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This is the DVD collection of 15 Academy Award-nominated documentary films that shed light on important global issues and changed the way people looked at everyday life. The set includes Supersize Me, the renowned documentary that examines the power and influence of the fast food industry and details the effects of a diet consisting of only McDonald’s food has on the director’s health.

Trouble the Water is the redemptive story of a family surviving Hurricane Katrina and struggling to overcome hardships long after the storm passed. Tell the Truth and Run, narrated by Susan Sarandon, recounts the remarkable career of reporter and press critic George Seldes, who exposed Stalin’s brutality, predicted that fascism would lead to world war, and criticized the influence big business had on the American press. The 17-hours of footage also includes The Most Dangerous Man in America, a film that recounts Daniel Ellsberg’s drive to leak the secret history of the Vietnam War by releasing the Pentagon Papers.

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The voice across America, Carolyn Hopkins.

“Are you ready to meet your soulmate?” This film won “Funniest Filmmaker in Austin 2010” and screened at Austin Film Festival.

This is the children’s bank that helps young savers learn the value of money. Divided into three separate chambers, the bank automatically tracks how close a child is to reaching up to three different financial goals. (Alternatively, each canister can be assigned to three different children.) The digital monitor displays deposits, automatically tallying coin amounts, while bill amounts can be added manually. Each canister stays locked in place unless its secret code is entered on the LCD touch screen.

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This is the chess set that mounts to a wall, allowing games of indefinite length. Generating a sense of intrigue and anticipation–“did they move yet?”–it allows for weeks-long play without interruption. An included “last move” marker hung around a recently promoted pawn-turned-Queen signals to an opponent that without an equally crafty counter, the game will end soon.

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