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• Great BBC Detective Series.Wallander: Sidetracked / Firewall / One Step Behind (2009) -- Great Moody Performance by Kenneth Branagh. 2 DVDs, 270 Minutes. Produced by the BBC
• John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band: Live in Toronto '69 (1969) DVD -- Original Footage Released on June 23, 2009 Director D.A. Pennebaker
• Thom Hartmann and Lawrence of Arabia: Thom's Monthly "Independent Thinker" Review Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com. Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition, 2 DVDs) Starring Peter O'Toole
• The Grateful Dead / Jefferson Airplane / Santana DVD: Vintage SF (A Night at the Family Dog SF Music Club): Restored/Remastered Take a Trip in a Time Capsule DVD
• The Universe: The Complete Season Three: 4 DVDS, 700 Minutes, Just Released on May 26, 2009 Director: Douglas J. Cohen
• Clapton and Winwood Live from Madison Square Garden (2 DVDs) (2009) -- For the First Time Since 1969 Clapton and Winwood Came Together for a Boffo Concert in New York. 2 DVDS, Over Three Hours, Plenty of Extras.
• Relive Woodstock! 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (4 DVDS!) -- 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Exclusive Bonus Disc, Released June 9, 2009
• Last Days of the Fillmore West DVD (June 2, 2009) -- A 160-Minute Treasure Chest Just Released from the Golden San Francisco Days of Rock. The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and So Many More of the Great "Summer of Love" Rockers
• Must, Must See: a Will Smith, John Voight, Gene Hackman -- Jerry Bruckheimer Directed -- Film that is as Clairvoyant as Can be About the NSA Warrantless Wiretapping That Would Occur Just a Few Years Later Under Bush-Cheney. Astonishing Prescience and Detail of the Threat Posed by Government Spy Agencies Who are Spying on Us: "Enemy of the State" Starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, John Voight and Lisa Bonet
• Documentary that Started the "Grey Gardens" Fascination: Criterion Collection (DVD). This is the 2 Disc Set with Plenty of "Extras." Directors: Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde
• Playing for Change (CD + DVD) -- That's Right, This Bill Moyers Acclaimed and Long Awaited International Music Project is Finally Released! Created and Produced by Mark Johnson
• New "Greg Palast Investigates" DVD! "Gripping, Provocative, Inspiring!" John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. From Greg Palast's Ass-Kicking BBC Television Exposes as Seen on Democracy Now
• BBC: Planet Earth & The Blue Planet Seas of Life (Special Collector's Edition) -- 10 DVDs, 950 minutes Box Set, Less Than Retail Price from BF Includes Shipping and Handling BBC, Narrated by Sir David Attenborough
• The Corporation (DVD) -- Behind Every Corporation is a Little Pathology: A Long-Time BuzzFlash Progressive Bestseller (2 DVDs, 145 Minutes, Extras) Directed by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar
• BBC Political Journalistic Thriller: State of Play (2 Discs - 350 Minutes) BBC
• Faerie Tale Theatre -- (1326 minutes - 7 Discs) Hosted by Shelley Duvall
• BBC: "The State Within" -- a 2 Disc, 360 Minute Smashing Political Thriller DVD: Four BuzzFlash Stars BBC
• Planet in Peril (DVD): 174 Minutes from CNN -- Solid Overview of Earth in Crisis. Another BuzzFlash Earth Day Awareness Premium at a Special Price. Anderson Cooper, Jeff Corwin, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
• PBS The World of Nature Box Set -- 6 DVDs, 600 Minutes PBS
• PBS/NOVA: Becoming Green - Growing Environmental Awareness -- 4 DVDs, 227 Minutes. At a Special Less Than Retail BuzzFlash Price. PBS: NOVA
• Leonard Cohen: Live In London (2009) DVD -- 26 Songs from Perhaps His Last Concert Tour (159 Minutes) Leonard Cohen
• Doubt (DVD) -- Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis: One of the Most Powerful, Absorbing Films in This Year's Academy Awards Crop, Just Released in April Director: John Patrick Shanley
