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.Band of Brothers (Widescreen, 6 Discs)
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starring: Scott Grimes, Ron Livingston, Ross McCall, Tom Hanks, Rick Warden

November 05, 2002
While this is an extraordinary series...I don't agree with it being listed in the kids section. Teens perhaps but there are lots of very realistic war scenes and it would be better off listed under adult DVD's.
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.Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Widescreen)
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starring: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson
directed by: Robert Stevenson

March 02, 2004
Made during the Disney wilderness years following Walt's death, Bedknobs is a re-tread of the hugely successful Mary Poppins. However, if you're going to re-tread a film, it might as well be a classic! Check off the ingredients: - initially cold matronly female lead who the children and audience quickly warms to, capable and charming child leads, a perky male side-kick, an animated/live action interlude that has nothing to do with the plot, a Sherman brothers score, an episodic structure, a general magical story-book quality to the film etc.
Angela Lansbury gives her most likable screen characterisation (apart from perhaps Jessica Fletcher!) and shows to those not familiar with her Broadway career that she can sing and dance. David Tomlinson ... Read More:
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.Downfall
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starring: Bruno Ganz, Matthais Habich, Thomas Kretschmann, Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke
directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel

August 09, 2005
A very powerful movie showing the end days of Nazi Germany. It is well acted and shows the different types of people around Hitler apart from Hitler himself. One gets a real sense of what it must have been like in the bunker in the dying days of the war, as it became clearer and clearer for the characters portrayed that the Nazis had lost the war. Some of characters were clearly pathological deviants without question. Others were true believers and followers, who allowed evil to happen as they so much wanted to believe the illusion they were fed, while ignoring the reality and the brutality that was all too obvious for those with eyes to see.

Lessons to be learnt in todays world, where a new rise of fascism is evident. Time to watch out ... Read More:
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.Charlie Wilson's War (Widescreen)
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starring: Shiri Appleby, Ned Beatty, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Markinson, Om Puri
directed by: Mike Nichols

August 26, 2008
Senator Charlie Wilson from Lufkin, Texas, a ruggedly handsome man, who was a committed anti-Communist, with a few character flaws, who loved to have a good time, enjoyed alcohol and was a ladies' man ... became one of the unsung heros of the Afghanistan War. He was the only civilian to ever receive recognition and honor by the C.I.A. for his part in helping to drive the Russians out from Afghanistan. This film is based on the true stories written by the author George Crile in his book, "Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times". Essentially, there are two formulas to win this war on a global scale: the first is, "money + power = secret arms deals" and the second is, ... Read More:
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.Waterloo
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starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Virginia McKenna, Jack Hawkins, Dan O'Herlihy
directed by: Sergei Bondarchuk


i purchased this dvd and was surprised to find that i could not play it on a north american dvd player as it was formatted only for area 2( europe), north america being area 1. i was refused a refund because i had opened the package, but get this, i opened the package to view the film and when i inserted the dvd in my dvd player i was rewarded with this messagep" playback is not authorized in your region.
go figure the company " caiman " sells a dvd from europe to north american customers that can not be played in our area .
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.Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Special Edition)
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starring: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland, Matt Frewer, Simon Jones
directed by: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

June 01, 2004
Unfortunately they just do not get off the ground. Python is known for being wired provocative and in many cases cutting edge. Regrettably they missed the mark on this one. One or two skits may strike your fancy but you have to wade through the rest to get to it.

However if you like sex, violence, blood, and debauchery, could care less the fact that they have nothing to do with the absent plot, you could find this film interesting.

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.The World At War
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from: A&E Home Video

August 24, 2004
As a child I watched this series on T.V. I waited years to find it availible for purchase. This has the most actual footage from the war of any program I have viewed. The series was shot when some of the key players were still alive. If you want to see what WW2 looked like then buy it.
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.Dogfights: Season 2
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from: A&E Home Video

June 24, 2008
As a child I watched this series on T.V. I waited years to find it availible for purchase. This has the most actual footage from the war of any program I have viewed. The series was shot when some of the key players were still alive. If you want to see what WW2 looked like then buy it.
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.The Desert Fox
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starring: Luther Adler, Jack Baston, Richard Boone, Leo G. Carroll, Mary Carroll
directed by: Henry Hathaway

May 20, 2003
Henry Hathaway's 1951 film on Erwin Rommel, NAZI Germany's most brilliant tactician whose indirect involvement in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler resulted in his untimely death.

The film is a character study and focuses more on Rommel's relationship with Hitler and the German High Command as opposed to his achievements as a military tactician. Because the nature of his death wasn't very well known at that time, the film focuses on Rommel's deteriorating relationship with Hitler and his eventual participation in the assassination plot. This is normal since, with the film being made only 6 years after the end of WWII, audiences would have been quite unreceptive to a film glorifying a German general's military exploits against allied forces.

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.The Great Escape (Special Edition) (2DVD) (1963)
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starring: Tom Adams, Ulrich Beiger, Charles Bronson, Robert Desmond, James Donald
directed by: John Sturges

May 18, 2004
This is the definitive story of escape during WW11. And, despite what a previous reviewer said, there were Americans in the camp, and Americans played a big part in digging the tunnel, and in all other operations. The reason no Americans actually escaped using the tunnel, was they were moved to their own compound (south compound) before the tunnel broke. The characters in the movie are composites, and are livened up a bit for dramatic purposes, but most exist. The man who was clausrophobic was a South African named Johnny Travis. He had worked in the gold mines, and was caught in a mine collapse before the war making him afraid of small spaces. He did dig this tunnel, and others, before they discovered he had a gift for making things and moved him to manufacturing escape kits. ... Read More:
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