Movie Library

Twelve jurors debate the facts and guilt of an inner city youth on trial for the murder of his father.

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A group of recruits go through training in espionage for insertion into Europe, but one of them—a Nazi double agent—is fed false information; when it is discovered he hasn’t taken the bait, someone must go in to accomplish the real mission.

A Canadian in London is accused of killing a counterespionage agent concerned about stolen government secrets and goes on the run in an attempt to clear himself.

Based on actual events, diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations band together to repel an invasion of their international compound in Peking during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900.

A montage of video and music from the first 100 years of American film.

A musical relating the events leading to the creation and signing of the Declaration of Independence, and thus, the formation of a new nation.

After floating a load of pigs down river to New Orleans, a young Abraham Lincoln settles in New Salem, Illinois, hoping to find love and live simply, but his popularity thrusts him into politics and he eventually marries ambitious Mary Todd.

A biopic of Colonel Paul Tibbits, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

When a nuclear submarine is downed under suspicious circumstances, the military contacts a nearby civilian deep sea drilling rig to seek it out and rescue survivors, encountering non-terrestial aliens along the way.

A U.S. WWII propaganda film promoting the Merchant Marine; cargo ships dare the North Atlantic’s German U-boats to deliver vital material necessary to put down the Nazis.

In 1905 Baltimore, the liberated daughter of a minister nominated for Bishop innocently starts a scandal.

A boy, chafing under the “civilizing” of effects (like wearing shoes, and not smoking) of his guardian, runs away with a slave named Jim.

A dramatization of the life of Samuel Clemens, aka. Mark Twain.

When King Leopold of Austria captures King Richard the Lionheart for ransom, Richard’s brother, Prince John, begins oppressing the Saxon masses and Robin of Locksley fights back as the leader of outlaw rebels.

A Viennese court composer with a desire to please God with his music—but mediocre of talent compared to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—recognizes the beauty in Mozart’s work and plots to interfere with God’s plans for Mozart.

An engaged French playboy has an unexpected shipboard romance with an American (who is also engaged) while on their way to New York, and they arrange to meet in 6 months after he has had a chance to learn whether he can earn a living. (Remake of Love Affair.)

An uncouth, alcoholic river boat skipper, and a prissy, teetotal missionary join forces and attempt to sink a German ship in German East Africa during the early days of WWI.

When Nora Charles’ cousin’s husband goes missing, Nick Charles is asked to investigate, and although he quickly locates the very much alive husband, the wife soon becomes the obvious suspect in his subsequent murder.

Pope Julius II—the warrior pope—forces a reluctant Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

After the U.S. President gives a speech in Moscow saying the U.S. will never negotiate with terrorists, his plane is hijacked and the hijackers will kill a passenger every half hour until their demands are met.

A spoof of airplane disaster movies: When the crew of an airplane all come down with food poisoning, one of the passengers—who flew in the war but had a bad experience that has kept him away from planes since—must take over and land the plane. Parody of Zero Hour!

The true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in a hopeless combat against a massive army in order to gain time to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

A cold war era propaganda piece promoting building an effective civil defense.

A star-struck country girl ingratiates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends, slowly exposing her ambition and willingness to manipulate others to get what she really wants.

A jingoistic teacher in Germany convinces his class of boys to enlist at the outbreak of WWI, and they progress as recruits, rookies, and eventually seasoned veterans as their numbers slowly dwindle.

Based on actual events, two Washington Post reporters cover a minor break-in at Democratic Party National headquarters but further investigation leads to a slush fund and other illegal activities that ultimately lead to Richard Nixon’s resignation.

Romantic complications abound when a struggling American painter in Paris is “discovered” by an heiress while he is falling for a French girl who is already engaged to a cabaret singer who used to work with his would-be concert pianist neighbor.

A lawyer who’d rather be fishing (and his alcoholic friend) defends a soldier who undeniably and quite deliberately shot the bar owner who hours before raped his wife.

Two sailors—one naive and the other a “sea wolf”—have their leave in L.A. interrupted by a little boy who wants to join the navy and his guardian, Aunt Susie, who turns out the be “the girl” for one, and then the other.

An ex-deputy turned bad guy is nursed back to health by a Quaker girl (and her family), falling in love with her in the process, which changes his life.

The story of Clara Barton who, during the American Civil War, first conceived women on the battlefield to help wounded soldiers, and whom the International Red Cross used to bring recognition of that symbol to the USA.

A gangster, just out of jail, returns to his old neighborhood where his former best friend is now the parish priest dealing with hoodlum kids just like they were when they were young.

A noted explorer returns from Africa and attends a party thrown by a wealthy matron where a famous painting is to be displayed but it is stolen.

A musical presentation of sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s rise to fame and her romance and competition with her eventual husband, Frank Butler.

When the manager of a Cincinnati hotel enters the “fella” that has been providing him with quail in a sharpshooting match, she turns out be be a gal so good she is hired by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, learns showmanship and grows into a national celebrity.

A rich man suspects a former employee—who is having dreams about the rich man’s murder—is out to murder him so he calls in Nick (and Nora) Charles, but when the rich man is murdered, things are not as obvious as they originally appeared.

When a dramatic critic, on his wedding day, discovers a body in the window seat of his adorable maiden aunts’ house, he starts to realize they may have a touch a madness like his brother, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.

When a meticulous planner gets out of jail, he solicits help to pull off a big robbery he planned before being sent up; although they get the jewels, circumstances and weakness of character cause the fall of everyone involved.

Based on the true story of a rather shy doctor working with a group of catatonic patients and his (partially successful) attempts, through medication, to “awaken” them.

A clerk at a department store, on her lunch break, is mistaken for the mother of a child left on the doorstep of a foundling home and everyone, including her playboy boss (and his father), believes the baby is hers. (Non-musical predecessor of Bundle of Joy.)

During WWII, as American forces are being withdrawn from the Philippines, an American colonel is ordered to stay behind and organize Filipino resistance against the invaliding Japanese.

When a one armed man comes to a tiny town in the post-WWII American west looking for a Japanese-American who disappeared some years earlier, everyone in town starts to get very nervous.

When one of eight professors writing an encyclopedia realizes he needs to do research for his entry on “slang,” he meets and falls for a wisecracking nightclub singer—who, incidentally, as a gangster’s moll, needs to go on the lamb because the cops are looking for her. (Non-musical predecessor of A Song is Born.)

A hypothetical about what happened to Barabbas after he was chosen to be released instead of Jesus.

A disparate group of young men, shortly after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, volunteer, go through boot camp, and become marines, followed by training in communications, battles in the South Pacific and, for some, being medically discharged back to civilian life.

During the final days of WWII, a squad of the 101st Airborne copes with being trapped in and around the snowy and foggy besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

A (not very accurate) dramatization of Germany’s final westward counteroffensive during WWII; in particular, a famed Panzer commander drives his troops against resistant Allied lines while U.S. officers figure out how best to stop his advance.

