Patrick Thomas
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Love can be all consuming, but what happens when it is not a person you are in love with? The Smoke Blower is a fascinating tale that tells a unique story of a quest for purpose, truth and ultimately acceptance. In 1973, the LB&B Corporation ran their global tobacco enterprise from New York and had affiliates all over the world. When Lloyd Friedman embarks on a new career, he is faced with challenges he never thought he'd have to deal with. As he...
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There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.
These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived, creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the...
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Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty reclaims forgotten films, such as Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934), a pioneering anti-Nazi docudrama by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.; I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany (1936), a sensational...
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Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place. Although many books have been written about this period, Cold War, Cool Medium is the only one to examine it through the lens of television programming....
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A compelling and refreshing look at our founding documents and what we stand to lose if we fail to remember our heritage. Locke doesn't buy into labels: left or right, liberal or conservative. He is honest, compassionate and practical while maintaining a good sense of humor. Through the magnifying glass of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Locke looks at government, politics, racism and bigotry, business and the economy, immigration,...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When exploring a creepy old house, Michael, Greg, Doug, and Shari find an old instant camera. When they try to take pictures, tragic things happen to the people who get their picture taken. When Greg tries to return it, he meets its mad creator.
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Criterion collection volume 457
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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English
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Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love....