the business and transforming the very definition of news. FRONTLINE talks to network executives, journalists, Wall Street analysts, bloggers, and key players as Google and Yahoo! who are all battling for survival and market dominance in a rapidly changing world of news. FRONTLINE also goes inside the embattled newsroom of Los Angeles Times, one of the last remaining papers in the country still covering major national stories. Under severe pressure from Wall Street to cut costs and to compete for "eyeballs" in a new media world, editors at the paper are urgently trying to figure out what this means for their future news coverage and their public service mission.
Tickets - DVD TAC-1352
In this anthology film, an elderly businessman finds solace and a new insight into life when he meets a younger woman who arranges his train ticket after his flight is canceled. A young man is torn between an older woman who controls him and a younger one that attracts him. And three Scottish youths on their way to the football match of their dreams are forced to open their eyes and see the bigger picture when they meet an Albanian family. In each case, the train journey changes the course of all their lives.
News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin - DVD TAC-1353 pts. 1 & 2
Part I takes a closer look at the unintended consequences of the Valerie Plame investigation, a confusing affair that ultimately damaged both reporters' reputations and the legal protections they thought they enjoyed. Part II examines recent First Amendment battles between the federal government and the press -- how much can the press reveal about secret government programs in the war on terror without jeopardizing national security?
Blood and Oil: the Middle East in World War I - DVD TAC-1354
Examines the devastating conflict and Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts, and military interventions in the Middle East .
Team America : World Police - DVD TAC-1355
A group of heroic figures span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America , Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to stop the dictator's peace conference, which is a ruse to allow him to attack the world with his weapons of mass destruction.
Dreamgirls - DVD TAC-1356
Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams.
Flor Silvestre - DVD TAC-1357
When a landowner's son marries a laborer's granddaughter, his father disowns him and he joins the revolutionary element in Mexico . He later learns that a band of outlaws, opposed to the revolutionaries, has killed his father.
City Lights: a Comedy Romance in Pantomime - DVD TAC-1358
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - DVD TAC-1359
When Alice 's husband dies and leaves her with their eleven-year old son, she leaves for California , but is stranded in Phoenix . She lands a waitressing job and meets a rancher.
Only the Strong Survive: Celebration of Soul - DVD TAC-1360
This documentary brings together the stars of Stax Records to take the audience back to the glory days of soul music.
Harry and Tonto - DVD TAC-1361
Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way.
Days of Heaven - DVD TAC-1362
Visually rich story about two men who love the same woman. A fugitive from the slums of Chicago finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby.
Fatal Attraction - DVD TAC-1363
A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then shrugs it off. But the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him.
The Killing Fields - DVD TAC-1364
Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of a journalist who is covering the war in Cambodia . He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia 's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand .
Soil Biology - DVD TAC-1365
Looks at invertebrates, microbes, and other soil life forms, and explains how their biology affects the physical and chemical properties of soil. Also discusses how these soil life forms affect human daily life and the conservation of soil.
Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday - DVD TAC-1366
A re-make of "The Front Page" with the main character as a girl reporter (Rosalind Russell). The editor (Cary Grant) wants his top reporter to cover the impending execution of a murderer rather than get married and leave the job.
Eric Rohmer's Six contes moraux (Six Moral Tales) - DVD TAC-1367 pts. 1-6 & suppls. 1 & 2
A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them.
The Twilight Zone - DVD TAC-1368 pts. 1-6
This third version of the classic TV series ran for one season and includes 43 episodes, featuring high-profile guest stars. Several episodes are re-makes of stories from the original series.
Things to Come - DVD TAC-1369
After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
Damn Yankees - DVD TAC-1370
Starring the original Broadway cast, this is the musical adaptation of the novel 'The Year The Yankees Won The Pennant'. A Washington Senators fan sells his soul to the devil to become a great baseball player and to help his favorite team win the pennant.
Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - DVD TAC-1371
A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury-liner bound for France .
The Suitors - DVD TAC-1372
A well-to-do Iranian arrives in Manhattan with his new bride. His friends hold a traditional feast, slaughtering a sheep in the apartment. When blood seeps through the floor into an apartment below, a SWAT team unleashed against the "terrorists" kills the bridegroom, leaving behind a beautiful widow and her four zealous suitors.
Passin' It On - DVD TAC-1373
The story of one man in search of justice who is wronged by the nation with which he is at odds. Part indictment, part redemption tale, this film offers startling insight [into] the Black Panther Party's role in a social revolution, and the New York Police Department and the FBI's devious targeting of one of the organization's most fervent leaders--Dhoruba Bin Wahad (born Richard Moore).
Wattstax - DVD TAC-1374
On Aug. 20, 1972 , more than 100,000 people attended a concert in Los Angeles that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock.' Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending.
