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Wall Street -- PN1995.9.S68 W35 1998

Bud Fox is an ambitious young Wall Street broker whose quest for new clients leads him to Gordon Gekko, a financial wizard with a genius for making money. Gekko lures Fox into the illegal but lucrative world of corporate espionage and insider trading.

American flyers -- PN1995.9.C93 A64 1986

American Flyers takes you on the road for exciting world-class cycling competition as two brothers struggle to win a race and to regain the respect and affection they once shared.

Stand and deliver -- PN1995.9.B55 S83 1988

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.

Giant -- PN1995.9.T47 G5 1987 V.1

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.

Giant -- PN1995.9.T47 G5 1987 V.2

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.

Brian's song -- PN1995.9.S67 B73 1987

A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.

Field of dreams -- PN1995.9 .B28 F54 1989

Ray Kinsella that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball.

Dances with wolves -- PN1995.9.I48 D256 1991

Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor.

Philadelphia -- PN1995.9.J8 P55 1994

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.

Clara's heart -- PN1995.9.C55 C637 1989

Clara Mayfield, a Jamaican housekeeper, enters the Harts' luxurious suburban Baltimore home as an interloper, but her unshakable dignity and bounteous humor act like sunshine on the tight bud of David's soul. He flowers under her care and even fashions his speech after hers.

A soldier's story -- PS3556.U367 S65 1991

A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal near the end of WW II to investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own roots.

Citizen Kane -- PN1995.9.P6 C57 1996

Orson Welles' controversial film, hailed as the best American film ever made, is a portrait of Charles Foster Kane, revealing America's love of power and materialism and the resultant corruption (119 min). Includes a documentary on the making of the film, hosted by Robert Osborne, and the original theatrical trailer (22 min.).

Starry night -- ND653.G7 S7 2000

Vincent van Gogh returns to life in modern-day Los Angeles a century after his death. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime, he is awestruck to learn that he is now considered one of the world's greatest artists. But no one believes that he's van Gogh, least of all his own lawyer, the media and a skeptical art detective who is out to prove that he's an imposter.

Starry night -- ND653.G7 S7 2000

Vincent van Gogh returns to life in modern-day Los Angeles a century after his death. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime, he is awestruck to learn that he is now considered one of the world's greatest artists. But no one believes that he's van Gogh, least of all his own lawyer, the media and a skeptical art detective who is out to prove that he's an imposter.