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Video/DVD Feature Film Collection

The following Video/DVD's are kept in the 1st Floor/Reserve area of the Library, in a cabinet behind the Circulation Desk. To check out any of the titles please ask the Public Service staff for assistance.

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	D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930), b&w, 97 min. Director: D.W. Griffith Cast: Walter Huston and Una Merkel PN1997 .A23 1996 [VHS] A biography of the 16th President of the United States.
	Absence of Malice (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.
	Absolute Power (1997), color, 121 min. Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Ed Harris 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.
	The Accused (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.
	Adam's Rib (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.
	The Advocate (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.
	The African Queen (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.
	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.
	All About Eve (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.
	All the King's Men (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.
	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.
	All the President's Men (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.
	Amadeus (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.
	American Graffiti (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.
	An American in Paris (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.
	The American President (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.
	Amistad (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.
	Anatomy of a Murder (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.
	Anatomy of a Murder (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.
	And Justice for All (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.
	...And Justice for All (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.
	Angel City (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.
	Animal Farm (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.
	Annie Hall (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.
	The Apartment (1960), b&w, 125 min. Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmonand Shirley MacLaine 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.
	Apocalypse Now (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.
	The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2005), color, 95 min. Director: Niels Mueller Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Don Cheadle PN1997 .A78 2005 [DVD] Based on real-life events. Set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who takes extreme measures to achieve his American dream.
	Bananas (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.
	A Beautiful Mind (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.
	Ben-Hur a Tale of the Christ (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.
	The Best Years of Our Lives (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.
	The Birth of a Nation (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.
	Bleak House (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.
	Blood Work (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.
	Body Heat (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.
	Body of Evidence (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.
	The Bonfire of the Vanities (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!
	Bonnie and Clyde (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.
	Bowling for Columbine (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.
	Boycott (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.
	The Boys from Brazil (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.
	Boyz 'n the Hood (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.
	Bread & Roses (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.
	Breaker Morant (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.
	The Bridge on the River Kwai (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.
	Bringing up Baby (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.
	Bugsy (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.
	Burden of Proof (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.
	Bush Mama (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.
	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.
	The Caine Mutiny (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.
	Call it Murder (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.
	Call Northside 777 (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.
	The Candidate (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.
	Cape Fear (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.
	Cape Fear (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.
	Carnal Knowledge (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.
	Casablanca (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.
	Chicago (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.
	The China Syndrome (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.
	The Chamber (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.
	Citizen Cohn (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.
	Citizen Kane (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.
	The Battle Over Citizen Kane (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.
	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.
	A Civil Action (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.
	Clarence Darrow (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.
	Class Action (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.
	Classic Courtroom Movies (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
	The Client (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.
	A Clockwork Orange (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.
	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.
	The Color Purple (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.
	Colors (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.
	Compulsion (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.
	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.
	Coriolanus (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.
	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.
	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.
	Counsellor at Law (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.
	Crime and Punishment (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.
	The Crucible (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.
	The Crucible (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.
	Cry Freedom (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.
	A Cry in the Dark (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.
	Daniel (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.
	Dark Blue (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.
	The Day of the Locust (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.
	Day of Wrath (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.
	Dead Man Walking (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".
	The Deer Hunter (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.
	The Devil and Daniel Webster (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.
	The Devils (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.
	Devil's Advocate (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.
	Disclosure (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.
	Do the Right Thing (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.
	Doctor Zhivago (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.
	Double Indemnity (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.
	Double Jeopardy (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.
	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.
	A Dry White Season (1989), color, 107 min. Director: Euzhan Palcy Cast: Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, and Marlon Brando PN1997 .D79 2005 [DVD] Teacher Ben du Toit sees himself as a caring and just person. When his gardener's son is beaten up by police at a demonstration by black children, he sees that society is built on a foundation of prejudice.
	Duck Soup (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.
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (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.
	Easy Rider (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.
	Eight Men Out (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 .
	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.
	Enemy of the State (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!
	Erin Brockovich (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.
	Fahrenheit 451 (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.
	Fargo (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.
	A Few Good Men (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.
	Final Justice (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.
	The Firm (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.
	First Monday in October (Paramount 1981), color, 99 min. Director: Ronald Neame Cast: Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh PN1997 .F58 1981 [VHS] 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.
	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.
	Force of Evil (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.
	Forrest Gump (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.
	The Fountainhead (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.
	Frankenstein (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.
	The French Connection (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.
	From Here to Eternity (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.
	From the Hip (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.
	The Front (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.
	Fury (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.
	Get on the Bus (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.
	Getting Gotti (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.
	Ghosts of Mississippi (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.
	Giant (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.
	Gideon's Trumpet (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.
	The Gingerbread Man (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.
	The Godfather (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.
	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.
	The Gold Rush (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.
	Gone with the Wind (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.
	GoodFellas (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.
	The Good Mother (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.
	The Graduate (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.
	The Grapes of Wrath (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.
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (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.
	Guilty As Sin (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.
	Guilty By Suspicion (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.
	Harlan County U.S.A. (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.
	Hart's War (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.
	Heavens Fall (2007), color, 105 min. Director: Terry Green Cast: Timothy Hutton, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Bill Sage, and Azura Skye PN1997 .H43 2007 [DVD] A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
	Hellcats of the Navy (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.
	High Crimes (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.
	High Noon (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.
	Hotel Rwanda (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.
	The Hours (2002), color, 114 min. Director: Stephen Daldry Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep PN1997 .H68 2003 [DVD] In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it.
	I am Sam (2002), color, 134 min. Director: Jessie Nelson Cast: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Dakota Fanning PN1997 .I108 2002 [DVD] Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam's limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
	Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess" (1953), b&w, 95 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, and Karl Malden PN1997 .I13 2004 [VHS] A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself.
	I Want to Live! (1958), color, 95 min. Director: Robert Wise Cast: Susan Hayward and Simon Oakland PN1997 .I18 1987 [VHS] Based on the true story of Barbara Graham, a fast-living party girl, who suddenly finds herself accused of a murder she did not commit and sentenced to the gas chamber. Only a psychologist and a reporter can help her in the desperate struggle to prevent the final judgment.
	The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), color, 95 min. Director: Anthony Asquith Cast: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Edith Evans, and Joan Greenwood PN1997 .I37 2000 [VHS] A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
	In a Lonely Place (1950), b&w, 94 min. Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, and Frank Lovejoy PN1997 .I43 1989 [VHS] A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love.
	In Cold Blood (1967), b&w, 134 min. Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, John Forsythe, and Scott Wilson PN1997 .I45 1987 [VHS] Based on the true story of a prosperous and respected Kansas farmer who, along with his wife and children, is murdered.
