In keeping with the enduring spirit of Frank McCourt's phenomenal bestseller Angela's Ashes, this hour-long documentary is literally a family affair. It's really a home movie, directed by Conor McCourt, the son of Frank's brother Malachy, that has been made public for the many fans of Frank's book and Malachy's own acclaimed memoir, A Monk Swimming. That the film has an amateurish ...

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Alphie McCourt, Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Mike McCourt
Directed By: Conor McCourt

Paul Pena heard a sound -- something intensely beautiful but disturbing at the same time -- coming from his short-wave radio. The sound was that of Tuvan throat-singers, a sound that changed his life forever and sent him on a journey across the world to a land unknown. In his search for harmony and the answer to a mystifying obsession, music helped Pena bridge two cultures. This ...

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Richard Feynman, B.B. King, Kongar-ol Ondar, Paul Pena, Aislinn Scofield
Directed By: Roko Belic

An incredible slice of America’s media and pop-culture history, SMOTHERED tells the story of the censorship struggles of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the Emmy Award winning television program, broadcast on CBS from 1967 until it was prematuredly str

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Joan Baez, Jack Benny, David Bianculli, Allan Blye, George Burns
Directed By: Maureen Muldaur

The true story of Maggie, a beguiling homeless woman in her forties living in New York’s Central Park. Claiming to be the daughter of actor Robert Ryan and married to the Roman god Jupiter, her story is both a complex enigma and a riveting tale.

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Maggie Cogan, Katina Pendleton
Directed By: Michel Negroponte

One of the most influential and recognizable photographers in the world, Lewis Hine recorded the changing face of America in more than 10,000 images taken over 40 years. From immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and the plight of child laborers to the construction of the Empire State Building, he captured the human side of America’s wrenching transformation into an industrial colossus. The ...

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: John Crowley, Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton, Margaret Byington, Lewis Hine
Directed By: Nina Rosenblum

In 1979, as China re-opened its doors to the West, virtuoso Isaac Stern received an unprecedented invitation from its governernment to tour the country. This extraordinary experience became the landmark, Oscar-winning documentary FROM MAO TO MOZART--a be

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Isaac Stern, David Golub, Ching-Ling Soong, Leonard Woodcock
Directed By: Murray Lerner

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Starring: Emerging Powers, Wall Street Journal Video

The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary ...

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Billy Ayers, Kathleen Cleaver, Bernadine Dohrn, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert
Directed By: Bill Siegel, Sam Green

Easily one of the most astonishing and engaging cinematic works of the past decade, CHILDREN UNDERGROUND is a profoundly intimate and heart-wrenching drama -- an Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 2001, and winner at nearly every major

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Cristina Ionescu, Mihai Alexandre Tudose, Violeta 'Macarena' Rosu, Ana Turturica, Marian Turturica
Directed By: Edet Belzberg

Very little is actually known about the 13-year-old village girl who gave birth to the baby hailed by Christianity as the Son of God. But in this 44-minute Inspiring Lives A&E Biography, historians and theologians speculate about the Blessed Virgin based on sparse Biblical references, ancient documents, legend, and knowledge of the times. The documentary traces the story of Mary's life ...

Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Biography