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Band of Brothers from HBO Home Video Price: $89.99 Customer Review:  I think this mini-series even eclipses "I, Claudius" to take 'top TV honors'. I'll also say it's the best WWII story and production (cinema, documentary or whatever) I've ever seen and I've seen a lot! "Band Of Brothers" tells the true and incredible odyssey of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute... |
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The Godfather DVD Collection from Paramount Home Video Price: $79.42 Customer Review: Francis Ford Coppola and Paramount Home Entertainment held a press conference and street fair in Brooklyn, and yours truly was there! The exciting news, of course, was announcing the release of THE GODFATHER DVD COLLECTION on October 9, 2001! If the preview of the set is any indication, then I must... |
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BBC Shakespeare Tragedies DVD Giftbox from Ambrose Video Publis Price: $149.99 Customer Review:  This is the Ambrose video series that many libraries have purchased...The 37 play VHS series is still >$2,500 with individual plays around $100. The series was remarkable in that it actually included all 37 plays in full with a solid set of players (some famous) who worked hard at maintaining as... |
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Queer as Folk - The Complete First Season (Showtime) from Showtime Entertainment 2 Price: $107.98 Customer Review: This is actually the best series ever put on the air. Showtime is trully live up to their title and now the most anticipated DVD release ever is finally here. Before the Second Season start the first season will be release to DVD and Video. This is the best collections of one of the great shows on... |
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John Cassavetes - Five Films (Shadows / Faces / A Woman Under the Influence / The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / Opening Night ) - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $93.71 |
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North and South - The Complete Collection from Warner Home Video Price: $48.99 Customer Review:  Well it's here at last, North and South on DVD! This complete collection totals in at 1392 minutes (that's almost a complete 24hrs) and includes Books 1,2,and 3. This wonderful mini-series showcases life before, during and after the Civil War. Patrick Swayze and James Read star as the heads of two... |
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I, Claudius from Image Entertainment Price: $67.49 Customer Review: I was one of the original fans of I, Claudius when it was shown on Masterpiece Theater in the 1970s. When the VHS version was released in the early 1990s I bought a set and have enjoyed it many times. When I noticed that the tapes were becoming somewhat worn I bought the DVD version. There is only... |
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From the Earth to the Moon from Hbo Studios Price: $74.99 Customer Review: If you enjoy the idea of the American entrepreneurial/pioneer spirit, and, though imperfect and at times prone to failure, this spirit is the best thing on earth...or the moon, you will enjoy this DVD set. Similarly, if you are intriqued by engineering and the process of getting technology from... |
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Horatio Hornblower - The Complete Adventures from A & E Home Video Price: $59.96 Customer Review: These, of course, are adaptations of C.S. Forrester's wonderful book series on the adventures of Horatio Hornblower. (The first four movies are based on the book "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" and the last two on "Lieutenant Hornblower"). And while they obviously cannot be faithful to the books in... |
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Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First & Second Seasons from Warner Brothers Home Video Price: $59.94 |
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Shogun from Paramount Home Video Price: $59.99 Customer Review: Very few mini-series' ever live up to the book from which it came. Shogun comes very close. Taking place during a period when all of Europe was competing for the riches of the world, the story starts off with the last ship of a lost fleet, down to a skeleton crew (in size as well as health) trying... |
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Shaka Zulu - The Complete Miniseries from A & E Home Video Price: $71.96 Customer Review: This is a Brave heart movie wayyyyy ahead of time, great plot, landscapes, action, and is a real history that is a "wanna see movie" |
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The Charlie Chan Chanthology (The Secret Service / The Chinese Cat / The Jade Mask / Meeting at Midnight / The Scarlet Clue / The Shanghai Cobra) from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Price: $52.47 Customer Review:  I became a fan of Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan when a local TV station started playing a different Chan movie every Saturday night. I was particularly fond of a mysterious episode where the people around Chan were dying one at a time, to which he would remind the survivors that "dead men tell no... |
