Your Guide To The Best History DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

American History X

Starring: Edward Furlong
Rated: R (Restricted)
Created By: Brian Witten
Studio: New Line Home Video
Release Date: 1999-04-06
Running Time: 119 minutes

Edward Norton's Academy Award nominated role as a White Supremist who sees the error of his ways while jailed for murder. Unfortunately, he leaves prison to find his brother (Edward Furlong) heading down the same path.

DVD Features:
Biographies
Deleted Scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Scene Access
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NOVA: Einstein's Big Idea

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2005-12-06
Running Time: 112 minutes

Everyone's heard of it, but what does E=mc2 -- the world’s most famous equation -- really mean? And why did it change the world?

With brilliant period recreations, NOVA dramatizes how an obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. An accessible, suspenseful epic, Einstein's Big Idea revea... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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Life in Cold Blood

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Running Time: 250 minutes

Written and presented by David Attenborough, Life in Cold Blood tells the epic story of the most enduringly successful animals ever to walk on land – reptiles and amphibians. The very latest technology enables extraordinary and previously unseen behavior to be captured in intimate detail, overturning the myth that cold blooded life is slow, solitary and primitive, and revealing these creatures t... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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One Six Right

Starring: Tony Bill
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: Terwilliger Productions, LLC
Release Date: 2005-11-24
Running Time: 73 minutes

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NOVA: Newton's Dark Secrets (2005)

Starring: Chris Oxley
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2006-02-28
Running Time: 56 minutes

He was a 17th century Einstein, who reduced nature’s chaos to a single set of laws and revolutionized the thinking and outlook of his age. But in the midst of his astonishing breakthroughs in physics, optics, and calculus, Isaac Newton was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible and pursuing the covert art of alchemy, or the changing of base metals into gold.

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American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2006-04-04
Running Time: 56 minutes

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NOVA: The Deadliest Plane Crash

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2007-01-30
Running Time: 56 minutes

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Sesame Street - What's the Name of That Song

Starring: Alan Arkin
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Jim Martin
Studio: Sesame Street
Release Date: 2004-04-06
Running Time: 60 minutes

One electrifying hour of Sesame Street music and magic commemorates its 35th anniversary in this collection of 17 classic songs paired with a star-studded guest list. Superhero Grover provides the thematic storyline for musical merriment as he embarks on a mission to discover the "one special song the world can sing together." It's a difficult task since everyone in the Sesame Street... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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NOVA: Mystery of the Megaflood (2005)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2006-01-03
Running Time: 56 minutes

It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed a giant scientific riddle. A maverick geologist became convinced that thousand-foot-deep floodwaters had scoured out vast areas of the American northwest near the end of the last ice age. Mainstream scientists scorned his theory while he searched patiently for answers to what could have triggered such an inconceivably violent ev... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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NOVA - The Vikings

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2006-06-06
Running Time: 120 minutes

The Vikings have had a one-sided image for too long. Since their first violent raids in the late 8th century, Norsemen have been considered nothing more than brutal barbarians and marauding savages who thoughtlessly murdered and pillaged the defenseless. Revolutionary new research is about to change their uncivilized reputation. Travel the globe with NOVA for a riveting two-hour special that prove... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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