NOW AVAILABLE
Daughter from Danang
Now back in distribution, this Academy Award-nominated film is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. When Heidi, an "all-American girl" from Tennessee, is reunited with her birth-mother, from Danang, Vietnam after being separated for 22 years, she and her Vietnamese relatives find themselves caught in a confusing clash of cultures. Read more 
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Southern Belle
A thought-provoking examination of the 1861 Athenaeum Girls' School, where young women eagerly sign up to become that iconic image of Southern identity: the Southern belle. Southern Belle captures the divisive historical memory of an American subculture and challenges us to consider how a romantic portrayal of the past can affect current attitudes that continue to define and divide America today. Read more
DIGITALLY REMASTERED
Dead Birds
Robert Gardner's classic Dead Birds is now available in a new digitally remastered 2-DVD set. This special-edition set comes with many extra features, including commentary by Robert Gardner with Ross McElwee, Lucien Taylor, and Octavio Paz, a French-language translation by Jean Rouch, original outtakes, a photo gallery, and much more. Read more
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Films of Richard Broadman
Regarded as an independent among independents, Richard Broadman (1946 - 2000) was an uncompromising documentary filmmaker who specialized in chronicling the American urban experience through oral history. DER is proud to inherit this invaluable film collection, most of which are now available on DVD for the first time. Read more
COMING SOON
Richard Leacock & Valerie Lalonde:
The Paris Years 1989 to 2009
A wonderful collection of 11 films made by documentary luminary Richard Leacock with his great love and creative collaborator Valerie Lalonde. In 1989, the then-new Video-8 cameras delivered them from the costs of shooting on film, and allowed them a freedom to film what had always interested them most — life itself, in all its beauty, charm and poignancy. Read more
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Odyssey Series on DVD
Now on DVD for the first time! In an attempt to cut the often esoteric ice of anthropology, in 1980 PBS released Odyssey, a newly-created series of anthropological documentaries, with a second season in 1981. A perennial favorite at DER, we are pleased to make these great films available on DVD. Read more
NEW RELEASE
A Family in History
This in-depth 2-DVD set combines the film Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family, made in 1984-85 at the height of the Contra war, with a second disc containing extensive documentary and interview material of the same family shot in 2009 and 2010, chronicling what has happened to the family members and their country during the past twenty-five years. Read more
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'Are'are Music & Shaping Bamboo
A fascinating documentation of the traditional musical culture of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, in the South-Western Pacific. Includes a comprehensive inventory and explanation of all their twenty musical genres, and shows the process of making panpipes, from cutting the bamboo to making the final bindings. Read more
