DVD - World Class Documentaries: Distinction Series Box Set

World Class Documentaries: (Celluloid Closet/Grey Gardens/The Times of Harvey Milk/Burden of Dreams/Little Dieter Needs to Fly/Sorrow and the(7 Discs)    (DVD)

Distinction Series Bringing together six brilliant documentaries from the Distinction Series, World Class Documentaries features some of the greatest stories from every corner of the globe.

CELLULOID CLOSET: What That is Entertainment did for movie musicals, The Celluloid Closet, does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening documentary serves up a dazzling, hundred-year history of the role of gay men and women on the silver screen.

GREY GARDENS: Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK: Academy Award winner The Times of Harvey Milk is the dramatic and moving story of the first openly gay person elected to office in California from his triumphant grass roots campaign to his brutal assassination one year later.

LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY: Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a documentary about Dieter Dangler, a German who grew up with a passion for flight and emigrated to the U.S. to join the navy and become a pilot during the Vietnam War. Dieter was shot down, captured and tortured before becoming one of the few American prisoners to escape.

BURDEN OF DREAMS: Burden Of Dreams is an extraordinary feature-length documentary about one mans obsession against desperate odds to follow his dreams and was honoured with a British Academy Award for Best Documentary of 1982.

SORROW AND THE PITY: From the moment it was first released at a tiny Left Bank theatre in Paris, this epic account of France under the occupation of the Nazi regime during World War II has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films of all time.

World Class Documentaries: (Celluloid Closet/Grey Gardens/The Times of Harvey Milk/Burden of Dreams/Little Dieter Needs to Fly/Sorrow and the(7 Discs)    (DVD)

Distinction Series Bringing together six brilliant documentaries from the Distinction Series, World Class Documentaries features some of the greatest stories from every corner of the globe.

CELLULOID CLOSET: What That is Entertainment did for movie musicals, The Celluloid Closet, does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening documentary serves up a dazzling, hundred-year history of the role of gay men and women on the silver screen.

GREY GARDENS: Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK: Academy Award winner The Times of Harvey Milk is the dramatic and moving story of the first openly gay person elected to office in California from his triumphant grass roots campaign to his brutal assassination one year later.

LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY: Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a documentary about Dieter Dangler, a German who grew up with a passion for flight and emigrated to the U.S. to join the navy and become a pilot during the Vietnam War. Dieter was shot down, captured and tortured before becoming one of the few American prisoners to escape.

BURDEN OF DREAMS: Burden Of Dreams is an extraordinary feature-length documentary about one mans obsession against desperate odds to follow his dreams and was honoured with a British Academy Award for Best Documentary of 1982.

SORROW AND THE PITY: From the moment it was first released at a tiny Left Bank theatre in Paris, this epic account of France under the occupation of the Nazi regime during World War II has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films of all time.