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• R.J. Crumb -- Biographical Documentary (DVD) -- 2 Hours (Special Re-Issued DVD Edition) Directed by Terry Zwigoff
• Special Sale Price, The Universe: Collector's Edition Megaset: Whoa! 14 DVDs, 2021 Minutes! -- And It Takes You to the Vast Cosmos, Providing a Scintillating Perspective On What a Vast, Exciting Universe We Live In. A & E Home Video
• The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns (His First Masterpiece Documentary Series). 5 DVDs, 680 Minutes. A Defining Documentary Series, Described Simply as "Superb." At a BuzzFlash Sale Price for a Limited Time, Including Shipping and Handling. Directed and Produced by Ken Burns
• American Outrage DVD -- A Stunning Expose of How the American Government is Still Stealing Land from Native Americans for Corporate Interests Even Today Directed by Beth Gage and George Gage
• Ken Burns 10 DVD, 1140 Minute Magnum Opus on American Jazz --- A Glorious Box Set in the Ken Burns Tradition, At a Reduced BuzzFlash Price (Including Shipping and Handling). Directed by Ken Burns
• 2012 DVD: Science or Superstition (This is Not the Hollywood Blockbuster Coming Out in Theaters Soon; This is a More Serious DVD Exploration of the Mayan Calendar Apocalypse) Directed by Nimrod Erez
• Ken Burns: America's "National Parks - America's Best Idea": Simply Stunning and a Reaffirmation of the American Nation: 6 DVDs, 720 minutes. Box Set. Directed by Ken Burns for PBS
• Buzzflash Gift Certificate for a Progressive America BuzzFlash
• Will Ferrell's "A Final Night with George W. Bush." A Broadway Hit. Extras. Hilarious. Great Gift. Now Shipping! Starring Will Ferrell in One Man Show
• Food, Inc DVD: (Includes Shipping and Handling). The Justly Praised Documentary About the Harm Caused by Big Food Companies on Multiple Levels. Directed by Robert Kenner
• "Processed People": The Documentary. "The Antidote to America's Toxic Lifestyle." Nice Documentary About How We are Being Fed Corporatized News and Food That is Unhealthy to Living Things. A Sort of Warm Up for the Longer "Food Inc." That Will be Out on DVD in November. Special Below Retail Price Includes Shipping and Handling. Support Progressive News by Supporting Progressive Commerce. Directed by Jeff Nelson
• Walter Cronkite Remembers, Collector's Item: 3 DVDs, 450 Minutes, Embossed Tin Box Set! Recollections by Walter Cronkite
• A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms -- DVD Released on July 14, 2009 Directed by Don McCorkell
• 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 Two. 5 DVDs, 846 Minutes! Special Sale Price. (You Can Also Get Seasons I and III from BuzzFlash.) This is a New Offer on BuzzFlash.
• 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
• 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
• Faerie Tale Theatre -- (1326 minutes - 7 Discs) Hosted by Shelley Duvall
• 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
• 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" 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
• Ira Glass's This American Life: Second Season DVD (Released 2009) By Ira Glass for Showtime
• "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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Visitor (DVD) Directed by Tom McCarthy
• Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" (DVD) Director's Cut 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
• "Blood and Oil" DVD -- The Thom Hartmann Independent Thinker Review Media Education Foundation
• 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
• "The Pentagon Wars" -- a True Satire of the Military-Industrial Complex Gone Amuck Directed by Richard Benjamin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Citizen Kane (Special 2-DVD Set) At a Special BuzzFlash Value Price Directed by Orson Welles
• 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.
• Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (DVD) Deepak Chopra
• 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
• Sense & Sensibility DVD (Special Edition -- 136 Minutes) Directed by Ang Lee, With an All Star Cast
• 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)
• The Man from Plains (DVD) Directed by Jonathan Demme
• 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
• Senator Obama Goes to Africa (DVD)
• Coral Reef Adventure (1 DVD) Narrated by Liam Neeson
• 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
• Living with Wolves & Wolves at Our Door (2 DVDs - 150 Minutes) By Jamie Dutcher, Jim Dutcher
• The Universe - The Complete Season One (History Channel) (2007) (4 DVDS -- 705 Minutes) From the History Channel
• Outfoxed: FOX Attacks! Special Edition DVD Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films
• The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, A New Greg Palast DVD Greg Palast
• "Our Brand is Crisis" DVD Directed by Rachel Boynton
• The Best Of The Colbert Report (DVD) By Stephen "Truthiness" Colbert
• 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (DVD) The Dalai Lama, Filmed by Rick Ray
• 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
• After Innocence: Proof That Innocent Men and Women are Sent to Jail and Even Executed (DVD) Directed by Jessica Sanders
• War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (DVD) Norman Solomon, Loretta Alper, and Jeremy Earp. Narrated by Sean Penn.
• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Documentary (DVD) -- Now Shipping Directed by Rory Kennedy
• Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (DVD)
• Bobby (DVD) Directed by Emilio Estevez
• Slaughter House Five: The Original Movie (Re-issued DVD) Based on the Novel by the Late Kurt Vonnegut
• Blood Diamond (Widescreen DVD) Directed by Edward Zwick
• HBO Documentary: "Too Hot Not to Handle" (DVD) Laurie David, Executive Producer
• 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
• The U.S. vs. John Lennon (DVD) (Now Shipping) Documentary
• Jesus Camp (DVD) 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
• Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man (DVD) Directed by Lian Lunson
• Inherit the Wind (DVD) Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March
• Red State (DVD) Directed by Michael Shea
• The Band: The Last Waltz (DVD) 25th Anniversary Edition of the Last Concert by "The Band." Directed by Martin Scorsese.
• Who Killed the Electric Car? (DVD) Directed by Chris Paine. Narrated by Martin Sheen.
• The Road to Guantanamo (DVD) Directed by Michael Winterbottom
• Red, White and Screwed (DVD) by Lewis Black
• 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
• Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs
• 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)
• V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition DVD) Starring Natalie Portman
• 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
• 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
• Punishment Park (1971, Reissued in DVD Format in 2005)
• 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
• See How They Run (DVD, 2002) Director: Emily Morse
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (DVD)
• Blue Vinyl: The World's First Toxic Comedy (DVD) Director: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand
• The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (DVD) Directed by Judy Irving
• 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)
• The Power of Harmony (DVD)
• Brokeback Mountain DVD (Widescreen Edition)