HH Holmes - America's First Serial Killer (NTSC All Region)

HH Holmes - America's First Serial Killer (NTSC All Region)

The story behind America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, who terrorized Chicago during the turn-of-the-century World's Fair. Director John Borowski chronicles the details of Holmes' grisly life, beginning with his childhood, through the emerging deceptions that brought him to Chicago, the construction of his notorious "death house," the cross-country man-hunt to find him, and finally ending with his incarceration and execution. Holmes' story also became the subject of the best-selling novel, Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. Narrated by Tony Jay (Time Bandits, Disney's Beauty and the Beast).

Henri Langlois - Phantom of the Cinematheque (NTSC Region 1)

Henri Langlois - Phantom of the Cinematheque (NTSC Region 1)

HENRI LANGLOIS: THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMATHEQUE, an in-depth look at the life and times of the legendary French archivist and film connoisseur. Henri Langlois, co-founder with Georges Franju of the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris in 1936, the world’s first film archive, was an enormously curious and classically rumpled film aficionado who fought film’s disposable status (during a period when most prints were junked after use) by savingeverything. Joined by the equally eccentric Mary Meerson, over the course of 40 years Langlois hid thousands of films from the Nazis, saved silent era classics from oblivion

Chop Socky - Cinema Hong Kong (NTSC Region 1)

Chop Socky - Cinema Hong Kong (NTSC Region 1)

In this action-packed original co-production from the Independent Film Channel, filmmaker Ian Taylor takes a behind-the-scenes look at the stars, fighting styles and weaponry of Hong Kong cinema from its earliest beginnings to the latest big-budget epics.