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A visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, RUSSIAN ARK is Alexsandr Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one fluid take using High Definition video cameras, the photography floats and careens through the lavish corridors of the museum, examining its architectural details while following a dreamlike plot. A cast of 867 actors supply the action of the film, whether dancing the mazurka in a lively ballroom, performing a military salute, or watching a theater performance. The Marquis (Sergey Dreiden), an aged but limber European dressed in solid black, is the film's charismatic guide, leading the narrator--who is the unidentified voice behind the camera--through each doorway and into each gallery in a sweeping tour of the Hermitage. While the Marquis interacts with some of the guests, debating about Italian art with a couple of Russian scholars, delighting over rich paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck with an angelic blind woman, taking a lively brunette for a spin on the dance floor, others do not see him. Even the narrator suspects that the Marquis is a ghost, long dead and wandering the Hermitage in a quest to better understand history. Time periods, indicated by style of dress, fluctuate between the 1700s and the present. Famous Russian figures, such as Peter the Great, Nicholas I, and Catherine the Great appear and then disappear, with no explanation of their roles. Between the Marquis and the narrator, confusion reigns. They are spectators and trespassers in this mysterious space, trying to find their way.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseLetterboxedInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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The period betweem the end of World War I and the crash of 1929 is known as the Jazz Age in America, a time of high-energy nightclubs, wild Prohibition evasion and an America first attitude. All is captured in this episode of NBC News' Project Twenty series, narrated by Fred Allen.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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The two battleships that signify the beginning and the end of America's involvement in World War II are given their dues in this fascinating documentary. The USS Arizona sunk in nine minutes on December 7th, 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Four years later, it was upon the Mighty Mo where Japan and the United States signed the treaty ending the bloody conflict.DVD Features:Region (Unknown)Keep CaseSingle Side - Single LayerFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Featurettes - 1. MACARTHUR RETURNS TO THE PHILLIPINES









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3. AT JAPAN'S DOORSTEP: OKINAWA
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Michael Man has been one of the most successful Hollywood directors of the last 20 years, both commercially and artistically. The director of genre hits such as HEAT and LAST OF THE MOHICANS as well as the socially conscious drama THE INSIDER, Mann has taken many risks and made them work. Here, Mann and those who have worked with him describe what makes him so successful and his approach to making movies.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusDVD-ROM Features: Web Links
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Aviation Week presents another collection of the high-flying, high-powered war-birds that make modern battle so fierce and action-packed. Fighters, bombers, or reconnaissance, all of the featured machines are guaranteed to raise the level on your thrill-meter. Includes the following segments, Flight Deck, which takes you into the pilot's seat and onto the deck of an aircraft carrier, Stealth: Flying Invisible, which takes you up close to the nearly invisible aircraft created by stealth technology, and Desert Storm: Thunder in the Gulf, which collects the most outstanding aerial footage of from Desert Storm.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Full Motion MenusInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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