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When the owner of a local brewery bought a bankrupt ballclub in 1937, no one could have guessed how much impact it would have on the city. Winning five Pacific Coast League Pennants over 27 years, the Rainiers sparked the city's passion for the nation's pastime.

From the windows and porches of neighborhood homes, the familiar sound of Leo Lassen's radio broadcast filled the summer air. Local high school boys like Fred Hutchinson, Edo Vanni and Dewey Soriano became heroes on the diamond. With their hard-fought, gritty style of play, the Rainiers packed the bleachers at Sick's Seattle Stadium, breaking league attendance records year after year.

Over 1,000 rare photographs, newly discovered film footage, and dozens of interviews with those who played and those who cheered, bring to life the colorful story of the Seattle Rainiers in this compelling 75-minute documentary.

The film captures some of Seattle baseball's greatest moments: "Kewpie" Dick Barrett's pitching both games of the final double-header of the 1937 season...and winning! Fred Hutchinson's 19th win on his 19th birthday with fans lining the outfield wall! Bob Boyd and Artie Wilson's battle for the 1952 batting title that came down to the last game of the season!...and many more.

Your new HDTV transforms your home movie night in spectacular ways, but when the panel is Off, it's more of an eyesore in your living room than anything. Ensure that your HDTV is always the centerpiece of your living room with the Ocean Aquarium: Papua New Guinea Blu-ray disc. Combining Full HD underwater video footage from Papua New Guinea, Bonaire, and Fiji with Dolby Digital 5.1 ambient music, this Blu-ray disc create an exciting and exotic atmosphere in your home.

Bowling for Columbine did it to the gun culture. Super Size Me did it to fast food. Now The God Who Wasn't There does it to religion.

Holding modern Christianity up to a bright spotlight, this eye-opening documentary asks the questions few dare to ask. "Did Jesus even exist?" is just the beginning for The God Who Wasn't There. Your guide through the world of Christendom is former fundamentalist Brian Flemming, joined by such luminaries as Jesus Seminar fellow Robert M. Price, author Sam Harris and historian Richard Carrier.

In addition to the film, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2005 Grassroots Cinema Film Festival, this feature-packed DVD includes:

-Special commentary tracks with Richard Dawkins and Earl Doherty
-Over one hour of compelling additional interview footage
-An in-depth Web-enabled slide show
-Music from the soundtrack
-Bios of all participants

This provocative DVD takes off the gloves and gives religion an unprecedented, no-holds-barred examination. So hold on to your faith. It's in for a bumpy ride.

Henninger Productions presents Blue Angels: A Year In The Life, a four part series that follows the lives of the Navy's elite flight demonstration team, from starting as "newbies," to the end of the air show season, all shot in High Definition video. Each year as new pilots are selected, they must endure a long and arduous process of training, studying, and team building, taking pilots to their physical and mental limits. But it is all worth it the day they are "crested" and recite the Angels' creed, knowing soon they will take off to perform the most extreme and exhilarating air performance in the world.
Each episode follows the team as it prepares for its upcoming Summer 2004 season. We watch as nervous new applicants wait to hear whether they have made the team, and see the heartbreak of those who did not. We jump into the cockpit with the team as they spend the winter constantly practicing the awe-inspiring tricks that will dazzle audiences. And we follow them through show season and witness the aerobatic stunts they have worked so long and hard to perfect, ending the series as the new batch of recruits join the team.

The only complete and authorized story of the most famous race horse of our time - Secretariat. This is the Official Secretariat DVD licensed by owner Penny Chenery. This commemorative issue is actually three videos in one. It features the original critically acclaimed ESPN retrospective chronicling Secretariat's life and legacy, a full feature documentary of Big Red's last race in the Canadian International at Woodbine PLUS recently discovered footage of the champion from 20 of his career races including his phenomenal 1973 Triple Crown victories shown in their entirety.

