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Collections on DVD
Art House & International Films at Amazon: on DVD on VHS
Documentary Films category at Amazon: on DVD on VHS
 | "Docurama Academy Awards Collection DVD Box Set" [2005]
New Video Group/Docurama DVD set [2/2005] 13 disks for $179.99 box set includes Oscar®-winners for Best Documentary Feature: "Best Boy" [1979]; "From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China" [1981]; "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision" [1994]; "Murder On A Sunday Morning" aka "Un Coupable Idιal" [2001]; "Scared Straight!" [1980]; and Oscar®-nominated "Children Underground" [2001]; "Genghis Blues" [1999]; "Nadja Salerno-Sonneberg: Speaking In Strings" [1999]; "Paul Taylor: Dancemaker" [1998]; "Regret To Inform" [1998]; "Sound and Fury" [2000]; "The Weather Underground" [2002]; plus "Best Man" [1997], the sequel to "Best Boy" |
 | "Avant Garde I: Experimental Cinema of The 1920s & 1930s" [2005] from the Raymond Rohauer [d. 1987] collection Kino Video 6-hour DVD set [8/2005] 2 disks for $24.99 includes works by Marcel Duchamp [1887-1968], Germaine Dulac, Viking Eggeling, Sergei Eisenstein [1898-1948], Jean Epstein {2 shorts}, Robert Florey [1900-79], Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff {2 shorts}, Fernand Leger, Erne Metzmer, Jean Painleve, Man Ray [1890-1976] {3 shorts}, Hans Richter [1888-1976], Ralph Steiner [1899-1986] {"H2O" 1929 short}, Paul Strand, Slavko Vorkapich, James Sibley Watson, Mel-ville Webber [1871-1947], Herman G. Weinberg & Orson Welles [1915-85] {"The Hearts of Age" 1934 short} |
 | "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film, 1894-1941" Box Set [2005] by Anthology Film Archives Image Ent. b&w DVD set [10/2005] 7 disks for $79.99 no listing on IMDb; official movie site companion book: 8½x5¾ pb [6/2001] out of print/used |
 | "Docurama Film Festival I" Box Set [2006]
Docurama color DVD set [6/2006] 10 disks for $206.99 box set includes "Aging Out" [2004]; Oscar winner "Broken Rainbow" [1985]; "Cheeks" [2003]; "Doing Time: Life Inside The Big House" [1980]; "The Fire Next Time" [2005]; Full Frame Documentary Shorts Collection: Vol. 4; "Good Morning Yokohama"; "Good Times" [2002]; "In The Shadow of Eden"; Oscar-nominated "Legacy" [2000]; "Miles Above"; "Omar & Pete" [2005]; "The Police Tapes" [1977]; Oscar-nominated short "Sister Rose's Passion" [2004]; "Small Town Secrets" [2005]; and "The Wobblies" [UAW/NEH 1979] |
 | "Docurama Academy Awards Collection DVD Box Set - Volume 2" [2006]
New Video Group/DocuramaDVD set [7/2006] 12 disks for $179.99 box set includes Oscar®-winners for Best Documentary Feature: "Broken Rainbow" [1985]; "I Am A Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School" [1993]; "In The Shadow of The Stars" [1991]; "Marjoe" [1972] starring Marjoe Gortner; "Sister Rose's Passion" [2004]; "Thoth" [2002]; "Who Are The DeBolts? (And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?)" [1977]; and Oscar®-nominated "A Time For Burning" [1967]; "Balseros" [2002]; "Colors Straight Up" [1997]; "Doing Time: Life Inside The Big House" [1991]; "Legacy" [2000]; and "Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Internment Cases" [1986] |
 | "Docurama Film Festival II" Box Set [2006]
Docurama color DVD set [9/2006] 10 disks for $206.99 box set includes "Con Man" [2003]; "The Education of Shelby Knox" [2005]; "Farmingville" [2004]; "The Lady In Question Is Charles Busch" [2005]; "Original Cast Album: Company" [1970] directed by D.A. Pennebaker; "Parallel Lines" [2004]; "Passin' It On" [1993]; "Power Trip" [2003]; "The Shvitz" [1993]; and "Waging A Living" [2005] |
 | "Docurama Film Festival III" Box Set [2007]
Docurama color DVD set [3/2007] 10 disks for $206.99 box set includes "Dark Circle" [1983]; "Following Sean" [2006]; "Gitmo: The New Rules of War" [2005]; "Leona's Sister Gerri" [1995]; "Music From The Inside Out" [2004]; "Naked States" [2000]; "Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story" [2000]; "Stagedoor" [2006]; "Well-Founded Fear" [2000]; and "Yellow Brick Road" [2005] |
 | "Avant-Garde II: Experimental Cinema, 1928-1954" [2007]
