Who was the first actor to play James Bond? If you answered Sean Connery, you would be wrong. In 1954, Barry Nelson played Bond in 007's screen debut: a 1954 live t.v version of the first James Bond novel "Casino Royale". Spy Guise Video now makes this amazing and historic program available - complete with the restored ending missing from previous video versions. This deluxe collector's edition ...

Manufacturer: Spy Glass/Cara Video
Starring: Peter Lorre, Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress

This is the most popular opera production so far on DVD, surpassing even Franco Zeffirelli's lavish, symbol-laden La Traviata. It is an exciting Carmen, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit ...

Manufacturer: RCA/Columbia
Starring: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, François Le Roux
Directed By: Francesco Rosi

One of the most famous short films ever made, The Red Balloon is a childhood fantasy with appeal for viewers of every age. It is the story of Pascal, a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which follows him everywhere--to school and church--and even hovers outside his window when he is in his room. Filmed entirely in the picturesque back streets and narrow alleys of Old ...

Manufacturer: Homevision
Starring: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov, Paul Perey
Directed By: Albert Lamorisse

In and around one village in Nazi-occupied France, 5,000 Jews were taken in and sheltered--by 5,000 Christians! "Weapons of the Spirit" is the story of a unique conspiracy of goodness, a story filmmaker Pierre Sauvage was born to tell: he was born and protected at that time in that singular oasis of peace--Le Chambon. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a tiny Protestant farming village in the ...

Starring: Joseph Atlas, René Bousquet, Adolphe Caritey, Roger Darcissac, Charles Gibert
Directed By: Pierre Sauvage

It was probably inevitable that Jane Fonda, who played such a defining role in the aerobics boom of the 1980s, would be on the yoga train as well when it started rolling in the 1990s. And on this tape (recorded in 1993), she does a good job of it. The focus is on the "sun salutation," a connected series of poses that builds strength, flexibility, and balance, and with repeated practice this offers ...

Manufacturer: Warnervision
Starring: Jane Fonda

Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech ...

Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Starring: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Directed By: Costa-Gavras

Manufacturer: Mgm Entertainment
Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, María Barranco
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar

Manufacturer: Mca
Starring: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Pina Cei
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of this tragic 1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik hero's family. The year is 1936, and Stalin's purges are in full swing. Despite his reputation and revolutionary record, Sergei Kotov (Mikhalkov) seems to be on the dictator's hit list, as indicated by the insulting arrival of his wife's former lover, an agent of ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Nino Abuladze, T. Akopova, Ion Aksenti, Nina Arkhipova, Vladimir Belousov (II)

Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Starring: Valentine Boukine, Bernard Cassus-Soulanis, Varvare Chebalina, Sergei Dontsov, Yelena Drapeko