• Conspiracy Theory (DVD) with Julia Roberts Directed by Richard Donner
• The Highly Acclaimed, 5-Time 2009 Academy Award Nominated "Frost/Nixon" - Pre-Order DVD for April 21st Release Directed by Ron Howard
• "Battle in Seattle" (DVD) -- Recent Dramatization with Cherize Theron, Woody Harrelson, and Ray Liotta of When a Massive Protest Threw a World Trade Organization Conference Into Disarray Directed by Stuart Townsend
• Capitalism Hits the Fan DVD: How Did the American Dream Turn Into the Nightmare on Wall Street? By Richard Wolff
• "North and South"--The Stellar BBC Production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Work, 2 DVDs, 230 Minutes Based on the Novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Ira Glass's This American Life: Second Season DVD (Released 2009) By Ira Glass for Showtime
• The BBC Judi Dench Collection -- 8 DVDs, 1140 Minutes Starring Dame Judy Dench
• "Cranford" - The BBC's Brilliant Recent Production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Writings, -- 2 DVDs, 291 Minutes Adapted from the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell, With Dame Judy Dench
• Helen Mirren at the BBC: A 5 DVD, 810 Minute Mirren BBC Retrospective Collection From the BBC
• Slumdog Millionaire: Top Oscar Winner, Including Best Film (DVD) Directed by Danny Boyle
• "Man on Wire": Winner of 2009 Oscar for Best Documentary (DVD) Starring the Irrespressible, Obsessed, High-Wire Artist, Philippe Petit
• Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus DVD -- 25th Anniversary Documentary Released on 1/27 2009 Directed by Robert Mugge
• Baraka: 2-Disc Special Edition Directed by Ron Fricke (Who Was the Cinematographer for the Legendary Koyaanisqatsi)
• JFK - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel) -- 2 Discs, 300 Minutes The History Channel
• George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya! (DVD) Carlin's fourteenth and final special for HBO. The Last Recorded Stand-up Comedy by George Carlin
• Atonement (Widescreen Edition) with Keira Knightley, Winner of 24 Awards and 60 Nominations: Special Offer for a Limited Time Based on the Novel by Ian McEwan
• FDR - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel) 2 DVDs -- 200 Minutes: President's Day Special By the History Channel
• Oliver Stone's "W" on DVD -- 129 Minutes (Released on Feb. 10). Widescreen Version. Starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush
• "Bulworth" with Warren Beatty and Halle Berry DVD at a Special Price: The Dark, Offbeat 1998 Political Dark Comedy That is Timeless
• The Inauguration of Barack Obama: A Moment in History (ABC News DVD) -- Advance Order, Will Ship First Week in March. 150 Minutes. Compiled by ABC
• Sean Penn in "Milk": The DVD -- Released on March 10th, Advance Order Directed by Gus Van Sant
• The God Who Wasn't There (DVD) Documentary Narrated by Brian Flemming
• Religulous (2008 DVD) -- : A Huge Seller on BuzzFlash A Bill Maher Documentary
• The Coen Brothers Movie Collection (Fargo / Miller's Crossing / Barton Fink / Raising Arizona / Blood Simple) -- 5 DVDs, 519 Minutes Directed by the Coen Brothers
• FLOW (For Love of Water) DVD Documentary. Directed by Irena Salina
• The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 (DVD Documentary) -- Academy Award Winner
• Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Anti-Iraq War Documentary (DVD Released in Sep. 2008) Directed by Neil Young
• Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection: 3 DVDs -- 311 Minutes (The Original 1960's Edition that Launched the 40 + Year BBC Series) BBC
• BBC: Jane Austen Collection (Sense & Sensibility / Emma / Persuasion / Mansfield Park / Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey) -- 1336 minutes, 6 Discs Based on the Works of Jane Austen
• War Dance (DVD) -- Documentary. "Powerful and Poignant" Directed by Andrea Nix and Sean Fine
• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Documentary DVD) Directed by Alex Gibney, With Readings by Johnny Depp
• BBC: John Cleese in the Original "Fawlty Towers" (DVD -- 3 Discs, 500 Minutes) Starrinng John Cleese