This comprehensive DVD is full of interesting film clips, interviews, and historical information. It traces his days as a foal at the Meadow Stud Farm, Doswell, Virginia though his death in the fall of 1989 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Along the way you'll see some of the most amazing achievements in the history of the sport. Follow Secretariat's run to glory through the 1973 Triple Crown as he became the first horse in a quarter of a century to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Hear from those closest to this equine hero with exclusive interviews from owner Penny Chenery, Hall of Fame trainer Lucien Laurin and jockey Ron Turcotte. Racing fans will appreciate the poignant documentary "Big Red's Last Race" as well as the complete collection of original racing footage from his storied career.

Enjoy this fantastic tribute to the world's most legendary and loved Thoroughbred - Secretariat. Total playing time: 112 minutes.

EXCLUSIVELY OFFERED BY GOINGDIGITALFILMS---Brand New DVDs--LIMITED FIRST PRODUCTION RUN--ORDER Yours Today! DVD FEATURES: Additional 45min Edited Version (No Explicit Language), Filmmakers Commentary Track, Deleted Scenes, Extended Football Games, 2 Additional Speeches by Head Coach Bob Ladouceur, 2 Teaser Trailers, Photo Gallery, Production Notes and More... You've heard the staggering statistics.... 151 consecutive wins....0 losses in the span of a decade... A winning percentage over 90% since 1979... You'd think it was a high school football factory, you'll find it's something much more... 1 is a rare behind-the-scenes chronicle of the most successful high school football team ever and follows the De La Salle Spartans through a season on a quest not to win another championship or break another national record, but on a journey to become a cohesive team bound by love. Recommended for anyone interested in the factors behind phenomenal team success, high school, football, greatest sports stories or teen development. It's not about X's and O's. It's about having faith in something larger than yourself. Feature length version contains some explicit language. Edited version contains no explicit language.

Release Date: 2006-02-01, Rating: G (General Audience)

This edition contains two, 2-sided DVDs, 3 full length movies, and 8 short films. Disc 1: Side A: The Rape of Nanking Disc 1: Side B: Hitler's Diaries Disc 2: Side A: Atrocities (8 short films) Disc 2 Side B: The Tiananmen Massacre Rapeof Nanking begins with a historical overview of ancient China and the sun-cult of Shinto, Bushido, and Japanese Emporer Hirohito's dream to rule the world. There follows the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, the Rape of Nanking, and finally, the rape of Manilla, Unit 731 and the Baatan Death March. Japanese soldiers tear out the eyes of children, gang-rape women then set them on fire, bury people alive or use them for bayonet practice...beheading women, children, old men....and torturing people for fun...and then laughing hysterically as victims, who have been set on fire, run screaming through the night... "We had fun killing Chinese. We caught some innocent Chinese and either buried them alive, or pushed them into a fire, or beat them to death with clubs. When they were half dead we pushed them into ditches and burned them, torturing them to death. Everyone gets his entertainment this way. Its like killing dogs and cats." --Asahi Shimbun, Japanese soldier, describing Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking. "We took turns raping them. We always stabbed and killed them. When we were raping her, we looked at her as a woman. But when we killed her, we just thought of her as something like a pig." --Azuma Shiro, Japanese soldier. **** The Tiananmen Massacre documents the rise and fall of the 1989 Student Democracy Movement when tens of millions of Chinese peacefully demonstrated for freedom, economic reform, and democracy. The film details how a few men controlling the government of China declared war against the Chinese people, and used tanks and machine guns to murder and maim thousands of innocent men and women whose only crime was a hunger for freedom and democracy. Includes rare footage of the fate of the "Tank Man" and answers the question about his fate: He was arrested, beaten, and never seen again. **** "Atrocities" (Disc 2 Side B) includes 8 short films: The Ainu; Atrocities of the Japanese Army; Sex Slaves and comfort women; Japan and Asia's Stolen Treasures; Qing Dynasty Atrocities, Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb; Hitler Nazi Atrocities; and what has been described as the most frightening, most horrifying film of all time, "Unit 731" which details Japanese war time medical experiments on human prisoners. *** The Rape of Nanking (Disc 1) was rated among the "Top 10 Most Discussed Films of All Time."

Release Date: 2004-10-12, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.