Dalton Trumbo
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English
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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives ... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome ... but so is war. --Publisher.
2) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Language
English
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Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
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English
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"A portrayal of a modern-day princess rebelling against her royal obligations who explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love"--Container.
4) Papillon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Thrilling adventure of imprisonment and escape(s) from a French Guiana prison.
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English
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"For the first time ever on Blu-ray, remastered from a 4K film transfer, Roman Holiday features a legendary, Oscar-winning performance from Audrey Hepburn (in her first starring role). Nominated for a total of 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it's the story of a modern-day princess who, rebelling against the royal obligations, explores Rome on her own. She soon meets an American newspaperman (Gregory Peck) who pretends ignorance of her true...
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Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The year was 1944. Overseas, the war raged. Back home, a war-torn population suffered the loss of loved ones. Along came A Guy Named Joe, a fanciful, heart-warming tale based on the legend that pilots never die but return to guide fledgling airmen, and the public welcomed it with open arms.
7) Hawaii
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
They came to bring God, but instead they brought disease and destruction. The Rev. Hale (Max von Sydow) and his wife (Julie Andrews) attempt to convert early 19th-century Hawaiian natives to Christianity but find themselves ill-equipped to endure the unexpected tribulations of paradise. Surging with the excitement of windstorms, firestorms, shark attacks and magnificent island scenery, HAWAII shines as passionately as the island paradise itself!
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed. He is a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see. He is left to wander within his own mind and goes between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone. Delve into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she will continue to practice medicine. Will the very jealous Peter be able to reconcile himself to his wife seeing male patients? Newly remastered.
10) Exodus
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Takes place among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma and explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk.
12) Executive action
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
14) Five came back
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Publisher
RKO Radio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nine passengers from all walks of life and a crew of three take off from Los Angeles, bound for Panama City, but a sudden storm blows them off course and causes the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle.
16) Papillon
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Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly). A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in 'Guiane' (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to...
17) Spartacus
Language
English
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Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.
18) The prowler
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A nefarious cop stalks a lonely, repressed Los Angeles housewife and decides to win her by killing her husband.
19) The sandpiper
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.