Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend

Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend 1999

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Documentary of an underwater archaeological expedition led by French explorer Franck Goddio that explores the sunken ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, where Cleopatra made her home over 2,000 years ago. The underwater exploration team uses advanced scientific methods to locate the remains of Cleopatra's sunken palace as well as the entire submerged Royal Quarters in the harbor of modern Alexandria. Also uses re-enactments, computer graphics and animation to present a picture of Cleopatra's life in ancient Alexandria.

1999

Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald 1995

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Chronicles the history of the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in a violent storm with the loss of the entire crew in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. In the summer of 1995, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, and Sony Corporation descended to the site of the wreck, more than 500 feet below the surface of the lake. This documentary takes a look at their expedition.

1995

Cleopatra: The First Woman of Power

Cleopatra: The First Woman of Power 1999

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Narrated by actress Anjelica Huston, this 1999 documentary explores the myths surrounding the legendary ruler of Egypt, separating fact from fiction. Was Cleopatra a captivating temptress who seduced her way to the top? Or was she a capable and intelligent leader? With the help of reenactments, location footage, Hollywood film clips and interviews with historians, the fascinating truth about Cleopatra emerges.

1999

Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women

Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women 1979

4.50

Taking advertisements from magazines, newspapers, album covers and shop front windows, KILLING US SOFTLY presents specific examples of the ways in which advertisements reinforce stereotypes, affect our self-image and how we relate to each other, our concepts of success and worth, love and sexuality, popularity and normality. Using an intriguing mixture of statistics, humor, insight and outrage, Jean Kilbourne questions how far the use and abuse of women in advertising is connected to the sexual exploitation of women at large and the increasing incidence of child abuse.

1979

Sherlock Holmes: The True Story

Sherlock Holmes: The True Story 2003

10.00

"It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes," wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his remarkable powers of observation and deduction. In what would become true Sherlockian fashion, he had the ability to deduce facts about his patients from otherwise unremarkable details. Based on extensive research into the life of Bell and including tantalizing accounts of the connections between Bell and Conan Doyle, this biography is for anyone interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

2003

Bathroom Gender

Bathroom Gender 1990

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Set to smooth, jazzy, smoky bar-room music, two young women safely lock themselves in a make-believe bathroom. With the camera positioned as a mirror over the sink, the women proceed to douse their chins with shaving cream, shave and slowly get dressed in male black tie mode. Indulging in the secret pleasures of acting out the bathroom rituals of men, this film makes a playful and witty foray into gender bending and cross-dressing.

1990