Rabbit-proof fence

Rabbit-proof fence [videorecording] / Miramax Films, HanWay and Australian Film Finance Corporation present a Rumbalara Films, Olsen Levy Production in association with Showtime Australia; producers, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen, John Winter; screenplay writer, Christine Olsen; director, Phillip Noyce.

In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by following the fence that has been built across the nation to stem an over-population of rabbits.

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Shrek

Shrek [videorecording] / DreamWorks Pictures presents a PDI/DreamWorks production; written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, and Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman; co-producers, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio; produced by Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg; directed by Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson.

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Inside the Pentagon

Inside the Pentagon [videorecording] / produced by Roundabout Productions Inc., and National Geographic.

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Frida

Frida [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents in association with Margaret Rose Perenchio a Ventanarosa production in association with Lions Gate Films, a film by Julie Taymor; produced by Sarah Green, Salma Hayek, Jay Polstein ... [et al.]; screenplay by Clancy Sigal ... [et al.]; directed by Julie Taymor.

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Waking life

Waking life [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents The Independent Film Channel and Thousand Words presents a Flat Black Films/Detour Filmproduction; producers, Anne Walker-McBay, Tommy Pallotta, Palmer West, Jonah Smith; written & directed by Richard Linklater.

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Six degrees of separation

Six degrees of separation [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Maiden Movies/New Regency production of a Fred Schepisi film; screenplay, John Guare; produced by Fred Schepisi and Arnon Milchan; directed by Fred Schepisi.

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Standing in the shadows of Motown

Standing in the shadows of Motown [videorecording] / Artisan Entertainment presents an Elliott Scott/Rimshot production of a Paul Justman film; produced by Sandy Passman, Allan Slutsky and Paul Justman; narration written by Walter Dallas and Ntozake Shange; directed by Paul Justman.

The story of the Funk Brothers, the group of musicians that played on every single hit Motown record from the label's beginnings to 1972.

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The Thomas Crown affair

The Thomas Crown affair [videorecording] / United Artists; [presented by] the Mirisch Corporation.

A millionaire Bostonian who robs banks for fun gets romantically involved with the insurance investigator assigned to track him down.

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The fast runner

Atanarjuat

Atanarjuat [videorecording] = The fast runner / Igloolik Isuma Productions presents a National Film Board of Canada co-production; producers, Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk; writer, Paul Apak Angilirq; director, Zacharias Kunuk.

A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and wiser to reclaim his life and stop the curse that has divided his people.

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Life out of balance

Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi [videorecording] = Life out of balance / Metro Goldwyn Mayer; an IRE presentation; Francis Ford Coppola presents; produced & directed by Godfrey Reggio; associate producers, Lawrence Taub & Mel Lawrence.

Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.

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