Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

A sizzling look at the one, the only, J. Edgar Hoover-a man whose very name conjures up images of top level law enforcement and respect. Having served tirelessly as director of the FBI for more than 40 years, J. Edgar's life was chock-full of secret investigations that were as much responsible for preserving freedom and stamping out Communism as any U.S. President that ever served.

Clamming some of the hottest "no-name" chargers in waves of all sizes to cutting edge freaks breaking boundaries on and above wave faces everywhere now its finally time for the magazine's first-ever DVD video release, Painstakingly put together with the same attention to detail that has been given to each and every issue of ESM.

Michel, a breeder in Eastern France, uses the winter calm to spend some time with his young apprentice, Francis. They soon become close friends.

Yakut fairy tale about a bear cub who wanted to become a different animal.

'Colours' is a unique form of expression, the film outlines the differences between all of us and the characteristics we all share. The story of 'Colours' is an inquiry into the expression of our feelings one to another.

Martin gets a retraining.

A scientist brings life to her creation: an identical clone.

Amateur and professional New York filmmakers provide never-before-seen images of the events of September 11th through the raw and personal footage they captured that day.

Thomas, a young programmer, leads an uneventful life. He suffers under his irascible boss and spends his lonely evenings watching videos. However, his monotonous life changes when he meets Tamara at the video store, who brings new color into his life with her open and warm-hearted nature. Despite initial difficulties, a loving romance develops between the two.

CIPLAK centers around Jo, a Malay student studying overseas who brings in pirated DVD's from Malaysia back to the UK to sell on the black market. But when KL is hit with a nationwide piracy raid on his last day in the country Jo has to do whatever it takes in 24 hours or suffer the consequences.

In this world of wonders there are still places that have not been smoothed over with the shallow surfaces of Western commercialism. This film is a personal Valentine to a life filled with amazing, exotic, beautiful and fearsome places for the world. The amazing thing is not just the visual demonstration of how fleeting life is, but a meditation on how the decisions that seem momentous on our time scale are flickering snapshots of life on this planet, too small to be observed by most. Somehow the music combined with technology becomes a personal experience that makes the earth and its inhabitants seem touchingly fragile and full of wonder...

A documentary about the history and production of the mockumentary television series TRAILER PARK BOYS, directed and presented by Annemarie Cassidy (wife of TRAILER PARK BOYS director Mike Clattenburg).

After two new bumbling young dentists partner with a 'night-only' dentist, the staff and clients from the two different 'lifestyles' clash.

Jason Mraz acoustic concert w/ Toca Rivera on Korea's EBS Space.

Martin Short dreams of being on the podium of the world's greatest race: The Le Mans 24 hours. He has many legendary teams to beat, and his car is not ready. Is his big chance already under threat? With access to Martin's team and family and a pitlane pass to the race, this DVD captures the highs and the lows of the ultimate test of endurance.

A doorman gets abused by the wealthy inhabitants of his building

The film relates the cruel reality of a small mountain village. Inspired by the 100-year-old painting Il quarto stato (1901) by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, it takes the characters and situation of the painting as a starting point and creats an original fiction.

DVD documentary short about the casting of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Program is made up of original television footage of the principal leads of the movie's cast meeting the press on the 7th of October 1968, two weeks prior to the start of principal photography.

Ida is the daughter of a violent & Néo-Nazi father. He beats her everyday, specially in the summer of 1989, when Kristina, Ida's eldest sister, ran away from home. Every one is scared of the father. Ida is left alone. She must suffer in silence.

Based on the cult classic book of the same name, written by Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square combines 16 mm footage and grainy Super 8, as well as original 35mm photography by Porn Star Annie Sprinkle, to paint a vivid picture of Times Square's seedy past, the sex industries that thrived there, and those threatened with extinction by a movement to 'sanitize the square.' The film investigates the past, present and future of the infamous neighborhood, at the height of its raunchy reputation.

