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El religioso Michael P. Moore considera que avanzar por el camino de la fe siempre es un proceso, y desde esta perspectiva invita a los lectores a meditar sobre los últimos días de Jesús, los que conmemoramos en Semana Santa en lo que denominamos el misterio pascual. En efecto, los últimos días de Jesús comienzan caminando y condensan simbólicamente el sentido de la vida y de la muerte, las apuestas innegociables y las tentaciones insidiosas,...
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Winner of an Academy Award® for Best Documentary, filmmaker Michael Moore's "Bowling For Columbine" takes a somewhat humorous and oft-times serious look at firearms in the United States. Traveling throughout the country, Moore sets out to discover why Americans are so obsessed with their guns, which time and time again lead to violence. Moore also touches upon the tragedy at Columbine High, interviews NRA President Charlton Heston and takes on companies...
24) Fahrenheit 9/11
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An expose which reflects upon what has happened to America since the events of September 11, 2001 that touches upon the personal relationship between President George W. Bush and the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden. As well, the chronicle focuses on the powerful roles that oil and greed may have played in the terrorist attack on the U.S.A.
25) The Corporation
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One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the Corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The Corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy...
26) Sicko
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Filmmaker Michael Moore critiques the American health care system, focusing especially on the HMOs, drug companies, and congressmen who profit from the status quo. Also includes an analysis of the health care systems in Canada, England, France and Cuba, where free universal health care is the norm.
27) Fahrenheit 11/9
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A provocative and comedic portrait of Donald Trump as a bully, a liar, a racist, a hedonist, a father with a creepy closeness to his daughter Ivanka and a man who doesnb2st even try to hide his baser instincts. The way that Michael Moore sees it, Trump runs his country like one of his corporations, like a dictatorship. Cross him and itb2ss firing time. He even compares Trump to Hitler, dubbing the Presidentb2ss own words into the Fuhrerb2ss...
28) Fahrenheit 9/11
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Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Ladens, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take...
30) Stalag 17
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Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
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In the age of 9/11, the War on Terror, financial collapse, and around-the-clock coverage of child abductions, our society is defined by fear. Glassner shows that it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of risk, and he exposes the price we pay for social panic.
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Legendary adventurer and raconteur Robin Moore has teamed up with third-generation Army officer Michael "Doc" Lennon to share the stories of the soldiers who have earned the right to wear the Green Beret.
From Vietnam to the present day, The Wars of the Green Berets retells the stranger-than-fiction, hair-raising experiences of the stout men who have risked it all, from their firefights on the Cambodian border to their present-day patrols on the...
33) Agostino
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Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang...
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Exactly one year and a day after the initial Wall Street bailout, Michael Moore (SICKO, FAHRENHEIT 9/11) looks at the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy during the transition between the incoming Obama Administration and the outgoing Bush Administration. In standard Moore fashion, he mockingly draws attention to the Wall Street and Government decisions that have enabled what he calls "the biggest robbery in the history of this country."...
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The authors of this commentary take a canonical-historical approach to the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, three books that are diverse, yet share the common historical context of the tribal settlement of Canaan. They examine Joshua, Judges, and Ruth as narratives with dynamic theological messages about the dynamic relationship between God's people and the powerful God who gives land and provides deliverers for the people.
36) Canadian Bacon
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Watch as the civilized world teeters on the brink of anarchy in this hilarious comedy about the New World Order. Beset by falling approval ratings and a sagging economy, a desperate U.S. president and his closest advisors launch a campaign to turn America against its most unlikely enemy - Canada. However, Bud Boomer, an overly patriotic Niagara Falls sheriff and his band of misfit deputies actually invade Canada and set off a series of comedic events...
39) Lucky Numbers
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John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow make a "high-energy comedy team" in this side-splittingly funny comedy inspired by a real-life scam to win the Pennsylvania lottery. Travolta "is truly irresistible" as Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme - and fast. With his greedy girlfriend (Lisa Kudrow) -...