A Major in the French Foreign Legion and his men come across a mystery at a fort in the Sahara: all the soldiers are dead but still at their posts; the rest of the movie reveals the backstory involving three adventuresome brothers and a rare sapphire.

England’s King Henry II appoints his loyal friend, Thomas Becket, as Archbishop of Canterbury hoping he will put England and her king above the church, but Becket discovers a loyalty he never suspected.

When Father O’Malley comes to St. Mary’s parish to see whether its aging school should be shut down, he encounters a strong minded Sister Superior who he does not always agree with. (Sequel to Going My Way.)

A tale of the Christ, as He influences a prominent Jew who is betrayed and sent to the galleys by a Roman friend, yet regains his freedom and returns for revenge.

Three WWII veterans—a soldier, a sailor and an airman—become fast friends on their return trip to their small hometown, but each must overcome their own difficulties readjusting to families and life after war.

A New England sea captain arrives in the Old West where he finds his fiancée is the daughter of a man involved in a feud over water rights for cattle.

In the old West, a naive couple and child arrive in a small town hosting a poker game with the five richest men in the territory; the man gets into the game but his wife, knowing nothing about poker, is impelled to finish the final hand.

A semi-documentary about the post-WWII Berlin Airlift and the stories of two American GIs, one who was in a German POW camp and the other who has eyes for a war widow.

The idle son of a rich businessman joins the army when the USA enters WWI, befriends two working class soldiers and is sent to France where he falls in love with a French woman.

Summoned by a dying millionaire, a private eye is asked to resolve the blackmail of his flighty daughter over gambling debts, but then the daughter is plainly framed for murdering the blackmailer, and the plot thickens from there.

Based on the true story of Robert Stroud, a man convicted of murder, who ultimately finds himself sentenced to life in solitary, yet he keeps birds and becomes a recognized expert on birds and their diseases.

A bishop seeking guidance and wanting to build a cathedral receives unlikely help from an angel interested in things other than fundraising.

A rookie English teacher, desperately wanting to teach, finds a job in an inner-city school completely lacking in discipline and encounters resistance from students and fellow teachers.

When five nuns open a convent, with a school and hospital, high in the Himalayas, the atmosphere and surroundings seem to have an unusual psychological effect on all them.

An attachment forms between a boy and a mysterious black horse when a ship carrying them sinks and only they survive on a desert island, finally to be rescued and ultimately race together.

In the late 17th century, when Spain and England sign a peace, the English king appoints an ex-pirate as governor of Jamaica and assigns him the task of ridding the Caribbean of pirates, which he attempts with the help of other pirates.

A jailed American merchant sea captain is rescued from the Communist Chinese by local villagers because they want him to pilot the population of their entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.

The true story of Edna Gladney who opens a home for foundlings and orphans, placing the children in good homes, and who ultimately leads a fight to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from state records.

When a WWII service man returns to find his wife has been cheating on him, he walks out after a quarrel, but she is found dead the next morning and he becomes the chief suspect.

On a radio program, a dancer relates the story of a love triangle involving him, his former singing partner and nightclub owning good friend, and the woman they both still love, including the singer’s troubled marriage to the woman.

A WWII era propaganda picture aimed at convincing the U.S. public of the importance of bombardiers follows a class of cadets training to be bombardiers and ends with a battle climax.

A bored, small-town girl and a small-time robber recently out of the penitentiary join up and form the nucleus of a gang that carries out a series of violent robberies that garner newspaper headlines in the Depression-era Midwest.

The heartwarming true story of an African game warden and his wife who raise three lion cubs (after the game warden must put down their parents), in time developing a special relationship with one of them that they ultimately reintroduce to the wild.

A newspaperman is hired to coach the contentedly-ignorant fiancée of a multi-million dollar junk dealer who is in Washington DC attempting to manipulate legislation for his own benefit.

A Roman Catholic priest, Father Flanagan, starts an orphanage for wayward boys, believing “there is no such thing as a bad boy.”

A fictionalized account of 13th century Scottish commoner William Wallace leading a revolt against tyrannical English King Edward the Longshanks (aka King Edward I).

When a “kept man” moves into the apartment above a woman who’s selling herself as a “gentleman’s escort”—who also weekly visits a mob boss in Sing Sing—, something more than a friendship develops.

Near the end of WWII, the allies attempt to take the last bridge over the Rhine before the Nazis blow it up, thereby trapping their own men on the wrong side.

During WWII, a British colonel and his outfit, who were ordered to surrender, are interred in a Japanese prison camp and made to build a bridge, but the British colonel and the Japanese colonel are equally stubborn.

A doctor and a housewife, both already married, meet and have a series of innocent encounters that lead to temptations of infidelity with which they both must deal.

The devoted aviator godfather of an orphaned girl fights for custody against a snobbish but rich family. (Shirley sings “On the Good Ship Lollipop.”)

When a man who was run out of a tobacco town as a young man returns, he begins mass producing cigarettes and in the process exacts revenge on everyone who once treated him poorly, only to learn that revenge has its price too.

A scatterbrained woman uses her pet leopard, Baby, to catch a befuddled paleontologist, who is attempting to secure a major donation for his museum, leading to a series of misadventures.

Based on real events, an ex-Army Captain, by a simple act of kindness, begins a process that leads to friendship with Cochise and a peace between the Americans and his Apaches.

In San Francisco, a police detective and his team are asked to guard a Chicago mobster about to turn state’s evidence, but when an attempt is made against the mobster, something smells and the detective has to find out who is to blame.

A clerk at a department store, on her lunch break, is mistaken for the mother of a child left on the doorstep of a foundling home and everyone, including her playboy boss (and his father), believes the baby is hers. (Musical remake of Bachelor Mother.)

The two infamous bank and train robbers flee to Bolivia when the railroad magnate they keep stealing from finally gets fed up and hires lawmen to track them until they are dead or in jail.

A short showing several films of unusual happenings, or events, including the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

With NASA’s funding endangered, when it is discovered a planned mission to Mars cannot succeed because of a faulty life support system component, the head of NASA decides to fake the mission and he blackmails the astronauts to go along with it.

When her parents drowned, a lighthouse keeper rescued a little girl and raised her (without formally adopting her), but a truant officer wants to take her away so she can go to school.

A spoiled little rich boy falls off an ocean liner and is picked up by a Gloucester fishing vessel resulting in some hard lessons about the real world.

The true story of David Marshall Williams, a moonshiner sent to prison for the murder of a Federal agent, then to a chain gang, who eventually finds a way to channel his anger and bitterness, and invents an entirely new kind of gun while in prison.

An American expatriate saloon owner has some important documents necessary to a resistance leader and his wife attempting to flee Casablanca, but he harbors bitterness toward the wife, who previously jilted him in Paris.

In the Old West, when a wealthy development company murders the father of a school teacher, she turns outlaw and starts a gang with “a horse ranch indian, a drunken gunfighter, a sex maniac, and an uncle.”