• BBC: Life in Cold Blood (2008), The "Last" in the Acclaimed David Attenborough Series. (2 DVDs -- 250 Minutes) By David Attenborough
• The Original BBC Version of "The Office" That the American Hit is Based On. The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special) 4 Discs - 450 Minutes Produced by the BBC
• Encounters at the End of the World -- Werner Herzog's Journey to Antarctica (2 DVDs -- This title will be released on November 18, 2008.) Directed by Werner Herzog
• The Visitor (DVD) Directed by Tom McCarthy
• Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" (DVD) Election Edition (2008) Directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
• "BoogieMan": The Lee Atwater Story Directed and Edited by Stefan Forbes
• Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary -- Taxi to the Dark Side (DVD) Directed by Alex Gibney
• James Carroll's "Constantine's Sword" Documentary DVD (2008) Narrated and Based on the Book by James Carroll
• John Adams (HBO Miniseries) (2008) 3 DVDs-501 Minutes
• American Drug War: The Last White Hope (DVD - 118 minutes)
• Biography - Barack Obama (DVD - Part of "The Biography Series") Updated 1/20/09
• The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition) -- 11 Discs, 1357 Minutes! Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier
• The Band's Visit (DVD) -- An Extraordinary 100% Positive Rating from Top Critics on Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Eran Kolirin
• "Blood and Oil" DVD -- The Thom Hartmann Independent Thinker Review Media Education Foundation
• BBC Wild China (2008) -- 2 Discs (300 Minutes) BBC Documentary
• Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (DVD) -- An Homage to America's Great Folk Emissary Directed by Jim Brown
• Martin Scorsese's New Celebrated Rolling Stones Documentary: Shine a Light (2008) -- 121 Minutes (DVD) Directed by Martin Scorsese
• Manufactured Landscapes: A Portrait of Our March Toward Ecological Disaster (DVD) A Film by Jennifer Baichwal
• David Attenborough's Last Nature Documentary? "Life in Cold Blood" 2 DVDs-292 Minutes By David Attenborough
• Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect -- First Episode (2 DVDs - 208 Minutes) Starring: Helen Mirren
• "The Pentagon Wars" -- a True Satire of the Military-Industrial Complex Gone Amuck Directed by Richard Benjamin
• Persepolis (DVD): Just Released (French Version, with English Subtitles) Marjane Satrapi
• BBC: The George Eliot Collection (Middlemarch / Daniel Deronda / Silas Marner / Adam Bede / The Mill on the Floss) -- 993 Minutes BBC
• Darfur Now: Six Stories, One Hope (DVD) with Don Cheadle and George Clooney Reviewed by Thom Hartmann
• King Corn (Documentary DVD)
• Lions For Lambs (Widescreen Edition) Starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
• National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World (DVD) National Geographic, Narrated by Alec Baldwin
• Manda Bala (Documentary DVD) Directed by Jason Kohn
• ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change: Out of Balance (DVD)
• Money Talks - Profits Before Patient Safety (DVD)
• Juno -- DVD Academy Award Winning (for "Juno") Scriptwriter Cody Diablo
• Helen Mirren is Elizabeth I (The 2006 2 DVD 211-Minute Production) HBO/Channel 4
• What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, Photographer (DVD) Zeitgeist Films
• The 11th Hour (DVD -- 92 Minutes) Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Narrated by Him
• Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition -- 200 Minutes) Boris Pasternak
• BBC "The Life of Mammals, Vol. 1-4" (4 DVDs - 500 Minutes) David Attenborough
• Citizen Kane (Special 2-DVD Set) At a Special BuzzFlash Value Price Directed by Orson Welles
• Slings & Arrows: The Complete Three-Season Collection (7 DVDs - 840 minutes) CBC
• History Channel's "Life After People" (DVD) History Channel
• Casablanca (DVD) -- At a Special Price Starring Humphrey Borgart and Ingrid Bergman. With the Inimitable Claude Reins.