	In the Name of the Father (1993), color, 133 min. Director: Jim Sheridan Cast: Alison Crosbie, Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson PN1997 .I458 1994 [VHS] Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, the young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
	Indictment the McMartin Trial (1995), color, 131 min. Director: Mick Jackson Cast: James Woods, Lolita Davidovich, and Mercedes Ruehl PN1997 .I46 1995 [VHS] The story of the highly publicized and long-running McMartin child abuse trial.
	Inherit the Wind (1960), b&w, 128 min. Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, and Dick York PN1997 .I48 1991 [VHS] A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
	Intolerable Cruelty (2003), color, 101 min. Director: Joel Coen Cast: George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones PN1997 .I54 2004 [DVD] Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless romantic pursuit to out-swindle each other.
	Intruder in the Dust (1949), b&w, 90 min. Director: Clarence Brown Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr, and Porter Hall PN1997 .I567 1993 [VHS] In a small Mississippi town, a white boy rescues a black man who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit.
	It Happened One Night (1934), b&w, 105 min. Director: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, and Claudette Colbert PN1997 .I82 1997 [VHS] A runaway heiress falls in love with a reporter who is chasing her across America.
	It's a Wonderful Life (1946), b&w, 157 min. Director: Frank Capra Cast: James Stewart and Donna Reed PN1997 .I88 1995 [VHS] Sentimental classic about a young man who attempts to end his own life, only to be shown the error of his ways by his guardian angel.
	Jagged Edge (1985), color, 108 min. Director: Richard Marquand Cast: Glenn Close, Maria Mayenzet, and Jeff Bridges PN1997 .J28 1986 [VHS] An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.
	Jaws (1975), color, 124 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss PN1997 .J38 1997 [VHS] A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.
	The Jazz Singer (1927), b&w, 89 min. Director: Alan Crosland Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, and Warner Oland PN1997 .J385 1991 [VHS] A melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son (Al Jolson) who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father's objection and religious tradition. In motion picture history, this was the first feature film to utilize synchronous sound. Jolson's songs include "Toot, toot, tootsie", "Blue skies", and "Mammy."
	Jericho (1937), b&w, 75 min. Director: Thornton Freeland Cast: Paul Robeson, Wallace Ford, and Henry Wilcoxon PN1997 .J43 1997 [VHS] A soldier flees from an unjust criminal conviction and is chased across Africa.
	JFK (1991), color, 189 min. Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Bacon PN1997 .J45 1992 [VHS] Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), b&w, 178 min. Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, and Judy Garland PN1997 .J84 1983 [VHS] A fictionalized account of a war crimes trial of four eminent Nazi judges at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. Provides insight into Nazi brutality and raises questions about freedom of choice, loyalty to one's country, and responsibility to mankind.
	The Juror (1996), color, 118 min. Director: Brian Gibson Cast: Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Anne Heche PN1997 .J86 1996 [VHS] Struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets more than she bargained for when forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob's seductive, psychotic enforcer.
	A Jury of Her Peers (1981), color, 30 min. Director: Sally Heckel PN1997 .J87 1981 [VHS] Dramatizes the short story by Susan Glaspell about the isolation and oppression of a farmwoman in rural America in 1900.
	Just Cause (Warner Bros. 1995), color, 102 min. Director: Arne Glimcher Cast: Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne PN1997 .J88 1995 [VHS] A Harvard Law Professor goes to bat for a death row inmate who claims he was forced to confess by his lawyer.
	Kent State (1981), color, b&w, 120 min. Director: James Goldstone Cast: Daniel Aguar, Charlie Lang, and Jan Fleiss PN1997 .K46 1987 [VHS] Follows the personal stories of the four students who were killed by National Guardsmen on the Ohio college campus in 1970.
	King Kong (1933), b&w, 105 min. Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedstack Cast: Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong PN1997 .K56 1980 [VHS] A lonely gorilla falls in love with a beautiful woman and holds her captive until planes kill the monster on top of the Empire State Building.
	Knock On Any Door (1949), b&w, 100 min. Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart and John Derek PN1997 .K66 1995 [VHS] A young hoodlum from the slums is tried for murdering a cop. He is defended by a prominent attorney who has known him from childhood.
	Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), color, 105 min. Director: Robert Benton Cast: Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep PN1997 .K73 1987 [VHS] When his wife walks out on Ted Kramer and his six-year-old son they have a chance to really get to know each other. When Ted's wife returns she wants her son back.
	L.A. Confidential (1997), color, 156 min. Director: Curtis Hanson Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, and Kim Basinger PN1997 .L12 1998 [VHS] Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A lush tribute to tough film-noir crime films.
	Last Dance (1996), color, 103 min. Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, and Randy Quaid PN1997 .L35 1996 [VHS] Cindy Liggett (Stone) is a convicted killer facing imminent execution until a young lawyer (Morrow) becomes convinced her case doesn't warrant the death penalty.
	The Last Innocent Man (1987), color, 114 min. Director: Roger Spottiswoode Cast: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, and David Suchet PN1997 .L355 1995 [VHS] A seductive woman (Hart) persuades a retired attorney (Harris) to represent her estranged husband in a strange and bizarre murder case.
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962), color, 227 min. Director: David Lean Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif PN1997 .L37 1999 [DVD] Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
	Legal Eagles (1986), color, 116 min. Director: Ivan Reitman Cast: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah PN1997 .L45 1987 [VHS] A hard-nosed assistant district attorney and an imaginative defense attorney combine their talents to defend a spacey "performance artist" who is accused of theft and murder.
	Legally Blonde (2001), color, 95 min. Director: Robert Luketic Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, and Matthew Davis PN1997 .L47 2001 [DVD] When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
	Legally Blonde 2 Red, White & Blonde (2003), color, 95 min. Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, and Regina King PN1997 .L472 2003 [DVD] When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on animals, Elle heads to Capitol Hill to fight for her cause before Congress. Once there, she runs into plenty of adversity and red-tape and can't seem to find anyone who will listen to her proposals. She meets and befriends an elderly bellman who's been around long enough to know the ins and outs of the political machine. With his help, Elle attempts to convince disillusioned U.S. Representative Rudd to help her get her voice heard in front of the stodgy old coots of the legislative branch.
	Lenny (1974), b&w, 111 min. Director: Bob Fosse Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, and Jan Miner PN1997 .L48 2002 [DVD] Tells the story of troubled nightclub comic Lenny Bruce, his wife Honey Harlowe, and his fatal decline through drug addiction.
	Let Him Have It (1991), color, 115 min. Director: Peter Medak Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, and Eileen Atkins PN1997 .BL49 1992 [VHS] Set in the gritty, post-war world of 1950's London, American movie gangsters are the reigning heroes of aimless young toughs that roam the streets. A robbery turns to murder and a simple-minded teenager finds himself facing a death sentence for a crime he did not commit.