A Brazilian documentary that shows the cruelty of animal testing in cosmetics and drugs, as well as the obsolete use of vivisection as an educational method.

A woman is taking pictures of cages in a zoo. The viewer and the object change places.

Filmed in one of Europe's most famous clubs, this DVD presents John Hammond in concert, performing his unique blend of country and Chicago style blues.

A story about a radiogram, an abandoned house, and a flax mill.

A man tries to escape a chaotic hotel.

A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she is just a heroine in the movie and nothing really depends on her. Rebellious against the author, she writes her own film, recreating the characters from scratch - but neither do her characters want to be heroes in someone else's film. The story of the heroine is intertwined with the story of a critic who "chased" writers all his life to finally find out that his efforts were pointless.

Alice Diop returns to the council estate where she grew up, la Rose-des-Vents, to paint a portrait of the inhabitants of her old building. Outpourings in the intimacy of apartments, the stairwell where different cultures meet, and the outside areas, veritable playgrounds, together form the rich heritage of this neighbourhood. A counterpoint to the usual media coverage.

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

As Joe struggles with his guilt of giving into his long repressed desires, relive the night through his P.O.V. What will happen?

The second part of Giovanna Gagliardo's documentary recounts forty years of Italian history, and more, through film footage and photos from the 1960s to the present day.

Speaking in Arabic and English, Soliman Al-Halawani, Dr. Mahmoud Hourani, Fouad Charida, Dib El Chami and Rafica El Chami Batach tell of their life in Palestine before 1948 and give eye-witness accounts of the tumultuous days of 'Al Nakba' (the catastrophe), May 15th, and its aftermath. As children and young adults, they and their families were among 750,000 Palestinians fleeing for their lives, as Zionist terror gangs began seizing villages to enlarge the recently created State of Israel. The stories told by these speakers are poignant, unexpected and sometimes surprising, expressing not only the tragedies but also the small miracles which occur in a human catastrophe of such dimensions. Prevented from returning to their homes, the speakers lived as refugees, eventually making their way to Australia. Their continued longing to see their homeland eloquently expresses the feelings of the dispossessed everywhere, and gives this film a universal dimension.

A documentary filmed in the mountainous region of Agrafa, Eurytania, in Greece.

After semi-truck driver Teri Horton bought a large splatter painting for her friend for $5, she was forced to sell it in her own garage sale when her friend said she had no place for it. Eventually someone commented on the painting stating it might be an original Jackson Pollock. This documentary follows Teri, her son, and a forensics specialist as they attempt to prove to the world, or more specifically the art community, her painting is a true Jackson Pollock

This experiment on the theme of difference and repetition combines methods used in structural films and elements of narrative cinema. The content was supplied by Robert Frank´s film "OK End Here" (USA 1963). Moments from the life of a herosexual couple were arranged in series on the basis of an alphanumeric editing concept.

A documentary about the painting of a portrait of Elizabeth II.

It is a film based on Scandinavian ballads, allegorically portraying the complex relationship between the two beginnings - Male and Female, Light and Darkness, Love and Death. The eternal dance of life embraces two main characters - the Girl and the Knight in various guises (a king, a jester) - the relationship between whom develops on two levels - realistic and symbolic. The visual approach based on medieval engravings, the Scandinavian tradition of wooden sculptures and ornaments as well as the colour scheme carry profound philosophical and symbolic meaning. The film is made in the technique of total animation.

Carlitos López tries to recover her robbed car named Sharon, even if that risks his relationships with his ex-wife, girlfriend, and family.

Written and performed by a 17 year old girl, the film is a diary, that of a high school student who enters the first year of high school at Claude Monet in Paris.

Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and stretching 40 miles into the jungled interior, we kayaked and portaged more than 200 miles around the park's perimeter, seeing this wild country from a new and different perspective. Along the way we encountered river-swimming elephants, manatees, tarpon, surfing hippos, gorillas and more. By trip's end it was hard to decide which were the most beautiful, and the most difficult, parts of the expedition, but it was eye opening, for us all.

