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Independent Lens: Objectified DVD

How does the design of a cell phone, toothbrush or couch affect your life? Did you ever stop to think about it? Director Gary Hustwit looks at our complex relationship with manufactured objects, the people who design them and the creative process behind their work. Step inside the offices of the world's most influential product designers to see how these objects influence us oftentimes without our even knowing it.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 75 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Objectified DVD

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Independent Lens: Lioness DVD

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Independent Lens: Lioness DVD

How did five female Army support soldiers, mechanics, supply clerks and engineers, end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq War? Directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers give viewers an intimate look at war through the eyes of the first women in U.S. history sent into direct ground combat, despite a policy that bans them from doing so.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 82 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-14+V
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Herb & Dorothy DVD

You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art. Herb Vogel was a postal clerk. Dorothy Vogel was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. The Vogels shared passion and disciplines, defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 87 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Herb & Dorothy DVD

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Independent Lens: A Son's Sacrifice DVD

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Independent Lens: A Son's Sacrifice DVD

A SON'S SACRIFICE follows the journey of Imran, a young American Muslim who struggles to take over his father's halal slaughterhouse in New York City. A first-generation American, Imran must confront his mixed Bengladeshi and Puerto-Rican heritage and gain acceptance from his father's immigrant community. On the holiest day of the year, Imran must lead a sacrifice that will define him as a Muslim, as an American, and as a son.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2006
Length: 27 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers DVD

Physicists at Fermilab, the world's most powerful particle accelerator laboratory, are closing in on one of the universe's best-kept secrets: why everything has mass. With the Tevatron, a four-mile underground particle accelerator, the scientists smash matter together at nearly the speed of light to find a particle theorized forty years ago by Scottish scientist Peter Higgs. Scour the subatomic world for the Higgs. Will the discovery happen?

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 80 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers DVD

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Independent Lens: Power Trip DVD

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Independent Lens: Power Trip DVD

Five-time Emmy award-winner Paul Devlin (SlamNation, NBC and CBS Olympics) masterfully captures a comic clash of cultures that combusts when an American energy company, AES, tries to transform the dysfunctional electricity distribution system in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2003
Length: 85 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Music from the Inside Out DVD

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT is a cinematic exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passion, and artistry of the 105 musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. This groundbreaking film is a feast of sound with jazz, bluegrass, salsa, classical and world music interwoven with the musicians' personal stories, each of which has at its core the universal struggle for self-expression.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2003
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Music from the Inside Out DVD

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Independent Lens: A Lion in the House DVD

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Independent Lens: A Lion in the House DVD

An intense and deeply moving film, A LION IN THE HOUSE enters the lives of five American families who each have a child battling cancer. Having fought the disease with their own daughter, and having been granted unprecedented access to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert follow these children and teens through years of treatment and uncertainty.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 265 minutes on 2 Discs
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Please Vote For Me DVD

Eight-year-old children compete for the position of class monitor in the first school election of its kind held in China. Aided and abetted by parents and teachers, the young candidates reveal the nature of democracy in a rapidly changing country.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 58 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Please Vote For Me DVD

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Independent Lens: Red, White, Black & Blue DVD

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Independent Lens: Red, White, Black & Blue DVD

This little-known World War II battle with Japanese forces on the Alaskan island of Attu includes the accounts of two surviving soldiers. The film tells of the tragic operation that saw ill-prepared American troops take on massive casualties. Red White Black & Blue is the story of every solider who faces an enemy he does not understand, the complicated mindset of a nation at war and what it really means to be an American hero.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Length: 86 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-14
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: The Cool School DVD

For a decade, 1956 to 1966, the Ferus Gallery was the catalyst of a nascent modern art scene, grooming the Los Angeles art scene from idealistic beatniks into competitive, often-brilliant artists. It also helped to solidify the careers of many of New York's shining stars including: Lichtenstein, Warhol and Johns. The Cool School is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 85 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG+SL
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: The Cool School DVD

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Independent Lens: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes DVD

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Independent Lens: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes DVD

Take a fearless look at manhood, sexism, and homophobia in today's hip-hop culture. Conceived as a "loving critique" of disturbing trends in rap music, this acclaimed documentary pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry for glamorizing destructive stereotypes. Features revealing interviews with rappers such as Mos Def and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentator Michael Eric Dyson.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2006
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: A Fish Story DVD

Fish Story is the tale of two women in a battle for the ocean. Angela Sanfilippo and Shareen Davis, born into fishing families, both married men who make a living from the sea. But their way of life is threatened when environmental organizations file a lawsuit that could put hundreds of fishermen out of business. With heartache and humor, this story finds the women at the center of a political storm as they try to save both fish and fishermen.

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Color: No
Stereo: No
Production Year: 2006
Length: 54 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: A Fish Story DVD

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Independent Lens: Chiefs DVD

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Independent Lens: Chiefs DVD

This documentary is ostensibly about a Wyoming high school basketball team. But as the Wyoming Indian High School Chiefs are made up of Native Americans it also encompasses broader issues of race and identity, making for illuminating viewing.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2006
Length: 87 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG+L
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire DVD

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad has drawn and quartered 11 presidents in a remarkable career spanning half a century. Narrated by Tom Brokaw, this program pays tribute to a legendary journalist and artist who epitomizes the fiercely independent voice that has been vanishing from American news media in recent years.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2006
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire DVD

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Independent Lens: The Devil's Miner DVD

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Independent Lens: The Devil's Miner DVD

Living in poverty with their mother in the mountains of Bolivia, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother, Bernardino, brave deadly conditions while working long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines to earn enough money to attend school. THE DEVIL'S MINER follows the brothers into the underground mining tunnels where they tempt fate to gain a better life.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: No
Production Year: 2006
Length: 82 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: A Touch of Greatness DVD

Emmy Nominated! In the 1960's, Albert Cullum rejected Dick and Jane for Shakespeare and Sophocles in his elementary school classroom, where students swam down the Mississippi river and hurled themselves from the walls of Troy without leaving school grounds. This portrait of America's most influential educator's shows how Cullum ignited the imagination of a generation of children, teaching them how to find their own inner greatness.

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Color: No
Stereo: No
Production Year: 2005
Length: 54 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: No
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: A Touch of Greatness DVD

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Independent Lens: Brother to Brother DVD

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Independent Lens: Brother to Brother DVD

An elderly man, poet Bruce Nugent (Roger Robinson) meets Perry, a young black gay artist (Anthony Mackie) struggling to find his voice and together they embark on a surreal narrative journey through his inspiring past. Vivid flashback enactments bring the era to life and we meet such brilliant figures as Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston. This critically acclaimed drama invokes the gay glory days of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2005
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: The Weather Underground DVD

They were America's most notorious public outlaws, a little-known radical group who parlayed antiwar sentiments into a sophisticated campaign aimed at disrupting the U.S. government. The Weathermen terrorized Chicago for two days in 1969 before going underground through the 1970s, even attempting to bomb the U.S. Capitol, yet eluded one of history's largest FBI manhunts. Former members speak candidly about their idealistic passion.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: The Weather Underground DVD

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Independent Lens: The Weather Underground DVD

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past - Book (Hardcover)

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