Search results for | Biography

The Kieslowski Collection, Disc 5 : I'm So So
(1995) [M]

This Danish documentary surveys the life of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski. He is best known for his Three Colors Trilogy that is comprised of the films Blue, White and Red. In conversations filmed just a few months before his death, documentary director Krzysztof Wierzbicki attempts to...  More

The World's Fastest Indian
(2005) [PG]

Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. Set in the late 1960's, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian Motorcycle, Burt sets off from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah....  More

Ballet Russes
(2005) [G]

A dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees and became two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous ‘ballet battles’ that consumed London society before World War II. Ballets Russes...  More

Ivan The Terrible: Part 1 (New digital restoration) (2 disc set)
(1944) [PG]

Sergei Eisenstein's operatic saga of the 16th-century Russian hero Czar Ivan IV is given a charismatic performance by Nikolai Cherkasov and a brilliant score by Sergei Prokofiev. Part One deals with Czar Ivan's beginnings as the ruler of Russia, Ivan's coronation, and his marriage to Anastasia...  More

Miss Potter
(2006) [G]

Miss Potter is an enchanting love story inspired by Beatrix Potter's life and love affair with her publisher Norman Wayne. Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her overbearing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men to...  More

The Errol Morris Collection: The Thin Blue Line
(1988) [PG]

Previously unreleased masterpieces from America’s most celebrated documentary maker. Digitally Remastered in Widescreen, these previously unreleased Errol Morris (A Brief History of Time, The Fog OF War) films are a timeless testament to one of the world’s greatest documentary-makers. The...  More

The Buddy Holly Story
(1978) [PG]

Gary Busey gives an electrifying, Oscar nominated performance (Best Actor 1978) as Buddy Holly - the musical genuius from Lubbock, Texas, who changed the tune of rock 'n' history. With a groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm & blues, Buddy Holly and the Crickets (Don Stroud,...  More

Jet Li's Fearless
(2006) [M]

A young mainland boy living with his family in Tianjin and forbidden by his father to practice martial arts grows up to become the founder of the Jingwu school of fighting in a lavish biopic detailing the remarkable life of turn-of-the-century martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia. Bullied on the...  More

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(2005) [M]

The true story of a young woman who did what few in Nazi Germany dared even think! A student in wartime Munich, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans are members of the White Rose resistance to Hitler’s Third Reich. Spied distributing anti-Nazi propaganda at their university, the Scholls are...  More

World Trade Center
(2006) [M]

The events of September 11 left an indelible mark on most Americans, and certainly on those in the New York City area. Yet as fresh as the images seem, it's easy to forget the actual grit, sacrifice, and uncertainty of that day. Director Oliver Stone captures the essence of 9/11 by focusing on...  More