MVD Visual (Firm)
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English
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So what does a person do when their cherished childhood toy becomes an obsession? And then a collection. A really large collection. Charlie Mack makes his house into a museum! A generation-spanning monument to collecting, over 42,000 Matchbox cars and counting, a life's masterpiece unto itself.
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English
Description
Before forensics, DNA, and CSI we had dollhouses- an unimaginable collection of miniature crime scenes, known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. These surreal dollhouses reveal a dystopic and disturbing slice of domestic life with doll corpses for murder victims, or perhaps something that just looks like murder. Created in the 1930s and 1940s by a crime-fighting grandmother, Frances Glessner Lee, the Nutshells are still used today to help...
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 38
Language
English
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Description
After Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark was released 35 years ago, three 11-year-old boys from Mississippi set out on what would become a 7-year-long labor of love and tribute to their favorite film: a shot-for-shot adaptation of the adventure film. They finished every scene ... except one: the explosive airplane set piece. The trio reunited two decades later with the original cast members in order to complete their masterpiece.
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English
Description
The inspirational movie of blues legend B. B. King. Director Jon Brewer worked closely with the gregarious and charming musician and was given extraordinary access to his friends, family and colleagues. This is a no holds barred, powerful documentary that explores how an orphaned kid from Mississippi turned his life around, battled against all odds and against unrelenting racism to overcome even the toughest critics in the entertainment industry,...
8) Beans
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English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge. Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence, she is forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior that she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
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Danish
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Description
"KLOWN FOREVER follows estranged best friends Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam as they travel to the States seeking fame, fortune and frienship, only to immediately dive head-first into an impressive array of wildly inappropriate misadventures and unforgettably mortifying social situations"--Cover.
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English
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Description
The award-winning documentary on the lost Memphis powerpop artist, Van Duren. From the ashes of Big Star in Memphis, Duren played in bands with Jody Stephens and Chris Bell, before being led to New Haven by manager Andrew Loog Oldham of the Rolling Stones. Forty years later, two Australians discover his music and on a drunken promise, embark on an amazing journey to make a film about the artist touted as 'the next Paul McCartney.₂ There's only one...
11) Magnus
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English
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Description
This unique coming-of-age story follows Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
Language
Finnish
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Description
A funny and moving film about the power of imagination and the strength of a community, directed by **Oscar**-nominee Selma Vilhunen. The film follows three young girls, Aisku, Elsa and Alisa whose lives have been transformed by their new interest: hobbyhorses. Despite a lack of understanding by some, the girls bravely and spiritedly pursue their hobby. Official Selection at **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**. *"A refreshing...
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English
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A documentary by four-time Emmy Award-winning producer/director Jim Brown features rare and previously unseen television footage including a BBC program from the early 1960s that embodies many of the trio's best performances and most popular songs. This is Peter, Paul and Mary at the peak of their artistry, a time when this popular and influential trio dominated the Billboard music charts.
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English
Description
The inspiring life stories of Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta and the remarkable work they do at Danny & Ron's Rescue. With a no-kennel policy, there can be as many as 75 dogs living with them in their home at any given time. Danny and Ron were honored with the 2008 ASPCA Humanitarian Award for their unwavering personal sacrifice and unique approach to dog rescue & adoption during Hurricane Katrina.
15) Scheme queens
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English
Description
"When four girlfriends -- bad girl Sam, influencer Lauryn, trophy fiancée Zoe and the devout Audra -- find themselves down on their luck, they decide to rob a ruthless Rastafarian jewel thief by conning his second-in-command"--Container.
17) Swamp thing
Series
MVD Rewind Collection volume 51
Language
English
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Description
Deep in Florida's darkest Everglades, a brilliant scientist, Dr. Alec Holland, and a sexy government agent, Alice Cable have developed a secret formula that could end world hunger and change civilization forever. Little do they know, however, that their arch nemesis, Arcane is plotting to steal the serum for his selfish schemes. Looting the lab and kidnapping Cable, Arcane douses Holland with the chemicals and leaves him for dead in the swamp. Mutated...