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D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930), b&w, 97 min. PN1997 .A23 1996 [VHS] A biography of the 16th President of the United States. |
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(Columbia, 1981), color, 117 min. Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Paul Newman and Sally Field PN1997 .A25 1985 [VHS] An innocent man is the subject of a false news story leaked by a prosecutor. He, with the aid of the newspaper reporter who was duped into reporting the story, tries to prove his innocence. |
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(1997), color, 121 min. PN1997 .A26 1997 [VHS] A career thief witnesses a crime involving the killing of a woman, and the person responsible for it is the President of the United States. |
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(1988), color, 110 min. Director: Jonathan Kaplan Cast: Kelly McGillis and Jody Foster PN1997 .A3 1989 [VHS] Jodie Foster's Oscar winning performance as a victim of a gang rape in a local bar who goes after both her attackers and the crowd that cheered the assault. |
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(1949), b&w, 101 min. Director: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn PN1997 .A4 2000 [DVD] A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor. |
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(1993), color, 102 min. Director: Leslie Megahey Cast: Colin Firth, Ian Holm, and Amina Annabi PN1997 .A413 1993 [VHS] A young lawyer moves to a small town to pursue his career, only to find that beneath the seeming quiet of the village lies mystery and corruption. |
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(1951), color, 104 min. Director: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn PN1997 .A4135 [VHS] Two diametrically opposed people find themselves thrown together in the war-torn African jungle. |
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992), color, 120 min.Director: Delbert Mann Cast: Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, and Susan Blakely PN1997 .A414 1996 [VHS] Walter Matthau portrays a near defunct attorney who takes a desperate case. In this film, Matthau's character must gain the release of severely troubled patient of the corrupt state mental hospital of Maryland. |
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(1950), b&w, 138 min. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Bette Davis and Anne Baxter PN1997 .A4145 1999 [VHS] From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only a cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. |
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(1949), b&w, 109 min. Director: Robert Rossen Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, and Joanne Dru PN1997 .A415 1990 [VHS] A political demagogue governor of a Southern State believes that every man has his price and that the end justifies the means. |
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), b&w, 136 min.Director: Lewis Milestone Cast: Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres PN1997 .A4155 1995 [VHS] A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war. |
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(1976), color, 139 min. Director: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, and Jack Warden PN1997 .A416 1991 [VHS] Dramatization of the early days of the Watergate investigation, as two young reporters for the Washington Post begin to realize its implications while pursuing the story. |
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(1984), color, 160 min. Director: Milos Forman Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, and Elizabeth Berridge PN1997 .A417 1997 [VHS] The life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is viewed through the memories of an envious rival, Salieri. |
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(1973), color, 110 min. Director: George Lucas Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, and Paul Le Mat PN1997 .A4174 1991[VHS] Cars, cruising, rock and roll: the misadventures of a group of California teenagers one late summer night in 1962. |
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(1951), color, 113 min. Director: Vincente Milleni Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Lavont, and Nina Foch PN1997 .A4176 1997 [VHS] Kelly is struggling fine artist Jerry Mulligan, an ex-GI in post-WWII Paris. Caron is lonely French shopgirl Lise Bouvier, engaged to marry a successful entertainer unless Jerry can convince her otherwise. |
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(1995), color, 114 min. Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Michael Douglas, Annette Benning, Martin Sheen and Michael J. Fox PN1997 .A4177 2001 [DVD] Andrew Shepherd is a consummate politician and a man of integrity, who also happens to be a widower, ready to start dating again. He is swept off his feet by Sydney Ellen Wade. His critics rant that it is immoral and his friends proclaim that it's romantic, but one thing is certain, all that stands between true love and re-election is the approval of the American public. |
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(1997), color, 155 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Hawthorne and Djimon Hounsou PN1997 .A4178 1999 [DVD] Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt. |
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(1959), b&w, 161 min. Director: Otto Preminger Cast: James Steward, Lee Remick, and Ben Gazzara PN1997 .A418 1986 [VHS] A courtoom drama of premeditated murder as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his beautiful wife. |
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(1959), b&w, 160 min. Director: Otto Preminger Cast: James Steward, Lee Remick, and Ben Gazzara PN1997 .A418 2000 [DVD] A courtoom drama of premeditated murder as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his beautiful wife. |