	LiarLiar (Universal 1997), color, 87 min. Director: Tom Shadyak Cast: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, and Justin Cooper PN1997 .L5 1997 [VHS] Little Max wishes his sleazy lawyer father cannot tell a lie for 24 hours. The wish comes true making dad rather ineffective at his job. There are even a few funny bits that weren't in the TV promos. A must to take the edge off of Professional Responsibility.
	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), color, 123 min. Director: John Huston Cast: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Richard Farnsworth, and Gary Combs PN1997 .L52 1983 [VHS] They called him The Hanging Judge, but he wasn't really a judge at all. He set himself up as the only law west of the Pecos River.
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937), b&w, 117 min. Director: William Dieterle Cast: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, and Joseph Schildkraut PN1997 .L53 1989 [VHS] Explores the career of the novelist who championed the cause of France's oppressed.
	Lifeboat (1944), b&w, 97 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, and Mary Anderson PN1997 .L54 1988 [VHS] When an American vessel is torpedoed during World War II, eight survivors find refuge in a tiny lifeboat. Hopelessly short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the very submarine that sank their ship. Given the helm because he is the most capable sailor aboard, the passengers wonder if he is a savior steering them towards rescue, or their sworn enemy, delivering them into the arms of his fellow Nazis.
	The Long Walk Home (1990), color, 98 min. Director: Richard Pearce Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, and Ving Rhames PN1997 .L65 1991 [VHS] Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg is Odessa Cotter, a quietly dignified woman, who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek). When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband (Dwight Schultz) and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for civil rights. Their shared experiences draw them closer as a deep respect and lasting friendship forms. Together, in a difficult world of black versus white, they manage to discover a common ground.
	Losing Isaiah (1995), color, 108 min. Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal Cast: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, and Cuba Gooding Jr. PN1997 .L68 1995 [VHS] A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back.
	M (1931), b&w, 99 min. Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, and Ing Landgut PN1997 .M1 1986 [VHS] Dramatic search for a child murderer examines police methods and the character of the murderer. Organized crime joins the search for the killer.
	MAS*H (1969), color, 117 min. Director: Robert Altman Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, and Robert Duvall PN1997 .M2 1990 [VHS] Highlights the outrageous antics of three skilled young surgeons drafted from civilian life and assigned to a unit of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War.
	The Magnificent Yankee (1950), b&w, 80 min. Director: John Sturges Cast: Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz, and Ian Wolfe PN1997 .M324 1993 [VHS] A portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who filled a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency. For 30 years the gentle & wise justice left his mark & came to be known as the "Great Dissenter" for his independent & controversial views.
	Malcolm X (1992), color, 210 min. Director: Spike Lee Cast: Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett PN1997 .M325 1993 [VHS] Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
	The Maltese Falcon (1941), b&w, 101 min. Director: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Peter Lorre PN1997 .M328 1997 [VHS] After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
	A Man For All Seasons (1966), color, 120 min. Director: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, and Leo McKern PN1997 .M33 1987 [VHS] Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce of King Henry VIII and the events which lead to More's execution.
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), b&w, 123 min. Director: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, James Stewart, and Vera Miles PN1997 .M335 1996 [VHS] The story of a man who becomes a legend and an important political figure by falsely claiming he shot a ruthless gunman.
	The Manchurian Candidate (1962), b&w, 126 min. Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh PN1997 .M34 1996 [VHS] A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning that transform Harvey into a human time bomb.
	Matewan (1987), color, 142 min. Director: John Sayles Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, and Mary McDonnell PN1997 .M38 1996 [VHS] A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
	Michael Clayton (2007), color, 120 min. Director: Tony Gilroy Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, and Michael O'Keefe PN1997 .M543 2008 [DVD] Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class-action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
	Midnight Cowboy (1969), color, 113 min. Director: John Schlesinger Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, and Sylvia Miles PN1997 .M45 1998 [VHS] A Texas cowboy takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
	Midnight Express (1978), color, 121 min. Director: Alan Parker Cast: Brad Davis, John Hurt, Randy Quaid, and Irene Miracle PN1997 .M455 1998 [DVD] American citizen Billy Hayes is sentenced to four years in a brutal Turkish prison after being caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul. When his sentence is changed to life just days before his release, he has no choice but to try to escape.
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), color, 155 min. Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, and Irma P. Hall PN1997 .M46 1997 [VHS] When the affable host of an elegant Christmas party shoots a man to death, his friends discover secrets that make them less eager to help with his courtroom defense.
	Mind Walk (1990), color, 110 min. Director: Bernt Amadeus Capra Cast: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard PN1997 .M465 1992 [VHS] Mainly a conversation on the sad state of the world among three people (a poet, a physicist and a politician) roaming a picturesque French isle.
	Miss Evers' Boys (1997), color, 118 min. Director: Joseph Sargent Cast: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, and Craig Scheffer PN1997 .M54 1997 [VHS] In 1932, Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on the "Tuskegee Experiment" to study the effects of syphilis. She is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns the patients are denied treatment that could cure them.
	Missing (1982), color, 123 min. Director: Costa-Gavras Cast: Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek PN1997 .M55 1999 [VHS] Based on an actual event, the story involves the search by his wife and father for a young American who has disappeared during a South American coup.
	The Mission (1986), color, 125 min. Director: Roland Joffe Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, and Liam Neeson PN1997 .M56 1987 [VHS] A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires.
	Mississippi Burning (1988), color, 127 min. Director: Alan Parker Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, and Frances McDormand PN1997 .M58 1989 [VHS] Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.
	Modern Times (1931), b&w, 87 min. Director: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Henry Bergman PN1997 .M634 1992 [VHS] A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers, with Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), b&w, 115 min. Director: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, and George Bancroft PN1997 .M7 1997 [VHS] Comedy about writer of greeting card verses who leaves his small town home for New York when he inherits $20 million dollars. In New York, "sophisticates", including relatives, lawyers, and business executives, attempt to have him declared insane in order to gain control of the fortune.
	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), b&w, 125 min. Director: Frank Capra Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold PN1997 .M72 1997 [VHS] Washington's youngest senator exposes corruption in high places, almost at the cost of his career.
	Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), color, 125 min. Director: Chris Columbus Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field, and Pierce Brosnan PN1997 .M75 1996 [VHS] After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his Ex.
	Mulholland Drive (2001), color, 147 min. Director: David Lynch Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Justin Theroux PN1997 .M83 2002 [DVD] A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
	Mulholland Falls (1995), color, 107 min. Director: Lee Tamahori Cast: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Connelly, and Chazz Palminteri PN1997 .M84 1998 [VHS] What begins as a simple murder case, turns into a politically embroiled tug of war. Several clues seem to lead towards a restricted government post in the Nevada desert where nuclear bombs are being tested for military use.
