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21) Adam resurrected
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
22) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A film about the Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a doctor/poet. Doctor Zhivago sees his life torn apart by the Revolution and the alterations also affect the lives of many around him, including the gentle woman he marries and the fascinating other woman he cannot forget.
25) In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting, docu-drama about two ex-convicts who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Follow Clint Eastwood as he guides you through the history of one of the greatest motion picture studios. From it's early days where it's major star was four-legged through the Depression and war until it emerges as a 21st century giant.
27) Ragtime
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
From the E.L. Doctorow novel of 1906 America, a compelling story of human emotions and a reflection of the innocence, excitement and drama of an important time in America's history.
28) Shining through
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
During World War II a secretary from Queens convinces her boss, a Colonel in American intelligence, to let her go undercover behind enemy lines in Germany.
Publisher
Platinum
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Legendary map maker Big Eli McDonough seeks his son who has been kidnapped by the ruthless, one-eyed river pilot Hatchett and sold to the Indians in this wilderness epic which takes place in America's Northwest Territories in the year 1851.
30) Gladiator
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Roman general is reduced to slavery as a gladiator when he suspects the new emperor of killing the beloved old emperor to gain power prematurely.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Examines the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti through archival film, music, poetry and excerpts from the 1971 feature film. Also includes interviews with historians, artists and activists as well as readings from the prison diaries of the two defendants.
33) Sophie's choice
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.
34) Wild river
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Montgomery Clift stars as a Tennessee Valley Authority administrator who must deal with the racial politics of hiring African American workers. He also must evict an old woman (Jo Van Fleet) from her home, but then he falls in love with her granddaughter (Lee Remick).
36) The libertine
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
John Wilmot, a 17th century poet, is the Earl of Rochester and from the beginning he treats his wife cruelly, drinks to relentless excess, abuses his friendships, and generally wallows in dissipation, much to the dismay of King Charles II. The king hopes that Rochester will write a play glorifying his reign. But Rochester finds his true inspiration when he sees a young actress named Lizzie Barry. Rochester sets out to make her the greatest actress...
Language
English
Formats
Description
After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
An authentic depiction of the tragedy of the sinking of the cruise ship, Titanic, in which 1500 people died.
40) The bear
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Set in the majestic mountains of British Columbia in 1885, The bear centers on a precocious bear cub and an old grizzled Grizzly as they struggle to endure the harsh wilderness and survive their deadliest foe--man.
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