9/11: Press for Truth - DVD TAC-1375
Following the attacks of September 11th, a small group of grieving families waged a war against those who sought to bury the truth concerning the event.
Body and Soul - DVD TAC-1376
Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves.
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) - DVD TAC-1377
Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color.
Chicago : City of the Century - DVD TAC-1378
City of the century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world.
Regret to Inform - DVD TAC-1379
In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
The Spanish Earth/The 400 Million - DVD TAC-1380
"The Spanish Earth" is about the Civil War in Spain and the effects of the fascist uprising and invasion on the ordinary citizen and how the city of Fuentedueña works on an irrigation project while dealing with the war.
"The 400 Million": The Japanese aggression against China in 1937 forced the Chinese communists to join Chiang Kai-shek's Kwomintang to take up the battle against their common enemy. Filmed in 1938 and focusing on the battle of T'aiertshwang, this film shows all aspects of a war: the battle, the preparations, refugees, casualties and victims, the fear and distress, the human misery and the courage, and the land under fire.
The Power of Nightmares: the Rise of the Politics of Fear - DVD TAC-1381
Explores the origins of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East , and neoconservatism in America , the parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. It also looks at the use of these movements by the other to manipulate public opinion.
Le chagrin et la pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity) - DVD TAC-1382
Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand . Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
Sherman's March: a Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation - DVD TAC-1383
After being left by a girlfriend, McElwee pursues his original plans for a documentary on Sherman 's March, which changes into his personal search for a new girlfriend and focuses on the women he meets along the route.
Gang Wars - DVD TAC-1384
Gain unprecedented access to actual rival gangs from Little Rock , Arkansas . A look at the lives of local Bloods, Crips, and Folk, as well as interviews with a one-time leader of one of these gangs as he is released from prison after a decade.
One Day in September - DVD TAC-1385
This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich , Germany . From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport, for the first time, the lone surviving member of that extremist group speaks. Actual video shot during the crisis is used to help tell the story.
La Vida es silbar (Life is to Whistle) - DVD TAC-1386
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba , some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
The Education of Shelby Knox - DVD TAC-1387
Documentary which presents the political activism of high school student Shelby Knox. The film begins in 2001 when Shelby Knox, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, joins the Lubbock Youth Commission, a group of high school students empowered by the mayor to give Lubbock 's youth a voice in city government. Knowing that Lubbock , Tex. had one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease in the nation, the Youth Commission questioned Lubbock 's abstinence-only sex education policy. Shelby, a politically conservative Southern Baptist who had pledged abstinence until marriage, became the group's most vocal proponent of comprehensive sex education. The documentary explores other issues beyond the debate over abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education. It portrays Shelby's family's struggle with teen independence; Shelby's struggle with her Christian faith; Shelby's widening activism into other issues, such as the creation of a Gay/Straight Alliance at her high school; issues of tolerance; and the power of political activism.
Destry Rides Again - DVD TAC-1388
As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn't like guns, Stewart is called to restore order to the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottleneck . Though reluctant to undertake such an enormous task, he's soon roped into action after meeting the seductive Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring saloon girl who belts out unforgettable show-stoppers like "The Boys in the Back Room," while winning the hero's heart.
Ararat - DVD TAC-1389
Edward, a veteran filmmaker of Armenian descent, is in Toronto shooting a film about the Siege of Van, which lead to the genocide of over a million Armenian people at the hands of Turkish troops. Raffi has been sent to Turkey to shoot background footage for the film. Raffi's mother Ani, an author and historian, is also involved in the project as a consultant. As Raffi attempts to re-enter Canada with cans of exposed film, he's detained by David, a suspicious customs official who has his own tenuous link to the film.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger - DVD TAC-1390
Film focuses on Henry Kissinger and his role in America 's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia 's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970, and his involvement in the 1969 Paris peace talks concerning the Vietnam Conflict.
Sophie Scholl: the Final Days - DVD TAC-1391
The true story of Germany 's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl, the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl's life is dramatized, from arrest to interrogation, trial, and sentence in 1943 Munich . Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.
Dias de Santiago - DVD TAC-1392
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a life of crime.
La bête humaine (Human Beast) - DVD TAC-1393
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Der blaue Engel (Blue Angel) - DVD TAC-1394
A middle-aged schoolmaster becomes infatuated with and marries a singer from a sleazy cafe. When she leaves him for another man he returns to his school as a broken old man.
The Children of Chabannes - DVD TAC-1395
During World War II many Jewish children were sent out of occupied countries in search of safety. Chabannes , France housed about 400 such refugees in a local chateau used as a school. This documentary presents the accounts of some of the students, teachers and townspeople of the efforts to protect the children in 1942 when the war came to Chabannes.