	Murder at Harvard (2003), color, b&w, 60 min. Director: Mark Samels, Jacqueline Shearer PN1997 .M85 2003 [VHS] When Dr. George Parkman, one of Boston's richest citizens, disappeared on his way to Harvard Medical College in 1849, most suspected robbery as the motive-- until a determined school janitor uncovered a grisly secret that led to an even more sensational trial. Join historian Simon Schama as a time-traveling detective on the trail of the still-puzzling case in this fascinating documentary.
	Murder in the First (1994), color, 122 min. Director: Marc Rocco Cast: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, and William H. Macy PN1997 .M86 1999 [DVD] In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on trial in his client's behalf.
	Music Box (1989), color, 126 min. Director: Costa-Gavras Cast: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Frederic Forrest PN1997 .M88 1990 [VHS] In this intense courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past. When...the trial moves to her father's homeland...crucial testimony plus Ann's personal investigation lead to astonishing results.
	Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), b&w, 135 min. Director: Frank Lloyd Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, and Herbert Mundin PN1997 .M887 1989 [VHS] Tale of the ship, Bounty, that sailed a 2 year voyage from England to Tahiti. Charles Laughton is Captain Bligh. Clark Gable is Fletcher Christian.
	My Cousin Vinny (1992), color, 120 min. Director: Jonathan Lynn Cast: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, and Marisa Tomei PN1997 .M895 2000 [DVD] Two carefree pals mistakenly arrested and charged with murder are defended by the cousin of one of them (Vinny), a former auto mechanic of Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court and this case quickly turns into a hysterical escapade.
	My Fair Lady (1964), color, 171 min. Director: George Cukor Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, and Stanley Holloway PN1997 .M897 1996 [VHS] A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.
	My Family (1995), color, 127 min. Director: Gregory Nava Cast: Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, and Elpidia Carrillo PN1997 .M898 2004 [DVD] Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
	My Left Foot (1989), color, 103 min. Director: Jim Sheridan Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, and Kirsten Sheridan PN1997 .M9 1990 [VHS] Based on Christy Brown's true life story, My Left Foot features Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Award winning performance as a man who triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatness.
	Network (1976), color, 121 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, William Holden, and Robert Duvall PN1997 .N48 1996 [VHS] A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings".
	Night Falls on Manhattan (1997), color, 114 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, and James Gandolfini PN1997 .N53 1997 [VHS] Sean Casey is just another idealistic assistant D.A. until his prosecution of a cop-killing drug lord catapults him into the center of New York's tempestuous political arena. Vowing to follow the clues wherever they lead, the young D.A. embarks on a search for the truth that will force him to question his faith in the law, his loyalty to loved ones and his place in a system where justice is the ultimate con.
	1984 (1984), color, 122 min. Director: Michael Radford Cast: John Hurt, Richard Burton, and Suzanna Hamilton PN1997 .N55 1994 [VHS] Based on the novel by George Orwell which is the story of impossible love and tragic betrayal set in the twisted, horrific world of "1984".
	1941 (1979), color, 146 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, and John Belushi PN1997 .N57 1999 [DVD] This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
	Nixon (1995), color, 191 min. Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Joan Allen, and Powers Boothe PN1997 .N59 1996 [VHS] Drama about the fall of Richard Nixon based on the view that a dark, murderous conspiracy controls the world.
	El Norte (1983), color, 141 min. Director: Gregory Nava Cast: Zaide Sylvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando, and Ernesto Gomez Cruz PN1997 .N6 1984 [VHS] Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms", i.e., manual laborers) and organizing in an effort to improve their lot in life, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to "El Norte" ("the North", i.e., the USA). After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling through Mexico, they make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants.
	North by Northwest (1959), color, 136 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint PN1997 .N677 1996 [VHS] Roger O. Thornhill is a victim of mistaken identity and is forced to embark on a run for his life by train, plane and automobile.
	North Country (2005), color, 126 min. Director: Niki Caro Cast: Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Renner, Richard Jenkins, and Sissy Spacek PN1997 .N678 2006 [DVD] Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit.
	Nuremberg (2000), color, b&w, 180 min. Director: Yves Simoneau Cast: Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Christopher Plummer, and Roger Dunn PN1997 .N78 2000 [DVD] Dramatic presentation of the WWII war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany.
	Nuts (1987), color, 116 min. Director: Martin Ritt Cast: Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss PN1997 .N8 1988 [VHS] An outspoken woman takes on New York's judicial system, modern psychiatry, her personal demons and anyone who gets in her way.
	The Official Story (1985), color, 112 min. Director: Luis Puenzo Cast: Hector Alterio, Norma Aleandro, and Chunchuna Villafane PN1997 .O4 1986 [VHS] The wife of a businessman finds herself face to face with terror as she begins to discover that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen.
	On the Waterfront (1954), b&w, 108 min. Director: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando and Karl Malden PN1997 .O6 1995 [VHS] A young dockworker tries to break the hold of a waterfront boss.
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), color, 134 min. Director: Milos Forman Cast: Jack Nicholson, William Redfield, and Louise Fletcher PN1997 .O64 1997 [VHS] The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.
	The Onion Field (1999), color, 126 min. Director: Harold Becker Cast: John Savage and James Woods PN1997 .O65 2002 [DVD] A true story of the brutal murder of a policeman and the slow process of justice.
	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), b&w, 75 min. Director: William A. Wellman Cast: Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews PN1997 .O9 1988 [VHS] Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.
	Panther (1995), color, 123 min. Director: Mario Van Peebles Cast: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, and Joe Don Baker PN1997 .P34 1995 [VHS] In Oakland, California, 1968, The Black Panthers led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale have armed themselves and are ready to fight for freedom. To the people, they're heroes, but to the FBI they're Public Enemy Number One. Now the Feds will do everything they can--on the right or wrong side of the law--to bring them down.
	Paper Chase (1973), color, 112 min. Director: James Bridges Cast: Timothey Bottoms and Lindsay Wagner PN1997 .P36 1993 [VHS] A moving story of a first-year Harvard Law School student who comes to terms with his dreams in America's most competitive school. Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes fearful of a brilliant professor, who terrorizes some, inspires others and who easily seperates the men from the boys.
	The Paper Chase (1973), color, 112 min. Director: James Bridges Cast: Timothy Bottoms and Linsday Wagner PN1997 .P36 2003 [DVD] A moving story of a first-year Harvard Law School student who comes to terms with his dreams in America's most competitive school. Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes fearful of a brilliant professor, who terrorizes some, inspires others and who easily seperates the men from the boys.
	The Paradine Case (1948), b&w, 125 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Gregory Peck and Ann Todd PN1997 .P364 1992 [VHS] In a suspensful courtroom drama, a beautiful woman is accused of having murdered her husband.
