Release date: 1996-07-08
Price: $149.98
Review Cosmos Gift Set W/Book / Turner Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Neil Lucas (II)
- Sir David Attenborough
Price: $79.98
Review David Attenborough's Private Life of Plants: A Dazzling Kaleidoscope of the Essence of Life on Earth (Six VHS Tape Set) / Turner Home Ent:
Release date: 2003-04-29
Run time: 290 min.
Price: $39.98
Review Napoleon - The Myth, The Battles, The Legends / Bfs Entertainment:He fired cannon on his own countrymen, wooed the mistress of a formidable opponent and even threatened the Pope. He was Napoleon, one of the most brilliant and complex figures in history. This absorbing appraisal of his life offers a new perspective of the little man from Corsica, who rose to new heights of power by seizing every brutal, outrageous opportunity in his path. Step inside Napoleon's world through dramatic recreations of key events. Ride into the heat of battle with large-scale reconstructions of his campaigns. From the glory of his empire to his defeat at Waterloo and miserable exile on Elba, here is an entertaining and complete portrait of an extraordinary life.
Actors & Directors
- Evolution Educational Set
Run time: 420 min.
List Price: $129.95
Price: $123.45
Review Evolution Educational (8pc) / Wgbh Boston:Evolution offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us. Beginning with Darwin's revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution-the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion. Includes: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Interweaving key moments of drama in Darwin's life with current research, Darwin's Dangerous Idea explores why his theory of evolution might matter even more today than it did in his own time. Great Transformations: From the development of the four-limbed body plan, the journey of animal life from water to land, and the emergence of humans, Great Transformations focuses on the important evolutionary changes that triggered the earth's incredible diversity. Extinction!: Some 99. 9 percent of all species that have ever lived on earth are now extinct. Extinction! explores why, then confronts a frightening notion: Are humans causing the next mass extinction—the sixth in the history of life on earth? The Evolutionary Arms Race: Survival of the fittest: Is it raw competition, a level of cooperation indispensable to life, or both? Explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms—the only real threat to our existence—and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease. Why Sex?: Investigate the endless variety of sexual expression and the powerful hold sex exerts over almost all living things. And discover why, in evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself. The Mind's Big Bang: Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, something happened that triggered a creative, technological, and social explosion, allowing humans to dominate the planet. [+]What forces may have contributed to the emergence of the modern human mind? What About God?: Of all the species on earth, only humans try to explain who they are and how they came to be. Encounter real human stories of people struggling to find a balance between religion and science, realms that play very different roles in assigning order to the universe and a purpose to life.
Release date: 1996-01-03
List Price: $79.98
Price: $245.99
Review The Nixon Interviews With David Frost / Universal Home Video:
Release date: 2000-09-05
List Price: $89.98
Price: $89.99
Review Great Musicals - Musical Americana 6-Pack: Meet Me In St. Louis, The Music Man, On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat, Yankee Doodle Dandy / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 1991-03-13
List Price: $119.88
Price: $113.89
Review Cousteau 2 Gift Pak W/Macintosh Disc / Turner Home Entertainment:
Release date: 1993-08-25
Run time: 280 min.
List Price: $14.99
Price: $125.95
Review Basic Training With Ada Janklowicz - 4 VHS Tape Set Collection / Maier Group Home Vid:
Release date: 2000-11-07
Price: $170.92
Review The Ultimate National Geographic VHS Collection / Nat'l Geographic Vid:
Actors & Directors
- Gösta Ekman
- Hugo Björne
- Inga Tidblad
- Erik 'Bullen' Berglund
- Gustaf Molander
- Ingrid Bergman
List Price: $119.98
Price: $119.98
Review 8 The Ingrid Bergman Collection (6-Pack) / Fox Lorber:1 copy of each of the following: Intermezzo (FLV1437), June NIght (FLV1438), Only One Night (FLV1439), Dollar (FLV1440), A Woman's Face (FLV1441) and Walpurgis Night (FLV1442) shrink-wrapped together.
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 750 min.
List Price: $129.98
Price: $126.12
Review The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History, Boxed Set / Mpi Home Video:This 10-episode set devotes a video to each decade of the 20th century, and the results are mixed. The approach is fairly standard, utilizing archival newsreel footage or videotape shot for news programs to document the major events of each decade as well as using interviews with scholars and commentators to occasionally provide perspective. As the century began with hand-cranked film cameras and closed with endless news coverage on cable television, there is a great variety of material to draw from, and much of it is fascinating. However, devoting an hour or even more to each decade means that there is never much depth, and there is also an unfortunate lack of varying viewpoints. Most of the people interviewed in the various videos have a leftist perspective and, in some cases, such as the presentation of the Reagan years, the imbalance of viewpoint is striking. These videos do provide good overviews of the decades, and major events and characters are rendered in general terms, but at times a lack of depth and some curious editorial choices are frustrating. Still, the documentaries in this set do cover a tremendous amount of ground, and for the most part they do it in an entertaining and informative manner. -Robert J. McNamara.