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(1979), color, 120 min. Director: Norman Jewison Cast: Al Pacino and Jack Warden PN1997 .A42 1993 [VHS] A young lawyer battles not only one-on-one injustice in the courts, but the whole system as well. |
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(1979), color, 119 min. Director: Norman Jewison Cast: Al Pacino and Jack Warden PN1997 .A42 2001 [DVD] A young lawyer battles not only one-on-one injustice in the courts, but the whole system as well. |
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(1981), color, 75 min. Director: Jon Jost Cast: Robert Glaudini PN1997 .A46 1987 [DVD] A comic detective story that intermixes an examination of the nature of images and their truth with a critique of the Los Angeles-Hollywood scene. |
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(1999), color, 91 min. Director: John Stephenson Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus PN1997 .A48 1999 [VHS] This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm. |
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(1977), color, 99 min. Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen and Diane Keaton PN1997 .A55 1991 [VHS] A romantic and sensitive comedy revolving around the diverse and diverting relationships of two nervous New Yorkers, Alvy Singer and Annie Hall. |
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(1960), b&w, 125 min. PN1997 .A63 2001 [DVD] An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend. |
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(1979), color, 153 min. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall PN1997 .A76 1997 [VHS] Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the peculiar madness of the Vietnam War. |
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(1971), color, 82 min. Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban PN1997 .B345 2000 [DVD] Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country. |
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(2001), color, 135 min. Director: Ron Howard Cast: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly PN1997 .B42 2002 [DVD] Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize. |
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(1959), color, 222 min. Director: William Wyler Cast: Charlton Heston and Jack Hawkins PN1997 .B46 1996 [VHS] Ben-Hur, a Judean prince, is unjustly arrested and enslaved. Finally, in a breathtaking chariot race, he wreaks a shattering vengeance upon the Roman Tribune who destroyed his family. |
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(1946), b&w, 170 min. Director: William Wyler Cast: Myrna Loy, Frederic March, and Dana Andrews PN1997 .B477 1991 [VHS] Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. |
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(1915), color, b&w, 213 min. Director: D.W. Griffith Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, and Henry B. Walthall PN1997 .B57 2000 [VHS] This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history. |
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(1985), color, 391 min. Director: Ross Devenish Cast: Dianna Rigg, Denholm Elliot, and Philip Franks PN1997 .B58 1988 [VHS] Denholm Elliot and Diana Rigg star in Charles Dickens' biting social commentary on the justice system of 19th century England. The infamous Jarndyce case has been dragging through the courts for years, ruining lives and leaving entire families devastated. John Jarndyce (Elliot), a good-natured country gentleman, refuses to let it control his life. But one of his wards is not so fortunate. Like so many before him, the young man gets caught up in the labrynthine suit and the intrigue that surrounds it. A powerful tale of greed and social decay. |
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(2002), color, 111 min. Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, and Anjelica Huston PN1997 .B62 2002 [DVD] There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he now has. Now McCaleb has to use his wits to discover who is responsible for the murders. |
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(1981), color, 113 min. Director: Lawrence Kasdan Cast: William Hurt and Kathleen Turner PN1997 .B64 1986 [VHS] A likable, unambitious lawyer and his siren-like lover plot to kill her wealthy husband. |
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(1993), color, 99 min. Director: Uli Edel Cast: Madonna, Michael Forrest, and Joe Mantegna PN1997 .B65 1992 [VHS] A woman is accused of killing a man to inherit his millions by having sex with him. |
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(1990), color, 126 min. Director: Brian De Palma Cast: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith PN1997 .B66 1990 [VHS] A Wall Street wheeler-dealer has everything going his way. But one night, in the right car with the wrong woman, he took a wrong turn at the wrong place, and nothing has gone right ever since! |
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(1967), color, 114 min. Director: Arthur Penn Cast: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway PN1997 .B67 1996 [VHS] Adrift in the depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on a life of crime. |
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(2002), color, 119 min. Director: Michael Moore Cast: George Bush, Charlton Heston, and Dick Clark PN1997 .B672 2000 [DVD] The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. |
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(2001), color, b&w, 113 min. Director: Clark Johnson Cast: Jeffrey Wright and Terrence Howard PN1997 .B673 2002 [DVD] On December 1, 1955, one black woman refused to give up her seat in a "white's only" section of a public bus. The bus stops. Montgomery, Alabama stopped. In a time when resentment gave birth to rebellion and a gesture has the power to bring about change, Rosa Parks, by her single act, inspired the will to make history and helped make a leader out of Martin Luther King, Jr. This single act is considered the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. |
