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Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
3) Patton
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
7) Love story
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with untimely illness and death.
8) MASH
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospsital.
9) Joe
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. A friendship grows between a wealthy executive and a blue-collar welder due to their common fear and frustration with the "liberals" and "hippies" who are ruining the country.
10) Joe
Series
Publisher
Classic Reel
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. An odd friendship grows between a businessman and a blue-collar welder as they search for the businessman's runaway daughter. They are thrust into the midst of the counter-culture, a shocking and humiliating experience that ends in senseless acts of violence.
11) Cromwell
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
12) Little Big Man
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
13) Scrooge
Series
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The classic Charles Dickens tale of the cold hearted miser who is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas.
14) Women in love
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A sensual investigation of the relationships of two couples, exploring the thin line between love and lust.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Airport: The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner.
Airport 1975: A mid-air collision leaves a 747 without a pilot and little hope for survival.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of boxer Jack Johnson, this fictional account of his rise to fame chronicles the battles that the flamboyant champion fought in and out of the ring. Refusing to live within the boundaries deemed acceptable by society, this renowned hero and the woman he loved chose to live their lives the way they wanted -- something which evoked great fury from a narrow-minded world.
17) Joe
Series
Publisher
Legacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend and in the ensuing argument kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the improverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are...