The son of a missionary to China returns to his American hometown and (surprisingly) gets elected as mayor on the Reform ticket, so he reforms the town’s politics, all the time quoting from a Chinese philosopher (instead of Scripture).

Two British athletes—a devout Christian Scotsman running for the glory of God, and an English Jew hoping to make a statement about the ingrained prejudice against Jews by the British ruling class—compete in the 1924 Olympics.

Based on the real-life Gilbreth family, a story of anecdotes of life in a large family.

A dedicated teacher reminisces back over the years and realizes through both good and bad decisions, life does not always turn out as we expect.

When a China Seas captain rejects a former girlfriend for a high class English lady he once knew, the ex-girlfriend exacts revenge by aiding a drinking pal and Malaysian pirates seeking gold aboard his ship.

A television news crew coincidentally experiences an “event” at a nuclear power plant and subsequently discovers that the plant may not have been constructed according to safety requirements.

During a drought, a private investigator is hired by an impersonator to expose an adulterer, but when the “adulterer” ends up dead, the P.I. discovers this has more to do with Los Angeles’ water supply and a megalomaniacal ex-partner.

When an old miser is visited by the spirit of his old partner and those of Christmas Past, Present and Future, he repents and embraces Christmas.

Newlyweds participate in the Oklahoma Land Rush and end up running a newspaper, but his pioneer spirit pulls him away and causes friction in their marriage.

A young stud poker player in New Orleans, whom everyone thinks is good enough, tries to prove himself—resisting the “help” a gangster offers—in a high-stakes game against the recognized leader of stud poker.

An idealistic doctor leaves an internship in a Welsh town and works in a coal mining community, searching for the reason for the miners’ persistent cough, but prejudice forces him to London and a more lucrative, if slightly dishonest, society practice.

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters attempt to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

The Tramp is smitten by a blind girl, whom he tries to help.

In 48 BC, Cleopatra and Julius Caesar form a union that convinces the Roman Senate he is a traitor, resulting in his murder by the Senate, and leading to Marc Antony trying to capture her, but he is too is dazzled and enticed which leads to his suicide and her death.

A soldier on a two-day leave in New York city meets a girl who shows him the sights, and they decide to get married before he returns to camp.

When a utility worker investigates an area wide power outage, he witnesses a UFO and becomes haunted by headaches and obsessed with visions of an odd mountain in his head compelling him to travel to that mountain once he learns where it is and do more than see UFOs.

Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories that are producing a new jet fighter over the extremely high casualties such missions will cost.

Based on the true story of an FBI agent who attempted to track down a deadly ring of spies that was first discovered in Scotland but led into the USA (and the German-American Bund) before the USA was involved in WWII.

A (singing) blacksmith from Connecticut finds himself in King Arthur’s court, where a few twentieth century “miracles” places him in good graces with Arthur thereby allowing him to pursue Arthur’s already betrothed, but beautiful, niece.

A war hero ends up on a chain gang for vandalizing parking meters and builds a reputation with the other cons and the guards as one who refuses to conform to the rules.

An obstinate schoolteacher comes to a town in Wales and sets up a school for the young folks, many of whom work in the coal mines, but one young man shows promise and, with a little prodding, hopes to get a scholarship to Oxford.

When selfish men have the first mate of a French ship unjustly imprisoned for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him by his dying captain, he meets an imprisoned abbé who helps him escape and makes him wealthy so he can bring justice to his accusers.

Puritan Oliver Cromwell is reluctantly drawn into the English Civil War between Parliament and King Charles I over the issue of “the divine right of kings.”

French soldiers taken prisoner during WWII face a prison camp with difficult conditions and difficult choices, but some escape to join the French Resistance against the Nazis.

A young man who has plans to amount to something above “the crowd” gets married and has a couple kids and learns to be content as part of “the crowd.”

When a rich man comes into his fortune, he becomes one of the trustees of an orphanage that has two sisters whose parents were performers, and he decides to adopt them anonymously. (Shirley sings “Animal Crackers in My Soup.”)

A charismatic, proud, but physically unattractive swordsman-poet helps another not-so-eloquent soldier woo the woman they both love.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes San Quentin and is picked up by a woman who believes in his innocence, so she helps him but she knows many of the people he knew before prison.

Based on actual events, a British scientist conceives of a way to bomb Ruhr river dams essential to German WWII industry, and an RAF squadron flies in low and literally skips bombs across the water so the bombs explode at depth against the back face of the dams.

A Yankee Lieutenant, given his choice of post as a result of heroism during a Civil War battle, chooses “the frontier” where the army soon forgets about him but he makes friends with the Sioux.

When a U.S. President suffers a stroke and goes into a coma, to avoid a potential scandal, the good-natured owner of a temporary job agency with an astounding resemblance is asked to temporarily fill his shoes.

A graphic and disturbing account, centering around western Missouri and eastern Kansas, of the weeks leading up to and the effects following a devastating nuclear exchange between Russia and the U.S.

A veterinarian (posing as a doctor), and a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open.

A professional, using the code name “Jackal,” is employed by disgruntled French generals to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, while a humble French detective tries to track him down for the French government who has gotten wind of the hire.

When a spaceship lands in the middle of Washington DC, the messenger inside brings a message intended for the entire planet; but human nature gets in the way.

A convicted murderer on death row asks a nun to help him secure a stay of execution and, if that does not work, be his spiritual counselor as he is executed.

Based on an Agatha Christie mystery, Hercule Poirot solves the murder of a rich newlywed aboard a paddle boat on the Nile, and almost everyone on board has motive, means and opportunity.

A couple on vacation in Bermuda scuba dive an old wreck and discover a Spanish medallion (which could be part of a treasure ship), as well as an ampule of morphine (from a warship transporting medical supplies and munitions), which seems to garner more attention.

A reporter investigating why a member of the president’s cabinet has resigned discovers a comet is on a collision course with Earth and, although they are trying to fend it off, it may cause an Extinction Level Event, which will wipe out life on the planet.

When a truck carrying members of a chain gang runs off the road and overturns, two convicts chained together, a white man and a black man who despise each other, go on the run trying to escape.

The ex-slave who is caretaker of the robe Jesus wore is arrested and sentenced to become a gladiator, but he ends up a Roman tribune, temporarily abandoning his faith (having an affair with the wife of the next emperor) until he repents. (Sequel to The Robe.)

Germany’s former leader of the Afrika Korps inspects and fortifies the defenses against European invasion while witnessing the decay of the German command leading to his minor part in an assassination attempt on Hilter and his eventual forced suicide.

A British Army officer is put in charge of Australian and New Zealand troops as they desperately attempt to defend Tobruk against the German Army under Rommel.

Power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California’s Salton Sea.

