Director: Michael J. Avery
Cast: George Kirby, Marla Gibbs, Redd Foxx.
Description: Comedian George Kirby hosts this documentary that looks at the controversy surrounding the classic sitcom "Amos 'n Andy", a show that was the first--and for many years the only--all-black-cast series on TV. CBS pulled it off the air in 1953 due to pressure from African-American groups who felt it was stereotypical and demeaning to blacks (it was taken out of reruns in 1966 for the same reason). Included are interviews with cast members Ernestine Wade ("Sapphire") and Alvin Childress ("Amos") and actors Marla Gibbs and Redd Foxx. Whatever your feelings about the controversy, the series' casting was brilliant and it was undeniably funny, as shown by clips from several episodes and one entire, commercial-free episode.
Color/B&W: Color/B&W.  Running Time: 80 mins.   Item #5206  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Hans Bertram
Cast: Narrated by Herbert Gernot.
Description: Hitler's tyranical blitzkrieg, the first strike was on Poland. The Aerial bombing campaign filmed and presented by the German war machine in all it's detail and all it's devastation. Polish towns and armies destroyed, a piece of history preserved for today's modern world. Let us not forget all those who have fallen. Also released as Feuertaufe - Der Film vom Einsatz unserer Luftwaffe in Polen. Narrated in English Language.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 50 mins.   Item #5324  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Various Directors
Cast: Adam West, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig, Peter Deyell, Frank Gorshin, Bruce Lee, Julie Newmar, Van Williams.
Description: An insightful and informative look into how our beloved Caped Crusader - Batman and his trusty sidekick The Boy Wonder - Robin jumped from the panels of comic books, swinging into the successful television series from the 1960's. With rare behind the scenes footage and recent interviews with the stars. Batmania is still alive today, see how it all started in this exciting action packed documentary.
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 40 mins.   Item #5336  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Horace and Stacy Woodard.
Description: A young Mexican boy has a hard time dealing with people, but has a wonderful gift for befriending wild animals. Produced, shot and edited by Horace and Stacy Woodard.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 58 mins.   Item #1854  $14.99
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Director: Walter Futter.
Cast: Paul Hoefler. Narrated by Lowell Thomas.
Description: This historically important film was the first sound documentary to explore Africa. Footage from it was later interpolated into many jungle-themed adventure movies. Produced and edited by Walter Futter.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #1987  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Ralph Porter.
Cast: Narrated by Jonathan Farwell.
Description: Adolf Hitler's rise to power is documented. Written by Ralph Porter. Produced by Joseph Brenner.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 43 mins.   Item #3280  $14.99
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Description: Tape contains the following:
THE REAR GUINNER (1943): What could be a recruitment film, Burgess Meredith plays a U.S. Army Air Corps trainee who makes his way through rear gunnery school and later manages to become a hero. Ronald Reagan plays the part of a pilot.
SNOOPERS AND HOW TO BLAST THEM: This U.S. Navy training film describes how to shoot down Japanese reconnaissance planes.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #5096  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Denis Sanders
Cast: John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda.
Description: Original air date: 12-5-71. Pithy interviews and lengthy clips from classic westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance portray the life story of fabled film director John Ford a few years before his death at age 77 in this made-for-TV documentary. Narrated by John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda. Features Andy Devine in a special cameo role.
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #5087  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: John Desmond
Description: Compelling World War II documentary about how the Jews of Denmark were saved by their countrymen because they refused to hand them over to the Nazis. When Sweden offered asylum to the Danish Jews, the Danes responded by organizing risky, clandestine boat lifts to the neighboring country.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 28 mins.   Item #5113  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Joseph Krumgold.
Cast: The Chavez family.
Description: Written and produced for the U.S. Government by Joseph Krumgold, this simple but profound documentary depicts the Chavez family, whose members herd sheep in and around Las Cordovas, New Mexico.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 62 mins.   Item #2332  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Cast: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Dick Van Dyke, Arthur Godfrey, John Amos, Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Kevin McCarthy, Boris Karloff, The Three Stooges.
Description: Take a nostalgic journey through yesteryear by way of classic television commercials of the past. Watch once again as the Lone Ranger & Tonto promote pizza snacks, Teen Angel gets serious about cola, and Mother Nature rumbles her thunder for margarine. An extended segment depicts famous Hollywood movie monsters promoting everything from breakfast cereals to automobiles.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 44 mins.   Item #5200  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Jack Hively
Cast: The United States Armed Forces.
Description: A four year pictoral history documenting the true to life stories of the war in the pacific. Detailing the heroics of the United States Armed Forces and the imminent defeat of the Japanese. Also covered, The Pacific from Corregidor in 1942, General Wainwright's Surrender, The Death March of Bataan, Australia in Peril, Naval Victory in the Coral Sea, Land Victory at Guadalcana, and Air Victory in the Bismark Sea. Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, the Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy. On direct request from the War Activities Committee and the Motion Picture Industry.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 55 mins.   Item #5230  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Saul Swimmer
Cast: Martin Balsam, Art Buchwald, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jack E. Leonard, Ethel Merman, Lowell Thomas, Toots Shor, Michael Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, Narrated by Orson Welles.