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(1978), color, 127 min. Director: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier PN1997 .B675 1992 [VHS] Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project, he wants to clone Hitler. |
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(1991), color, 112 min. Director: John Singleton Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Ice Cube PN1997 .B68 1992 [VHS] For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary -- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son. |
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(2000), color, 110 min. Director: Ken Loach Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, and Jack McGee PN1997 .B72 2001 [DVD] A group of immigrant workers take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them. |
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(1979), color, 107 min. Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, and John Waters PN1997 .B74 1988 [VHS] After the death of a British captain in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, Lt. Morant leads his unit in pursuit of the Boers. The execution of a captured Boer and other executions leads to Morant's trial and execution. |
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(1957), color, 162 min. Director: David Lean Cast: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, and Alec Guinness PN1997 .B747 1993 [VHS] When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it. |
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(1938), b&w, 122 min. Director: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Charles Ruggles PN1997 .B75 1996 [VHS] Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention. |
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(1991), color, 136 min. Director: Barry Levinson Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley PN1997 .B84 1998 [DVD] Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a ruthless mobster who had it all, and then met a woman who wanted more. Their love affair was passionate, tempestuous and ultimately tragic. |
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(1992), color, 200 min. Director: Mike Robe Cast: Hector Elizondo, Brian Dennehy, Stefanie Powers, Victoria Principal, and Adrienne Barbeau PN1997 .S36 1995 [VHS] Midwestern lawyer deals with his wife's suicide and the investigation of his brother-in-law, accused of manipulating the commodities market. |
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(1976), b&w, 100 min. Director: Haile Gerima Cast: Charles Brooks, Chris Clay, and Ben Collins PN1997 .B88 1993 [VHS] A powerful drama of a black woman living on welfare in the Los Angeles ghetto, trying to care for her daughter after being stranded alone by her man's imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit. |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), color, 111 min.Director: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross PN1997 .B886 1997 [VHS] Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels. |
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(1954), color, 125 min. Director: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, and Van Johnson PN1997 .C35 1998 [DVD] A combat-weary, paranoic Captain Queeg, loses his nerve during a typhoon and is relieved of command by his first officer. |
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(1934), b&w, 74 min. Director: Chester Erskine Cast: Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, and Henry Hull PN1997 .C36 1991 [VHS] A jury foreman is persecuted by the press, and even his family, after sending a convicted woman to the electric chair for a crime of passion. An intriguing psychological twist enters the picture when, at midnight--just as the woman he sentenced is going to die--his own daughter kills a man who betrayed her. |
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(1948), b&w, 111 min. Director: Henry Hathaway Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, and Lee J. Cobb PN1997 .C362 1994 [DVD] The powerful true story of a reporter who corrects a miscarriage of justice. |
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(1972), color, 114 min. Director: Michael Ritchie Cast: Robert Redford and Peter Boyle PN1997 .C365 1996 [VHS] While Richard Nixon is on his way to re-election by a landslide, a young, honest, idealistic lawyer begins to learn the truth about running for office. |
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(1962), b&w, 106 min. Director: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Lori Martin PN1997 .C37 1991 [VHS] An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail. |
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(1991), color, 128 min. Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert DeNiro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange PN1997 .C37 1992 [VHS] Fourteen years after being imprisoned, psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden. |
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(1971), color, 96 min. Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, and Ann-Margret PN1997 .C375 1985 [VHS] This trend-setting film examines the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age. |
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(1942), b&w, 103 min. Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman PN1997 .C38 1996 [VHS] In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. |
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(2003), color, 113 min. Director: Rob Marshall Cast: Taye Tiggs, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and Richard Gere PN1997 .C39 2003 [DVD] At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. |
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(1978), color, 123 min. Director: James Bridges Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas PN1997 .C4 1993 [VHS] A television news reporter and a cameraman uncover a startling incident while investigating a nuclear power plant. |
