Reviews of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs from Paramount Home Entertainment and PBS.
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Burns’ Civil War Doc Slated for Re-release 11 Jan, 2011
Filmmaker Ken Burns’ landmark documentary <i>The Civil War</i> will be re-released to coincide...More>>
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Frontline: The Spill (DVD Review) 10 Jan, 2011
You can’t buy the caliber of publicity BP got from its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and this...More>>
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Downton Abbey (DVD Review) 9 Dec, 2010
The miniseries 'Downton Abbey' has all the titillating drama of a soap opera, with the high acting,...More>>
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Trapped in an Elevator (DVD Review) 29 Nov, 2010
Elevators serve 325 million passengers daily. Next to cars, they are the most common method of...More>>
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Crash of Flight 447 (DVD Review) 1 Nov, 2010
This documentary explores the case of the AirFrance Airbus A330 that disappeared for no apparent...More>>
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Baseball: The Tenth Inning (Blu-ray Review) 1 Oct, 2010
'The Tenth Inning' bears the unmistakable feel of Ken Burns (who co-directed with Lynn Novick) and...More>>
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New ‘Baseball’ Chapter Gets ‘Jeopardy’ Category 27 Sep, 2010
<i>Baseball: The Tenth Inning</i> will be the focus of a special category on game show...More>>
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Wall: A World Divided, The (DVD Review) 20 Sep, 2010
The degree to which political hacks based in East Berlin snooped on fellow citizens remains a...More>>
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College, Inc. (Frontline) (DVD Review) 26 Jul, 2010
“Frontline” continues to do what it does so well: tell a story that other documentaries are not...More>>
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Obama’s Deal: Inside the Battle for Health Care Reform (DVD Review) 12 Jul, 2010
April’s “Frontline” special from its top creative gun (Michael Kirk) is about the grimy hands...More>>
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My Lai (American Experience) (DVD Review) 7 Jun, 2010
Pressure-packing a prodigious amount of information into just over 80 minutes, this “American...More>>
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Roads to Memphis (American Experience) (DVD Review) 23 May, 2010
Perhaps not as classy as other “Experience” presentations, this documentary at least provides...More>>
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Art & Copy (DVD Review) 10 May, 2010
There are no specific allusions to “Mad Men” in Doug Pray’s documentary about 1960s ad men...More>>
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Bombing of Germany (American Experience), The (DVD Review) 12 Apr, 2010
Historians debate the bombing or at least present it in skeptical grays. But what’s missing is a...More>>
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Wyatt Earp (American Experience) (DVD Review) 29 Mar, 2010
At 60 minutes, it’s short for an “American Experience,” but a lot is packed in. You can’t...More>>
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Baseball: A Film By Ken Burns (DVD Review) 28 Mar, 2010
This is not just a wonderful sports DVD, rich in memory and detail, but also one of the all-time...More>>
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‘Eye’ on History 27 Mar, 2010
The landmark 1980s civil rights doc <i>Eyes on the Prize</i> returns on DVD.More>>
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Building Alaska (DVD Review) 15 Mar, 2010
Putting politics aside, you can’t find a more apt keyword for this 87-minute documentary to have...More>>
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PBS Kids Visits ‘Beanstalk’ 8 Jun, 2009
Out of the Blue Enterprises, PBS Kids and Paramount Home Entertainment release Super Why! Jack and...More>>
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