	Party Girl (1994), color, 94 min. Director: Daisy von Scherler Meyer Cast: Parker Posey, Anthony DeSando, and Donna Mitchell PN1997 .P37 1995 [VHS] A young woman devoted to underground "happenings", hot clubs, and amassing a couture wardrobe on the cheap is busted for throwing an illegal rent party at her New York City apartment. Her long-neglected godmother posts her bail in exchange for Mary's labor at the woman's workplace--a branch of the N.Y. Public Library. Mary's grudging steps towards responsible adulthood are given a boost by her romance with a handsome immigrant falafel vendor and her startled realization that she might actually make one pretty good librarian!
	The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc (1928), b&w, 114 min. Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Cast: Maria Falconetti and Eugene Sylvain PN1997 .P375 1996 [VHS] The trial and execution of Joan of Arc, based on actual court records, compressed into a single day. Extensive use of close-ups, expressionistic camera angles, and historically accurate sets and costumes.
	Paths of Glory (1957), b&w, 89 min. Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, and Adolph Menjou PN1997 .P38 1990 [VHS] During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives.
	Patton (1970), color, 171 min. Director: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, and Stephen Young PN1997 .P386 1998 [DVD] Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
	The Pelican Brief (1993), color, 141 min. Director: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington PN1997 .P395 1994 [VHS] Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated, and a young law student stumbles upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story, but it seems as if everybody else wants her dead.
	The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), color, 130 min. Director: Milos Forman Cast: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and Edward Norton PN1997 .P397 1997 [VHS] Based on the true story of the notorius Hustler publisher who was sued by the Religious Right and paralyzed by a fanatic's bullet. Chronicles Flynt's raunchy business savvy, his wildly unconventional marriage and his infamous courtroom antics.
	Philadelphia (1993), color, 125 min. Director: Jonathan Demme Cast: Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington PN1997 .P399 1994 [VHS] Powerful story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
	Philadelphia (1993), color, 125 min. Director: Jonathan Demme Cast: Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington PN1997 .P399 1997 [VHS] Powerful story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
	The Philadelphia Story (1940), b&w, 112 min. Director: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart PN1997 .P4 1992 [VHS] A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
	A Place in the Sun (1951), b&w, 120 min. Director: George Stevens Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters PN1997 .P43 1979 [VHS] An unstable young man trying to get into high society is trapped by circumstances that lead to his execution for murder.
	Platoon (1986), color, 120 min. Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen PN1997 .P47 1988 [VHS] Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam.
	The Player (1992), color, 124 min. Director: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, and Whoopi Goldberg PN1997 .P48 1993 [VHS] A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite.
	Presumed Innocent (1990), color, 127 min. Director: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, and Raul Julia PN1997 .P74 1997 [DVD] Rusty Sabich has been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
	Primal Fear (1996), color, 130 min. Director: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Edward Norton PN1997 .P75 1998 [DVD] A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
	Primary Colors (1998), color, 144 min. Director: Mike Nichols Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, and Billy Bob Thornton PN1997 .P76 1998 [DVD] Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife, Susan. Running against the odds, the Stantons need all the help they can get from their extremely colorful political team. Together, they take off on a hilarious, heart-wrenching and ultimately history-making roller coaster ride to the top.
	The Prisoner (1955), b&w, 94 min. Director: Peter Glenville Cast: Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins PN1997 .P77 2004 [DVD] The film is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution, was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his religious convictions.
	Psycho (1960), b&w, 108 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh PN1997 .P79 1997 [VHS] Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
	Pudd'nhead Wilson (1983), color, 87 min. Director: Alan Bridges Cast: Lise Hilboldt, Ken Howard, and James Pritchett PN1997 .P86 1984 [VHS] Mark Twain uses his insight and wit to explore the issues of slavery, mother/son relationships, justice, and the many shapes of human folly. A mulatto slave switches her disconcertingly white baby with her master's son to protect it in a time of strong racial prejudice.
	Pulp Fiction (1994), color, 154 min. Director: Quentin Tarantino Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman PN1997 .P87 2002 [DVD] Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
	QB VII (1974), color, 300 min. Director: Tom Gries Cast: Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, and Leslie Caron PN1997 .Q13 2001 [VHS] The story of a novelist who is sued by a doctor for libel because the author's best-seller accuses the doctor of being a Nazi collaborator who conducted experiments on Jews in a concentration camp during World War II. The story covers a 27-year period in the lives of these men and concludes with the dramatic trial in Queens Bench No. VII (QB VII).
	A Question of Silence (1983), color, 92 min. Director: Marleen Gorris Cast: Edda Barends and Nelly Frijda PN1997 .Q48 1986 [VHS] An extraordinary murder is committed by three women, all strangers to each other. During the trial, their deep seated rage towards the male- dominated society in which they live stuns the courtroom. The judge appoints a woman psychiatrist to study the case, and she gradually comes to understand and sympathize with the three women and to question her own nature.
	Quiz Show (1994), color, 133 min. Director: Robert Redford Cast: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes PN1997 .Q59 1995 [VHS] Fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption beneath the TV's hottest quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion and the disgruntled ex-champ.
	Raging Bull (1980), color, b&w, 129 min. Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, and Joe Pesci PN1997 .R215 1996 [VHS] Robert DeNiro stars as Jake LaMotta, the controversial prize fighter of the 1940's. Shows his life from the beginning and as he fights his way up the ranks and earns the reputation as the "Raging Bull," a fighter who can't be stopped.
	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), color, 115 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and Paul Freeman PN1997 .R22 1992 [VHS] Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-cracking archaeologist assigned by the U.S. Government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use.
	The Rainmaker (1997), color, 137 min. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Matt Damon, Danny De Vito, Claire Danes, and Jon Voight PN1997 .R23 1998 [VHS] A rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case hires a feisty paralawyer who specializes in flunking the bar. Their chances of winning are slim to none, until they uncover a trail of corruption.
	Rashomon (1950), b&w, 83 min. Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo PN1997 .R24 1986 [VHS] Four people involved in the murder of a gentleman in feudal Japan and the seduction of his wife report differing views of what actually happened.
	Rebel Without a Cause (1955), color, b&w, 150 min. Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: James Dean and Natalie Wood PN1997 .R35 1996 [VHS] The teen-age son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums.
	The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), color, 111 min. Director: Daniel Vigne Cast: Gerard Depardieu and Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu PN1997 .R4 1984 [VHS] Set in 16th century France, the action is based on an actual case that took place in a small peasant village. Martin Guerre disappeared as a young husband and returns years later to resume his marriage and life. He is denounced as an impostor and a trial is demanded. Not until the very last minutes of a tension-filled courtroom sequence is the situation resolved.