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(1997), color, 113 min. Director: James Foley Cast: Chris O'Donnel, Gene Hackman, and Faye Dunaway PN1997 .C45 1997 [VHS] Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions and dark secrets that ultimately lead him to the startling truth. |
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(1992), color, 112 min. Director: Frank Pierson Cast: James Woods, Jon Don Baker, and Joseph Bologna PN1997 .C48 1992 [VHS] Ruthless, destructive, power hungry and insatiable, attorney Roy Cohn could make or break the strongest men in America just for the thrill of the kill. |
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(1941), b&w, 119 min. Director: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, and Agnes Moorehead PN1997 .C51173 1996 [VHS] Orson Welles' controversial film, hailed as best American film ever made, is a portrait of Charles Foster Kane, revealing America's love of power and materialism and the resultant corruption. |
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(1996), color, 114 min. Director: Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon Cast: William Alland, Thomas Anderson, and Richard Ben Cramer PN1997 .C51173 B3 1996 [VHS] William Randolph Hearst, the powerful newspaper magnate, was portrayed in Citizen Kane, an Orson Welles film. Hearst's reaction upon learning about the film was to work to supress it and destroy Welles. Major movie theater chains refused to show Citizen Kane, and Welles' masterpiece virtually disappeared for almost 25 years. Never again would Orson Welles gain control of a major Hollywood production. |
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City Lights a Comedy Romance in Pantomime (1931), b&w, 87 min.Director: Charles Chaplin Cast: Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, and Charles Chaplin PN1997 .C5118 1992 [VHS] A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. |
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(1999), color, 115 min. Director: Steven Zaillian Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, John Lithgow, Tony Shalhoub, and William H. Macy PN1997 .C5119 1999b [DVD] A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic legal battle ... one that may cost him his career, reputation and all that he owns. |
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(1974), color, 81 min. Director: John Rich Cast: Henry Fonda PN1997 .C52 1988 [DVD] Henry Fonda's masterful picture of Darrow, using the man's own words, portrays Darrow as twentieth century America's foremost trial lawyer. |
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(1991), color, 110 min. Director: Michael Apted Cast: Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio PN1997 .C55 1991 [VHS] Two lawyers, father and daughter, face off against each other in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The case concerns a potentially defective auto design that could involve corporate corruption and violations of legal ethics. |
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(2003), color, 244 min.
Cast: Jodie Foster and John Lithgow; Cloris Leachman and Nick Nolte; Hedy Lamarr, John Loder,and Dennis O'Keefe PN1997 .C555 2003 [DVD] Contains: Mesmerized -- Death Sentence -- Dishonored Lady |
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(1994), color, 121 min. Director: Joel Schumacher Cast: Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones PN1997 .C56 1994 [VHS] Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him...but never imagines she'll also risk her life. |
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(1991), color, 136 min. Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Malcolm McDowell and Patrick Magee PN1997 .C57 1991 [VHS] Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents, and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime. |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), color, 152 min.Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, and Teri Garr PN1997 .C58 1998 [VHS] Humans make contact with aliens after witnessing the arrival of flying saucers from another world. |
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(1985), color, 154 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey PN1997 .C62 1997 [DVD] An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive. |
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(1988), color, 127 min. Director: Dennis Hopper Cast: Sean Penn and Robert Duvall PN1997 .C63 2001 [DVD] Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A. |
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(1959), b&w, 105 min. Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Orson Welles, and Diane Varsi PN1997 .C64 1995 [VHS] A riveting true story about the notorious 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case. Brilliant attorney Clarence Darrow defended two wealthy Chicago teenagers who throught their superior intellect would enable them to execute the perfect crime. Darrow's history-making and controversial defense against capital punishment saved the boys from a death sentence. |
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Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987), color, 118 min.Director: Jeremy Kagan Cast: Brian Benben and Peter Boyle PN1997 .C65 1987 [VHS] During the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, human rights demonstrations erupt in full scale violence attracting national attention. One year later eight men are held responsible and stand trial for conspiracy and intent to riot. |
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(1979), color, 145 min. Director: Wilford Leach Cast: Gloria Footer and Morgan Freeman PN1997 .C67 1980 [VHS] Dramatization of the last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character. |
