New Adult DVDs
New arrivals added to our DVD Collection in the last 7 days
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| The persuaders |
Year Published: 2004 Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Nazi America a secret history |
Year Published: 2008 After Germany's defeat in WWII exposed the horrors of the Nazi regime, Nazism in America became a threat that could no longer be ignored. Traces the story behind the American Nazi Party and the many neo-Nazi parties which are still active in the U.S. today. Interviews with party members reveal why these groups continue to embrace a cause that has been universally reviled and rejected, while law enforcement officers discuss the spread of racially motivated crime in America. |
May 23, 2013 |
| My dinner with Andre |
Year Published: 2009 An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Multiplicity |
Year Published: 2005 A comedy about a man who clones himself to save his marriage and then almost loses his wife to himself. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Mari Winsor Pilates |
Year Published: 2008 Mari Winsor brings her unique and elegant style to these two sessions to help you sculpt lean, long muscles. Her detailed instructions make these programs easy to follow no matter your skill level. |
May 23, 2013 |
| The magnificent Ambersons |
Year Published: 2012 A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Madame Bovary |
Year Published: 2012 With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault marries local doctor Charles Bovary. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Lon, captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the affair with body and soul. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Machu Picchu and the legacy of the Incas |
Year Published: 2011 "Machu Picchu is one of the earth's magical places. The ruined city seems to be the work of giants, full of mysteries, unwilling to reveal its secrets. Nevertheless, more than any other place, it has become the symbol of the vanished culture of its architects, the Incas. They were at the height of their power when they were smitten by a hitherto unknown disease: the instiable greed for gold which the Europeans introduced to America. This has been responsible , right up to the present day, for th |
May 23, 2013 |
| They live |
Year Published: 2012 When two men put on special sunglasses they see aliens and subliminal messages. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Herman's house |
Year Published: 2012 The injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art are explored in Herman's House, a feature documentary that follows the unlikely friendship between a New York artist and one of America's most famous inmates as they collaborate on an acclaimed art project. |
May 23, 2013 |
| In the footsteps of Beethoven |
Year Published: 2012 An in-depth look at Beethoven's remarkable life, a musician who brought classical music into the Romantic era, a true master who continued to compose, perform and conduct even after becoming completely deaf. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Laurel and Hardy collection |
Year Published: 2006 In The Devil's brother, "Stanlio" and "Ollio" tangle with a notorious robber baron. In Bonnie Scotland, they have misadventures in Scotland and India. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Jerusalem city between religions |
Year Published: 2011 Jerusalem is a holy city, not only for Jews but also for Christians and Muslims. Since time immemorial, each of the three great monotheistic religions has claimed the city as its own. Long-lasting, bloodthirsty conflicts were the result. Jerusalem, a bone of contention for over 2000 years. Now more than ever. Without its pre-eminent significance for these religions, Jerusalem would be merely one among a hundred other desert cities - interchangeable, unimportant. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Jason Becker not dead yet |
Year Published: 2012 The year is 1989, and 19-year old Jason Becker from Richmond, California has just been offered the biggest rock guitar job on the planet. He's on the cover of every guitar magazine and is being hailed by critics as a genius and the next greatest rock guitarist in the world. Jason's dream will turn into a nightmare when he is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease and given just 3-5 years to live. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Raising Adam Lanza |
Year Published: 2013 In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. His motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Silver tongues |
Year Published: 2012 "Two lovers travel from town to town, inventing new personalities to play wild and sophisticated games on people they meet. They cruelly ruin the lives of strangers, leaving a path of psychological destruction in their wake, like emotional serial killers. In each town the couple raise the stakes, until the game spirals out of control and they turn on each other--desperately trying to escape their victims, the police, and death." -- Container. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Thoroughbreds don't cry |
Year Published: 2011 A jockey involved in crooked deals becomes involved with a well-bred young girl. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Some guy who kills people |
Year Published: 2012 After being released from a mental hospital, a quiet man seeks revenge against the people who once terrorized him. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Back to 1942 |
Year Published: 2013 In one of the darkest times in Chinese history, a devastating famine during the war ravaged parts of the country. This human tragedy that killed millions must never be forgotten. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Age of champions winning never gets old |
Year Published: 2013 Age of Champions is the award-winning documentary following five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. Viewers will see a 100 year old tennis champion, 86 year-old pole vaulter, and some basketball grandmothers as they discover the power of the human spirit and triumph over the limitations of age. Endorsed by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and is a perfect complement for courses in aging, health, psychology, kinesiology, and nursing |
May 23, 2013 |