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49 UP
In 1964 a group of seven year old children were interviewed for the documentary “Seven Up”. Director Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since, examining the progression of their lives. Now they are 49.



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Bright Leaves
Using the Hollywood melodrama "Bright Leaf" as a jumping off point, filmmaker Ross McElwee reaches back to his roots in this witty rumination on American History, tobacco, and the myth of cinema.



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Charleen & Backyard- VHS
Films by Ross McElwee. Two award-winning films from the director of Sherman's March, featuring that film's eccentric star, Charleen Swansea.



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Facing Death: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross devoted her life to death and dying and achieved world fame in the process. This remarkably intimate film was made when Kübler-Ross awaited her own death- on the verge of the transition she researched so passionately.



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Fighter
A Film by Amir Bar-Lev. A unique adventure unfolds as two friends take a risky road trip into their past in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.




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Howling with the Angels
When Hitler’s army marched into Prague in 1938, Jan Bodon, a young captain with a secret in the Czech Army was “asked” to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead.



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Motherland Afghanistan
After the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi follows her father, a doctor who specializes in women's health, back to his war-ravaged homeland to help rebuild hospitals which serve women.



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Pop- VHS
A Film by Joel Meyerowitz. Photographer Joel Meyerowitz, his father Hy (suffering from Alzheimer's) and son Sasha - three generations - take a heartwarming and sometimes hilarious road trip from Florida to NYC, trying to recapture the fading memories of Hy's life.



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Ross McElwee DVD Collection, The
Six films on five discs including four films never before released on DVD!: Charleen, Backyard, Sherman's March, Bright Leaves, Time Indefinite, Six O'Clock News.




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Sherman's March
A Film by Ross McElwee. An autobiographical quest for true romance along the original route of General Sherman's Civil War March.




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Six O'Clock News- VHS
A Film by Ross McElwee. In Six O' Clock News, McElwee chases after murder, mayhem and catastrophe in the same way he pursued young Southern women in Sherman's March.



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Time Indefinite- VHS
A Film by Ross McElwee. McElwee's hilariously profound sequel to his much-beloved hit Sherman's March.



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War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us- VHS
A Film by Gaylene Preston. Stories of sexual passion, illicit love, heroic adventure, and painful death are told by seven women about WWII, who also confront the impact it had on their lives.










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