Friday, January 20, 2012

Kids, Fistful, Holmes, Space, War, Thirty And Titanic

Kids love cartoons and are sure to go ga-ga over Mill Creek Entertainment's 30-Episode Collections of animated TV shows from the last 20+ years. 

Look for classic episodes of the Get Along Gang, The Littles, Heathcliff, Johnny Test, World Of Quest, The New Adventures Of Nanoboy, Postcards From Buster, A Bunch Of Munsch, The Busy World Of Richard Scarry, Pole Position, COPS, Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors, Horseland, Sabrina and Mona The Vampire. 

Each DVD collection contains over 12 hours of animated shenanigans. They're funny, kid-safe and family-friendly and in this time of cynicism and political and financial unrest isn't it great to know that kids can still be kids?  Maybe we grown-ups should watch a few episodes and recapture the inner kid in all of us.

If you like down and gritty, fast-draw, rough and rugged Westerns than saddle up your horse and mosey on over to Mill Creek's Fistful Of Bullets containing 16 Spaghetti Westerns.

Kick the dust off your boots and join Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Harrison, Klaus Kinski and other Spaghetti Western stars as they take out the bad guys, crank up the macho meter and get the fast draw on hombres and beautiful women.  Yee haw!

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 4-Disc DVD set contains both feature films and the entire 39-episode TV series adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth of all sleuths: Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Doctor Watson.

Look for classic criminal cases solved by Watson and Holmes as portrayed by Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ronald Howard, Ian Fleming and others.  Also included is an introduction by actor Christopher Lee who was instrumental in the resurgence of interest in Sherlock Holmes.

America's Greatest Journey: The Race To Space is a 10-Part Documentary Series narrated by Mike Wallace. 

Follow the history of the men and women who created and were responsible for America's space program, its triumphs and failures, its early orbital flights to America's landing an astronaut on the moon. 

If you love history, specifically the history of man in space, then this DVD is the one for you.

The Civil War shaped and molded the United States as it exists today.  It was a time of bloody conflict as brother fought against brother in the bloodiest war imaginable. The Civil War Commemorative Documentary Collection in 10-parts includes reenactments, archive photographs and narration taken from historical documents about one of the most turbulent times in American history.

Back in the 1980s the Baby Boomers were in their thirties.  What better way to examine the life of the 'Me' Generation than to have a TV show about the times, trials and tribulations of what many have called the 'Lost' Generation?

Mill Creek's TV Flash Backs Thirtysomething, Season One, Volume Two, 11-episode DVD collection takes viewers back to a different type of America when the world was changing fast all around a group of people who learned to cope with and live life fully no matter how confusing.

The sinking of the Titanic has fascinated people since its occurrence early in the 20th Century.  When the Titanic's wreck was discover nearly 20 years ago, the fascination grew-so much so a feature film was made about it, along with assorted documentaries.

One of the best is Mill Creek's 100 Year Anniversary DVD Definitive Documentary Collection tells the entire sad tale of the doomed luxury liner.  Learn what really happened and all about the passengers and crew of the 'unsinkable' ship.

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