A US submarine during the early days of WWII is tasked with going to Tokyo bay and providing information vital to the success of the Doolittle raid. (See also Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)

In 19th century New Hampshire, a down-on-his-luck farmer makes a contract with the Devil for economic success; but when the Devil comes back to collect, the farmer enlists the help of Daniel Webster get himself out of the contract.

A wealthy tycoon and department store owner goes under cover as a shoe salesman in his own store to identify who the union organizers are, but he gets involved in their lives and begins to see things from the other side.

A former tennis player blackmails a former schoolmate with a shady past into murdering his wife while the ex-tennis player has a perfect alibi, but when things go awry, he has to improvise another plan, planting evidence to get his wife convicted of murder.

Based on incidents recorded in Anne’s diary, a half dozen Jews hide in a couple of rooms above her father’s former place of business in Nazi occupied Amsterdam for two years during WWII.

A New York cop arrives in Los Angeles to attend a Christmas party at the skyscraper which houses the company his wife works for only to discover terrorists have taken over the building and it is mostly up to him to stop them.

Shirley lives with her pick-pocket grandfather, singing and dancing while her grandfather plies his trade, but a rich lady makes it possible for her to be brought up in a more “appropriate” home.

A US Major trains and leads a dozen convicted murders and other long-sentence criminals on a raid of a chateau used as a rest center for high-level German officers shortly before D-Day during WWII.

A tax accountant and notary, on vacation in San Francisco, learns he has been given a poison and only has a few days to learn who killed him and why.

When the son of an eminent New York City surgeon (who is domineering and controlling of his children’s lives) becomes a doctor, he discovers compassion and that even the poor of the lower East Side need the assistance of the healing arts.

A Russian doctor and poet, although married, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and endures hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution.

A romantic line, smitten by a dot that has eyes for a squiggle, learns to adapt and overcome.

A smooth talking insurance salesman meets the seductive wife of a client and she intimates murdering her husband to collect the insurance, but he figures out how to collect double the amount via the double indemnity clause of the policy.

The son of an Argentine horse farm owner is forbidden from selling horses to the family of the girl he falls in love with so she goes to Argentina to exact revenge and instead furthers the romance.

The captain of a whaling ship, with a reputation of building character in his crew, takes on a first mate whom he assigns the task of educating his grandson.

A story based on truth, about the Nobel prize winning doctor who developed ways of using chemicals to fight disease, including syphilis.

An insane U.S. general initiates a nuclear attack on Russia, and a war room full of politicians and generals frantically attempt to stop it.

As the War for Independence begins, a pair of newlyweds attempt to establish a farm on the frontier in the Mohawk Valley of New York but are harassed by indians and Tories.

Daffy Duck is tormented by his animator. (Bugs delivers his famous, “Ain’t I stinker?” line.)

Groucho is named dictator of a bankrupt country, Freedonia, and declares war on neighboring Sylvania.

A collection of 8 short films made by D.W.Griffith, an early film pioneer, between 1910 and 1913.

When a dancer’s long-time partner quits the act for greener pastures, he decides he can make a better dancer out of a girl in a chorus and proceeds to do so.

Before and after America’s entry into WWI, the black sheep of the family, competing against his favored brother, desperately desires his father’s love, even trying to buy it after his father loses a fortune trying to ship refrigerated lettuce.

After scoring a big drug deal, two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Marti Gras, most of the time living a drug induced lifestyle.

When German pilots in WWII notice a Norwegian flag flying over a previously occupied fishing village, troops are sent in and learn that, after two years of oppressive occupation, the villagers have revolted.

As an elderly Edison awaits being honored on the fiftieth anniversary of the electric light, he reflects back on the path and inventions that led him to these circumstances. (Sequel to Young Tom Edison.)

An aging gunfighter turns down a job on one side of a range war but later decides to join the other side when he learns an old friend has taken to the bottle and needs his help.

A fast talking, hard drinking traveling appliance salesman falls for a female tent revivalist and joins the team preaching hellfire and damnation.

During the Civil War, at an Arizona camp for Confederate prisoners, a Union Captain ruthlessly retrieves escapees amongst a Mescalaro uprising.

The daughter of a radio station owner discovers a hobo in an Arkansas jail who becomes an overnight radio sensation, yet as he becomes drunk with fame and power, his fraudulent nature becomes evident.

An airline executive refuses to believe pilot error caused a fatal crash—even though the pilot was seen in a bar just hours before takeoff—so he searches for another reason.

A scruffy, whiskey-swilling, escapist drifter gets conned into a coast-watchers job in the Pacific during WWII and ends up with a supercilious women and seven “young ladies” on his hands.

A Korean War POW returns to Washington D.C. to find the public relations business he and his partner started in the hands of a former employee, his partner dead under mysterious circumstances, and the former employee pedaling propaganda.

An inexperienced JAG corps attorney with a track record of plea bargaining is assigned a case where two marines are accused of murdering a third, but they claim the death was a consequence of obeying an order from a superior officer.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, in pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish milkman contends with his three oldest daughters going against tradition as they decide whom to marry.

A loudmouthed braggart joins a famous Irish regiment and alienates his comrades and officers, and once in combat he proves himself something of a coward, but Father Duffy, the chaplain, still believes in him.

As the Navy begins to recognize that construction crews in war zones need to be combat ready servicemen instead of civilians, they create the Construction Battalions (or Seabees).

Based on actual events, a close-knit group of five Irish-American brothers grow up in Iowa, getting into their share of mischief, until the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, then enlisting in the Navy together, and serving on the same ship until it is sunk near Guadalcanal.

A collection of 30 short films made by Thomas Alva Edison between 1893 and 1915.

A british soldier stumbles out of the African desert into a remote hotel that soon becomes occupied by the advancing Field Marshal Rommel, and before he can kill him, he discovers he must instead get some vital intelligence to the British in Cairo.

After a plane crash in the desert, one of the survivors claims he can redesign the wreckage so as to fly the survivors out if only everyone will build it.

The job of the leader of the American mercenary group resisting the Japanese in the skies over China prior to the start of WWII is complicated by an old friend and reckless hotshot pilot.

Twenty years after the first manned moon landing, a documentary that focuses on the human aspects of the Apollo space flights using only the astronaut’s words and actual mission footage.

In the days leading up to WWII, a New York newspaper, tired of the “same ol’ daily bunkaroo” from their foreign correspondents in Europe, send a “real reporter” over to dig up facts.

A man of low I.Q. unexpectedly accomplishes extraordinary things and is present during several significant historic events just by being himself.

In the early American west, an honorable, veteran calvary captain chafes a bit when placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel who has no respect for (nor understanding of) the local indians.

A cameraman at a football game is hit pretty hard and rushed to the hospital where his shyster lawyer brother-in-law convinces him to exaggerate the injury and go for a big money settlement from the insurance company.

An American, allied with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategic bridge.

A divorced librarian in San Francisco has a chance encounter with a spy who has discovered a plot to assassinate the pope and finds herself being chased by an albino and a guy known as scarface, as well as being warned to watch for “the dwarf.”