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Horatio Hornblower - The New Adventures (Loyalty / Duty) from A & E Home Video Price: $29.96 Customer Review: "Loyalty" and "Duty" are the titles of the latest two episodes of the A&E Hornblower saga. These episodes are loosely based upon C.S. Forester's novel "Hornblower and the Hotspur" which is one of the very best Hornblower novels. For those who are unaquainted with this series, Captain Horatio... |
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To Serve Them All My Days (Miniseries) from Acorn Media Publishi Price: $63.99 Customer Review: Simply put, TSTAMD is 11 hours of riveting drama, being without a doubt one of the best mini-series ever produced by the BBC. I first saw it on TV in 1980/81, and have been waiting ever since for it to be released either on tape or DVD. And now it's here, and well worth the wait. The acting is... |
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The Chronicles of Narnia (3 disc set) from Home Vision Entertainment Price: $55.96 Customer Review: I enjoyed these movies very much, especially the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Silver Chair, but I still have some reservations. I feel that the four Pevensey children were too young, and had too little screen presence and acting ability. The part of Lucy is especially miscast, which is a great... |
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Gone with the Wind (4-Disc Collector's Edition) from Warner Home Video Price: $27.94 Customer Review: Gone With The Wind is one of my favorite films OF ALL TIME. No matter how many times I watch it, I find myself engulfed,overwhelmed,moved to tears, chilled to the bone, and amazed at the pure marvelousness of the entire thing.EVERY FREAKING TIME. The acting is BRILLIANT from absolutely... |
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Rocky (Five-Disc Boxed Set) from MGM/UA Video Customer Review: Keep playing that immortal song. Heaven to my ears! Sylvester Stallone made himself a legend of a genius after writing all five "Rocky" works of art. "Rocky" was about a struggling boxer trying to earn a living, but his chance to fight the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed, became... |
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Complete Set from Bfs Entertainment & Multimedia Price: $71.98 Customer Review: The Six Wives of Henry VIII consists of three dvds in a boxed set. There are six 'plays', each running about 90 minutes and written by different authors. They include some of the most fascinating and controversial figures in English history. The tale of each wife is necessarily abbreviated but the... |
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The Audrey Hepburn DVD Collection (Roman Holiday / Sabrina / Breakfast at Tiffany's) from Paramount Home Video Price: $26.99 Customer Review: Hey, I was just looking to pick up a copy of Roman Holiday, when I found that someone had packaged three of Audrey's best movies together. And I said, "Three?! Thats it??? Why not six? Oh, well...it will have to do." So I upgrade Breakfast at Tiffany's from VHS to DVD, and I finally pick up Sabrina,... |
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Tales of the City (Collector's Edition) from Acorn Media Publishing Inc. Price: $53.96 Customer Review: Having watched Tales of the City since it's original airing in 1994 on tape, the DVD is a welcome replacement. The package from Accorn Media is extremely well done and offers lots of extras. The video quality is very good and exceeds the quality of my off air copies by a long shot. One can see... |
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The Jewel in the Crown from A & E Entertainment Price: $71.96 Customer Review: This powerful and moving eight part miniseries has lost none of its impact since it was first aired nearly twenty years ago. Highly acclaimed, it won numerous awards. Beautifully filmed on location in India, England, and Wales, it is a highly atmospheric and complex drama, redolent of the flavor of... |
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Elizabeth R from Warner Home Video Price: $63.98 Customer Review: Elizabeth R is an outstanding and refreshingly accurate 1972 dramatisation of the life of Queen Elizabeth I. Headed by an all-star British cast, the acting is flawless, the costumes magnificent, the writing first-rate, and the dialogue sumptuous. Existing documents have been utilised for speeches... |
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A&E Literary Classics - The Romance Collection Megaset (Pride and Prejudice / Emma / Victoria & Albert / Tom Jones / Jane Eyre / Lorna Doone / Ivanhoe / The Scarlet Pimpernel) from A & E Home Video Price: $179.96 Customer Review: If you're an Anglophile, Brit lit fan, or someone who simply likes smart, classy, well-written, and well-acted films, buying this set should be a no-brainer. These films range from good (The Scarlet Pimpernel series) to excellent (Ivanhoe) to superb (Pride & Prejudice). If you're part of the... |
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Glengarry Glen Ross from ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT Price: $11.24 Customer Review: The sheer joy of Glengarry Glen Ross is watching seven great actors clearly relishing the oppurtunity to work in a truly exceptional film.It's an absolutely compelling and absorbing drama blessed with superb performances.Al Pacino gives his best performance since Tony Montana as slick Ricky Roma,Ed... |
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