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Keyword View: fateful PR American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam on Blu-ray & DVD Apr 28  2015 Academy Award Nominee For Best Documentary Feature: During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. City after city and village after village fell to the North while the few U.S. diplomats and military operatives still in the country contemplated withdrawal. With the clock ticking and the city under fire, American officers on the ground found themselves faced with a moral dilemma: whether to follow official policy and evacuate U.S. citizens and their dependents only, or to ignore orders and evacuate the men, women, and children they had come to value and love in their years in Vietnam. Read More... PR Frontline: Losing Iraq on DVD Oct 7  Drawing on one of the richest archives in broadcast journalism (including more than 40 reports on the war on terror), as well as new, in-depth interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the investigative team behind traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence - exploring how and why Iraq itself is now coming undone. Read More... PR Cuban Fury on Blu-ray & DVD Jul 29  It's 1987 and poised to sweep the floor at the UK Junior Salsa Championships, 13-year-old Bruce Garrett has fire in his heels and the world at his feet... until one fateful night, a freakish bullying incident robs him of his confidence and diverts his life down a very different path. 25 years later, having locked away his boyhood dreams, shabby, overweight Bruce (Nick Frost) finds himself unloved and emotionally inert, with the passionate beating heart of a salsa king laying dormant. Read More... PR 3 DVDs from PBS on Jul 8 Commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing  DAY OF DAYS: JUNE 6, 1944 - AMERICAN SOLDIERS REMEMBER D-DAY brings together American D-Day veterans to share their experiences from that fateful day. As they vividly recall details from their ordeal - from the perils of the amphibious assault to the invasion's gruesome aftermath - their testimony yields long-buried and often painful memories. D-DAY 360 re-creates the landscape and uses fresh new data-driven and statistical tools to tell the story of one of the greatest invasions in history. D-DAY'S SUNKEN SECRETS explores how some of the innovations deployed in the invasion led to the Allied Forces' successful campaign. Read More... PR From Here to Eternity on Blu-ray Oct 1  Commemorating its 60th anniversary, a torrid look at military life just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, featuring remarkable performances from legendary stars Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Donna Reed, Deborah Kerr and Ernest Borgnine under the celebrated direction of Fred Zinnemann. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Read More... DVD Review 8:46  11 years after 9/11, the horrors continue to linger. Films are still being made about this unforgettable tragedy, and this certainly sounds like one of the more memorable ones. Read More... PR The Jodi Picoult Collection on DVD Jul 31  A compelling 3-disc compilation featuring a trio of Lifetime Original Movies based on the works of the New York Times best-selling author Read More... DVD Review TITANIC: THE COMPLETE STORY  In this anniversary year, there has been more than the normal amount of material about Titanic in popular culture including a new mini-series and a re-release of James Cameron's popular Titanic film remastered in 3D. Titanic: The Complete Story is a fine dvd set and for those who have dreamt of and wondered about this ship. They will enjoy learning just a little bit more of this doomed journey and the people who you never get to hear about that died that fated night on April 15th one hundred years ago. Read More...  Brittany Snow and Evan Ross in an intense story of 4 lives slammed together after a terrifying carjacking. The story Intercuts between a carjacking and the separate stories of four young people, Carley, Dre, Lena and Kevin. Their worlds are starkly divided along class lines, but on this one night, they end up in the same car on this fateful night. Read More... DVD Review HOUSE OF PLEASURES:  Heavily represented on 2011 "Best Of" lists, this French film promises to be both an erotic and visual treat, boasting one of the largest casts in recent memory. Read More... PR American Experience: Custer's Last Stand on DVD Jan 24  On June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, General George Armstrong Custer ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. The battle pitted two larger-than-life antagonists against one another: Sitting Bull, the charismatic and politically savvy leader of the Plains Indians; and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union's greatest cavalry officers. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead. Read More... PR American Loser on DVD Sep 27  Standing in front of an audience, Jeff Nichols (Sean William Scott) relives the day that motivated him to get sober. On that fateful day 10 years ago, Jeff botched a job interview because he panicked over the color of his shirt; almost got hit by a train and sank his stepfather's yacht while fishing. Read More... PR The Thomas Hardy Collection on DVD Aug 16  In the spirit of A&E's acclaimed literary adaptations, like Pride & Prejudice and Emma, which have sold over 2.5 million units comes this 2 disc collection featuring two of the beloved author's most enduring works: Tess Of The D'urbervilles and The Mayor Of Casterbridge. Featuring gorgeous on-location filming and renowned international casts, including Ciaran Hinds, James Purefoy and Justine Waddell (, both of these epic adaptations offer sweeping romance and drama on a grand scale. Read More... PR Fubar: Balls to the Wall on DVD, Blu-Ray and VOD Apr 19  Headbanger relics, Terry (Dave Lawrence) and Dean (Paul J. Spence), are tired of trying to give'r while barely scraping by, so when their old buddy, Tron (Andrew Sparacino), hooks them up with jobs they head up North to make sweet cash working on the pipelines during the holidays. Read More... |
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