An uncompromising, visionary architect maintains his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular conformist and collectivist standards.

In Victorian England, a soldier resigns his commission immediately before his regiment’s embarkation for battle and four people each give him a white feather—an accusation of cowardice—, so he decides to do whatever it takes to make them take their feathers back.

The grandsons of a wealthy Argentine gaucho with two sons-in-law, one French and the other German, fight on opposite sides of WWI.

The horror classic about an obsessed scientist who assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

A family of Quakers in 1862 Indiana struggle with the pacifism of their religion when Southern troops pass near their farm.

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is given “the treatment” for being unwilling to box on his company’s team while his captain’s wife and second in command are having an illicit affair.

The last remaining Roman Catholic priest is hunted and persecuted by a totalitarian, anti-clerical Mexican regime.

A Chicago surgeon, convicted of brutally murdering his wife, gets an opportunity to escape on his way to prison and, with U.S. Marshals pursuing him, sets out to prove a one armed man murdered his wife (as he always maintained).

A biopic about comedienne Fanny Brice, from her desire to get out of the Jewish Lower East Side of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfield Follies and her marriage to a professional gambler and the troubles that brings.

When an unjustly accused man barely survives an attack on the jail by a lynch mob and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to bring 22 members of the mob to trial for his murder.

Biography of Mohandas Gandhi, the lawyer who, through his philosophy of nonviolent protest, became the famed leader for Indian independence from British rule.

A young woman and her new husband move back into the house where the woman’s aunt was mysteriously murdered years before, and the woman begins to have suspicions about her sanity.

The widow of a former U.S. President wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her protection detail even though he would rather be anywhere else (because she is very difficult with her whims and demands).

Based on real events, when Union spies steal a Confederate engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through beyond enemy lines.

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to write a story on anti-Semitism, personally discovering the depths of bigotry and hatred in the world around him.

Based on the original cartoon, a wealthy heiress, pursued by her jerk fiancée, goes to Africa and is rescued by George (who has an ape friend named Ape, and a pet “doggy” that is really an elephant), and a romance blossoms.

In the early 1900s, a young, spunky widow and mother moves into a haunted British seaside cottage, and the haunting ghost, an old sea captain, helps her write a book based on his memoirs.

When a Texas cattleman visits a farm back East to buy a prize horse, he meets and marries the owner’s daughter, taking her back to his 500,000+ acre ranch and the challenges that has for them over the next 25+ years.

In 1900 Paris, the rich nephew of a man with great contempt for marriage tires of the Parisian social life and begins to appreciate his platonic friendship with a young girl whose aunt is giving her lessons in being a mistress (a “kept” woman).

A crooked gambler, newly arrived in Argentina, has his life saved by the owner of a casino, for whom he goes to work, but the relationship changes when the casino owner marries Gilda, a beautiful woman the gambler seems to have known in his past.

An artist falls for a school teacher—who wants to be admired for her mind, but—who happens to look like the artist’s famous illustrated woman—who is actually constructed from the various parts of 12 different models.

Showcasing several of his more famous tunes, this is the story of a musician struggling to find that signature sound that would be uniquely his and bring him to be the quintessential big band leader.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company through preparations, prejudice (that prevents them from fighting), and then finally into a deadly frontal assault of a Confederate fort; a true story.

While trying to legitimize his business dealings and remove himself from the violent underworld, an aging mafia godfather takes a young protege under his wing and wrestles with his conscience.

Based on actual events, Robert L. Scott, who always wanted to be a fighter pilot, is flying transport planes over the Burma Hump into China when he gets his chance to fly for General Chennault of the Flying Tigers.

When an Atheist Society becomes a problem at a high school, the Christian faction attempts to deal with it leading to a riot in which a girl is killed, thus causing the leaders of both factions being convicted for manslaughter and sent to a reformatory.

A young priest with progressive (yet orthodox) ideas is sent to help a parish run by a more conventional, aging priest who has been with the parish 45 years—since its inception. (Prequel to The Bells of St. Mary’s.)

During the Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction in the American South, a selfish and manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair.

A divorced, unemployed dancer (and her daughter) discovers that her actor boyfriend dumped her and sublet the apartment to another actor, thereby essentially forcing her to have to share the apartment with the other actor.

An aged classics master reflects on his long career, remembering pupils, colleagues and especially the courtship, marriage and unexpected death of the woman that transformed his life.

In China, a young farmer marries a kitchen slave and, by diligence and frugality, they enlarge their property; but famine drives them to a city, until by looting during a revolution they attain wealth and he, eventually, a second wife (and the problems she brings).

During the Vietnam War, a U.S. airman disc jockey is transferred from Crete to Vietnam so his humor can raise morale, and although he is popular with the troops, he runs afoul of the radio station’s middle management because of his unorthodox style.

A musical about an assistant librarian working her way through college who falls for the football star who is being pursued by the sorority gold digger.

In the Wild West, the Marx Brothers help out when a young man (who hopes to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves) runs afoul of crooks.

Poor sharecroppers from Oklahoma, including a man just paroled after murdering a man, are forced off “their” land due to foreclosure from the Great Depression and dust bowl conditions, and they head to California looking for work.

In a timely satire against dictators, a poor Jewish barber survives WWI (as an amnesiac) until he is one day mistaken for the dictator of Tomania, Adenoid Hynkel, who hopes to take over the world.

The essentially fact based story of a group of WWII Allied fliers who attempt a massive escape from a German POW camp.

To ensure a full season, a circus manager engages a flyer known for attracting customers but who also has a reputation for causing other problems within a circus, resulting in a competition between the new flyer and the other lead flyer, the manager’s girlfriend.

Based on the Dickens novel, a good hearted orphan, apprenticed as a blacksmith, becomes a gentleman through the help of an unknown benefactor.

The true story of how Father Damien sacrifices himself amongst the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

A (rather inaccurate) biopic of Florenz Ziegfield, famed Broadway producer of extravagant stage revues.

When a journalist questions whether the US should be in Vietnam, a colonel challenges him to see for himself, so he joins the colonel who oversees reinforcing a camp that gets invaded by Viet Cong, and the capture of a North Vietnamese general.

An old man reflects back on his time during the Great Depression when he was in charge of death row and executions in Louisiana, in particular when a simple minded, but singularly unique, giant of a man was convicted of raping and murdering two girls.

When the white daughter of liberal parents returns from Hawaii with the black man she declares she is going to marry, conversations regarding the difficulties they will have ensue.

In 19th century India, three rascally British soldiers, one of which is about to leave the service and get married, and the eponymous native water bearer pursue a secret murderous cult before it can ravage the land.

During WWII, a group of British commandos is tasked with getting into occupied Greece and destroying a massive German gun emplacement that controls a key sea channel.

When the organizer of the “oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York” bets a high rolling gambler he cannot take a cold female missionary to Havana, the gambler and missionary fall for each other.

