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Retirement Revolution: Part One: Hazards and Vicissitures, Part Two: On Our Own (all on one DVD)

Retirement Revolution is a documentary series hosted by Paula Zahn that eliminates fear, offers hope, and affirms that it's never too late to begin preparation for retirement. Viewers are encouraged to seek help from a financial professional.

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Production Year: 2008
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Retirement Revolution: Part One: Hazards and Vicissitures, Part Two: On Our Own (all on one DVD)

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NOW on PBS: 9/11/09: House Calls and Health Care in Africa. DVD

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NOW on PBS: 9/11/09: House Calls and Health Care in Africa. DVD

In rural Rwanda, the simple and time-tested idea of medical house calls is not only improving the health of the community, but stimulating its economy as well. NOW travels to the village of Rwinkwavu to meet the Rwandan doctors, nurses and villagers who are teaming up with Boston-based Partners in Health and the Rwandan government to deliver medicine and medical counseling door-to-door. Would such an innovation work in America?

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls - Book (paperback)

Dirty looks and taunting notes are just a few examples of girl bullying that girls and women have long suffered through silently and painfully. With this book author Rachel Simmons elevated the nation's consciousness and has shown millions of girls, parents, counselors, and teachers how to deal with this problem. Odd Girl Out puts the spotlight on this issue, using real-life examples from both the perspective of the victim and of the bully.

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Production Year: 2003
Country Of Origin : United States

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls - Book (paperback)

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Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do? - Hardcover Book

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Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do? - Hardcover Book

What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict?

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Country Of Origin : United States

P.O.V.: New Muslim Cool DVD

Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez, former drug dealer, turned Muslim, has started a new religious community on the tough North Side of Pittsburgh taking his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music. New Muslim Cool follows Hamza's ride through streets, slums and jail cells, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places in an America that never stops changing.

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Production Year: 2009
Length: 83 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG+L
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

P.O.V.: New Muslim Cool DVD

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POV: Beyond Hatred DVD

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POV: Beyond Hatred DVD

In September 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, looking to "do an Arab" when they settled for a gay man instead, twenty-nine-year-old François Chenu. This acclaimed French vérité film is the story of the crime's aftermath and of the Chenu family's brave and heartrending struggle to seek justice while trying to make sense of such pointless violence and unbearable loss.

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Production Year: 2007
Length: 85 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Mississippi Chicken DVD

What is it like for Latin American immigrants struggling to forge new lives in the rural Deep South? Documentary film maker John Fiege lived with them one long, hot summer, following their quest for the American dream at a Mississippi poultry factory, the oft-hostile social environment they encountered-and the efforts by community organizers to help them achieve that dream. A unique, evocative independent film, featured on Bill Moyers Journal.

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Production Year: 2007
Length: 82 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Mississippi Chicken DVD

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America At A Crossroads: The Mosque in Morgantown DVD

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America At A Crossroads: The Mosque in Morgantown DVD

This is a story of competing paths to social change, American identity, and the nature of religion itself. Working in Pakistan, former reporter Asra Nomani found herself pregnant and abandoned by the Pakistani man she thought would be her husband, then her friend Daniel Pearl was murdered. She and her son returned to her hometown in West Virginia to find that the mosque had been taken over by men she saw as extremists.

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Production Year: 2009
Length: 76 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Crips and Bloods: Made in America DVD

South Los Angeles is home to two of the most infamous African-American gangs: the Bloods and the Crips. On these streets over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing cycle of gang violence. Blending gripping archival footage and photos with interviews of current and former gang members, this film documents the emergence of these gangs while offering insight as to how this ongoing tragedy might be resolved.

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Production Year: 2007
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Crips and Bloods: Made in America DVD

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FRONTLINE: The Released DVD

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FRONTLINE: The Released DVD

In this follow up to the groundbreaking film The New Asylums, FRONTLINE examines what happens to the mentally ill when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. The intimate stories of the released-along with interviews with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists-provide a rare look at the lives of the mentally ill as they struggle to stay out of prison and reintegrate into society.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries DVD

This is an intimate documentary focusing on capturing the essence of the literary and spiritual force that is Peter Matthiessen. Novelist, travel writer, explorer, Zen monk--Matthiessen is all this and more. The interviews will center on how the events and circumstances of his life have shaped his point-of-view, established the trajectory of his spiritual quest and guided his selection of subject matter.