Kino Video DVD [7/2007] 2 disks for $26.99 includes works by Stan Brakhage [1933-2003] {4 shorts), James Broughton [1913-99], The Cage, Jean Isidore Isou [1925-2007], Dimitri Kirsanoff [1899-1957], Paul Leni [1885-1929], Willard Maas [1906-71] (2 shorts), Gregory Markopoulos [1928-92], Marie Menken [1909-70], Jean Mitry [1907-88], Sidney Peterson [1905-2000], Joseph Vogel, James Sibley Watson [1894-1982] & Melville Webber [1871-1947] |
 | "Docurama Film Festival IV" Box Set [2007]
Docurama color DVD set [9/2007] 10 disks for $206.99 box set includes "Beyond The Steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance" [2006]; "Building Bombs" [1991]; "Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore?" [2006]; "The Chances of The World Changing" [2006]; "The First Year" [2001]; "I Like Killing Flies" [2004]; "The Panama Deception" [1992]; "Pictures From A Revolution" [1991]; "Plagues and Pleasures On The Salton Sea" [2004]; and "Wanderlust" [2006] |
 | "Treasures From American Film Archives IV: Avant Garde, 1947-1986" [2009]
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 | "Docurama Film Festival V" Box Set [2008]
Docurama color DVD set [9/2008] 13 disks for $251.99 box set includes: Emmy-winning "A Lion In The House" [2006] from P.B.S. on 2 disks; "Arctic Son" [2006] by Andrew Walton; "Cine Manifest" [2006] by Judy Irola (plus 4 shorts); "Cinematographer Style" [2006] by Jon Fauer; "Critical Condition" [2008] from P.B.S.; "Fall From Grace" [2007] by K. Ryan Jones; "Family Name" [1997] by Macky Alston from P.B.S.; "Liberia: An Uncivil War" [2004]; "On The Downlow" [2007] by Abigail Child; "Passing Poston" [2008] by Joe Fox & James Nubile; "Questioning Faith" [2002] by Macky Alston; and "Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place" [2008] from P.B.S. |
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Selected films from past Full Frame Documentary Film Festival [est. 1998] events
in Durham, North Carolina are later released on DVD by Docurama
 | "Full Frame Documentary Shorts, Volume 1" DVD Box Set [2003]
Docurama color DVD [5/2003] for $22.49 contains 7 short documentary films: "Family Values" [2002] by Eva Saks; "Laughing Club of India" [1999] by Mira Nair; "Lucy Tsak Tsak" [2000] by Andrey Paounov; "Mojave Mirage" [2003] by Derek and Kaarina Cleverley Roberto; award-winning "The Sunshine" [2000] by Phil Bertelsen; "We Got Us" [2002] by Joan Brooker-Marks; "Why Can't We Be a Family Again?" [2002] by Murray Nossel & Roger Weisberg |
 | "Full Frame Documentary Shorts, Volume 2" DVD Box Set [2004]
Docurama color DVD [5/2004] for $22.49 contains 7 short documentary films: "Album" [2002] by Barbara Bird; "Crowfilm" [2003] by Edward P. Davee; "Have You Seen This Man?" [2003] by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck; "Iwo Jima: Memories In The Sand" [2001] by Beret E. Strong & John Tweedy; "Miss Alabama Nursing Home" [2001] by Anne Paas; "Nutria" [2003] by Ted Gesing; and "Wood Island" [2001] by Kate T. Williamson |
 | "Full Frame Documentary Shorts, Volume 3" DVD Box Set [2005]
Docurama color DVD [4/2005] out of prodn/used contains 6 short documentary films: "A Thousand Words" [2003] by Melba L. Williams from P.B.S.; "Foxhole" [2003] by Franko Galoso; "The Great Cheesesteak Debate" [2003] by Scott Vosbury; "Journeys" [2003] by Vinayan Kodoth; "Rosalie's Journey" [2005] by Warwick Thornton; and "Texas Hospitality" [2003] by Michael Pfaendtner |
 | "Full Frame Documentary Shorts, Volume 4" DVD Box Set [2006]
Docurama color DVD [6/2006] for $24.49 contains 6 short documentary films: "Good Morning YOKOHAMA" [2003] by Satoshi Ono; "Good Times" [2004] by Alessandro Cassigoli & Dalia Castel; "In The Shadow of Eden" [2004] by Rachael Romero; "(Meet The) Cheeks" [2003] by Tal Sharon & Daniel Barcelowsky; "Miles Above" [2005] by Michael Welt; and "Small Town Secrets" [2005] by Katherine Leggett |
 | "Full Frame Documentary Shorts, Volume 5" DVD Box Set [2007]
Docurama color DVD [4/2007] for $24.49 contains 6 short documentary films: "Afloat" [2006] by Erin Hudson; "The Angelmakers" [Netherlands 2005] by Astrid Bussink; "High Plains Winter" [2006] by Cindy Stillwell; "The Intimacy of Strangers" [2005] by Eva Weber; "Send Me Somewhere Special" [2004] by Darren Hercher; and "Stand Like Still Living" [Botswana 2005] by Peter Jordan |
Selected Independent Films
{ in chronological order }
Art House & International Films at Amazon: on DVD on VHS
Documentary Films category at Amazon: on DVD on VHS
