Apr 06 2009
Recent Arrivals
The following titles are a very small sample of recently arrived titles. For a full, up-to-date listing go to Media Collections new additions.
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Ali (Director’s Cut) [2001]
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, focusing on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. Considered by many to be the greatest champion in boxing history, Ali transcended sports through the sheer power of his exciting, irreverent, and charismatic personality. Now over 40 years since his Olympic championship, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure known, respected and loved throughout the world.
1776
Produced in 1972, 1776 is a delightful musical celebration of the founding of The United States of America. The story centers around the familiar historical characters as they organize a movement for independence from Mother England. All events lead up to that most significant date, July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Serenity
A group of intergalactic revolutionaries get more than they bargained for when they agree to transport two teenagers aboard their ship. Based on characters created by Joss Whedon for the television program Firefly.
The Fountain
Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1000-year odyssey to defeat humankind’s most indomitable foe: Death.
The Empty Mirror
A drama that explores the psychology of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler in the “after life” reminisces, rants, dictates his memos, and generally tries to justify to a changing cast of characters that includes some of his well known henchmen (Goebbels and Goring) as well as a frequently appearing Sigmund Freud his thoughts and actions and personae on the way to instigating the slaughter of over 12 million people before and during the second world war.
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