Barbara Kopple

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1) To kill a mockingbird

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Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch -...

2) Harlan County, USA

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[2006]

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Documents the 1973 Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Co., which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America.

3) American Dream

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[200-?]

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In this Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991, the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota is documented from beginning to end. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike. DVD format.

4) Shut Up & Sing

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2006.

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Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. Follow the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and make country music. At a time when the United States is fighting for democracy...

5) Fight To Live

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Armen, Garo

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FIGHT TO LIVE is a human story at the highest stakes of all, life and death. It puts a face on a complex issue, and takes us inside the lives shattered by terminal illness. For these victims, hope is all they ask, and for a distant bureaucracy to just get out of the way.

6) Addiction: why can't they just stop?

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c2007

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Experts discuss drug and alcohol addiction and explain how addiction is a treatable brain disease. Contains the original 90-minute documentary broadcast on television in 2007 plus over five hours of additional material.

7) Havoc

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Hathaway, Anne

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"We're just teenagers and we're bored." From the writer of Traffic comes Havoc, a gritty mortality tale about culture clash in modern day Southern California. Convinced their world is nothing more than a plastic illusion, wealthy teenagers Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) take a drive to the East Side of Los Angeles to experience the "ghetto." Fascinated by what they experience, they immerse themselves into the thug life. But what...

8) 30 for 30: Season I, films 01-30

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[2013]

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30 years, 30 stories, 30 filmmakers: 30 years of sports covered in 30 stories by 30 different film directors. Kings ransom: "On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen when the Edmonton Oilers sent Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. Acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday night lights, The kingdom) presents the captivating story of the trade that knocked the wind out of an entire country and placed a star-studded...