• The Kite Runner DVD (2007) Directed by Marc Forster
• BBC Bleak House (3 DVDS - 465 Minutes) 2005 Version Starring: Gillian Anderson
• Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness (200 Minutes - 2 DVDs)
• Helen Mirren in Masterpiece Theatre - Painted Lady (DVD - 204 Minutes) Created Expressly for Helen Mirren
• Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (DVD) Deepak Chopra
• Atonement (Widescreen) (DVD) Based on the Novel by Ian McEwan
• No Country for Old Men -- 2008 Oscar for Best Picture of the Year (DVD). Directed by the Coen Brothers (Fargo)
• National Geographic Wildlife Collection (4 DVDs - 230 Minutes) National Geographic
• Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (2 DVDs, 310 Minutes, Acclaimed 1996 BBC Production) Produced by the BBC and Released by A & E
• Sense & Sensibility DVD (Special Edition -- 136 Minutes) Directed by Ang Lee, With an All Star Cast
• La Vie en Rose (Extended Version DVD) (2007)
• Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition) (2 DVDs) Directed by Oliver Stone, Starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen
• Fargo (DVD - Special Edition) Directed by the Coen Brothers
• For The Bible Tells Me So (DVD)
• Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) (2007) Directed by Ang Lee
• Sir! No Sir! - The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam (DVD) Directed by David Zeiger
• Michael Clayton (DVD) Starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Tom Wilkinson
• A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (DVD)
• Paris, Je T'Aime (DVD) 18 Renowned Directors Each Shooting a Scene in the City of Love and Lights
• Ultimate Dinosaur Collection (Walking with Monsters / Walking with Dinosaurs / Allosaurs / Chased by Dinosaurs) 3 DVDs -- 471 Minutes BBC
• Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections (DVD), A David Earnhardt Film
• From the Earth to the Moon - The Signature Edition (5 DVD Box Set - 720 Minutes) Produced and Narrated by Thom Hanks
• Amazing Grace (DVD), Just Released Directed by Michael Apted
• Living with Wolves & Wolves at Our Door (2 DVDs - 150 Minutes) By Jamie Dutcher, Jim Dutcher
• "Once" the DVD
• BBC: Life in the Freezer (DVD - 180 Minutes) Narrated by David Attenborough
• The Ultimate Charles Dickens Collection from the BBC's Archives (6 Discs, 6 Novels, 1920 Minutes) Charles Dickens
• The Universe - The Complete Season One (History Channel) (2007) (4 DVDS -- 705 Minutes) From the History Channel
• Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series (5 DVDs) : 550 Minutes Narrated by David Attenborough
• BBC: The Life of Birds (3 DVD Set -- 580 Minutes) BBC
• The Monty Python Box Set (Monty Python & The Holy Grail/ And Now For Something Completly Different/ The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) Monty Python
• The Blue Planet - Special Edition -- 5 DVDs, 400 minutes Narration by David Attenborough
• "Sicko" DVD - By Michael Moore
• The Official Story (DVD) Directed by Luis Puenzo
• "The Devil Came on Horseback" Darfur (DVD) -- Advance Order, To be Released on October 31 Based on the book by Brian Steidle, Directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
• No End in Sight (2007), Acclaimed Documentary on the Bushevik Fiasco in Iraq Directed by Charles Ferguson
• White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007 DVD) Produced by HBO, Directed by Steven Okazaki
• September 11 (DVD) Film Directors From Around the World
• The Lives of Others (DVD) Now Shipping Winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• Scared Sacred (DVD) Zeitgeist Video
• Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Paperback) By Stephen Marshall
• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Documentary (DVD) -- Now Shipping Directed by Rory Kennedy
• Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (DVD)
• Buena Vista Social Club (DVD) An Amazing All Star Cast of Golden Age Cuban Singers
• BBC: Galapagos Documentary(DVD) Narrated by Academy Award Winner Tilda Swinton
• Bobby (DVD) Directed by Emilio Estevez
• Slaughter House Five: The Original Movie (Re-issued DVD) Based on the Novel by the Late Kurt Vonnegut
• The Queen (DVD) -- Now Shipping Starring Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren
• Citizen Kane (Special 2-DVD Set) Directed by Orson Welles
• Glengarry Glen Ross (DVD) By David Mamet, With a Stellar All-Star Cast
• "In Debt We Trust": America Before the Bubble Bursts (DVD) Danny Schechter
• "Shut Up & Sing" Dixie Chicks DVD Dixie Chicks
• Jesus Camp (DVD) Now Delivering. Acclaimed Documentary Includes Appearance by Ted Haggard
• Little Miss Sunshine (DVD) Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
• Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans (DVD) Greg Palast, Produced by Matt Pascarella
• Inherit the Wind (DVD) Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March
• When the Levees Broke (2006 3 DVD Disc Documentary) Directed by Spike Lee
• Red State (DVD) Directed by Michael Shea
• Who Killed the Electric Car? (DVD) Directed by Chris Paine. Narrated by Martin Sheen.