Description: One mans passion, one mans quest to produce the 1956 classic Around The World In Eighty Days. The personal life story of virtuoso film producer Mike Todd from all around flamboyant showman, to his multiple broadway triumphs, to his work on the World's Fair and up until the making of Around the World in Eighty Days. With behind the scene accounts from those within the film business and the intimate details of his personal life. Including a very candid interview with his ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. Narrated by Orson Welles.
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #5239  $14.99
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Description: Cold war jitters and an obsessive fear of nuclear attack on the United States by the Russians inspired these short, now campy government information films. Tape contains the following:
DUCK AND COVER (1951): Bert the Turtle shows children what to do in case of an atomic attack. "Duck and Cover" became the universal shorthand for the paranoid excesses of the Cold War, and the pith-helmeted cartoon turtle became a lasting a symbol of this dark era.
THE EFFECTS OF AN ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION (1950): Hugh Beaumont of Leave It To Beaver fame describes the effects of blast, heat, and radiation. The film “softens” some of the more death-dealing aspects of atomic warfare.
SURVIVAL UNDER ATOMIC ATTACK (1951): This official U.S. Civil Defense film narrated by Edward R. Murrow describes the dangers of an atomic bomb blast, and instructs the public on how to prepare for and “survive” an atomic attack.
THE ATOMIC DILEMMA -- CHALLENGE OF OUR AGE: This short film documents an atom bomb test in the Utah desert with the nuking of a full scale model town containing furnished houses with mannequins and real food.
ATOM BOMB TESTS -- BIKINI: Operation Crossroads, held in summer of 1946, was intended to help the U.S. Navy determine the vulnerability of its warships in a nuclear attack at sea. Film details the explosions of the fourth and fifth atomic bombs.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #5100  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Cast: Henry H. Arnold, Alan Brooke, Chiang Kai Chek, Winston Churchill, Andrew Cunningham, John Dill, James Doolittle.
Description: The war in the Pacific depicted here for the first time utilizing actual footage documented by the United States Armed Forces. An accurate timeline starting with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the raid on Japan led by James Doolittle, through the battle at Midway and The Coral Sea. Detailing the individual islands, the military powers of Japan, to the United States plan to re-take and liberate the Pacific, island by island. An exciting and historical account made possible by our United States Armed Forces.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #5249  $14.99
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Director: Robert Presnell Sr.
Cast: Narrated by Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith and Anthony Veiller. With Walter Krueger and Douglas MacArthur.
Description: An action packed documentary detailing the true to life accounts for The Battle New Britain. Accurate in ways that todays media cannot show you this film utilizes actual military shot footage. An intense and educational Frank Capra production with uncredited work by veteran combat photography by Jesse L. Lasky.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 55 mins.   Item #5290  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Donald Taylor
Cast: Joss Ambler, Adrian Boult, Warwick Braithwaite, Clifford Buckton, Charles Carson, Mavis Clair, Mavis Clarke.
Description: The trials and tribulations, the survival of The London Philharmonic Orchestra during the second world war. With the aid of the government or the support of the armed forces, The London Philharmonic managed to stay alive and perform throughout the duration of the war giving hope to the innocent and the suffering. Successors to the conducting post over the years, Sir Adrian Boult, Constant Lambert, Warwick Braithwaite and Dr. Malcolm Sargent. With music by classical giants Mozart, Tchaikowsky, Greig, Beethoven, Wagner, Saint-Saens, and Rachmanioff.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 75 mins.   Item #5340  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: John Ford
Cast: Narrated by Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and Irving Pichel. With President James Roosevelt as himself.
Description: Exciting and historical documentary depicting the Japanese attack on Midway. Featuring actual combat footage filmed by our United States Armed Forces. Also included is 1942 documentary Tanks - a detailed looked into the production, testing and battlefield demonstration of the M-3 Stuart Tank. Narrated by Orson Welles.
Color/B&W: Color/B&W.  Running Time: 30 mins.   Item #5339  $14.99
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Director: John Huston
Cast: With Mark W. Clark as himself and Narration by John Huston.
Description: San Pietro, a small Italian village where over a thousand US soldiers valiantly lost their lives attempting to take this land into the protection of the Allied Forces. A document into the past for todays modern audience. See how our men fought and died bravely in San Pietro. Also included is the 1944 documentary The Marines Have Landed.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 60 mins.   Item #5341  $14.99
Format: VHS
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Director: Harry Schenck.
Cast: Harry Schenck, Joan Baldwin.
Description: Jungle documentary, filmed mainly in the Mayan Peninsula, focuses on the food chain as well as a native tribe's struggle to find sustenance and covering. Written, produced and narrated by Harry Schenck.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 65 mins.   Item #2264  $14.99
Format: VHS
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