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In Grass, Mann chronicles America's rocky relationship with marijuana and the perilous road this little weed has travelled in the land of “stars and stripes”. Grass is narrated by pro-hemp campaigner, the actor Woody Harrelson (The People Vs Larry Flynt, Natural Born Killers), who himself went to jail when protesting his right to plant industrial hemp on his farming property in Texas. Thrown into its mix is a pure blend of hilarious archival footage, disturbing information and a healthy pinch of government double standard. But as always Mann's skill with alternative arguments, facts and figures, allow it to transcend the fate of mere “agit-prop”. Just say yes to Grass.

A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. “We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians; we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, 'This is what democracy looks like'”.

A compilation of three feature-length anarchist documentaries: Pickaxe (an eclectic mix of activists take a stand to protect an old growth forest from logging at the Willamette National Forest of Oregon), Breaking the Spell (an hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation), and The Miami Model (Indymedia activists shot hundreds of hours documenting the 2003 FTAA protests in Miami and shaped it into a documentary that cuts through the mass media blackout to reveal the brutal repression and assault on civil liberties that took place), and five short films: Safetybike, How to turn a bicycle into a record player, Auto re-vision, Join the resistance: fall in love and Why I love shoplifting from big corporations.

Guerrilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst is a gripping, unparalleled account of the most sensational kidnapping in American history. On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (the granddaughter of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst) was boldly snatched from her apartment by a flamboyant terrorist group called The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Determined to foment a violent political uprising among America's working class, the SLA extorted the Hearst family into donating millions of dollars in food to the poor, but events soon took a scandalously strange turn.

Documents from the dark side of the empire. Government and corporate promotional material from military. A strange document that seems to have slipped through military control.

Sri Ramana Maharshi communicated his teachings more by silence than words. This silence stilled turbulent minds and penetrated the hearts of sincere souls. Though thousands flocked to Sri Ramana Maharshi from the world over, few moved with him more intimately. They received his grace, absorbed his effulgence and spent a lifetime experiencing His Living Presence.