	Reversal of Fortune (1990), color, 109 min. Director: Barbet Schroeder Cast: Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons PN1997 .R48 1990 [VHS] Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow attempt to murder his wife Sunny at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? The tabloids of the day certainly had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favor," defense attorney Alan Dershowitz told von Bulow, "Everybody hates you." Reversal of Fortune is the acclaimed movie version of events that had all America talking. Jeremy Irons plays von Bulow in an Academy Award winning performance of icy brittleness that also won a Golden Globe and Los Angeles and National Society of Film CriticsBest Actor Awards. Glen Close is wanly elegant as heiress Sunny. And Ron Silver portrays Harvard law professor Dershowitz, retained by von Bulow to uncover the evidence that will demolish the prosecution's case - and reverse a devastating verdict.
	Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985), color, 309 min. Director: Marvin J. Chomsky Cast: Brad Davis and Veronica Cartwright PN1997 .R62 1991 [VHS] A personal portrait of Robert F. Kennedy and the turbulent times in which he lived, including the fight for civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the American entry into Vietnam.
	Rocky (1976), color, 119 min. Director: John G. Avildsen Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, and Burt Young PN1997 .R633 1996 [VHS] Rocky Balboa, a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown--and comes out a winner.
	Roe vs. Wade (1989), color, 92 min. Director: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Holly Hunter, Dion Anderson, and Jeff Allin PN1997 .R64 1989 [VHS] Based on the true story of the 1973 challenge to a Texas law forbidding abortion. The case was ultimately argued all the way to the Supreme Court, and changed U.S. history.
	Romero (1989), color, 105 min. Director: John Duigan Cast: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, and Ana Alicia PN1997 .R66 2000 [DVD] Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and the oppression in his country. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
	The Rosa Parks Story (2001), color, 100 min. Director: Julie Dash Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, and Tonea Stewart PN1997 .R67 2003 [DVD] Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.
	Rosewood (1997), color, 142 min. Director: John Singleton Cast: Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, and Don Cheadle PN1997 .R68 1997 [VHS] In 1923 Rosewood, a black town in Florida, was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
	Rules of Engagement (2000), color, 127 min. Director: William Friedkin Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Kingsley PN1997 .R86 2000 [DVD] Colonel Terry Childers is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes terribly wrong, he finds himself facing a court martial. Accused of breaking the rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians, Childers' only hope of vindication rests with comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges, a military lawyer of questionable abilities. Together, they face the battle of their lives.
	Schindler's List (1993), b&w, color, 197 min. Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes PN1997 .S34 1994 [VHS] The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
	Seven (1996), color, 127 min. Director: David Fincher Cast: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Spacey PN1997 .S367 1996 [VHS] A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins.
	The Searchers (1956), color, 144 min. Director: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, and Vera Miles PN1997 .S427 1996 [VHS] A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who killed his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter.
	Separate But Equal (1991), color, 193 min. Director: George Stevens Jr. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, and Richard Kiley PN1997 .S45 1991 [VHS] The year is 1950 ... and America is divided between black and white. Schools, restaurants, trains and buses ... even drinking fountains cannot be shared by both races. Although slavery has been outlawed for nearly a century, segregation is legal. But white and Negro facilities are separate and unequal ... and the tension has reached a breaking point for the blacks of Clarendon County, South Carolina. When their request for a single school bus is denied by whiteschool officials, a bitter, violent and courageous battle for justice and equality begins ... putting black against white and friend against neighbor all across the country.
	Serpico (1973), color, 130 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, and Jack Kehoe PN1997 .S47 1988 [VHS] An honest New York policeman endures scorn and mistreatment from his fellow cops. Based on a true story.
	1776 (1972), color, 166 min. Director: Peter H. Hunt Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, and Ken Howard PN1997 .S475 2000 [DVD] 1776 is a delightful musical celebration of the founding of The United States of America. The story centers around the familiar historical characters as they organize a movement for independence from Mother England. All events lead up to that most significant date, July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
	Shane (1952), color, 117 min. Director: George Stevens Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin PN1997 .S48 1988 [VHS] A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
	The Shawshank Redemption (1994), color, 142 min. Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, and Bob Gunton PN1997 .S49 1997 [VHS] Two convicts, one white and one black, never give up the dream of freedom, and together they turn hope and friendship into an uplifting bond no prison can ever take away.
	Singin' in the Rain (1952), color, 103 min. Director: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Cast: Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor PN1997 .S56 1993 [VHS] Spoof of the early days of "talkie" films.
	Sitting Bull (1954), color, 105 min. Director: Sidney Salkow Cast: Dale Robertson and Mary Murphy PN1997 .S568 2001 [VHS] Despite the massacre of Custer's men, a cavalry officer strives to establish a relationship with Sitting Bull.
	Sleepers (1996), color, 148 min. Director: Barry Levinson Cast: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Minnie Driver, and Dustin Hoffman PN1997 .S57 1997 [DVD] Sentenced to the Wilkinson School for boys, four pals are mistreated at will by a cadre of sadistic guards. 15 years later, they have an unexpected opportunity for revenge.
	Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), color, 128 min. Director: Scott Hicks Cast: Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, and Reeve Carney PN1997 .S59 2000 [DVD] A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For a local reporter the trial strikes home when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case.
	A Soldier's Story (1984), color, 101 min. Director: Norman Jewison Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Cesar, and Denzel Washington PN1997 .S64 1999 [DVD] A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, near the end of World War II to investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own roots.
	Some Like it Hot (1959), b&w, 122 min. Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon PN1997 .S648 2001 [DVD] Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
	Sommersby (1993), color, 114 min. Director: Jon Amiel Cast: Richard Gere and Jodi Foster PN1997 .S65 1993 [VHS] A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
	The Sound of Music (1965), color, 175 min. Director: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer PN1997 .S66 1996 [VHS] Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she became old enough discovered that it wasn't at all what she thought. Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house of a retired naval captain, named Captain Von Trapp, to care for his children. Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to care for seven 'rowdy' children. The children have run off countless governesses. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to change their attitudes. Maria teaches the children to sing, and through her, music is brought back into the hearts and home of the Von Trapp family. Unknowingly, Maria and Captain Von Trapp are falling helplessly in love, except there are two problems, the Captain is engaged, and Maria is a postulant!
	South Central (1992), color, 99 min. Director: Steve Anderson Cast: Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, and Lexie Bigham PN1997 .S68 1997 [VHS] A child's chance to escape anger and injustice begins with one man. His father.
	Stagecoach (1939), b&w, 97 min. Director: John Ford Cast: Claire Trevor and John Wayne PN1997 .S69 1997 [VHS] Nine disparate travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.
	Stand and Deliver (1988), color, 103 min. Director: Ramon Menendez Cast: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, and Virginia Paris PN1997 .S735 1998 [DVD] Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante pushes and inspires 18 students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes.