• The Road to Guantanamo (DVD) Directed by Michael Winterbottom
• An Inconvenient Truth (DVD) -- Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary President Al Gore, Elected in 2000
• 9/11: Press For Truth (DVD)
• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (DVD) Directed by Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
• The Fall of Fujimori (DVD)
• Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers(DVD) A Robert Greenwald/Brave New Films Production
• From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: Madison Square Garden Katrina Benefit Concert (2 DVD Set)
• Water (DVD-2006) A Deepa Mehta Film
• Hiroshima: A BBC Documentary A Riveting Documentary Covering the Horrific First Step Into Nuclear Warfare
• How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff (DVD) George Lakoff
• V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition DVD) Starring Natalie Portman
• Aristide and the Endless Revolution A Film by Nicolas Rossier
• Left of the Dial (DVD)
• Neil Young - Heart of Gold (DVD) directed by Jonathan Demme
• The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress (DVD) A Robert Greenwald "Brave New Films" Production
• Why We Fight (DVD) Directed by Eugene Jarecki
• The Boys of Baraka (DVD)
• Syriana (Widescreen Edition DVD) - Advance Order, Will Ship On or About June 20
• Winter Soldier (DVD) Originally Released in 1972, Released on DVD in May of 2006.
• The Corporation (DVD)
• Orwell Rolls in His Grave (DVD); Updated Re-Release by Robert Kane Pappas
• Calle 54 (DVD)
• Standing In The Shadows of Motown (DVD)
• Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear And The Selling Of American Empire (DVD) -- Updated Edition
• Hidden In Plain Sight (DVD)
• This Divided State (DVD)
• Bob Dylan - No Direction Home (DVD) directed by Martin Scorcese
• With God on Our Side - George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America (DVD)
• WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price (DVD) by Robert Greenwald, Producer/Director
• Travellers and Magicians (DVD) A film by Khyentse Norbu
• Short Cut to Nirvana (DVD)
• Born Into Brothels (DVD)
• Punishment Park (1971, Reissued in DVD Format in 2005)
• The Girl in the Cafe (DVD)
• Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (DVD)
• The Future of Food (DVD)
• The War Room (DVD) Starring: James Carville, George Stephanopoulos
• Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (DVD, 2002) Director: Lee Hirsch
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (DVD) Director: Tom Piozet
• See How They Run (DVD, 2002) Director: Emily Morse
• Vodka Lemon (DVD) Director: Hiner Saleem
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (DVD)
• Occupation Dreamland (DVD)
• The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition DVD)
• Blue Vinyl: The World's First Toxic Comedy (DVD) Director: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand
• Legend - The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers (DVD)
• The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (DVD) Directed by Judy Irving
• Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides (DVD)
• The Take (DVD) A Film by Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein
• Crash (2-Disc Director's Cut Edition DVD) Winner Best Picture at the 2006 Academy Awards
• Paper Clips (DVD) 2 disc Special Edition
• Revolution (DVD) by Margaret Cho
• Point of Order! (DVD) Starring: Joseph McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn; Director: Emile de Antonio
• Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition DVD)
• Capote (DVD)
• A Perfect Candidate (DVD)
• Horns and Halos (DVD)
• McLibel: The Story of Two People Who Wouldn't Say McSorry (DVD)
• Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Falluja (DVD)
• The Power of Harmony (DVD)
• The World (DVD) From China, a Film by Jia Zhangke
• Brokeback Mountain DVD (Widescreen Edition)