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The 82nd Annual Academy Awards

Genres: Musical / Biography

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar, Kirk Kelly, Gina Tuttle

Country: USA

Directors: Hamish Hamilton

Year: 2010

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

The curtain rises and we are greeted by sparkly stars, all the nominees for best actor and actress are on the stage in pairs...

Growing Up Brady

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Adam Brody, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Michael Tucker, Kaley Cuoco, Paul Greenberg, Carly Schroeder, Ricky Ullman

Country: USA

Directors: Richard A. Colla

Year: 2000

Available Quality: DivX

A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.

The Miracle Maker

Genres: Drama / Biography / Animation

Starring: James Frain, Alfred Molina, Julie Christie, Ian Holm, Miranda Richardson, William Hurt, Ralph Fiennes

Country: UK, Russia

Directors: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov

Year: 2000

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

The story of Jesus Christ.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Genres: Drama / History / Biography

Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Margolin, Max von Sydow, Angela Lansbury, Victor Buono, Richard Conte, Martin Landau

Country: USA

Directors: George Stevens

Year: 1965

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

For any fan of George Stevens's expansive epic on the life of Christ, this restored version returns the film to its cinematic splendor. The print quality is magnificent. In one important way, the film even plays better decades after it was produced in 1965: the bevy of cameos is not as distracting. This mellowing-over-time approach was apparently part of Stevens's plan as revealed in one of two documentaries. A 20-minute segment made in 1965 is thinly veiled public relations but works as an intriguing time capsule capturing how massive moviemaking once was, with its large tent cities built to house cast and crew--in this case, in the remote a...

Please Remove Your Shoes

Genres: History / Documentary / Biography

Starring: P. Jeffrey Black

Country: USA

Directors: Rob DelGaudio

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

A documentary about the US government's broken promise to keep our airlines secure, and the personal stories of a few people who know the truth - congressmen, air marshals, aviation security employees. It will make you angry and flying in an airplane may never be the same again.

The People vs. Larry Flynt

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Crispin Glover, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Courtney Love, Jan Triska, Vincent Schiavelli

Country: USA

Directors: Milos Forman

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

Capote

Genres: Crime / Drama / Biography

Starring: Chris Cooper, Kate Shindle, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Kwesi Ameyaw, Allie Mickelson

Country: USA, Canada

Directors: Bennett Miller

Year: 2005

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of "no witness", the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

King of Kings

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Robert Ryan, Royal Dano, Rip Torn, Viveca Lindfors, Hurd Hatfield, Harry Guardino, Frank Thring

Country: USA

Directors: Nicholas Ray

Year: 1961

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

When the Romans under General Pompey conquer Judea in 63 BC, an era of despair and fear begins for the Jewish people. In the trials and persecutions that the Jews suffer under the Romans and under King Herod, they take hope in the promise that the Messiah someday would come. In the reign of Augustus, when Jesus is born in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph, there are some who recognize him as the future king of the Jews. Later, when Jesus reaches adulthood and begins to appear in public, there are many different responses to his message, and there are also those who wish to use him for their own purposes.

MacArthur

Genres: Drama / History / War / Biography

Starring: Allan Miller, Russell Johnson, Nicolas Coster, Gregory Peck, Dick O'Neill, Addison Powell, Dan O'Herlihy

Country: USA

Directors: Joseph Sargent

Year: 1977

Available Quality: DVD, iPod

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of Phillipines, and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthur's days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by President Truman.

Einstein

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Luigi Diberti, Vincenzo Amato, Andréa Ferréol, Flavio Parenti, Maya Sansa, Piotr Adamczyk, Giorgio Basile

Country: Italy

Directors: Liliana Cavani

Year: 2008

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

A look at the relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric.

Reparando

Genres: Drama / History / Documentary / Biography

Starring: Unknown

Country: USA

Directors: Scott Owen Moore

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

On the morning of June 18. 1954, the US CIA dropped leaflets in Guatemala City demanding the resignation of the president. Guatemala was ravaged by Civil War for the next 36 years. But hope is rising. In the midst of incredible odds, victims have been transformed into champions who willfully embrace the pain of their past to help repair the next generation. This is their story. Shorty - a former gang member who is now a pastor, and Tita - a woman who started a school in Guatemala's most notorious slum have joined forces to repair La Limonada.

A Home of Our Own

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Kathy Bates, David Jensen, Edward Furlong, Tony Campisi, Soon-Tek Oh, Michael Flynn, T.J. Lowther

Country: USA

Directors: Tony Bill

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.

The Madness of King George

Genres: Comedy / Drama / History / Biography

Starring: Anthony Calf, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Jim Carter, Nigel Hawthorne

Country: UK

Directors: Nicholas Hytner

Year: 1994

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses, he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants, who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority, raising the question of who is really in charge.

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Bob Ruggiero, Philip L. Clarke, Orson Welles, Ray Laska, Brass Adams, Roy Edmonds, Ray Chubb

Country: USA

Directors: Robert Guenette

Year: 1981

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician Nostradamus actually predict such events as the fall of King Louis XVI, the rise of Napoleon, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? And are there prophecies that have yet to come true?

The Five Pennies

Genres: Drama / Biography / Music

Starring: Danny Kaye, Ray Anthony, Bob Crosby, Harry Guardino, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tuesday Weld, Louis Armstrong

Country: USA

Directors: Melville Shavelson

Year: 1959

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past c...

Beau Brummell

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Rosemary Harris, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Peter Ustinov, Paul Rogers, Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Dignam

Country: USA

Directors: Curtis Bernhardt

Year: 1954

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Captain George Brummell is an upper-class dandy. He has to leave the army after having insulted the crown prince. This only gives him time to start a smear campaign against the prince. The prince, who is tired of all the yes-men around him, hires him as his chief advisor.

Fair Game

Genres: Action / Thriller / Drama / Biography

Starring: Naomi Watts, Michael Kelly, Sean Penn, Ty Burrell, Jessica Hecht, Brooke Smith, Anand Tiwari

Country: USA, United Arab Emirates

Directors: Doug Liman

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Silkwood

Genres: Thriller / Drama / Biography

Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Josef Sommer, Bruce McGill, J.C. Quinn, Craig T. Nelson, David Strathairn

Country: USA

Directors: Mike Nichols

Year: 1983

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

Joe Hill aka The Ballad of Joe Hill

Genres: Drama / Biography

Starring: Michael Logan, Richard Weber, Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson, Cathy Smith

Country: USA, Sweden

Directors: Bo Widerberg

Year: 1971

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to get on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon hims...

This Way of Life

Genres: Action / Adventure / Family / Documentary / Biography

Starring: Colleen Karena, Peter Karena, Aurora Ottley-Karena, Corban Ottley-Karena, Elias Ottley-Karena, Llewelyn Ottley-Karena, Malachi Ottley-Karena

Country: New Zealand

Directors: Thomas Burstyn

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains. Until, that is, Peter's escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences for the whole clan.

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