When an innocent ex-lawman barely survives a lynching for allegedly rustling cattle, he returns as a marshall determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.

A mysterious and controlling doctor with a hidden past comes to a gold rush mining camp where he subsequently saves the lives of a “sluice thief” and a Swedish lady, the victim of a stagecoach robbery gone bad.

Bugs Bunny is tricked into being shot to the moon and, once there, finds Marvin the Martian attempting to blow up Earth.

The sister of a mild-mannered, pleasant man—who happens to have a 6-foot invisible rabbit for a friend—tries to get her brother committed to a mental institution.

When WWII ends in Burma, a difficult to get along with Scotsman whose wounds have apparently healed cannot understand why he cannot go home and is instead added to a ward where the other patients are being nice to him.

In the wilds of Africa, a group of men (and one woman) capture animals for sale to zoos when a woman photographer from a Swiss zoo shows up to take photos of the hunt and, before it is all over, she has been befriended by three baby elephants.

During WWII, a marine finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific, but he discovers a nun already there, and the marine provides their supplies while they await rescue—until the Japanese land and they have to hide in a cave.

A spirited orphan girl is abruptly dumped by her wicked aunt into her reclusive grandfather’s care, and just as they are starting to get along, the aunt returns to take and sell her into indentured servitude as a companion for a wheelchair bound girl.

A young, naive woman who will likely inherit a fortune falls for a handsome, yet poor, young man whom her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

During WWII, a small squad of American GIs is ordered to hold a ridge that would normally require a company, so they attempt to make the enemy think they are stronger than they really are.

A cocky iron worker joins the Navy for the wrong reasons but falls for his superior’s sister, and is twice cited for heroism.

A retiring lawman, leaving town with his Quaker bride, learns a murderer he put away is returning on the noon train for his avowed revenge.

When a crook is pardoned, he goes to California to participate in a big heist planned by the thug who helped get him pardoned, only to find he is mixed up with amateurs.

When an ex-husband and two tabloid reporters show up before her planned remarriage, a rich society-woman begins to learn the truth about herself. (Musical version of The Philadelphia Story.)

In a British military prison in North Africa during WWII, convicted British soldiers struggle to survive harsh conditions, including having to run over a steep, man made hill, and sadistic guards.

The hard drinking proprietor of a boot shop in England, a widower with three unmarried daughters, gets quite a surprise when his eldest daughter marries his not very ambitious, but quite skilled, boot maker and they go into direct competition.

Two soldiers on leave after being wounded spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen and meet some of their favorite movie stars, including the girls they dream about; a variety show Warner Bros. uses to show off many of their stars.

A man raised by Apaches, an outcast by the other passengers on a stagecoach that is robbed by outlaws, appears to be their only hope for survival.

Father Charles Dismas Clark helps a youth cope with the stigma of being “an ex-convict” and co-founds Dismas House.
(One scene filmed at St. Louis University High School [SLUH].)

In 1950s Indiana, a coach with a somewhat checkered past comes to a small town and, along with the town drunk, coaches a group of boys from a small high school (only 64 boys) in the fundamentals of basketball to become a contender for the state championship.

Groucho becomes the new president of the university his son has been attending and they need football players to improve the sports program.

A former railroad design engineer turned Union Colonel leads a calvary troop with a rebellious doctor deep into Confederate territory to destroy a rail/supply center.

A biography of the escape artist, magician and spiritualist debunker.

A propaganda short where a young Frank Sinatra confronts a group of young boys in an alley because they are bullying a smaller boy over his religion.

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons, and the prejudices they faced as Jews.

Based on a true story, an American college student of German descent is contacted by the Nazis about becoming a spy, but he contacts the FBI and instead becomes a double agent hoping to lead them to the head of a German spy ring in New York.

In a Welsh coal mining community, a man’s sons want to unionize, but he is against it; his daughter marries (against her heart because she loves the unmarried preacher) the mine owner’s son, and the youngest son seems to have potential as a scholar.

Follows four generations of a family as they settle the American West: including the mountain man, farmer, dance hall girl, tin horn gambler, soldier, & marshal.

A woman who must steal a statue from a Paris museum to conceal her father’s art forgeries enlists the aid of a “society burglar.”

When his big brother goes off to serve in WWII, we see a slice of small town life on the home-front as a teenage boy, whose father died two years ago, gets a job delivering telegrams and tries to step into the responsibilities as the head of the family.

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated and twisted Chief Justice, but the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral comes to her aid.

When the Soviets create a new nuclear submarine with a virtually silent propulsion system and a captain is assigned to test it, the captain and his officers decide to defect, but a CIA analyst suspects and tries to intervene.

A South Sea Island sailor is unjustly imprisoned after a saloon brawl and his jail time is relentlessly extended after each escape attempt; finally he succeeds and crosses the vast Pacific to return immediately before an historic hurricane.

Based on the life of Robert Elliot Burns: a WWI vet, unable to find work, is literally forced at gunpoint to steal; then he is unjustly convicted and ends up on a chain gang, but escapes only to be discovered later.

After a mentally challenged man has a child with a homeless woman—who promptly abandons both father and daughter—, he finds he has to fight to keep custody of the child as she grows beyond his mental capabilities.

A murderer confesses to his priest, but he later becomes concerned the priest will turn him in, especially after the priest becomes the prime suspect and is actually put on trial for the murder.

The Tramp is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and later, in New York and penniless, finds a coin on the street and has a meal, but has lost the coin before he is required to use it to pay for the meal.

An alien civilization with superior technology shows up with a massive spaceship and several huge “city destroyers” with which they attempt to annihilate humanity so they can harvest Earth’s resources, but, led by a former fighter pilot president, humanity fights back.

When the first of a pair of tablets detailing the location of the Holy Grail is found and the lead researcher pursuing it subsequently goes missing, the wealthy collector financing the project contacts famed archaeologist Indiana Jones and convinces him to pick up the trail.

A career naval officer who takes a risk and loses his ship the day of Pearl Harbor is demoted to a desk job until he is needed to replace a take-no-chances Admiral who cannot seem to capture the island assigned.

An inaccurate account of the two famous lawyers attempting to argue the case for and against a teacher who knowingly violated a Tennessee state law forbidding the teaching of human evolution.

Based on real events, an English domestic, Gladys Aylward, convinced God has called her as a missionary to China—although turned down by the mission’s board—, works her way overland to a remote village in northern China, serving and ultimately becoming revered.

A black police officer, passing through a small Southern town, is first suspected of, and then asked to help solve, the murder of a man who came to town to build a factory.

Thirty years after Kennedy’s assassination, an assassin willing to trade his life for the current President’s plays cat and mouse via phone calls with a secret service agent (who was on Kennedy’s detail) during a re-election run.

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with three other tales of hatred and intolerance from throughout history

In 1940s Mississippi, when a proud black man is arrested for allegedly shooting a white man in the back, two teenage boys and an elderly woman help prevent him from being lynched.