"Salt of The Earth" [March 1954]
 | A fictional, neo-realist-style tale about oppressed Hispanic-American zinc miners in New Mexico, who go on a strike led mostly by the women. The pro-labor stance and the alleged ties of many of the filmmakers caused the film to be the only officially-blacklisted movie in American history Directed by Herbert J. Biberman [B]; script by Michael Biberman & Michael Wilson [B]; produced by Paul Jarrico [B]; starring Will Geer [B]; listed on National Film Registry in 1992 {NOTE: Blacklisted members of the cast & crew are indicated with '[B]'.}
Pioneer b&w DVD [3/99] out of prodn/used Harbor Electronic multimedia booklet & CD-ROM [12/2000] for $29.97 "Salt of the Earth" credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
more details (synopsis, books, posters, links) on
Magic Lantern's "Salt of The Earth" 1954 Movie Page
"Goldstein" [indep May 1965]
Awarded prize at 1964 Cannes Festival; French director Jean Renoir called it 'the best American film in 20 years'.
Co-written & co-directed Philip Kaufman & Benjamin Manaster; edited by Adolfas Mekas; starring Nelson Algren,
members of the The Second City comedy troupe, Lou Gilbert, other actors full credits at IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Goldstein-Lou-Gilbert/dp/B000CEV3B4/
"Putney Swope" [Herald/Cinema V July 1969]
 |  | Outrageous is the only word for this jaw-dropper of a satire on the adver- tising world. The main movie is black-and-white, with color commercials that you will not believe. The bite is still fierce even after 50 years. Written & directed by Robert Downey Sr.; starring Arnold Johnson Rhino Video b&w/color DVD [5/2001] for $17.96 Rhino Video b&w/color VHS [2/95] for $14.95 full credits from IMDb |
Oscar®-winner "Broken Rainbow" [1985]
 | "Better Luck Tomorrow" [MTV/Paramount 2002] The lives of a group of high school students in an upper-class California suburb start to unravel from a combination of boredom, pressure to excel, and easy money. Co-written & directed by Justin Lin; starring Parry Shen, Jason J. Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, John Cho & Karin Anna Cheung Paramount widescreen DVD [9/2003] for $17.99 Paramount color VHS [9/2003] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb official movie website |
 | "Charlotte Sometimes" [Vision Box Media May 2003] An Asian auto mechanic longs for his next-door neighbor, whose ball-buster sister skews the relationship dynamic; very low-budget, very poetic, remindful of Bertolucci. Co-written, produced & directed by Eric Byler; co-written by Jeff Liu; starring Michael Idemoto, Jacqueline Kim, Eugenia Yuan, Kimberley-Rose Wolter Hart Sharp color DVD [9/2003] for $21.24 Hart Sharp color VHS [9/2003] for $49.99 full credits from IMDb official movie website |
 | "The Corporation" documentary feature [Canada Jan 2004] Co-directed by Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar; co-written by Harold Crooks from Joel Bakan's book; interviewees include Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Milton Freidman, Ray Anderson & Michael Moore Zeitgeist Video color DVD [4/2005] 2 disks for $22.49 full credits from IMDb official movie site movie entry at Wikipedia "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit & Power"[2004] by Joel Bakan Free Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2004] for $17.00 |
 | "Burying The Past: Legacy of The Mountain Meadows Massacre" [Patrick Film 2004] Produced, written & directed by Brian F. Patrick Patrick Film Prodns color DVD [4/2009] for $25.00 via producer full credits from IMDb official movie website |
 | "Ghosts Never Sleep" [indep 2004] Co-produced by David Castenholz; co-produced, co-written & directed by Steve Freedman; starring Tony Goldwyn, Faye Dunaway, Sean Young, Shea Alexander, Joe Rose & Jason Stuart Allumination color DVD [8/2006] for $9.98 credits at IMDb producers website official movie website |