	The Star Chamber (1983), color, 109 min. Director: Peter Hyams Cast: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, and Yaphet Kotto PN1997 .S83 1984 [DVD] Vicious criminals and sadistic killers are running rampant, fearlessly preying on whomever they choose with no fear of punishment. They know that if they're caught slick lawyers will get them off scot free by using obscure loopholes to put them back on the street again. A small group of powerful men decide to meet behind closed doors in the utmost secrecy and decree their own punishment for the guilty.
	Star Wars (1977), color, 124 min. Director: George Lucas Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher PN1997 .S835 1995 [VHS] Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire.
	Stonewall (1995), color, 99 min. Director: Nigel Finch Cast: Guillermo Diaz, Fred Weller, and Brendan Corbalis PN1997 .S838 1996 [DVD] Matty Dean, a self-made hustler, moves to New York's Greenwich Village to find himself. Instead, he finds love with a transvestite named La Miranda, rage with the attitudes of the local police, and an absolute belief that one man can make a difference.
	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), b&w, 131 min. Director: Elia Kazan Cast: Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando PN1997 .S84 1996 [VHS] An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is abused and eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law. Includes an original and two reissue theatrical trailers.
	Sunset Boulevard (1950), b&w, 110 min. Director: Billy Wilder Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Nancy Olson PN1997 .S858 1994 [VHS] A harsh look at Hollywood in which an aging silent-movie queen makes a tragic attempt to return to stardom.
	Swoon (1992), b&w, 95 min. Director: Tom Kalin Cast: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, and Ron Vawter PN1997 .S86 1993 [VHS] A film noir "thriller" that presents the true case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, brilliant young men from good Jewish families, who were convicted for murdering a 13-year-old boy.
	Suspect (1987), color, 121 min. Director: Peter Yates Cast: Cher, Dennis Quaid, and Liam Neeson PN1997 .S87 2001 [DVD] Bizarre evidence leads Kathleen on a dangerous trail from Washington's seamy underbelly to the highest levels of government. And the closer she gets to the answers, the more her life is in danger. Cher and Dennis Quaid take the law into their own hands in this daring suspense thriller where everything is revealed in court--except the truth.
	The Sweet Hereafter (1997), color, 112 min. Director: Atom Egoyan Cast: Ian Holm and Sarah Polley PN1997 .S943 1998 [VHS] Following a tragic schoolbus accident, high-profile lawyer Mitchell Stephens descends upon a small town. With promises of retribution and a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the grieving community, Stephens begins his investigation into the details of the crash. But beneath the town's calm, he uncovers a tangled web of lies, deceit and forbidden desires that mirrors his own troubled personal life. Gradually, we learn that Stephens has his own agenda and that everyone has secrets to keep.
	A Tale of Two Cities (1989), color, 197 min. Director: Phillipe Monnier Cast: James Wilby, Xavier Deluc, and Serena Gordon PN1997 .T34 2001 [DVD] In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until som e last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her. As the characters are swept into the maelstrom of the French Revolution, that long-ago promise will become Carton's last hope of redemption for his own soul.
	The Talk of the Town (1942), b&w, 119 min. Director: George Stevens Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Glenda Farrell PN1997 .T35 1993 [VHS] A fugitive, falsely accused of murder, is aided by a schoolteacher and a Supreme Court nominee. The three are forced to become roommates and their unconventional relationship becomes the talk of the town in this madcap romantic comedy.
	Taxi Driver (1976), color, 135 min. Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro Cybil Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Jodie Foster PN1997 .T38 1999 [DVD] A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
	10 Rillington Place (1970), color, 111 min. Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, and John Hurt PN1997 .T42 1986 [VHS] An innocent man is charged with the slaying of his wife.
	Thin Blue Line (1988), color, 101 min. Director: Errol Morris Cast: Randall Adams, David Harris, and Gus Rose PN1997 .T45 1988 [VHS] Documentary about the conviction and imprisonment of Randall Adams for the killing of a Dallas policeman, an investigation and reconstruction of the murder and the questions that arise about Adams' guilt.
	Thirteen Days (2000), color, 142 min. Director: Roger Donaldson Cast: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, and Steven Culp PN1997 .T46 2001 [DVD] Oct. 1962, for thirteen extraordinary days the world stood on the brink of destruction. Krushchev wouldn't back down, President Kennedy wouldn't give in. Inspired by the real-life events that took place in the Kennedy White House.
	This is Spinal Tap (1984), color, 83 min. Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Rob Reiner, Kimberly Stringer, and Chazz Dominguez PN1997 .T465 2000 [VHS] Once upon a time, Spinal Tap had a big hit song. Now, nearly two decades later, Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America. In Cleveland, the group gets lost underneath the stage. In Washington, they're accidently booked at an Air Force formal dance. And in a Chicago record store, no one shows up to get their autographs.
	Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985), color, 180 min. Director: Philip Leacock Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Kim Hunter, and Will Lyman PN1997 .T47 1985 [VHS] The story of Sarah Cloyce who was called before a special court of inquiry in Boston in 1703. She was re-examined about the events surrounding the witch trials which took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Based on actual courtroom transcripts, this story re-enacts the hysteria that gripped Salem.
	A Time to Kill (1996), color, 150 min. Director: Joel Schumacher Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, and Samuel L. Jackson PN1997 .T562 1996 [VHS] A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), b&w, 152 min. Director: Robert Mulligan Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and Robert Duvall PN1997 .T6 1998 [VHS] Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl.
	Tootsie (1982), color, 116 min. Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange PN1997 .T668 1993 [VHS] Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
	Touch of Evil (1958), b&w, 108 min. Director: Orson Welles Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Orson Welles PN1997 .T68 1998 [VHS] An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), b&w, 126 min. Director: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt PN1997 .T74 1992 [VHS] Greed and suspicion surround three prospectors in their search for gold.
	The Trial (1962), b&w, 120 min. Director: Orson Welles Cast: Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foa, and Jess Hahn PN1997 .T8 1979 [VHS] Government employee in an unnamed country is arrested, harassed, and examined endlessly, but never told the nature of his crime.
	The Trial (1962), b&w, 120 min. Director: Orson Welles Cast: Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foa, and Jess Hahn PN1997 .T8 1999 [DVD] Government employee in an unnamed country is arrested, harassed, and examined endlessly, but never told the nature of his crime.
	The Trial (1993), color, 120 min. Director: David Hugh Jones Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, and Jason Robards PN1997 .T82 1994 [VHS] The life of Josef K. starts to unravel when two strange men enter his home to place him under arrest.
	Trial and Error (1962), b&w, 88 min. Director: James Hill Cast: Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, and Beryl Reid PN1997 .T825 1996 [VHS] An aging lawyer finally gets his big chance when he is retained to defend a man accused of murdering his wife.
