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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
2) Trog
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a wild half-man/half-ape emerges from his countryside cave, TV cameras are there to observe the event and the terror! People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller called a troglodyte. To an anthropologist, he's the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he's walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped, all after local resident Sam Murdock prods the brute into a...
4) Ganja & Hess
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An archaeologist is stabbed with an ancient dagger that gives him immortality and an insatiable thirst for blood, which he then shares with his assistant's wife, and the two of them form a troubled partnership.
Publisher
Shout! / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A London subway excavation abruptly halts when construction workers unearth a cluster of prehistoric skulls and skeletons. Anthropologist Dr. Roney, his assistant Barbara Judd, and space expert Professor Quatermass are driven by curiosity and dig deeper to discover a strange ₁missile₂ that is not of this earth.
8) Regeneration
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
10) Iceman
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past. Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state. When the Iceman becomes part of their lives, the results are both moving and emotionally shattering.
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