The touching story of a British destroyer—and the lives of those who sail her—from her laying down to her sinking in the Mediterranean during action in WWII.

The story of collegiate football coach and WWI major, Frank Cavanaugh.

A department store salesgirl with plenty of “it” (i.e. sex appeal) pursues the son of the owner of the store.

An amateur gambler and a womanizer are partners in a crop dusting operation and when the gambler gets them in debt, a sheriff seizes their plane so they head to Seattle for the World’s fair, meeting a cute little asian girl whose uncle has unexpectedly disappeared.

A widow in the lobster business takes on a railroad magnate when his penny pinching ways kills a shipment of her lobsters.

The dying words of a thief lead to a cross country rush to locate some hidden treasure.

After a life of unintentional selflessness, a man finds himself suicidal when his business comes up short in its accounts, but a simple minded angel saves him by showing him what the world would have been like if he never lived.

When King Leopold of Austria captures King Richard the Lionheart for ransom, Ivanhoe locates him and goes to England to ransom him before Prince John and “certain Norman knights” can prevent the ransoming.

A French officer in post-WWII Germany falls in love with a WAC, they marry and they have a bit of trouble getting him in the USA as a “war bride.”

A WWII marine on a South Sea island tells tall tales about his influence in the careers of various show business personalities and his buddies don’t know what to believe—until a star he allegedly helped makes a stop over on the island.

While serving a year for manslaughter, a rude, punk kid learns from his cellmate, a former country singer, and when he gets out he goes into the music and record business and becomes a star, albeit one without much class.

In a New York ghetto, the son of a Jewish Cantor—a chanter of hymns in the synagogue—leaves home to be a jazz singer even though his father sees it as sacrilegious, and he later has to choose which is more important: God and family or his career.

A man flees civilization and heads for the Rocky Mountains hoping to be a mountain man where he meets some rather colorful people: a man solely interested in hunting grizzly bears, the “crazy woman” and the guy whose shaved his head to keep from getting scalped.

A deaf mute woman is befriended and tutored by a doctor in Cape Breton, and when she is later raped, the resulting pregnancy causes scandal.

In the years following WWII, the most important Nazi leaders have already been tried and an American judge comes to Nuremberg to oversee the trial of four judicial officers who oversaw the Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies.

A short reenacting the discovery, sale and cutting of the 726-carat Jonker diamond, one of the largest uncut diamonds at the time.

A boy and his mother move from New Jersey to California where the boy is bullied at his new school by kids who study karate, but the handyman at the boy’s apartment complex agrees to train the boy and teaches him there is more to the martial art than fighting.

A platoon of U.S. soldiers during WWII, led by an Ex-Lieutenant, go after 14,000 bars of gold held in a bank 30 miles behind the German lines hoping to collect some of the spoils of war.

When a dead WWII hero’s commanding officer pays a visit to a Key Largo, Florida, hotel to see the hero’s widow and father—the hotel owners—, he stumbles onto a gangster’s mob who is waiting to make a deal with another gangster in the middle of a hurricane.

The flashback narrative of a Roman Catholic priest—in the eyes of the more worldly, a failure—who goes to China as a missionary and proves himself faithful to his calling.

The Tramp finds an orphan on the street with a note asking the finder to care for the child, which he gladly does until a doctor calls the Orphan Asylum.

When a duke refuses to allow the burial in the family vault of a man’s mother, a rightful heir, the man decides to do away with the other heirs who stand ahead of him in line of succession.

A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot, but when the local natives capture the female lead and offer her as a sacrifice to a giant gorilla, a rescue mission is mounted, the gorilla is captured and taken to New York City where it escapes.

The life of Jesus, with quite a bit of extra-biblical material; drama over substance and understanding, biblical sounding language over biblical accuracy, pious sounding words over piety.

A (confused) telling of the story of Jesus’ ministry; often almost overly reverent (e.g. halos, King James English), regularly quotes scripture (but frequently out of context, e.g., mixes Roman tax with Temple tax, Satan’s temptation of Jesus is at the end of His ministry, etc.). Some startling imagery, but subtly unauthoritative.

A rich English woman shows up in darkest Africa looking to hire a guide to lead an expedition through uncharted African territory in an effort to locate her husband who, two years previously, went in search of King Solomon’s legendary treasure.

When the knight he is serving dies, a thatcher’s son—who hopes to “change his stars”—gets his chance, and he and his companions continue the lie, even though he is not of noble birth, with significant success.

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

An unhappy wife and mother abandons her career-obsessed husband and six year old son, so the father learns to care for the son single handedly at the cost of his career, but the mother eventually returns wanting custody of her son.

A father-daughter team of card sharks attempts to fleece the naive heir to brewery millions until the daughter falls for the mark and the mark learns they are known con artists.

An out of work Yorkshireman needs money and sells his son’s collie to a Scottish Duke, but the collie’s love is so strong she walks all the way home.

See also One Man’s Journey.

The life story of the last emperor of China from his coronation as a toddler in the Forbidden City through his abdication, decline and exploitation by the invading Japanese, and ultimately into obscurity under Communism.

The final two men of a dying American Indian tribe, the Mohicans, as well as their white adopted son and brother come to the rescue of the daughters of an English Colonel on the frontier during the French and Indian War.

A meek clerk who regularly overseas a shipment of bullion enlists the aide of an eccentric neighbor to steal a shipment of gold and smuggle it out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

A character study of the enigmatic British officer T.E.Lawrence as he assists in unifying the Arab tribes during their revolt against the Turkish Ottoman Empire during WWI.

In early 19th century France, a man is convicted of stealing bread; then as an ex-convict, he reforms, but a prison guard pursues him relentlessly because he fails to honor the requirements of his parole.

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims self-defense, but a letter, written in her own hand, turns up in the possession of the dead man’s widow and is for sale.

A short that explains why the Letterbox format on television has become necessary and its benefits over pan-and-scan editing.

Based on actual events, an outspoken, penniless writer meets a distraught prostitute inspiring him to write her story which thrusts him to fame, a fame later called upon when he writes an open letter accusing the French government and military of injustice in the Dreyfus Affair.

A charming, naive French girl with nowhere to go, joins up with a circus troupe where she interacts with puppets, seemingly forgetting that there are puppeteers.

The Mother Superior of five Roman Catholic nuns—who have escaped over the Wall from East Germany and come to Arizona—believes God has sent her a big, strong (Baptist) man to build her a chapel.

A fading comedian and a suicidal ballerina look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.

A 121 year old man recounts his being captured and raised by indians, tarred and feathered by his sister (for selling snake oil), becoming a gun fighter, a store keeper, marrying several women (white and indian), and being the only white survivor of Custer’s Last Stand.

A arrogant, two-bit thug rises to the head of an organized crime gang only to go soft over a friend and end up in the gutter once more.

