Josh Waletzky
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Skillfully blended songs, newsreels, and archival footage with interviews of over forty Holocaust survivors to paint an eye-opening portrait of the courageous Jewish resistance who staged a sabotage offensive against the Nazis in the Polish city of Vilna.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
Publisher
Decca
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
In "Pavarotti and the Italian tenor, filmed in his home town of Modena, Luciano Pavarotti reveals the heritage of the Italian tenors who have directly influenced him and performs several songs himself. The narrative includes footage of his early appearances, as well as archive film of Caruso, Schipa, Gigli and Di Stefano."--Container.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"This documentary, first released in 1980, offers a window into the vitality of Polish Jewry before the Holocaust. The film directs its lens at all aspects of that now-vanished world, showing us a diverse community and culture. It encompasses city and shtetl, rich and poor, secular and spiritual, politics and society, all permeated by the distinctive character and values that developed in the Polish-Jewish community over nearly a millenium." -- Study...
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2007], c1992
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and work of Bernard Herrmann who created music for over 50 films. Features interviews with, among others, directors Martin Scorsese and Claude Chabrol, composers David Raksin and Elmer Bernstein, as well as home movies, archival photos and interviews with Herrmann himself.