 | Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast) by Stephen Schwartz
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.92 The untold story of the not-so Wicked Witch and what really happened in Oz. Corruption, courage, friendship: a triumphant, complex, darkly comical, satirical, beautifully stunning Broadway production.
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 | Jesus Christ Superstar (Original London Concept Recording) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Buy new: $17.97 / Used from: $12.49 Haunting, satirical, human, inspiring, with some of the best music ever. A jaded yet human Judas' POV, with a complex look at events surrounding Christ's Death. One of the greats.
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 | The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Buy new: $28.94 / Used from: $20.99 Looking at America's most cotroversial and tragic chapter from both sides of the equation. Beautifully, captivatingly written. Especially "Angels".
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 | Amadeus
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.32 A masterpiece of a film. Toys with your mind, asking you to look at things differently. And oh so much fun!
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 | The Lion in Winter
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.81 A crazy, dramatic, outrageously well acted and thoroughly enjoyable and intelligent film. It's all over the place and no one is innocent. You'll never see history the same way again.
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 | One Man's Hero
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.34 An unknown, tragic story of a forgotten part of US history. A simply told and beautifully done film; try to keep from crying. Traitors or martyrs? "One man's hero is another man's traitor"
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 One of the greatest American novels; masterfully rendered, with soaring, resounding themes and characters; and an observation on how "you can never really know a man until you stand in his shoes."
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 | West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $8.23 Bernstein's resonatingly gorgeous, complex musical shows us the human and animal sides of two misunderstood and neglected groups of society, and the greatest tragic love story ever (Romeo & Juliet).
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 | Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Buy used from: $1.39 Although the "can a robot feel?" idea is a bit weird and hard to grasp, the theme is there and well told, and makes you think. The masterful Scott spins us a darkly wonderful fable in sci-fi-noir.
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 | Addams Family 1-6 (6pc)
Misunderstood, feared, creepy, kooky, spooky, ooky, but they're the nicest folks you'll ever meet, despite their strange ways. But who knows, you might see yourself in them!
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Usually considered the "bad guys", Remarque's haunting masterpiece is probably the finest book about war, and shows that those "enemies" were all just men trying to survive the horrors of war.
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 | Paths of Glory
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.98 We see usually one dimensional characters blown up into tragic desparate, complex people, in Kubrick's tragedy about the individuals forgotten in war.
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| Guests of the Nation by Frank O'Connor
Buy used from: $2.15 Like Paths of Glory, Frank O'Connor's haunting war short story shows what happens when we know the human side and truth of a situation, yet still refuse to see it.
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 | Wicked Spring
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.44 Six men lost in a bloody, dirty, bitter battle; two groups of enemies. A tragic story that transcends sides and shows us the redemptive power of basic charity, compassion, and true humanity in war.
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 | Pharaoh's Army
Buy used from: $1.71 Yet another war film, but war illustrates the point. Union foragers and a Confed. rural woman face off in a gritty, ambiguous, hopeless war of people just trying to survive and cling to their humanity
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