 | "The Squid and The Whale" [Samuel Goldwyn Films Oct 2005] "One of the best independent films of the past decade." – David Denby, New Yorker Magazine film critic When the wife of a Brooklyn teacher discovers a talent for writing, he becomes jealous and the couple splits up; the two teenage sons take sides and exhibit bizarre behaviour, while the mother starts dating her son's tennis teacher and the father has an affair with the student that his son is pursuing Written & directed by Noah Baumbach; starring Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Owen Kline, Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin & Anna Paquin; nominated for Best Original Screenplay Oscar & W.G.A. Best Original Screenplay Award Sony widescreen color DVD [3/2006] for $11.99 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia shooting script: Newmarket 9¼x7 pb [9/2005] for $14.96 |
 | "Heart of The Beholder" [festival circuit 2005; DVD release 2008] Based on the true idiocy of American religious fundamentalists committing crimes to ban movies & shut down a video store chain in St. Louis, Missouri. Harrassment and commercial cowardice made distribution difficult to arrange; the official movie website was targeted by the criminal zealots & shut down in 2008 (but is now working); further communications are based at producer River City Entertainment's website Written, directed & co-produced by Ken Tipton; co-produced by Darlene Lieblich, Arnon Manor & Jeanette Volturno; starring Sarah Brown, Matt Letscher & Katelin Chesna Vanguard color DVD [2/2009] for $19.95 full credits from IMDb official movie site movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"Jesus Camp" [Loki Films Sept 2006] A cinema verite exposure of evangelical brain-washing in the U.S. heartland Co-produced & co-directed by Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady Magnolia widescreen color DVD [1/2007] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb producers' movie site |
 | "Crab Orchard" aka "So Others May Live" TV movie [Oct 2008] Family drama for television, location filming in Champaign, Illinois; the events of September 11 cause suffering in a firefighter family in New York; the wife & mother leaves with her teenage son to live with her father on a farm in the Midwest Written & co-produced by Robin Christian; directed by Michael J. Jacobs; co-produced by Ruby Handler; starring Edward Asner, Judge Reinhold, Dylan Patton, Ruby Handler, Betsy Zajko & Robin Christian; won Directors Gold Award at International Family Film Festival DVD was available on official website, which is now gone full credits at IMDb Mike Jacobs & Ruby Handler operated Rio Grande Studios [2004-2011] in Albuquerque, NM |
 | "Ink: A Dark Modern Fable" [Double Edge Films 2009]
Father and daughter are wrenched into a dream world and seperately battle to save the other from subconscious forces exerting power over the conscious world thru nightmares and dreams Co-produced, written & directed by Jamin Winans; starring Chris Kelly, Jessica Duffy, Quinn Hunchar & Jeremy Make DVD/Blu-ray not yet available; full credits at IMDb producer's movie site |
 | "Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary" [video release Oct 2009] Funded by National Film Board of Canada; directed by Pepita Ferrari; featuring 38-world-class independent filmmakers, including Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill, Werner Herzog, Albert Maysles, Errol Morris and Jessica Yu First Run Features widescreen color DVD [10/2009] 2 disks for $23.49 full credits at IMDb official movie site |
 | "Blank City" documentary [indep April 2011] Misguided attempt to raise obscure independent filmmakers of New York City's 'No Wave' underground film movement of the late 70s & early 80s to the equal of the artists of the French New Wave; directors covered include Charlie Ahearn, Beth B, Lizzie Borden, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Kern, Eric Mitchell & Amos Poe, while Steve Buscemi, Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch, John Lurie, Ann Magnuson, Thurston Moore, John Waters and others comment on-camera Directed by Celine Danhier DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site |
 | "The Future" [Roadside Attractions July 2011] "A work of subcultural criticism laying bare the cruel and utterly bourgeois heart that beats beneath so many faux-naif boho exteriors" — critic Stewart Klawans in The Nation Magazine {... so it must be a good movie, right?} Written & directed by & starring Miranda July, with Hamish Linklater, Isabella Acres & David Warshofsky DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site |
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