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Rome: Season 1: Disc 6

Shipped on 09/02/08.
This disc includes the bonus featurettes "The Rise of Rome" and "When in Rome."

49 Up

Shipped on 06/09/08.
In 1964, Michael Apted interviewed a group of 7-year-old kids in England, all from different backgrounds and with big dreams, and has tracked their lives every seven years since. Now, those kids are 49 years old, and this in...

21 Up

Shipped on 06/09/08.
In the second follow-up to the original film Seven Up, Michael Apted continues his documentary saga that began when his subjects, 14 students from varied social backgrounds, were 7 years old. As young adults finally grown ou...

Hot Rod

Shipped on 06/06/08.
What better way to impress step-dad than to jump Snake River Canyon on a moped? That's the premise of this over-the-top action comedy from a pair of "Saturday Night Live" veterans. Akiva Schaffer directs, and Andy ...

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

Shipped on 05/13/08.
Horrific, disturbing and absolutely fascinating, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations revisits the chilling mystery at the heart of HBO's award-winning hit, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. Joe Berlinger and Bru...

The Painted Veil

Shipped on 05/13/08.
Shunned by a husband (Edward Norton) who's more interested in his research, the simpleminded Kitty Fane (Naomi Watts) embarks on a quest for life fulfillment. Along the way, she ignites a passionate affair with a dashing wom...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Shipped on 05/13/08.
Born with an acute sense of smell, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) resorts to dark deeds in creating a perfume that captures the essence of a woman in this 18th-century thriller based on Patrick Süskind's best-se...

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Shipped on 05/08/08.
Shedding light on the legal system -- and on the media machine that often demonizes the accused -- this gripping documentary follows the notorious West Memphis Three, a trio of boys arrested for the murders of three children...

Baby Einstein: My First Signs

Shipped on 05/08/08.
In this playful introduction to sign language for babies, award-winning actress Marlee Matlin demonstrates the signs for 20 common child-centric words and phrases -- such as "Mommy," "Daddy" and "I l...

Shoot 'Em Up

Shipped on 05/07/08.
When a mysterious loner named Mr. Smith (Clive Owen, Children of Men) delivers a woman's baby during an intense shoot-out, he inadvertently lands himself at odds with the ruthless Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti). Aided by the enig...

Eastern Promises

Shipped on 04/29/08.
Viggo Mortensen (in an Oscar-nominated role) reteams with director David Cronenberg in this intense thriller, starring as Nikolai Luzhin, a notorious London gangster. When Luzhin learns that a midwife named Anna (Naomi Watts...

The King of Kong

Shipped on 04/29/08.
When Steve Wiebe got laid off, he turned to the classic arcade game Donkey Kong for solace; soon, he decided to challenge Billy Mitchell's long-standing record score. So began the bitter rivalry that lies at the heart of thi...

King of California

Shipped on 04/29/08.
This quirky Sundance comedy chronicles the journey of a delusional father (Michael Douglas) who's convinced that a fabled treasure is buried somewhere beneath his Southern California suburb. His delinquent teenage daughter (...

Stardust

Shipped on 04/24/08.
A young man journeys to a magical world to win the heart of his true love in this charming fantasy based on Neil Gaiman's novel. Tristan (Charlie Cox) has promised Victoria (Sienna Miller) that he'll retrieve a fallen star t...

A Mighty Heart

Shipped on 04/24/08.
While in Pakistan researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid in 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) is suddenly kidnapped. His pregnant wife, Mariane (Angelina Jolie), displays great courage ...

The Nines

Shipped on 04/03/08.
Three stories intertwine and creatively converge in John August's film that stars Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy and Hope Davis in multiple roles. This offbeat trilogy begins with "The Prisoner," about a popular T...