Bright Leaves - DVD TAC-1396
Ross McElwee explores his family's roots as tobacco farmers in North Carolina . While reviewing his ancestors' accomplishments, he expresses guilt at the tobacco-based nature of their business.
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) - DVD TAC-1397
Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society, and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time.
American Chain Gang - DVD TAC-1398
This documentary film explores the recent resurrection of chain gangs in American prisons. It includes interviews and comments of male inmates from the Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama and female inmates of Arizona 's Estrella Facility. Prison officials and public officials are also interviewed.
Odds Against Tomorrow - DVD TAC-1399
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For the job only, he'll put his racism aside ... until moments away from the score, hatred erupts.
Holiday - DVD TAC-1400
Johnny gets engaged to the girl of his dreams, only to find out she's a millionaire's daughter whose father wants to be in control of their lives. Add to that a sister who is falling for Johnny, and he needs to decide who to marry and what to do.
Czlowiek z Marmuru (Man of Marble) - DVD TAC-1401
In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her thesis film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut. She studies his stint as a proletariat hero, how that heroism was created, and what became of him.
The Girl in the Sneakers - DVD TAC-1402
After some unhappy accidents and in protest against her living conditions, fifteen-year-old Tadaie, runs away from home when her parents forbid her to see a boy she favors. She begins an unknown and mysterious journey to Tehran in order to explore the world around her. She goes everywhere in town - from the lush orchards of uptown to the dwelling quarters of the people who have come to dead-ends in their lives. A story of youthful rebellion and its consequence, including first love and its subsequent disappointment.
Sin dejar huella (Without a Trace) - DVD TAC-1403
The story of two women on the run: one a Spanish dealer in ersatz Mayan relics the other a young mother who has run away from her drug dealer boyfriend and who hopes to build a better life for her two children. The two women ultimately form a bond of solidarity and camaraderie that is put to the test when both a border officer and the boyfriend catch up with them.
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained - DVD TAC-1404
Examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voiceovers, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement. The video opens with an extended voiceover a dark screen.
Gunga Din - DVD TAC-1405
Adventure story of three English soldier comrades battling the savage punjabs in India , and their lowly water-bearer, Gunga Din, who longs to be a soldier.
Ancient Civilizations - DVD TAC-1406 pts. 1-13
Combines historical interviews with glimpses of everyday life of 13 cultures. Scholars provide commentary on such topics as the role of women, religion, education, the military, and politics. Also includes readings from contemporary sources and 3-D architectural reconstructions.
Do You Remember Vietnam ? - DVD TAC-1407
In 1978, three years after the fall of Saigon , John Pilger went back to Vietnam to find out what had happened under the new regime. He talks with a young tour guide at a war crimes museum, who had been imprisoned in the infamous US tiger cages. He follows a former North Vietnamese soldier into the underground base where he spent 20 years crawling through tunnels undetected. He visits the street in Hanoi that was the target of the largest single aerial bombardment in history. And he shows us the re-education camps where former drug addicts, prostitutes, South Vietnam soldiers, and others are being taught what to think. And he reminds us of the long history of Vietnam 's wars for independence. 44% of Vietnam 's forests have been decimated, poisonous chemicals have produced babies with deformations, 58,000 Americans and 2-5 million Vietnamese lost their lives. And all of this suffering was for what? "To stop the spread of Chinese communism" was the rationale. And yet, Pilger argues, if we had let them form their own independent state in the late 1940s, what probably would have emerged is what is emerging now -- a kind of Asian Yugoslavia.
The Quiet Mutiny - DVD TAC-1408
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats -- "lifers" -- and the soldiers who physically and mentally fight the war on the ground, the "grunts." By 1970, it is an internal sense of disillusionment and frustration born from this rift that is triggering the withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam . As the US employs psychological warfare against its enemy, Pilger finds himself unable to glean significant information from the military; a press conference he attends is nicknamed "the 5 'clock follies" for the evasive nature of the proceedings. And so it is with the grunts, the "wheels of the green machine," that Pilger finds a very human side to the US presence in Vietnam -- soldiers who are at once ready to serve their country and doubtful of their purpose there. Plied with visits from Miss America and ignored by Vice President Spiro Agnew, they experience the war in a way many of their superiors do not. Filmed at Camp Snuffy in 1970, The Quiet Mutiny presents a character study of the common soldier during the Vietnam War, revealing for the first time the shifting morale and open rebellion of Western troops.
Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia - DVD TAC-1409
As the first complete report of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge and the devastating affects of US bombing in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is an important and historic document of the grim reign of Pol Pot and the world's response of indifference and inaction. Year Zero was 1975, the end of the secret US bombing campaign against the Viet Cong that saw 100,000 tons of bombs dropped over Cambodia , and the emergence of the Khmer Rouge party as a ruling force. That year saw the desertion of the capital of Phnom Penh and the displacement of some 2.5 million people, the majority of whom would soon go missing. Pilger explores the roots of the US bombing campaign that began in 1969, contrasting it sharply with powerful footage of sick and starving Cambodians and interviews with relief workers with UNICEF and the Red Cross as well as imprisoned members of Pol Pot's regime. At the time of its first broadcast in 1979, Year Zero was for many the first glimpse of a harrowing injustice that had been played out with little fanfare. John Pilger lays bare the entire chain of events, from the removal of King Norodom Sihanouk to ensuing famine and genocide under the Khmer Rouge. The film is both disturbing and poignant, a sobering portrait of Cambodia 's recent history.
Death of a Nation - DVD TAC-1410
On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly -- but with the complicity of the Western powers including the US , the UK , and Australia -- invaded the small nation of East Timor . Two Australian television crews attempting to document the invasion were murdered. In 1993, with the Indonesian army still occupying the country, John Pilger and his crew including director David Munro, slipped into East Timor and made this film. In the intervening 18 years, an estimated 200,000 East Timorese -- 1/3 of the population -- had been slaughtered by the Indonesian military. The CIA has described it as one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century. Pilger tells the story using clandestine footage of the countryside, internment camps and even Fretlin guerrillas, as well as interviews with Timorese exiles, including Jose Ramos Horta and Jose Gusmao, and Australian, British, and Indonesian diplomats. Nixon had called Indonesia the "greatest prize in southeast Asia" because of its oil reserves and other natural resources. Even though Indonesia had no historic or legal claim to East Timor , it was convenient for diplomats to declare that East Timor , just gaining its independence from Portugal , would not be a viable state. However the lie was given to this argument when Australia and Indonesia signed the Timor Gap Oil Treaty and carved up the huge oil and gas reserves in the seabed off East Timor . None of the politicians from that period -- President Ford, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Gough Whitlam -- has clean hands. The Indonesian military used US and British planes to bombard the island, while the defense ministers proclaimed ignorance. As Pilger gets an Australian diplomat to admit, East Timor was considered "expendable." But no one watching the massacre in the Dili cemetery can excuse the geopolitical machinations that led to this genocide.
El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) - DVD TAC-1411
Set in 1944 Spain , against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
Out of Balance - DVD TAC-1412
Scientists, environmentalists, and authors explain global warming and how Exxon Mobile has contributed to the problem.
La Sierra - DVD TAC-1413
Thousands of people were killed in gang related violence in Colombia over the last ten years. The film profiles three young people living in La Sierra, a Medellín barrio which is controlled by paramilitaries known as the Bloque Metro. It chronicles their lives and their involvement in the conflict, and records the despair and poverty these young people experience, and the hope that the changes that are made will bring peace and a better life for them and their families.
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season One - DVD TAC-1414
Taped live at the Supper Club in New York , Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is hosted by popular rap artist Mos Def, and spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists.
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season Two - DVD TAC-1415
Seven new half-hour editions taped live at the Supper Club in New York , hosted by popular rap artist Mos Def. Spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists.
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season Three - DVD TAC-1416
Seven new half-hour editions taped live at the Supper Club in New York , hosted by popular rap artist Mos Def. Spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known musicians, comedians, and actors.
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season Four - DVD TAC-1417
Features talented contemporary urban poets, plus well-known musicians and comedians, and highlights their original material and powerful performances in an unedited, uncensored, and definitely unparalleled Def Poetry setting.
Our Daily Bread - DVD TAC-1418
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming. Produced between October 2003 and October 2005 the film looks into the places where food is produced in European farms, greenhouses, processing plants and other places where crops and animals are cultivated and processed to become food for people. The images of food and animals treated as industrial products are presented without comment.
In the Name of the Father - DVD TAC-1420
Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, the young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
Cry, the Beloved Country - DVD TAC-1421
A black minister and white land owner in South Africa are united by a tragedy, with the potential for further hatred or healing.
Good Morning, Vietnam - DVD TAC-1422
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam , disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
On VHS:
Mabel's Saga - Videorecord TAC-1920
Mabel is juggling the demands of work, teenagers and an elderly mother. Now she is confronted with a new challenge: hot flashes and chin hairs! Before you can say estrogen, purple-haired Mabel finds herself the unassuming heroine of her own adventure... the adventure of aging.
The Burning Season: the Chico Mendes Story - Videorecord TAC-1921
Spurred to action after a key organizer of the rain forest's working poor is slain, Mendes stands firm against slash-and-burn deforestation. He becomes a nonviolent activist, union leader, political candidate and a recognized authority who helps alert the world to the plight of the Amazon.
