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In 1960, accountant Richard Wayman and photographer Phyllis Vaughn started the Cleveland-based Highway Safety Foundation after amassing a sizeable collection of photos taken at auto crash sites and shooting an educational film, SIGNAL 30, which incorporated crash site footage. The Foundation's film production wing, Safety Enterprises, went on to produce a number of now-legendary auto safety films (including WHEELS OF TRAGEDY and MECHANIZED DEATH) incorporating extremely grisly real-life imagery, which were shown to unsuspecting high school students across the United States in the 1960s and 70s. Bret Miller's documentary takes a probing look into the strange story of the people who made these bizarre and haunting films. He includes interviews with genre experts such as educational film archivist Richard Prelinger and Something Weird Video's Mike Vraney, as well as Earle Deems and John Domer--two of the men who worked on these compelling curiosities. While the subject matter is sensationalistic by nature, Miller's approach is reverent, and, though the films have passed on into the land of pop cultural legend, one is never doubtful that those who made the films did so out of a well-intentioned sense of duty and purpose.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case1 DiscFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Deleted Scenes Trailers Three Complete Driver's Education Short Films: 1. SIGNAL 30 (1959) 2. HIGHWAYS OF AGONY (1969) 3. OPTIONS TO LIVE (1979) Excerpts From Additional Films, Including: 1. MECHANIZED DEATH (1961) 2. WHEELS OF TRAGEDY (1963) 3. CARRIER OR KILLER (1965) 4. DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY (1965) 5. THE THIRD KILLER (1966)Text/Photo Galleries: Image and Document Gallery Pressbook
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents an exhaustive and essentially uncritical portrait of Ronald Reagan, an ex-movie actor (1964's THE KILLERS) and television commercial pitchman who became President of the United States in 1980, served two terms, then developed Alzheimer's Disease several years later. The son of an alcoholic father, his careers included radio baseball announcer (he would pretend to be watching a game live while actually reconstructing it from teletype bulletins); 1930s Warner Brothers movie contract player (co-starring with Errol Flynn and David Niven in action spectaculars); Screen Actors Guild president seeking out communists; TV show host and Boraxo commercial spokesperson--with a brief sideline as a straw-hatted Las Vegas casino song-and-dance man prancing around the stage with a showgirl on each arm--before an electrifying television address for Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964 catapulted him into politics and he became California's governor two years later. The program chronicles each extraordinary step in his zigzagging ascent to leadership of the Free World with frequently surprising film or vintage photographs. Interviews with Reagan's family members about his shooting in 1981 prove especially revealing. The incident was far more serious and had a far greater impact on his physical and mental health than the administration revealed at the time. Mikhail Gorbachev--Reagan's counterpart in the Soviet government--and assorted staffers and politicians who knew Reagan also offer their insights on this enigmatic giant of the twentieth century.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Ten tape collection (in five volumes) which goes behind-the-scenes to paint a comprehensive portrait of World War II. See specific releases for titles.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Interactive Features: Direct Scene Access Skill Testing Questions and AnswersText/Photo Galleries:
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Experience a view of Earth as only an astronaut can. From the NASA missions comes this footage of land and sea from a perspective few humans have witnessed...until now.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingKeep Case
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The legendary Red Baron took off on April 21, 1918 for a dogfight deep in Allied territory and later was found on the ground with a single bullet wound in the chest. Who was skilled and lucky enough to kill the World War I flying ace with eighty kills to his name? Nova uses computer animation and exciting aerial footage to reenact this historic dogfight, and try to solve this unknown mystery.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseLetterboxed - Anamorphic - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Printable Materials for EducatorsInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene AccessDVD-Rom Features: Access to Who Killed The Red Baron website
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