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- The grapes of wrath -- PN1995.9.F4 G73 1982
- Tells the story of the migration of the Joad family to California after their eviction from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
- To kill a mockingbird -- PN1995.9.J8 T6 1987
- 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.
- The Magnificent Ambersons. -- PN1995.9.F4 M34 1978
- Portrait of the decline of an aristocratic Midwestern family as the industrial 20th century begins.
- Modern times -- PN1995.9.C55 M64 1978
- Charlie goes berserk as a result of his assembly-line job and winds up in jail. He manages to get various other jobs and loses them, but he refuses to be defeated. Sound track includes a song by Charlie and a few words heard over radio or television, but no dialogue.
- The jazz singer -- PN1995.9 .M86 J39 1981
- A cantor's son chooses a career on Broadway.
- Farewell to arms -- PN1995.9.W3 F3 1980
- An American ambulance driver and an English nurse find love on the battlefield during WW I.
- Shogun [video recording] -- PN1995.9.E24 S56 1980
- A two-hour feature length version of the television mini-series. Chamberlain plays Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked on the coast of Japan, who becomes a samurai. Mifune is Toranaga, the warlord driven to become Shogun - supreme military dictator.
- Triumph des willens : das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934 -- DD253.28 1934 .T7 1983
- A pictorial record of the sixth Nazi congress at Nuremberg, and a controversial propaganda film on Nazi Germany. Shows troops of Hitler youth at play, ranks of laborers, parades of storm troopers, close-ups of Hitler, etc., creating a mystical, primitive union between the dictator and his followers and exalting Nazi unity in Germany.
- Gone with the wind -- PN1995.9.L6 G66 1985 PT.1
- Set during the American Civil War, this story focuses on the lives and loves of Southerners during this period and the hardships they endured.
- Gone with the wind -- PN1995.9.L6 G66 1985 PT.2
- Set during the American Civil War, this story focuses on the lives and loves of Southerners during this period and the hardships they endured.
- King Kong -- PN1996.9.H6 K565 1933
- Classic fantasy masterpiece about a giant ape captured on a prehistoric island who proceeds to terrorize New York until his final stand on the very tip of the Empire State Building.
- The gold rush -- PN1995.9.C55 G664 1984
- A lone prospector in the Yukon becomes rich after various adventures.
- Rebel without a cause -- PN1995.9.A47 R43 1983
- A portrayal of alienated youth hoping to find among his peers the love and understanding missing at home.
- Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life -- PN1995.9.C5113 F73 1980
- 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.
- Hud -- PN1995.9.W5 H84 1982
- A drama which portrays the conflicts of a Texas ranch family in which a cynical uncle and a venerable grandfather vie for the respect and admiration of a naive seventeen-year-old boy.
- American graffiti -- PN1995.9.C55 A64 1984
- One night in the life of a group of high school friends just before they go off to college, jobs, or the army.
- Rollover -- PN1995.9.B26 R65 1982
- The international banking system hangs in delicate balance as billions of OPEC dollars are on deposit in short-term accounts. As long as the funds are "rolled over" or reinvested on schedule, the bank meets its obligations. What happens when the OPEC funds are withdrawn?
- In the heat of the night -- PN1995.9.D4 I6 1988
- A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city black homicide detective as they investigate a murder.
- 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.
- The Candidate -- PN1995.9 .P6 C36 1988
- Biting satire of a young, honest, idealistic lawyer persuaded to run in the California Senate race, who learns the truth about big-time campaigning.
- 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.
- Mister Roberts -- PN1995 .C55 .M57 1986
- A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
- The In-laws -- PN1995.9 .C55 I6 1980
- As his daughter is about to get married, a mild-mannered dentist meets the groom's father, a slightly mad CIA agent, and is soon caught up in some crazy adventures.
- Oh, God! -- PN1995.9 .R4 O5 1983
- God picks a supermarket manager to carry His message to all mankind.
- Wings -- PN1995.9 .W3 W56 1985
- The story of two young men who join the Air Service during World War I and the girl they must leave behind.
- 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.
- Lean on me -- PN1995.9.T4 L43 1989
- This is the fact-based story of high school principal Joe Clark, who armed himself with a bullhorn and a Louisville Slugger and slammed the door on losers at Eastside High in Paterson, New Jersey.
- To Sir, with love -- PN1995.9.T4 T6 1982
- An out-of-work engineer turns to teaching in London's tough East End. When offered an engineering job, he must decide if he wants to stay.
- The miracle worker -- PN1995.9.D35 M5 1986
- A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
- 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.
- Norma Rae -- PN1995.9.L28 N67 1985
- Sally Field stars as a poor Southern textile worker with a disreputable past, who courageously supports the Northern union organizer in a final successful attempt to unionize the last major non-union textile factory in the South.
- 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.
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's history lesson -- PN1995.9.W4 B84 1987
- During winter camp for his wild west show, Buffalo Bill Cody and his friends discuss life and his own myth.
- Masada Universal City Studio -- DS110.M33 M258 1980
- A two-hour feature length version of the television mini-series. Masada is the story of the siege of 980 zealot Jews who escaped the Roman sacking of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by taking refuge in Herod the Great's winter palace on the mountain of Masada.
- 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.
- William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- PR2808.A2 R45 1987
- Film adaptation of Shakespeare's play depicting the successful conspiracy to assassinate the Roman emperor, Julius Caesar.
- 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.
- Origins of the fantasy feature : The patchwork girl of Oz (1914) and A Florida enchantment (1914) -- PN1997 .L51 V.4
- Patchwork girl of Oz: "whimsical fairy tale" about munchkins in the land of Oz ; A Florida enchantment: the unusual fable about a woman who discovers magic seeds that transform women into men (and men into women)
- 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.
- Un Seänor muy viejo con unas alas enormes = A very old man with enormous wing[s] -- PQ8180.17.A73 V4
- Amid the debris of a Columbian cyclone lands a man whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical "creature" is housed in a chicken coop as onlookers wait for his heavenly message which turns out to be a very mixed blessing.
- 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.
- Hamlet -- PR2807 .A23 P37 1988
- Performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Rembrandt fathers and sons -- PN1992.77.I584 R453 1999
- In 1641, unchallenged by portraits of the rich and famous, the Dutch master, Rembrandt, indulges in auctions and in helping his adolescent neighbor, Samuel. Samuel works as Rembrandt's studio apprentice. Much to Samuel's dismay, the artist also neglects his infant son. After being convinced by Samuel to fulfill his parental duties, Rembrandt breaks with artistic convention to follow his heart, res
- Rembrandt fathers and sons -- PN1992.77.I584 R453 1999
- In 1641, unchallenged by portraits of the rich and famous, the Dutch master, Rembrandt, indulges in auctions and in helping his adolescent neighbor, Samuel. Samuel works as Rembrandt's studio apprentice. Much to Samuel's dismay, the artist also neglects his infant son. After being convinced by Samuel to fulfill his parental duties, Rembrandt breaks with artistic convention to follow his heart, res
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