The Martian Child

Shipped on 03/25/08.
In this film based on a David Gerrold novel, John Cusack stars as a recently widowed science-fiction writer who adopts a 6-year-old boy to quell his loneliness. The catch? The kid (Bobby Coleman) claims to be from Mars. At f...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Shipped on 03/25/08.
Reprising her Oscar-nominated role from 1998's Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett is once again at the head of the cast as the Virgin Queen (earning her another Oscar nod) in this Shekhar Kapur-directed sequel to that film. Focusing ...

Elizabeth

Shipped on 03/25/08.
England's Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) took the throne of a Roman Catholic country as a young woman, declared the nation Protestant and ruled for 45 years -- but at great personal cost. Director Shekhar Kapur's Oscar-w...

Gone Baby Gone

Shipped on 02/14/08.
When a 4-year-old girl goes missing in Dorchester, one of Boston's toughest hoods, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) reluctantly agree to take the case. But the inv...

Gone Baby Gone

Shipped on 02/14/08.
When a 4-year-old girl goes missing in Dorchester, one of Boston's toughest hoods, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) reluctantly agree to take the case. But the inv...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Shipped on 02/14/08.
After Robert Ford (Casey Affleck, in an Oscar-nominated role) joins the most notorious gang in the West, he grows tired of the charismatic Jesse James (Brad Pitt) and begins to resent his fame. But by hatching a scheme to gu...

Notes on a Scandal

Shipped on 02/06/08.
When pottery instructor Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) dives into an illicit affair with one of her students, she creates a sticky situation that spells turmoil for herself and puts a fellow teacher in a tough spot. St. George ...

Big Love: Season 1: Disc 5

Shipped on 01/29/08.
This disc includes the following episodes (11-12): "Where There's A Will" and "The Ceremony." Extras include audio commentary and a featurette.

Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven

Shipped on 01/29/08.
When Seven Up was broadcast in 1964, it broke new ground and became the first segment of a laborious and momentous labor of love: an engrossing chronicle of the lives of 14 students from varied social backgrounds, beginning ...

The Kingdom: Series 1: Disc 2

Shipped on 01/25/08.
This disc includes the episodes "A Foreign Body" and "The Living Dead." Extras include behind-the-scenes footage, director's commentary, TV spots and a trailer.

The Kingdom: Series 1: Disc 1

Shipped on 01/25/08.
This disc includes the episodes "The Unheavenly Host" and "Thy Kingdom Come."

The Kingdom

Shipped on 01/21/08.
When a deadly bombing attack targets Americans in the Middle East, a counterterrorism squad is dispatched to find the culprits. Once they arrive in the desert, the U.S. agents (an ensemble that includes Jamie Foxx as the gro...

3:10 to Yuma

Shipped on 01/21/08.
Rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) agrees to transport the captured outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) to the nearest town with a rail station, where they'll wait for a train to court in Yuma. Holed up in the hotel near the sta...

Little Children

Shipped on 01/21/08.
In director Todd Field's titillating tale, the lives of several adult suburbanites, who have yet to surpass adolescence, intersect on the streets of their small town in unexpected ways. While on-the-go wife and mother Kathy ...

Zodiac

Shipped on 01/07/08.
In the 1960s and '70s, a cryptic killer clad in an executioner's hood stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues about his crimes in the newspaper. In director David Fincher's chilling recount of the murders, Oscar ...

Letters from Iwo Jima

Shipped on 01/07/08.
As tens of thousands of Allied troops push further inland, the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima during World War II prepare to meet their fate in this Clint Eastwood-directed Oscar nominee for Best Picture, a companion pie...

The Simpsons Movie

Shipped on 01/07/08.
Homer Simpson is used to alienating people, but nothing compares to the level of animosity he's inspired with his most recent foul-up: polluting the river with toxic waste from the nuclear power plant. Now, Homer's been fire...

Genesis

Shipped on 12/05/07.
A right-on blend of humor and seriousness, innocence and wisdom results when an African storyteller (Sotigui Kouyate) uses the language of myth and fable to relate the birth of the universe and the appearance of life on Eart...

