You Can Heal Your Life

Vlatko — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:24:29 +0000

Louise Hay has made a life out of healing people...on their own steam. She has lead the way since the 1980s on how you can heal your own life. At the forefront of the self-help field, Hay has become a Matriarchal figure to many now in the business of self-help. In the 1980s Louise Hay self-published You Can Heal Your Life, a book that has sold over 30 million copies to date,

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The Secret

Vlatko — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:50:44 +0000

The self-actualization phenomenon known as The Secret pivots on the time-honored new age notion of the Laws of Attraction: That is, think positively, and positive things will come to you. This film, originally broadcast over the Internet, has been enhanced and extended for this DVD edition; but it retains the essential elements that have captivated millions.

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Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series

Vlatko — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:25:53 +0000

With a production budget of $25 million, the makers of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life crafted this epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, with over 2,000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, and shot entirely in high definition, Planet Earth is an unparalleled portrait of the "third rock from the sun." This stunning

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Shine a Light

Vlatko — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:31:20 +0000

Martin Scorsese's "Shine a Light" may be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock 'n' roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances onstage. Working with cinematographer Robert Richardson, Scorsese deployed a team of nine other cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners or nominees, to blanket a live September 2006

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The Future Is Unwritten

Vlatko — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:09:38 +0000

When the Clash was labeled “The Only Band That Matters,” it may have been record company hype, but when I was a teenager, there was probably no band that mattered more to me. The idealism, the earnest anger, the democratic, sometimes clumsy way of mixing styles and sounds — I am almost as susceptible to it now as I was at 15. This is all by way

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Who Killed The Electric Car?

Vlatko — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:36:18 +0000

The big oil companies and their political allies may hate the very idea of the electric car, but writer-director Chris Paine remains an unabashed fan of the technology. His informative and entertaining documentary, which makes an explicit link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, traces the evolution and eventual marketplace failure of the innovative

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Sicko

Vlatko — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:05:37 +0000

After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in Bowling for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions toward the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured (and the insured who must deal with

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The War - A Ken Burns Film

Vlatko — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:41:06 +0000

The Second World War was fought in thousands of places, too many for any one accounting. This is the story of four American towns and how their citizens experienced that war. THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four

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An Inconvenient Truth

Vlatko — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:26:27 +0000

Former vice president Al Gore lends an appropriately sober face to the issue of global warming in this arresting documentary. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim offers a fairly straightforward adaptation of Gore’s well-honed lecture, effectively enhancing it with elaborate graphics. Gore’s data is concise and accessible, thanks in large part to a state-of-the-art,

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No End in Sight

Vlatko — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:08:28 +0000

On March 19, 2003, forces from the United States and a handful of allied nations invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power. American military leaders expected the conflict to last no more than a few months, and President George W. Bush declared that major military operations were over less than two months later. However, Iraq soon became a dangerous

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Top Documentary Films

You Can Heal Your Life

The Secret

Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series

Shine a Light

The Future Is Unwritten

Who Killed The Electric Car?

Sicko

The War - A Ken Burns Film

An Inconvenient Truth

No End in Sight