	Trial and Error (1997), color, 98 min. Director: Jonathan Lynn Cast: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, and Charlize Theron PN1997 .T827 1997 [VHS] An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
	Trial By Jury (1994), color, 107 min. Director: Heywood Gould Cast: Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, and Gabriel Byrne PN1997 .T83 1994 [VHS] He's guilty of murder. But something goes wrong in the jury room. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One woman, her life and family threatened by the mob, votes to let the killer walk. To set things right, that woman will have to fight back with a vengeance.
	The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), color, 123 min. Director: Irving Allen and Ken Hughes Cast: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, and James Mason PN1997 .T835 1996 [VHS] A film dramatization of Oscar Wilde's unsuccessful libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry after he accused Wilde of seducing his son, and Wilde's subsequent trial for sodomy, resulting in Wilde being imprisoned.
	True Believer (1989), color, 103 min. Director: Joseph Ruben Cast: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., and Margaret Colin PN1997 .T85 1989 [VHS] A once acclaimed civil rights attorney of the 60's, now an embittered cynic who makes a living defending drug-dealing low-lifes, has his passion for justice rekindled by an idealistic young associate
	True Confessions (1981), color, 107 min. Director: Ulu Grosbard Cast: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, and Charles Durning PN1997 .T86 1992 [VHS] An extraordinary tale of two brothers, one a priest, the other a cop, set on a collision course by a brutal murder.
	Truman (1995), color, 130 min. Director: Frank Pierson Cast: Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid, Richard A. Dysart and Colm Feore PN1997 .T88 1995 [VHS] President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
	12 Angry Men (1957), b&w, 93 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Joseph Sweeney, and Ed Binns PN1997 .T92 1990 [VHS] Classic courtroom drama about a teenage boy accused of killing his father and the jury that must decide his fate.
	Twelve Monkeys (1995), color, 130 min. Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Joseph Melito, Bruce Willis, and Jon Seda PN1997 .T93 1998 [VHS] A killer virus has devastated the world's population and survivors must live underground. Cole travels into the past to obtain a sample of the pure virus, in order to help develop a cure. He encounters a psychiatrist, a mental patient, and a radical group linked to the disease.
	The Two Jakes (1990), color, 137 min. Director: Jack Nicholson Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, and Meg Tilly PN1997 .T935 1999 [DVD] Set in 1948 Los Angeles, this is a sequel to Chinatown. Jake Gittes is a successful private eye who takes on a case of suspected adultery that explodes into murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
	2001, a Space Odyssey (1968), color, 139 min. Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Robert Beatty PN1997 .T94 1993 [VHS] A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
	Unforgiven (1992), color, 131 min. Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris PN1997 .U64 1996 [DVD] Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
	Vertigo (1958), color, 128 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Steward and Kim Novak PN1997 .V378 1998 [DVD] Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
	The Verdict (1982), color, 128 min. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, and Jack Warden PN1997 .V47 1990 [VHS] An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial court case against seemingly insurmountable opposition.
	Victim (1961), b&w, 100 min. Director: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, and Dennis Price PN1997 .V53 1997 [VHS] Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by 'coming out' in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts.
	Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2001), color, 100 min. Director: Tim Hunter Cast: Angie Harmon, Jamey Sheridan, and Dale Midkiff PN1997 .V55 2002 [DVD] Story of a family who suffer invasion of privacy by a neighbor through videotaping. The victims make the sad discovery that there is no law protecting people from this.
	Wag the Dog (1997), color, 96 min. Director: Barry Levinson Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, and Denis Leary PN1997 .W3 1998 [VHS] When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.
	Wall Street (1987), color, 126 min. Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, and Michael Douglas PN1997 .W36 2000 [DVD] An ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage.
	West Side Story (1961), color, 151 min. Director: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, and Russ Tamblyn PN1997 .W48 1998 [VHS] A modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in the Puerto Rican section of New York City.
	Where Love Has Gone (1964), color, 114 min. Director: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, and Mike Connors PN1997 .W533 1992 [VHS] The daughter of a famous sculptress is accused of murdering her mother's gigolo lover, creating conflict not only for her mother, but for her domineering grandmother and father, as well.
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), color, 104 min. Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, and Charles Fleischer PN1997 .W534 1999 [DVD] A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
	Whose Life is it Anyway? (1981), color, 119 min. Director: John Badham Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, and Christine Lahti PN1997 .W5344 1990 [VHS] Raises the question of a person's right to death with a story about a paralyzed automobile victim who wishes to be permitted to die rather than be kept alive by mechaical means while his doctor maintains it is his professional duty to maintain life.
	The Wild Bunch (1969), color, 145 min. Director: Sam Peckinpah Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, and Robert Ryan PN1997 .W54 1995 [VHS] The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.
	Wilde (1997), color, 116 min. Director: Brian Gilbert Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jennifer Ehle PN1997 .W552 1998 [VHS] Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
	Wilson (1944), color, 154 min. Director: Henry King Cast: Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Thomas Mitchell PN1997 .W57 1993 [VHS] Wilson's career is traced from his tenure as Princeton University president and governor of New Jersey through his successful campaign and years at the White House.
	Witness For the Prosecution (1957), b&w, 116 min. Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester PN1997 .W58 1992 [VHS] A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
	The Wizard of Oz (1939), color, 105 min. Director: Victor Fleming Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, and Billie Burke PN1997 .W59 1996 [VHS] Delightful musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who dreams of the magical land of Oz.
	Wuthering Heights (1939), b&w, 104 min. Director: William Wyler Cast: Merle Oberone, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, and Flora Robson PN1997 .W87 1989 [VHS] A tortured love affair ends between Heathcliff and Cathy when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax.
	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), b&w, 127 min. Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf PN1997 .Y36 1991 [VHS] A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer.
	Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), b&w, 100 min. Director: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, and Arleen Whelan PN1997 .Y58 1988 [VHS] A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Ill. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
	The Young Philadephians (1959), b&w, 150 min. Director: Vincent Sherman Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, and Brian Keith PN1997 .Y68 1982 [VHS] Anthony Lawrence is an up-and-coming lawyer with the odds on his side. His career is interrupted by the Korean War, and on the eve of his decision to run for political office, he finds himself about to throw it all away by defending a down-and-out friend in a murder case that threatens to expose the Main Line's darkest secrets.
	Zoot Suit (1981), color, 104 min. Director: Luis Valdez Cast: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, and Charles Aidman PN1997 .Z66 1991 [VHS] A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual case and zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.
	Zoot Suit (1981), color, 104 min. Director: Luis Valdez Cast: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, and Charles Aidman PN1997 .Z66 2003 [DVD] A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual case and zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.

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