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), color, 100 min.Director: Otto Preminger Cast: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, and Ralph Bellamy PN1997 .C68 1989 [VHS] Brigadier General Billy Mitchell has devoted his life to the military, and his career to developing a superior air defense force for the United States. When top army brass fail to recognize the importance of air power following its crucial role in winning WWI, Mitchell initiates a campaign to change their minds--a campaign that will ultimately lead to his demotion and the most controversial military trial in U.S. history. |
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990), color, 94 min.Director: Larry Peerce Cast: Andre Braugher, Daniel Stern, and Ruby Dee PN1997 .C685 1990 [VHS] A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation. |
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(1933), color, 81 min. Director: William Wyler Cast: John Barrymore, and Bebe Daniels PN1997 .C6976 2002 [DVD] High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion and begins disbarment proceedings, causing Simon's socialite wife to seek comfort in the arms of another man. With the unflagging support of his faithful secretary, Simon attempts to exercise his legalistic wizardry to defend his reputation and protect those who rely upon him for justice. |
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(1935), b&w, 88 min. Director: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, and Marian Marsh PN1997 .C74 1993 [VHS] Believing he can commit the perfect crime, a man robs and murders an elderly pawnbroker. He soon finds himself engaged in a battle of wits with a policeman determined to wring a confession out of him. |
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(1957), b&w, 108 min. Director: Raymond Rouleau Cast: Simone Signoret and Yves Montand PN1997 .C77 1995 [VHS] Set in Salem, Mass. of early seventeenth century. Dramatizes actual events of a witch hunt in a Protestant settlement. |
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(1996), color, 123 min. Director: Nicholas Hytner Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Paul Scofield PN1997 .C771 1998 [VHS] A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When their ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls suddenly find themselves accused of witchcraft and as the hysteria in the village grows, blameless victims are torn from their homes, leading to a devastating climax. |
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(1987), color, 139 min. Director: Richard Attenborough Cast: Josette Simon, Denzel Washington, and Kevin Kline PN1997 .C777 1999 [DVD] Story of Black activist Stephen Biko (Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods (Kline) who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world. |
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(1989), color, 122 min. Director: Fred Schepisi Cast: Meryl Streep, and Sam Neill PN1997 .C78 1989 [VHS] Double Academy Award winner Meryl Streep captured her third new York Film Critics Award and her eighth Oscar nomination in 11 years of moviemaking for her portrayal of Lindy, who lives the nightmare of seeing a wild dog carry off her infant, then endures a travesty of a trial by the courts and media. |
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(1983), color, 129 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Linsay Crouse, and Edward Asner PN1997 .D36 1984 [VHS] Daniel depicts the famous trial and story of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson. Their son Daniel can't escape his past, a past that torments him and his sister with shattering memories of their parents' execution for espionage. Daniel embarks on a painful journey through three historical decades of dissidence and demoralizing struggles with the help of his wife, lawyer and adoptive parents. |
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(2002), color, 118 min. Director: Ron Shelton Cast: Kurt Russell and Scott Speedman PN1997 .D37 2003 [DVD] A veteran LAPD detective trains a rookie cop in the realities of police intimidation and corruption in the days leading up to the Rodney King beating trial verdict and the L.A. riots that followed. |
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(1974), color, 140 min. Director: John Schlesinger Cast: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, and Burgess Meredith PN1997 .D3886 1992 [VHS] A portrayal of Hollywood decadence in the 1930's. |
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(1943), b&w, 110 min. Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Cast: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, and Sigrid Neiiendam PN1997 .D39 1988 [VHS] The setting for this psychological study is based on existing records of witchcraft trials in Denmark during 1623. In a seventeenth century village an old woman is burned as a witch and curses the pastor who judged her. The pastor dies and his young wife, who is in love with his son, is accused of causing his death, also with witchcraft. The story shows how the young woman and the community are caught in a web of fear and superstition. |
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(1996), color, 122 min. Director: Tim Robbins Cast: Susan Sarandona and Sean Penn PN1997 .D43 1996 [VHS] Based on the bestselling book, this film tells of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor. "The journey they will undertake in search of the truth, is as powerful and profound as you are ever likely to witness on screen". |
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(1978), color, 183 min. Director: Michael Cimino Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, and Meryl Streep PN1997 .D44 1997 [VHS] Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. |
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(1941), b&w, 85 min. Director: William Dieterle Cast: Edward Arnold and Walter Huston PN1997 .D48 1987 [VHS] A young farmer in 19th century New Hampshire signs a 7-year contract with the devil in exchange for gold, and reneges when it comes time for payment. He then hires lawyer Daniel Webster who fights to save the farmer's soul before a jury of the damned. |
