Documentary DVDs

Includes That's Entertainment, That's Entertainment Part 2, That's Entertainment III, and a bonus fourth disc entitled That's Entertainment: Treasures from the Vault, available exclusively with the Giftset featuring more than five hours of exciting extras including three great documentaries, premiere night coverage and salutes to the great behind-the-camera talents, TV specials, making-of featurettes, plus an extensive video jukebox of rare, star-packed musical outtakes from classic films, and more!

Bullitt's dynamic editing, highlighted by its twisting, squealing, hill-leaping chase sequence that leaves viewers whooping and woozy, earned a 1968 Best Film Editing Oscar and helped make the film an action classic. How do film editors work this kind of magic? This fascinating program lets you in on the secrets. "What makes a movie a movie is the editing," says Zach Staenberg, Academy Award-winning* editor of the Matrix trilogy. Closeups, flashbacks, parallel action, slow motion, juxtaposition of images - these are just a few tools that make clips from Birth of a Nation to Pulp Fiction, The Battleship Potemkin to Gladiator indelible. Narrated by Kathy Bates and with interviews of a who's who of contemporary directors and editors, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing is, shot for shot and frame after frame, reel magic.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is an engrossing, unwavering look back at Francis Ford Coppola’s chaotic, catastrophe-plagued Vietnam production, Apocalypse Now. Filled with juicy gossip and a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the stressful world of moviemaking, the documentary mixes on-location home movies shot in the Philippines by Eleanor Coppola, the director’s wife, with revealing interviews with the cast and crew, shot 10 years later.

Martin Scorsese narrates an overview of American film history, beginning with D.W. Griffith and ending in 1969.

A compilation of movie musical highlights.

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/15/2009 Run time: 110 minutes

Studio: Kino International Release Date: 08/02/2005

The power and the stories. The trends and trendsetters. The mirror that reflects our life and times. It’s Rick sticking his neck out for nobody. Superman rescuing Lois Lane. Bette Davis pumping lead into the man she loves. George Clooney masterminding a Vegas heist. Harry Potter wielding his powers. You must remember these…. Clint Eastwood narrates Richard Schickel’s perceptive 5-episode, 85th-anniversary salute to the studio that gained a four-footed hold with an unlikely star (Rin Tin Tin), championed tough guys and dames who gave the Depression and the Nazis the raspberry, countered the box-office onslaught of TV and emerged as a 21st-century giant. Art, business, stars, moneymen, America – it’s an enthralling tale. And it’s all here.

FEATURE: Approx 90 minutes
BONUS DISK: Approx 4 hours<br><br>From cinema-verite pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, some of the doc world's brightest lights reflect upon the unique power of the genre in CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY.

Featuring intimate interviews with 38 directors and 163 film clips from classics such as Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line, as well as arresting recent work such as Darwin's Nightmare, Touching the Void and One Day in September, Capturing Reality offers insight into myriad aspects of the complex creative process. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, director Pepita Ferrari fashions this kaleidoscopic mix into her own engaging narrative, while probing the perennially contested status of the 'truth.' Can film capture reality?<br><br>Featuring 38 Legendary Filmmakers including: WERNER HERZOG, ERROL MORRIS, KEVIN MACDONALD, HEDDY HONIGMANN, NICK BROOMFIELD, ALBERT MAYSLES, PATRICIO GUZMAN, LAURA POITRAS, JENNIFER BAICHWAL, JOAN CHURCHILL, ALANIS OBOMSAWIN, JENNIFER FOX, SCOTT HICKS, HUBERT SAUPER, SABIHA SUMAR, PETER WINTONICK, JESSICA YU and many more!