Recommended DVDs
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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Based on the best-selling book by two Fortune reporters, a multidimensional study of one of the biggest business scandals in American history. The chronicle takes a look at one of the greatest corporate disasters in history, in which top executives from the 7th largest company in this country walked away with over one billion dollars, leaving investors and employees with nothing.
Who Killed the Electric Car?
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In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later, these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. This film explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States. and adoption of this technology.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
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Have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding? This film takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel… and shop.
The Secret
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This film reveals The Great Secret of the universe. This is The Secret to everything – the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, love: everything you have ever wanted. The world’s leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it. Now YOU will know The Secret. And it can change your life forever.
Future by Design
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This presentation shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself as a generalist or multi-disciplinarian. A prolific inventor, Jacque has spent his entire life conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales which entail the use of innovative technology.
What the Bleep Do We Know?!
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This film is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The main character finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.
Transmuteo
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Transmuteo is a 30-minute animated visual feast of the beautiful inner world of visionary artist, Jean-Luc Bozzoli. A French artist living in the Pacific Islands for the past 40 years, Jean-Luc has spent thousands of hours immersed in the holographic undersea world of wild dolphins and whales, sharing the visions and wisdoms awakened within him through his art.
Encounters at the End of the World
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Anywhere Werner Herzog goes becomes an interesting place. In part because the director shapes it with his distinctively sardonic eye. In this film, the ‘Zog heads off to Antarctica, finding there a population of unusual people, hallucinatory underwater life, and penguins. He doesn’t appear on camera, but his voice is with us all the time, a baleful tour guide for this blank destination.
Outsourced
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Todd Anderson gets the bad news from his boss: his job has been outsourced. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to train his own replacement. Through a series of hilarious misadventures, this charming, critically acclaimed romantic comedy reminds us that sometimes getting lost is the best way to find yourself.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
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The story of Preston Tucker the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept. This is a sharp, underrated film about a dreamer whose dream was a worthy one, even if it only briefly came true.