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  The Crushing of Poland

  Ian Baxter

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  "Hitlers decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of the Second World War. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics  the ruthless use of armor, mobile infantry and air support. The brave Polish army, inadequately equipped and inferior in numbers, was overwhelmed by this awesome display of military power as well as being taken by surprise. Official German photographers accompanied the triumphant Nazi forces on their victorious advance which first seized the key part of Danzig and then Warsaw, all within one month. The Crushing of Poland captures the drama and raw aggression of the Campaign in photographs and full captions."

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  Jokes I Wrote at Work

  Brian Gaar

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  In his first hour-long comedy special, Twitter sensation Brian Gaar tackles everything from the challenges of fatherhood to trying to keep his gamer cred in his 30s. Filmed live at the Spider House Ballroom in Austin, Texas.

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  Sorry Wrong Number

  Lucille Fletcher

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  When wires get crossed, a woman accidentally overhears the telephone conversation of two men plotting a murder. Suspense and terror mounts as the woman slowly realizes that the intended victim is herself. This legendary one-act became one of radio’s most famous plays, and was later adapted into a now classic work of film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring Susan Sullivan as Mrs. Stevenson alongside Pamela Dunlap, Sam McMurray, Andre Sogliuzzo, Kate Steele, and Sarah Zimmerman.Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

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  Summers with Lincoln - Looking...

  James A. Percoco

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  A journey across America revealing “the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today” (The Washington Times).   Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.   A few years ago, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments—what they meant to their creators and to the public when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today. The result is a fascinating chronicle of four summers on the road looking for Lincoln stories in statues of marble and bronze.   Percoco selects seven emblematic works, among them Thomas Ball’s Emancipation Group, erected east of the Capitol in 1876 with private funds from African Americans and dedicated by Frederick Douglass; Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s majestic Standing Lincoln of 1887 in Chicago; Paul Manship’s 1932 Lincoln the Hoosier Youth, in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Gutzon Borglum’s 1911 Seated Lincoln, struggling with the pain of leadership, beckoning visitors to sit next to him on his metal bench in Newark, New Jersey.   At each stop, Percoco chronicles the history of the monument, spotlighting its artistic, social, political, and cultural origins. His descriptions draw fresh meaning from mute stone and cold metal—raising provocative questions not just about who Lincoln might have been, but about what we’ve wanted him to be in the monuments we’ve built.

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  Ballet Music for Exercises 1

  Klaus Bruengel

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  Original Musicscores to the Soundtrack of "Ballet Music For Exercises 1", Pianomusic by Klaus Bruengel. The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively used on stage, with an iPad or Kindle, to read music whilst playing an Instrument. Klaus Bruengel is a professional composer and arranger, working for the label "Scores And Parts".

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  Practical Dreamers -...

  Mike Hoolboom

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  ‘The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.’ – Man Ray
   
  Welcome to the world of fringe movies. Here, artists have been busy putting queer shoulders to the wheels, or bending light to talk about First Nations rights (and making it funny, to boot), or demonstrating how a personality can be taken apart and put back together, all during a ten-minute movie which might take years to make.
   
  In Practical Dreamers, twenty-seven artists dish about how they get it done and why it matters. The conversations are personal, up close and jargon free, smart without smarting.
   
  Mike Hoolboom talks footage recycling with Alessa Cohene (Supposed To) and Jubal Brown (Life Is Pornography); investigates the documentaries of Donigan Cumming (My Dinner With Weegee); looks at the Middle East with Jayce Salloum (This Is Not Beirut); discusses identity with queer Asian avatars Richard Fung (Dirty Laundry), Midi Onodera (The Displaced View) and Ho Tam (The Yellow Pages), and First Nations vets Kent Monkman (Blood River) and Shelley Niro (Honey Moccasin); and addresses the visions of Peter Mettler (Gambling, Gods and LSD).

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