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Production Year: 2009
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries DVD

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Independent Lens: Operation Filmmaker DVD

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Independent Lens: Operation Filmmaker DVD

In this surprising allegory of America's involvement in Iraq, an Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed, whose school was destroyed by American bombs, lands a dream job working on a Hollywood movie. On set, idealistic expectations and cultural misunderstandings collide, launching Muthana on a journey more complicated than either he or his American benefactors ever anticipated.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 92 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-14
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

FRONTLINE: Black Money DVD

FRONTLINE examines the shadowy world of international bribery, revealing how multi-national companies create slush funds, set up front companies, and make secret payments, all to get billions in business. These practices are facing a new international crackdown. At the center of this is a controversial, ongoing investigation into the British-based multi-national BAE Systems and allegations about billion dollar bribes.

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Production Year: 2009
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

FRONTLINE: Black Money DVD

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The Day the Universe Changed DVD

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The Day the Universe Changed DVD

Veteran BBC historian and science reporter James Burke travels to hundreds of locations while exploring the flow of Western thought. Looking at times when new knowledge or discoveries had altered a person's thinking and exploring the cultural changes those discoveries effected, this series at its core is about how any individual perceives the universe. It is a personal journey!

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Production Year: 1985
Length: 550 minutes on 5 Discs
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita DVD

This feature length documentary is the story of Dr. Jack Kessler and his daughter, Allison who was paralyzed in a skiing accident at 15. Dr. Kessler focused his research at Northwestern to find a cure for spinal cord injuries using embryonic stem cells. Terra Incognita follows the evolving interplay between the promise of new discoveries, modern science, and people living every day with devastating disease and injury.

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Production Year: 2007
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita DVD

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America At A Crossroads: Dissonance & Harmony DVD

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America At A Crossroads: Dissonance & Harmony DVD

This episode offers new imagery of Arabs, not as anti-American, not as terrorists, but as artists, universally familiar in their struggle to share their talent and ideas. Follow an eclectic mix of Middle Eastern musicians from their own very specific turf in the Middle East to the United States. Once there, in Los Angeles, they collaborate with other gifted musicians from the West, finding common ground between two cultures in conflict.

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Production Year: 2007
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood DVD

By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe; 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States. In some ways, Los Angeles in the 30s and early 40s may be seen as its afterglow when scores of émigrés, fleeing the upsurge of European fascism, briefly transformed Southern California into one of the capitals of world culture.

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Production Year: 2008
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood DVD

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Arthur Dong Collection: Stories from the War on Homosexuality DVD

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Arthur Dong Collection: Stories from the War on Homosexuality DVD

Famous for his intensely compassionate and wonderfully crafted stories this collection of critically acclaimed and award-winning films by Arthur Dong powerfully illustrates the many sides and faces of the gay rights struggle in America and reveal the social consequences of individual actions in America's 20th century Culture War over gay and lesbian issues. Titles include: Coming Out Under Fire, Family Fundamentals, Licensed to Kill.

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 205 minutes on 3 Discs
Number of Programs: 3
Country Of Origin : United States

The Police Tapes DVD

South Bronx, New York. 1976, during one of the most tumultuous years in New York City's history, two filmmakers ride along with the police to document a city wracked by rape, gang warfare, murder, arson and petty revenge. THE POLICE TAPES is a harrowing, real-life autopsy of the dangerous nighttime work of beat cops as they try to contain a community coming unraveled.

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Production Year: 1977
Length: 88 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

The Police Tapes DVD

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P.O.V.: Leona's Sister Gerri DVD

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P.O.V.: Leona's Sister Gerri DVD

The tragic and grisly photograph, a woman on a motel floor, dead after an illegal abortion, stirred a nation and inflamed a movement. Now, as told by her family and friends, Leona's Sister Gerri tells the powerful and thought-provoking story of the anonymous woman behind the image and how she became an extraordinary icon for the ever-controversial abortion issue.

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Color: Yes
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Production Year: 1995
Length: 75 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

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