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(1971), color, 103 min. Director: Russel, Ken Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, and Dudley Sutton PN1997 .D485 1998 [VHS] Ken Russell's The Devils,' based on the play by John Whiting and Aldous Huxley's novel The Devils of Loudun,' centers on the staggering true-life dementia of events in 1634 France. |
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(1997), color, 144 min. Director: Taylor Hackford Cast: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron PN1997 .D487 1998 [DVD] Hotshot attorney Kevin Lomax's 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job Lomax accepts isn't what it seems. The Devil is in the details. |
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(1994), color, 129 min. Director: Berry Levinson Cast: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, and Donald Sutherland PN1997 .D58 1995 [VHS] When an executive in a large company resists the advances of his new boss who is also a former love, she charges him with sexual harassment. Suddenly his marriage and his career are at risk, and his struggle to extricate himself leads to the exposure of an executive conspiracy. |
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(1989), color, 120 min. Director: Spike Lee Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Richard Edson PN1997 .D6 1990 [VHS] This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford- Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24- hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever. |
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(1965), color, b&w, 269 min. Director: David Lean Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rod Steiger PN1997 .D63 1995 [VHS] A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget. |
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(1944), b&w, 107 min. Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck PN1997 .D68 1998 [VHS] An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death-- then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime. |
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(1999), color, 105 min. Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd PN1997 .D683 2000 [DVD] Libby Parsons discovers that the husband she was convicted of murdering staged his own death and framed her for the crime. |
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Dr. Stangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963), b&w, 93 min.Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Peter Sellers George C. Scott, and Sterling Hayden PN1997 .D7 1987 [VHS] A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States. |
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(1933), b&w, 68 min. Director: Leo McCarey Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Chico Marx PN1997 .D83 1995 [VHS] As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to shambles. Harpo and Chico are secret agents disguised as peanut vendors and Zeppo is Firefly's secretary. |
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(1982), color, 115 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace-Stone, and Drew Barrymore PN1997 .E22 1996 [VHS] A 10-year old boy befriends a creature from another planet that has been stranded on earth. Nominated for 9 Academy Awards, including best picture; won Oscars for best score, sound, and special effects. Includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with members of the cast and production teams. |
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(1969), color, 94 min. Director: Dennis Hopper Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Antonio Mendoza PN1997 .E38 1998 [VHS] Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America. |
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(1988), color, 105 min. Director: John Sayles Cast: Jace Alexander, John Cusack, Gordon Clapp, Don Harvey, and D.B. Sweeney PN1997 .E55 2001 [DVD] Based on the real-life scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them . |
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Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982), color, 96 min.Director: John Erman Cast: Jean Stapleton PN1997 .E66 1992 [VHS] Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death. |
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(1998), color, 132 min. Director: Tony Scott Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, and Jon Voight PN1997 .E74 1999 [DVD] Robert Clayton Dean is a successful Washington D.C. attorney who-- without his knowledge-- is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency to a political murder! Instantly, every aspect of Dean's once-normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives, who wage a relentless, ultrahigh-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence! |
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(1999), color, 132 min. Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, and Albert Finney PN1997 .E77 2000 [VHS] An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. |
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(1966), color, 112 min. Director: Francois Trufautt Cast: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack PN1997 .F26 1992 [VHS] Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. |
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(1996), color, 98 min. Director: Joel Coen Cast: William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, and Peter Stormare PN1997 .F37 1996 [VHS] A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong. |
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(1992), color, 138 min. Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Bacon, and Demi Moore PN1997 .F48 2001 [VHS] Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior. |
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(1998), color, 96 min. Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Cast: Annette O'Toole, Michael McKean and Brian Wimmer PN1997 .F56 1998 [DVD] A corrupt lawyer is challenged by the sister of a murder victim after the lawyer assists in the release of the killer. |