The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Open Oceans / The Deep

Shipped on 12/04/07.
David Attenborough narrates these two episodes of the BBC's acclaimed nature series, featuring new discoveries and photographic breakthroughs in this amazing look at undersea life. "Open Ocean" travels thousands of...

The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Tidal Seas / Coasts

Shipped on 11/12/07.
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life reveals the sea and its various communities at their most fearsome and alluring. Part 4 of this TV documentary series includes the following episodes: "Tidal Seas," detailing the effec...

The Heiress

Shipped on 11/12/07.
Dull and plain Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper (Ralph Richardson), in 1840s New York. Her days are empty -- filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morri...

The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Seasonal Seas / Coral Seas

Shipped on 10/22/07.
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life reveals the sea and its various communities at their most fearsome and alluring. Part 3 of this TV documentary series includes the following episodes: "Seasonal Oceans," detailing the ...

The Ex

Shipped on 10/19/07.
Thirtysomething slacker Tom Reilly (Zach Braff) is somewhat of a career underachiever. When his pregnant wife, Sofia (Amanda Peet), decides to quit her demanding career as a well-paid, high-profile attorney and become a stay...

Infant & Child CPR: What Every Parent Needs to Know

Shipped on 10/18/07.
No caregiver wants to be caught in a life-threatening situation with a child without the knowledge to do something about it, and this step-by-step program gives you the tools to be prepared. The tutorial breaks down the basi...

Powaqqatsi

Shipped on 10/16/07.
Where Koyaanisqatsi dealt with the imbalance between nature and modern society, Powaqqatsi, the second installment in director Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, is a celebration of the human-scale endeavor -- the craftsmanship...

Ambient Flowers: The Ultimate Video Garden and Reference DVD

Shipped on 09/25/07.
Anyone who's ever daydreamed about escaping into nature while being held captive in the urban landscape will appreciate this DVD: hours of stunning images of flowers that serve as video wallpaper, with an audio track featuri...

Meditation Tool Kit

Shipped on 09/24/07.
Sit back, breathe easily and let the near-magical combination of sights and sounds take you to a calm and peaceful place. Whether you're a beginner or a Zen Master, you can calm your mind with The Meditation Tool Kit.

Beautiful Aquarium

Shipped on 09/24/07.
Turn your television into a soothing seascape and enjoy the tranquil effects of colorful fish swimming through calm blue water without the hassles of cleaning, feeding and maintenance. Offering the perfect way to relax, this...

Baraka

Shipped on 09/12/07.
The relationship between humans and their environment is the subject of this mesmerizing visual study from Ron Fricke, the cinematographer and editor of Koyaanisqatsi. The images -- which Fricke gathered from 24 countries --...

The Last Kiss

Shipped on 09/12/07.
Thirtysomething couple Michael (Zach Braff) and Jenna (Jacinda Barrett) face parenthood and other life-changing events in this ensemble drama, a remake of Italian director Gabriele Muccino's film L'Ultimo Bacio. The story fo...

The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Ocean World / Frozen Seas

Shipped on 09/12/07.
From frigid polar waters to the tropics, from the turbulent surface to the mysterious deeps, this BBC series beautifully showcases all the grandeur of the sea. Included here are two episodes: "Ocean World," which e...

Chronos

Shipped on 09/04/07.
Chronos is a wonder -- it's the first nonverbal, nonfiction movie filmed entirely in time-lapse photography. Presented as a visual symphony in seven movements, Chronos takes viewers on an unprecedented cinematic journey thro...

Swimming Pool

Shipped on 09/04/07.
Famous British mystery writer Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) needs a break. So, when her publisher, John (Charles Dance), offers the use of his vacation home in southern France during the off-season, Sarah deems it the pe...

The Lookout

Shipped on 09/04/07.
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Scott Frank (Out of Sight, Get Shorty) makes his directorial debut with this intelligent crime thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick, Mysterious Skin) as a down-and-out janitor re...