K street. The complete series

K street. The complete series [videorecording] / HBO Original Programming presents; produced by Michael Hissrich; directed by Steven Soderbergh.

An entertaining fusion of reality and fiction; a fly-on-the wall look at government. Produced on location in Washington, D.C., the largely improvised ten-episode series combines fictional characters with appearances by real-life political figures.

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K-19: The Widowmaker

the widowmaker

K-19 [videorecording]: the widowmaker / Paramount Pictures and Intermedia Films present a National Geographic/Palomar Pictures, First Light/IMF production; producers, Kathryn Bigelow, Joni Sighvatsson, Christine Whitaker, Edward S. Feldman; screenplay writers, Christopher Kyle, Louis Nowra; director, Kathryn Bigelow.

Captain Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer has being given command of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, K-19, at the height of the Cold War in 1961. The vessel's executive officer Captain Polenin asserts that the flagship is not yet ready for deployment. But, political pressure forces Vostrikov to sail his crew into the North Atlantic anyway, for a missile fire test that serves as a warning to the U.S. The test is a success, but a leak in the K-19's cooling system soon threatens the nuclear payload.

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Kaaterskill Falls

Kaaterskill Falls [videorecording] / [presented by] Lo-Fi Pictures and Whiskey Outpost; producers, Josh Apter, Peter Olsen; screenplay writers, Josh Apter, Peter Olsen, Hilary Howard, Anthony Leslie; directors, Josh Apter, Peter Olsen.

A young urban couple from New York escape the city for a romantic weekend in the Catskills. On the way they pick up a hitchhiker and invite him back to their cottage. As the evening progresses, the two men clash over their differing lifestyles. The next day, after hiking to Kaaterskill Peak, tensions between the two men reaches a boiling point and decends into a lesson on the extremes people will go to when pushed to the edge.

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Kabluey

Kabluey [videorecording] / West of Midnight presents a Whitewater Films production, a film by Scott Prendergast; producer, Doug Sutherland; produced by Rick Rosenthal, Gary Dean Simpson, Rhoades Rader, Jeff Balis; written and directed by Scott Prendergast.

Inept, but lovable, Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. In order to make ends meet and keep the family together, Salman must take on a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot. This proves to be more challenging than he originally thought.

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Kaboom!

the sizzling story of explosions

Kaboom! [videorecording]: the sizzling story of explosions / a Nova production by Windfall Films for WGBH/Boston in association with Channel 4.

Containing two programs including Kaboom! and Fireworks!, discover the history of pyrotechnics.

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Kagemusha

Kagemusha [videorecording] / Tōhō Eiga, Kurosawa Purodakushon teikei sakuhin; purodyūsā Kurosawa Akira, Tanaka Tomoyuki; shinario Kurosawa Akira, Ide Masato; kantoku Kurosawa Akira.

Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.

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A Kalahari family. Part one, A far country

A Kalahari family. Part one, A far country [videorecording] / Directed and written by John Marshall; Kalfam Productions, Inc.

In 1951, the Marshall family set out to document the life of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. After a week of hard travel in desert-adapted vehicles, they met Toma Tsamkxao and his Ju/'hoan band in Nyae Nyae. In their own words, Toma's extended family decribes how they survive by gathering bush foods and hunting game. Thus begins a relationship between the Ju/'hoansi and the Marshalls that will last over half a century.--Container.

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Kandahar

journey into the heart of Afghanistan

Kandahar [videorecording]: journey into the heart of Afghanistan / [presented by] Avatar Films; produced by Makhmalbaf Film House, BAC Films and Studio Canal+; screenplay by Mohsen Makhmalbaf; directed & edited by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.

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Kandahar

journey into the heart of Afghanistan

Kandahar [videorecording]: journey into the heart of Afghanistan / [presented by] Avatar Films; produced by Makhmalbaf Film House, BAC Films and Studio Canal+; screenplay by Mohsen Makhmalbaf; directed & edited by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.

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Kandahar

journey into the heart of Afghanistan

Kandahar [videorecording]: journey into the heart of Afghanistan / [presented by] Avatar Films; produced by Makhmalbaf Film House, BAC Films and Studio Canal+; screenplay by Mohsen Makhmalbaf; directed & edited by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.

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