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An adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, VANISHED was directed by TV veteran George Kaczender. It features Steel's formula of glamorous period settings, romantic triangles, and family melodrama. Marielle Delauney moves to New York after an accident in Paris tears her happy family life apart. She meets and marries wealthy industrialist Malcolm Patterson, with whom she has a child. But when her child is kidnapped, Marielle realizes that the events of her tragic past in Europe may be the motivation for the crime.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Thousands of Africans were captured and brought to America as slaves as the new country was gaining its independence. These ships of human cargo traveled across the Atlantic with enslaved people who would be traded for sugar, tobacco, or other products. This program depicts one of these voyages using brutal imagery and voice over narration to powerfully capture this disturbing historical period.DVD Features:Region 1Snap CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Audio: Stereo 2.0 - English Mono 1.0 - SpanishText/Galleries: Biographies - 1. Cast









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A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from the next. Starting the set is Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf's touching short which focuses on school children being taught about the incident. With very short attention spans and too little understanding about where the United States is located geographically or what skyscrapers look like, the clearest message the children receive is that they will need to build bomb shelters for fear the U.S. will attack them in retaliation. Another short, directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (AMORES PERROS), is composed nearly entirely of sounds--prayers and chants and street noise recorded by news outlets that morning--while the screen remains black. Very brief glimpses of victims falling from the towers' soaring windows are the only break to the blackness while the layering of sound mounts to a chaotic fever pitch. In a film by American director Sean Penn, a very old man living in a New York apartment finds his bedroom filled with sunlight as the towers come down. A lighter take on the tragedy, from African director Idrissa Ouedraogo, shows how a group of boys in a small town learn of the $25 million reward for Osama Bin Laden's capture and set their hearts on finding him in order to buy medicine for one boy's ailing mother. Perhaps the most emotional and compassionate contributions come from Bosnia's Danis Tanovic and England's Ken Loach, who both offer vows of solidarity from the widows of Srebrenica and the victims of Chile's brutal dictatorship, respectively. Rounding out the omnibus is a bizarrely appropriate anti-war film by Japanese director Shohei Imamura (THE EEL), in which a traumatized WWII veteran reacts to th

An impressive cast of British actors brings Samuel Richardson`s novel CLARISSA to life. Feeling the pressure from her upwardly mobile family, who are pushing her to marry an aristocratic gentleman she can`t abide, the lovely Clarissa Harlowe (Saskia Wickham) seeks a way to escape their clutches. Finding solace in Robert Lovelace (Sean Bean), the man who helps her escape her fate, Clarissa sees her world about to cave in once again when the nefarious Lovelace makes it clear that he has designs on her himself.
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In this elegantly-directed noir story, a hardboiled detective goes after cop-killing robbers who have implicated his girlfriend's brother in a holdup.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingKeep Case
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