MPI Home Video (Firm)
1) Mafia empire
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive investigation into the history of greed, treachery, and violence of organized crime in America. The 3-part documentary traces the origins of the five major crime families from their beginnings in Italy through today.
2) Samsara
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity...
3) Citizen Koch
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this searing expose on the state of democracy in America and the fracturing of the Republican Party, directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin follow the money behind the rise of the Tea Party. Alternately terrifying and funny, documentary is an essential and powerful portrait of our political times.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer. Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful Italian country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Tuya, a Mongolian desert herder refuses to be settled in a town in accordance with the new industrialization policy. She has two kids, a disabled husband and one hundred sheep to care for. She must find another way to survive when she hurts her back.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mona Gray is a quirky young woman who hides in a private world of numbers after her beloved mathematician father falls ill. But when Mona is offered a job as an elementary school math teacher, she will introduce the students to her own eccentric gift for numerical obsession. Can the joys of arithmetic multiplied by a shy romance with the school science teacher help Mona discover a new life she can count on?
11) Paper man
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Dunn, a no-hit wonder of a novelist, is sent to Long Island by his wife, who expects him to get cracking on his next novel. Dunn isn't totally alone, though. Along for the ride is a local teen who befriends Richard after he hires her to be a babysitter. His babysitter. Plus, there's Richard's imaginary best friend from childhood, Captain Excellent, a confidante always ready to prod him along toward adulthood, whether Dunn wants it or not.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes in Washington: A British secret service operative carrying top-secret microfilm from England to Washington disappears while traveling to his destination. Filmed during WWII, this film pits Holmes and Watson against Nazi enemy agents.
Sherlock Holmes faces death: Dr. Watson, tending recuperating soldiers housed at centuries-old Musgrave Manor, summons Sherlock Holmes to investigate strange happenings. What follows is a bizarre series...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the Zapruder film. Includes several versions of the film. Includes interviews with Zapruder's business associates, friends, as well as archivists at the National Archives and the photography experts who made the digital replicas of the original film.
18) Tell no one
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Français
Description
Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, pediatrician Alex Beck still grieves for his beloved wife, Margot. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive.
19) The fabulous 60s
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The fabulous 60s takes a kaleidoscopic look back at this most turbulent of decades, ten tumultuous years that began in hope with man's exploration of space and the youngest elec[t]ed President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy-- and ended in a welter of Cold War intrigue, political assassination, civil unrest, student demonstration and US involvement in another war in a country known as Vietnam."--Container.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects.
