Frank Capra
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1941.
Language
English
Description
A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a fictitious column about someone named "John Doe," who is distraught at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. The newspaper then hires an ex-ballplayer (Gary Cooper) to pose as John Doe. In a series of radio addresses written by a publisher with fascist leanings, Doe captures the public's imagination. When he finally realizes he has been used, Doe comes to his senses and becomes the...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
The official World War II US Government account of Great Britain's stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk evacuation. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
The World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
10) Prelude to War
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
11) Why We Fight
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general2s concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen's enemies.
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
They are rugged pioneers, Indian fighters and brave trailblazers who tame the wild west. These are the women of the great frontier. Buck Wyatt is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train comprised of two ex-show girls, a hearty widow and fifteen men who act as guides. When one of the men disobeys Buck's orders not to fratenize with the ladies, Buck shoots him, causing the others to desert. The determined women insist on going on, learning...
15) Lost horizon
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A farewell to arms (1932, 75 min.): A wounded American soldier falls in love with his beautiful English nurse during World War I.
Meet John Doe (1941, 117 min.): A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will, and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
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