When the father a little girl (who has left her as collateral on a bet) dies, the rough crowd of the bookmaker’s acquaintances notice their rough ways rubbing off on the cute child and they try to do something about restoring her innocence.

In Victorian England, a little girl is left by her (widower) soldier father in an exclusive seminary for girls as he goes off to fight in the Boer war, and when he is reported dead, she refuses to believe it even as she becomes a servant to the other girls.

When the Civil Ware breaks out, the “littlest rebel” (all of six years old), does her part as her father spies for the Confederacy. (Shirley sings “Polly Wolly Doodle.”)

Four daughters, struggling with selfishness and poverty, grow up with their mother as their father serves as a minister to troops during the American Civil War, one of the daughters hoping to be a writer.

Four daughters, struggling with selfishness and poverty, grow up with their mother as their father serves as a minister to troops during the American Civil War, one of the daughters hoping to be a writer.

In the 23rd century, survivors of a catastrophe are living only for pleasure in a great domed city with all their needs met except, like it or not, no one lives beyond their 30th birthday.

The life story of Martin Maher, an Irish immigrant who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer that spends his 50 year career at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

When a rather spoiled adolescent is pinched as part of a jewelry heist, he is sent to a school that trains boys to be merchant seamen, where his attitude receives a bit of adjustment.

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman attempts to redeem himself by running munitions to a Cambodian village in resistance against a war lord.

A British diplomat and four others escaping civil unrest in China by plane find themselves kidnapped and taken to a secluded land called Shangri-La. (Film restored, with the video of some scenes filled with freeze frame.)

An engaged French playboy has an unexpected shipboard romance with an American (who is also engaged) while on their way to New York, and they arrange to meet in 6 months after he has had a chance to learn whether he can earn a living. (See also An Affair to Remember.)

When a young woman from an overprotective Italian-American family finds herself pregnant from a regretted one night stand, she locates the father and, while they are attempting to obtain a back-alley abortion, they learn some lessons about life, love and family.

A biopic about Vincent van Gogh, including his tortured soul, showcasing many of his paintings.

An ex-army officer, a singer and a “salesman” get mixed up with a diamond smuggling casino owner in the Far East.

A brilliant female student does work in the laboratory of an avowed bachelor and physicist, they marry and embark upon discoveries that lead to the Nobel Prize.

Based on actual events: An early British pioneer in moving pictures struggles to remain financially solvent as he conducts his experiments at the expense of his family and other business interests.

Because a bandit continually terrorizes a Mexican farming village, the villagers hire professional gunmen to teach them how to defend their village.

A WWII propaganda piece encouraging people, including women, to put in extra labor to help with the war effort.

George Bernard Shaw's story about an idealistic woman who is a major in the Salvation Army with a great devotion to helping the poor, but at odds with her beau, a Greek professor, and her father, a munitions tycoon.

Sam Spade, a smart yet tough private investigator, is drawn into looking for a fabulously valuable statuette—“the stuff that dreams are made of.”

The stepson of a U.S. Senator is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic part during a patrol action during the Korean War, but other participants are having alarming recurring dreams that do not quite agree with his citation.

A biopic of Sir Thomas More, who died a martyr’s death because he stood up to King Henry VIII when the king rejected the Roman Catholic Church in order to obtain a divorce from Catherine, his first wife, and marry Anne Boleyn.

A short detailing evidence for David E. George’s 1903 claim, on his deathbed, to really be John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

When the king of France has twin sons, the youngest is raised in secret by a musketeer until the oldest, now king, discovers the deception and has his twin imprisoned in the Bastille wearing an iron mask to conceal his identity.

A widowed family doctor starts a new life in a small town with not much, including patients, but ultimately is recognized as being a great asset. See also One Man’s Journey.

An American doctor, his ex-singer wife and their son are vacationing in Marrakech when a man they met the day before is murdered in the market place and, before dying, whispers a desperate secret to the doctor.

A lawyer and senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw that once beat and robbed him, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about the past.

In Spanish California, an oppressive colonial government is challenged by a masked rider who scars the faces of evildoers, while an effete nobleman reluctantly courts the daughter of another nobleman.

A 34 year old Bronx butcher, who lives with his mother and is constantly pressured to get married, meets a 29 year old school teacher and they have a good time together, simply enjoying each other’s company.

When the daughter of a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory returns home from school, everyone is surprised to see his estranged and headstrong wife—who has been living the society life—return as well.

A woman reporter, about to lose her job, writes an article based on a fake suicide note (allegedly by “John Doe”, an “average man”) that sparks a “love your neighbor” movement that a rich man tries to hijack for his own political gain.

In 1903 St. Louis, a family is anticipating the upcoming World’s Fair, the two oldest daughters think about little other than the fair and getting married, the youngest daughter is quite morbid, and the father surprises everyone by accepting a job in New York.

Father Flanagan rescues a very bitter, paralyzed boy from a reform school, and Boys Town’s mayor goes to live with wealthy potential adoptive parents all while Boys Town finds itself in deep financial difficulties.

A dizzy society matron who has a habit of hiring tramps and hobos as chauffeurs—without much success—unwittingly hires a famous writer whose had car trouble but he quickly seems more of a guest than a chauffeur.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A dramatization of the Battle of Midway, which is widely regarded as the turning point in the Pacific Theatre of WWII.

While a pushy and persuasive promoter is combing Africa for wild beasts for his next great Hollywood attraction, he encounters a huge ape that was raised by a pretty young girl and they become his headliners.

After a woman’s husband leaves her, she proves she can survive by opening and running several restaurants, but her extremely spoiled daughter invariably looks down upon her for her commonness.

The proprietor of a dockside rooming house and tavern is forced to make some difficult decisions about the future of the young woman she raised since she was an infant.

During WWII, after an all-night send-off party for soldiers, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband’s identity.

The true story of a “half-blind Yankee schoolgirl” named Annie Sullivan coming to the post-Civil War South to tutor a blind, deaf and mute child, Helen Keller, and, through stubbornness and love, teaching her how to communicate.

The cargo officer of an unimportant supply ship during the closing days of WWII, afraid the war is passing him by, repeatedly asks for a transfer but his tyrannical captain steadfastly refuses.

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain’s self-destructive obsession to hunt a white whale that had taken one of his legs.

A WWII propaganda film attempting to convince Americans to not spread or listen to unsubstantiated rumors.

A simple-hearted Vermont tuba player and greeting card poet inherits a fortune and becomes a target for moochers, phonies and a sensationalist reporter.

A musician takes a teaching job to pay the rent so he can compose on the side, but he is soon challenged that his heart is not in his work, and he finds his life more rewarding when he gives his all even though his composing suffers.

An idealistic youth leader is appointed senator in hopes he will overlook the graft buried in a currently proposed bill.

The wife and mother of a middle-class English family and her architect husband demonstrate their character through the early years of WWII as their son joins the RAF and, meets and marries the granddaughter of the village Lady.