In 1970, after their wedding in Buenos Aires, Ron and Jacqueline set off for the Andes, with backpacks and still cameras. While crossing Bolivia, on their way to Cuzco, they discovered the city of Potosi. 29 years later, they return to the same places, this time with their three daughters and a Super 16 camera. A road movie, which is both a depiction in real time of Potosi and the Andes and a journey of introspection for the filmmaker and his family. Potosi, at an altitude of 4,100 metres, was once one of the largest and richest cities in the world. But for the millions of indigenous people who were forced to work in the depths of the mountain, Potosi was the gateway to Hell. After its silver mines were exhausted, Potosi was abandoned, poor and forgotten. As in his previous film, Fragments - Jerusalem, Ron Havilio also uses personal material to draw a portrait of an Israeli family on the road, the generation gap, and a meditation on the passage of time.

Anya is from a very poor family who asks his father Kodo why they are poor. The answer he gets is that, it is due to inheritance. Anya decides to discontinue that trend of poor lineage and make money by all means. Aba on the other hand who is from a very rich family asks his father Ichie Bullion how come he is so rich. His father tells him that being rich comes from hard work. Aba wants the easy way out to be rich. Now lets see how any of them makes it to the level they aim. [parts 1-2]

Two lovers torn apart by addiction confront each other one more time at the spot where they met.

A man about to be executed asks for a miracle: for time to stop. The miracle happens and he writes a story in which he tries to cheat death. Death overtakes him in reality and fiction.

On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first time, to relieve an exhausted RUC in the wake of the Battle of the Bogside. As they entered the city the troops were confronted with a ring of barricades surrounding the Bogside area and manned by the rioters, presenting them with an instant dilemma – to attempt to remove the barricades and provoke a confrontation, or to leave the barricades intact and allow the Bogside to remain beyond official law & order?

A sequel of the Digital Angel: Mark of the Beast prophet documentary which warned us about Covid-19, Micro-chipping and New World Order mass control.

A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly at the bar. Ding Dong insists on telling him the ‘real’ history of Ireland over a number of pints. From the Normans to the Famine to 1916 and the sex shops of O’Connell Street, we hear Ding Dong Denny’s delusional take on events that shaped this nation. Ding Dong is a comic creation of comedian Paul Woodful, and is his first adventure into animation.

This is the story of how sex entered the world of pop and was played into our living rooms via the pop video. These videos totally altered our way of looking at sex - they brought taboo subjects such as S&M and bondage to teatime telly, they made homosexuality visible for the first time, and they brought sublimated desires, gay or straight, to the surface, altering the nation in a profound way. In the 80s, pop videos took Britain's virginity, dirtying the minds of a generation and so freeing us to become a more sexually adventurous and tolerant society. And it was all down to pop music.

This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving Bob Dylan's mind after the motorcycle crash, for her pioneering sound/image installations, for keeping the New York Sixties' art community together, for one of the key works of erotic cinema Christmas on Earth, and etc. and etc.

Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, Bette Midler, Cindy Lauper, Elvis Costello and more perform a live concert in Madison Square Gardens to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims.

Starring Macy Gray, Rickey Mino, and Bob Ezrin. In order to break the boring mold of their everyday lives, a group of twentysomething girls enters a high-stakes karaoke competition.

Difficile de ne pas se reconnaître dans la galerie de portraits dont seul SELLIG a le secret, avec des sketches tels que : La salle de gym, Je bricole, Le mariage ou le déménagement de ma sœur, ou encore la chanson "Internet blues" co-écrite avec Michael Jones. Sellig réussit le tour de force de transformer chaque situation exaspérante en un immense éclat de rire.

HIGH TECH SOUL is the first documentary to tackle the deep roots of techno music alongside the cultural history of Detroit, its birthplace. From the race riots of 1967 to the underground party scene of the late 1980s, Detroit's economic downturn didn't stop the invention of a new kind of music that brought international attention to its producers and their hometown.