Sarah Palin Documentary Arrives

Each week, Shrewsbury Patch features new books, movies and music available through the .

Here are a few of this week’s new items:

• Page One: Inside The New York Times, from Magnolia Pictures. "With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil."

• Sarah Palin: The Undefeated, from Victory Films. "An epic two-hour feature documentary film, The Undefeated chronicles the rise from obscurity of one of America s new generation of leaders: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska."

• Baaria, from Medusa Film. "From the director of Cinema Paradiso comes a stirring, unforgettable new epic of Italian life as you’ve never seen it before. The course of a lifetime reflects the evolution of a country as young Peppino takes work as a shepherd to support his family in the Sicilian town of Bagheria, nicknamed 'Baarìa' by its residents."

• Bad Teacher, from Columbia Pictures. "The proudly crass Bad Teacher certainly has great big gobs of greasy, grimy potential, chief among them its central performance by an exceedingly game Cameron Diaz, but it occasionally fails to nail the dismount."

• Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition), from Warner Bros. "Winner of the Academy Award for best picture of 1989, this gracefully moving drama, adapted from the hit play by Alfred Uhry, chronicles the 25-year friendship between a stubborn, aging Southern widow (Jessica Tandy) and her loyal chauffeur (Morgan Freeman)."

• Through the Eyes of the Vikings: An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands, by Robert Haas. "Continuing the aerial photography that gave such visual command to his previous National Geographic titles, Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa and Through the Eyes of the Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America, Haas now trains his lenses on the regions that transect the Arctic Circle."
  
  
• Being Alive and Having to Die: The Spiritual Odyssey of Forrest Church, by Dan Cryer. "Through his pulpit at the prestigious Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York, Reverend Forrest Church became a champion of liberal religion and a leading opponent of the religious right."

• I Didn't Ask to Be Born: (But I'm Glad I Was), by Bill Cosby. "In this hilarious new collection of observations, Cosby brings us more of his wonderful and wacky insights into the human condition that are sure to become classics."

• Beyond Tallulah: How Sam Wyly Became America's Boldest Big-Time Entrepreneur, by Dennis Hamilton. "Beyond Tallulah, the illustrated biography of Sam Wyly, the most versatile big-company entrepreneur in American history, tells one of the most compelling untold business stories of our time."

• When We Walked Above the Clouds: A Memoir of Vietnam, by H. Lee Barnes. "In When We Walked Above the Clouds, Barnes tells what it was like to be a Green Beret, first in the Dominican Republic during the civil war of 1965, and then at A-107, Tra Bong, Vietnam."

Information courtesy of Wowbrary.