Independent Film Channel.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at the death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous 'Walls' prison unit in Huntsville. During Pickett's remarkable career he presided over 95 executions, including the world's first lethal injection. After each execution, Pickett recorded an audiotape account of his trip to the death chamber.
2) The bridge
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year looking very carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge. Running cameras for almost every daylight minute, he documented nearly two dozen fatal moments as well as others where suicide was avoided.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A comical look at Gray's middle-age problems including a rare and mysterious eye condition, and his pursuits into alternative healing, including a Native American sweat ceremony, a debilitating raw vegetable diet, and a trip to the Philippines to try out the "Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons."
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reaches nation media prominence. Ironically, what Leuchter thought was going to be an apex in his career - only ruins...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Ruby is a neurotic with an unhappy track record concerning men and Sam is an oddball who is afraid of small dogs and has a barcode tattooed to his arm. Slowly, Sam begins to reveal his "past." He tells her that he is from the Dubuque of the future and that he hails from a family who believe that reproduction should occur the old-fashioned, fun way as opposed to the cloning method. Ruby is amused until she realizes that he's not kidding. After a series...
6) Wanderlust
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning directors of American splendor, this iconic movie traces America's love affair with the 'road movie' through interviews with Hollywood stars and clips from roadie classics.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Three stories of women on their way to life-changing crossroads. One is a battered wife fleeing her husband, one is a young woman dealing with feelings of infidelity and the third is a pregnant woman trapped in a relationship she doesn't want.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the changing seasons has Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job in park maintenance. On his first day, he's teamed with Murph, a groundskeeping veteran who manages to defuse an outburst between Paul and their snide supervisor. Paul sticks with the job, and, as the months pass, he and Murph work their way through events both mundane and monumental, all the...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
Dr. Fuentes is a man in search of his legacy, 7 medical students he trained to work in impoverished native villages in Mexico. But early in his odyssey he begins to suspect that men with guns got there first, and with every step he is confronted by bloody realities he had long ignored. Now, his is an almost desperate quest, but for a mythical village deep in the rainforest, one last refuge of hope called Cerca del Cielo.
10) Songcatcher
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a well spring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, and the recording...
11) Girlfight
Publisher
Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Diana Guzman is always fighting, whether at home in the housing projects with her abusive dad or at high school. She finds a new outlet for her anger at her brother's boxing gym. With hard-core training from veteran boxing coach Hector, Diana learns she has the guts and talent to be a contender.
13) Waking life
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
15) Chelsea walls
Publisher
Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Chelsea Hotel used to be a place to live for New York artists. Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix are just a few who passed through the hotel's halls. To this day, new dreamers come, hoping to be inspired by the ghosts of the past. This tells five stories set in a single day at the famous hotel.
17) Women in film
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sara is a casting agent with a blind infant. Gina is a wannbe-moviestar masseuse who steals "energy" from her famous clients. Phyllis is a film producer who mothers her children and her films. These three women work in the film industry and they tell it like it is. Follow their stories and get the inside dish on some tantalizing tales of Tinseltown.
18) Gray's anatomy
Series
Criterion collection ; 618
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes together with one of cinema's boldest image makers, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which he chronicles his journey from diagnosis to treatment of a rare ocular condition.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Offers an in-depth look at Hong Kong's wu xia film legacy and its influence on global cinema, from its roots in Beijing Opera to Quentin Tarantino's tribute to Hong Kong martial arts action in Kill Bill, Vol. 2. All of the bases are covered, from Hong Kong cinema's first martial-arts hero, Wong Fei Hung, to the balletic choreography of Chang Che, including the "one-punch" impact of Bruce Lee and the evolution of kung-fu comedy as epitomized by Jackie...