New Adult DVDs
New arrivals added to our DVD Collection in the last 7 days
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| Eating |
Year Published: 2008  Explains why the U.S. government guidelines for nutrition are anything but healthy. Links the eating of an animal-based diet with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other serious health problems. Introduces the RAVE diet, which consists of no refined foods, no animal foods, no vegetable oils, no exceptions & plenty of exercise. Also discusses the devastating effects on the environment of a meat-eating nation. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Doctors of the dark side |
Year Published: 2013 This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal, and medical experts and portrayed through staged demonstrations as spelled out in declassified government documents. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Another country |
Year Published: 1984 An elderly, exiled British spy remembers his days at an English boarding school in the 1930s. In school, he fell in love with a male classmate, explored his homosexuality, and was exposed to Marxist ideas, both contributing to his activities as a spy. Based on the life of former Cambridge spy Guy Burgess. Bonus features include commentary by director and cinematographer, as well as original preview trailer. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Man of Aran |
Year Published: 2003 Documents the life of a family in a small fishing village in the Aran Islands, Ireland, as it struggles to win the daily battle against its magnificent opponent--the sea. Contains both documentary footage and staged scenes, with an invented family at the film's center. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Lore |
Year Published: 2013 Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Bonus features: making of Lore, Panel discussion, Memories of a (German Girl) and theatrical trailer. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Life is sweet |
Year Published: 1990 An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy. |
May 14, 2013 |
| More than a month |
Year Published: 2013 Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a young African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a 'post-racial' America. Not just about a yearly tradition, or history, or being black in America. It is about what it means to be an American, to fight for one's rightful place in the American landscape. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Mental |
Year Published: 2012 Shaz is a larger-than-life free spirit who is hired by a local politician to watch his five peculiar daughters. With her unconventional attitude, Shaz gleefully sets to work transforming the girls into proudly unique individuals. But when a mysterious shark hunter throws a twist in her plans, it's up to the girls to change their destiny and find their own happy ending. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Parked |
Year Published: 2010 Victim of the current recession, Fred Daly lives a quiet, isolated life in his Parked car. His situation improves after he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal, a dope-smoking free spirit with a positive attitude. Sharing laughs and hard times, the two men rediscover the simple pleasure of life. One day at the community swimming pool, Fred meets Jules, an attractive music teacher who lives nearby; the two are attracted to each other. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Silent souls |
Year Published: 2011 Tough guy Miron asks taciturn writer Aist to accompany him on a long journey to dispose of his dead wife's remains according to the rituals of the Merja people, an ancient tribe from picturesque West-Central Russia. As the two friends traverse the evocatively bleak landscape with her body and a pair of caged birds, Miron fills the hours relating the most intimate details of his marriage. |
May 14, 2013 |
| The war within |
Year Published: 2005 A Pakistani engineering student in Paris is imprisoned and interrogated by Western intelligence service for suspected terrorist activities. What unfolds is a profound human and political drama as we tensely observe the state of mind of a suicide bomber. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Vigilante vigilante - the battle for expression |
Year Published: 2011 A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante. These warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods/cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters. Yet several of them have become the very menace they set out to eliminate. In their attempt to stamp out graffiti, they have turned to illegally and destructively painting other people's property. Two filmmakers who set out to expose these mysterious characters and discover a battle of expression. |
May 14, 2013 |
| In search of memory |
Year Published: 2008 A compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of Eric Kandel, one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century and illuminates scientific developments in our understanding of the brain's role in recording and preserving memory. Includes Kandel's findings on how the brain stores memories, the difference between short-term and long-term memory, Alzheimer's and age-related memory loss, and structural modifications to the brain that enhance memory. |
May 14, 2013 |
| The law in these parts |
Year Published: 2011 What is legal and what is just? Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, The Law in These Parts is a gripping and revelatory investigation into the military legal system put in place by Israel over four decades ago to govern the occupied Palestinian territories the repercussions of which are felt to this day by both sides. |
May 14, 2013 |
| The last ride |
Year Published: 2012 Based on the controversial life story of singer-songwriter, Hank Williams, this film tells the powerful tale of country music's original bad boy. The man, the myth and the music come together when Williams travels from Alabama to a series of New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio. This remarkable journey leads straight to the heart and soul of the legendary performer as he takes one last shot at redemption. |
May 14, 2013 |
| Pressure point |
Year Published: 2005
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May 14, 2013 |
| The suicide plan |
Year Published: 2012 You have an incurable illness, you want to die, and you want help dying, what can you do? People who are terminally ill and live in Oregon or Washington can openly ask a doctor for help, but in the rest of country, where physician-assisted suicide is illegal, people who are suffering turn in secret to friends, family members, and even activist organizations. In this 90 minute film explore the shadow world of assisted suicide, where the lines between legality and criminality are blurred as never |
May 14, 2013 |
| Roseanne- The Complete Third Season (1990) |
Year Published: 2012
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May 14, 2013 |
| Rojo sangre |
Year Published: 2005 Pablo Thevent is an older actor who cannot get work. In desperation he becomes a doorman-entertainer at a bizarre club. Dressed as madmen and murderers from history and film he begins to take his work literally, exacting murderous and bloody revenge on those he feels were responsible for his descent into humiliation. |
May 14, 2013 |
| The prisoner of Second Avenue |
Year Published: 2004 A soon-to-be-unemployed executive visits the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately, the dark cloud of tribulation seems to follow him in this comic nightmare. |
May 14, 2013 |