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(1993), color, 154 min. Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, and Hal Holbrook PN1997 .F57 2000 [DVD] A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm. |
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(Paramount 1981), color, 99 min. Director: Ronald Neame Cast: Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh The first woman is appointed to the Supreme Court and (in a bit of uncanny prediction) she is a conservative from California. She battles with the cranky, old liberal Justice played by Matthau. |
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For Us, the Living the Story of Medgar Evers (1995), color, 88 min.Director: Michael Schultz Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne PN1997 .F665 1995 [VHS] The true story of one man's courageous fight for his people's dignity. Medgar Evers was one of the first African-American leaders to achieve worldwide recognition for his work. He was a true hero willing to pay the ultimate price for freedom. |
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(1948), b&w, 80 min. Director: Abraham Polonsky Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, and Marie Windsor PN1997 .F67 1995 [VHS] A racketeer's lawyer finds that his boss has found a way to bankrupt New York's numbers banks but gets wedged between the numbers racket and a new prosecutor's anti-crime campaign. |
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(1994), color, 142 min. Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn and Sally Field PN1997 .F68 1996 [VHS] Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love. |
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(1949), b&w, 114 min. Director: King Vidor Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, and Ken Smith PN1997 .F695 1990 [VHS] An idealistic architect clashes with big business over his designs for a housing project. |
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(1931), b&w, 71 min. Director: James Whale Cast: Colin Clive, and Mae Clark PN1997 .F73 1991 [VHS] An adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about the scientist who creates a terrifying monster. |
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(1971), color, 102 min. Director: William Friedkin Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, and Roy Scheider PN1997 .F74 1992 [VHS] Two New York City narcotics detectives want to break up a narcotics smuggling ring and capture all the smugglers. |
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(1953), b&w, 118 min. Director: Fren Zinnemann Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Donna Reed PN1997 .F75 1989 [VHS] Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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(1987), color, 111 min. Director: Bob Clark Cast: Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, and John Hurt PN1997 .F755 2001 [DVD] Robin "Stormy" Weathers is a brash young lawyer with a reputation for breaking the rules and some wild ways of practicing criminal defense. But when Stormy takes on the case of a brilliant professor accused of a brutal murder, he finds himself questioning his client's innocence as well as his own abilities as an attorney. |
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(1976), color, 94 min. Director: Martin Ritt Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mastel, and Michael Murphy PN1997 .F76 1995 [VHS] A searing indictment of the McCarthy era blacklisting and Communist witchhunts of the 1950's. Woody Allen plays a hapless ghost writer fated to become a symbolic hero. |
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(1936), b&w, 89 min. Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Sylvia Sydney, Spencer Tracy, and Walter Abel PN1997 .F87 1990 [VHS] An ethical young man is forced to confront his own morality after he becomes a victim of vigilantism. |
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(1997), color, 121 min. Director: Spike Lee Cast: Richard Belzer, De'aundre Bonds and Andre Braugher PN1997 .G38 1997 [VHS] Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the march in Washington, D.C. On the way they will make friends, make enemies, and make history. |
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(1994), color, 93 min. Director: Roger Young Cast: Lorraine Bracco, Anthony John Denison, and Ellen Burstyn PN1997 .G39 2005 [DVD] They grew up in the same New York neighborhood. Now she is an assistant U.S. attorney going after the Godfather. Based on true events. |
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(1996), color, 131 min. Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, and Whoopi Goldberg PN1997 .G447 1997 [VHS] The film features the final trial of the assassin of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. |
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(1956), color, b&w, 262 min. Director: George Stevens Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean PN1997 .G53 1996 [VHS] Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons. |
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(1980), color, 105 min. Director: Robert E. Collins Cast: Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, and Fay Wray PN1997 .G54 1985 [DVD] Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate drifter, is arrested for breaking into a pool room and for petty theft. When he asks the court to appoint a lawyer for his defense because he cannot afford one, his request is denied. Acting as his own lawyer, Gideon is convicted and sent to jail. While in prison, he begins a hand-written campaign directed to the U.S. Supreme Court, contending that every defendant is entitled to legal representation. The Court agrees to hear Gideon's case, and, in a landmark decision, rules in his favor. |