Release date: 2002-05-06
Price: $99.95
Review Hitler's Holocaust Set / A & E Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Nova-in Search of Human Origin
Run time: 180 min.
List Price: $49.95
Price: $115.99
Review Nova: In Search of Human Origins (3pc) / Wgbh Boston:The award-winning exploration of the beginnings and expansion of the human race. The Story of Lucy discovers the missing link between humans and apes. Surviving in Africa witnesses a living experiment to understand how early humans thrived. And The Creative Revolution looks at the worldwide expansion and evolution of the human race.
Release date: 1992-10-15
Run time: 360 min.
List Price: $34.99
Price: $167.00
Review Eyes on the Prize Box Set: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (6 Video Set) / PBS Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Paterson
- Clarissa Dickson-Wright
- Patricia Llewellyn
List Price: $59.95
Price: $156.56
Review Two Fat Ladies (5pc) / New River Media:
Release date: 1994-06-01
Price: $79.95
Review Lee Trevino 4-Pack / Paramount Home Video:
Release date: 2000-07-07
Run time: 300 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $175.00
Review Doctor Who - The E-Space Trilogy (Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate) / BBC Warner:
Release date: 2000-02-29
Run time: 340 min.
Price: $49.95
Review Opera Gold Collection (4pc) / Kultur Video:This spectacular 4-tape set includes: Great Tenor Performances, Opera Hits, Great Puccini Love Scenes, and Highlights from La Scala. Stars Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Eva Marton, and many more! 340 minutes. Great Tenor Performances A glittering collection of favorite arias sung by the world's greatest tenors including Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Roberto Alagna, Jon Vickers, Vladimir Atlantov, Neil Shicoff, and many more. Includes the first video release of Luciano Pavarotti's performance in Aida from the 1981 San Francisco Opera production performing Celeste Aida. Opera Hits An extraordinary compilation of opera's best-loved arias, duets, and choruses performed by the superstars of opera including Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Jon Vickers, Eva Marton, Janet Baker, Maria Ewing, and many more. Performances from La Scala, Milan, La Fenice, Venice, The Royal Opera, Covent Gardens, Arena di Verona, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Great Puccini Love Scenes This spectacular compilation presents the very best of Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, performing great love scenes from Puccini favorites. Highlights from La Scala This superb compilation presents some of the very best operatic moments from one of the greatest opera houses in the world, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. World-class operatic stars, including Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Eva Marton, Ghena Dimitrova, and Mirella Freni perform spectacular productions of operas by Verdi and Giordano.
Release date: 2002-02-19
Run time: 156 min.
Price: $29.98
Review Swat (3pc) / Bfs Entertainment:
Release date: 1995-10-24
Run time: 442 min.
List Price: $89.95
Price: $109.00
Review Great Operas by Verdi (Aida, Otello, and La Traviata) / Homevision:
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Cosmos Gift Set W/Book, David Attenborough's Private Life of Plants: A Dazzling Kaleidoscope of the Essence of Life on Earth (Six VHS Tape Set), Napoleon - The Myth, The Battles, The Legends, Evolution Educational (8pc), The Nixon Interviews With David Frost, Great Musicals - Musical Americana 6-Pack: Meet Me In St. Louis, The Music Man, On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cousteau 2 Gift Pak W/Macintosh Disc, Basic Training With Ada Janklowicz - 4 VHS Tape Set Collection, The Ultimate National Geographic VHS Collection, 8 The Ingrid Bergman Collection (6-Pack), The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History, Boxed Set, Hitler's Holocaust Set, Nova: In Search of Human Origins (3pc), Eyes on the Prize Box Set: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (6 Video Set), Two Fat Ladies (5pc), Lee Trevino 4-Pack, Doctor Who - The E-Space Trilogy (Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate), Opera Gold Collection (4pc), Swat (3pc), Great Operas by Verdi (Aida, Otello, and La Traviata)Top headlines: Plague threatens last of the ferrets: On the grasslands near Badlands National Park, wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets. ›21:55 30 Aug, Sat 2007 Tokyo Motor Show: Top 10 Production Cars: Editors' ten favorite production vehicles at the biennial show. ›07:00 29 Oct, Mon AL Hot Corner: Quality Quentin: The AL Central may not be resolved until the bitter end. 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