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Miramax Home Entertainment and Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, TRAFFIC, 2000) present NAQOYQATSI ("Life As War"), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Phillip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In this cinematic concert -- the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by the critically acclaimed KOYAANISQATSI ("Life Out Of Balance"), and POWAQQATSI ("Life In Transformation") -- mesmerizing images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic, and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope, fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects Reggio's visions of a brave new globalized world.

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Nobody gave the brash Cassius Clay a chance against a feared slugger Charles "Sonny" Liston. Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, the name he later adopted, was making his first attempt for the world heavyweight title. But standing between Clay and the corwn was the semmingly invicible Liston, a brutal punching machine. Boxin experts gave the young challenger virtually no shot against Liston. Odds-makers makde Clay a distant 8-1 underdog in the eagerly anticipated showdown that took place on February 25, 1964 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. But the bombastic Cassius Marcellus Clay promised to beat Liston and "shock the world". In recording one of the sports greatest upsets, Cassius Clay ushers in an era that set the future of the heavyweight division and turned the boxing world upside down. This Emmy Award Winnning NBC sports Production focuses on this historic Clay/ Liston fight as well as the events surrounding this celebrated matchup. Rare kinescope footage of Clay and LIston leading up to and after the fight is included along with the actual fight, call provided by Steve Ellis and Former Heavyweight Champ, JOE LOUIS.

Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance to the big screen in this sprawling epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little son of a Nebraska preacher on May 19 1925 he became one of the most militant leaders and charismatic spokesmen of the black liberation movement before his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21 1965. The film sweeps through his early life as a small-time hustler and thief with his friend Shorty Lee his conversion to Islam in jail and his subsequent life as a controversial spiritual leader and husband of Betty Shabazz Angela Bassett. Malcolm's tragic assassination is presented as a conspiracy of Nation of Islam leaders; the film shows how his philosophy has been realized in the lives of others who have been moved by his words. Filmed with great visual flair by Lee the film is a work of entertainment as much as it is a historical artifact. Washington captures the spiritual conv

Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln memorial on August 28 1963 is presented in its entirety along with scenes of the civil rights struggle throughout the 1960s.

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