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(1998), color, 115 min. Director: Robert Altman Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, and Robert Downey, Jr. PN1997 .G56 1998 [DVD] Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon in court. Dixon is sent to an asylum, but escapes from there and the lives of many people are in danger. |
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(1972), color, 171 min. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall PN1997 .G64 1997 [VHS] Paints a chilling portrait of the Corleone family's rise and near fall from power, and the passage of rites from father to son. |
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Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Part II (1974), color, 200 min.Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert DeNiro PN1997 .G642 1997 [VHS] Two stories are told in this sequel to The godfather: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito and the ascension of Michael as the new Don. |
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(1925), b&w, 82 min. Director: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, and Tom Murray PN1997 .G65 1997 [VHS] Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in and avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal! Chaplin manages to keep himself from becomming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance girl. Classic scenes included in this film are the cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff and Chaplin attempting to eat his shoe. |
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(1939), color, 235 min. Director: Victor Fleming Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Leslie Howard PN1997 .G655 1998 [VHS] American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. |
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(1991), color, 146 min. Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci PN1997 .G66 1991 [VHS] The story of Irish-Italian American, Henry Hill, and how he lives day-to-day life as a member of the Mafia. Based on a true story, the plot revolves around Henry and his two unstable friends Jimmy and Tommy as they gradually climb the ladder from petty crime to violent murders. |
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(1988), color, 104 min. Director: Leonard Nimoy Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, and Jason Robards PN1997 .G67 2002 [DVD] Anna Dunlap, a recent divorcee and mother of a young daughter, falls in love with artist Leo Cutter, and it seems that Anna's life couldn't be more perfect. But shocking charges against Anna place her newfound lifestyle under scrutiny, shattering her relationship with Leo and forcing her to prove that she's a good mother. |
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(1967), color, 106 min. Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels PN1997 .G723 1998 [VHS] A recent college graduate spends his summer being seduced by the wife of his father's best friend, Mrs. Robinson. |
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(1940), b&w, 128 min. Director: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and John Carradine PN1997 .G73 1996 [DVD] A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. |
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(1967), color, 108 min. Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn PN1997 .G84 1987 [VHS] When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. |
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(1993), color, 107 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Rebecca De Mornay and Don Johnson PN1997 .G848 1993 [VHS] An attractive lawyer, captured by her client's irresistible charm, finds herself caught in his seductive psychological web of deceit from which there is no legal escape--and soon fears she may be his next victim. |
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(1990), color, 105 min. Director: Irwin Winkler Cast: Robert De Niro and Annette Bening PN1997 .G85 1991 [VHS] Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director- all he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists. |
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(1976), color, 103 min. Director: Barbara Kopple Cast: Documentary PN1997 .H35 1987 [VHS] Documents the 1973 Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America. |
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(2002), color, 125 min. Director: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, and Terrence Howard PN1997 .H37 2002 [DVD] Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court. |
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(1957), b&w, 82 min. Director: Nathan Juran Cast: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, and Arthur Franz PN1997 .H46 2003 [DVD] Based on a true incident, World War II submarine Commander Casey Abbott leads a daring mission to enter the heavily mined Tsushima Straits to sever a vital link between the Asiatic mainland and the Japanese home islands. |
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(2002), color, 115 min. Director: Carl Franklin Cast: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, and James Caviezel PN1997 .H52 2002 [DVD] High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died. |
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(1952), b&w, 85 min. Director: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, and Lloyd Bridges PN1997 .H54 1997 [VHS] A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence. |
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(2004), color, 122 min. Director: Terry George Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, and Nick Nolte PN1997 .H66 2005 [DVD] A true story of Paul Rusesabagnia, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. In a matter of 3 months, 1 million people were murdered during the Rwandan Genocide. In the face of this unspeakable tragedy, one man saves the lives of over 1 thousand by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages. |
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(2002), color, 114 min. Director: Stephen Daldry Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep < |