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Storm Over Asia
(1928) [PG]

Originally Potomak Chingis-khan (The Heir to Genghis Khan), Russian filmmaker Vsevolod Pudovkin's Storm Over Asia is set in Central Asia in 1920. Valeri Inkijinov plays a young Mongolian trapper ostracized from his village after he is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European trader....  More

General, The (1927)
(1927) [G]

Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marian Mack), young Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with his cherished locomotive. What follows is, without exaggeration, probably the most cleverly choreographed comedy...  More

Barry Lyndon
(1975) [PG]

How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of the 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal) the answer is: any way he can! Barry is a pining suitor, a duellist, a vagabond, a soldier in the Seven Years War, a rogue, a spy, a card shark - all way stations on the...  More

The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
(1970) [M]

Dominique Sanda plays the daughter of a cultured Italian Jewish family of immense wealth, languishing in aristocratic privilege on their estate, oblivious, until the end, to the danger that Fascism poses for their precious world.

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The Story Of G. I. Joe
(1945) [PG]

Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith star in this gripping World War II drama based on the newspaper columns of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Directed by legendary filmmaker William Wellman, The Story Of G.I. Joe depicts Ernie Pyle's (Meredith) experiences with the men of...  More

Salvador
(1986) [MA]

A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press,...  More

From Here To Eternity
(1953) [PG]

In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own...  More

The Best Of Dad's Army
(1969) [G]

THE DEADLY ATTACHMENT Face to face with the enemy at last! The platoon, detailed to guard a captive U-boat crew, rise to the occasion with all the competence and courage we've come to expect from the Home Guard. KEEP YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL Concern about the condition of some of the "older"...  More

Into The Arms Of Strangers
(2000) [PG]

In 1938 and 1939, about 10,000 children, most of them Jews, were sent by their parents from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to the safety of England where foster families took most of them in for the duration of the war. Years later, eleven kinder, one child's mother, an English foster...  More

Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970) [G]

This classic Pearl Harbor epic, one of the most spectacular action films ever made, meticulously recreates the stunning attack on American forces by the Japanese. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards®, Tora! Tora! Tora! (The Japanese signal to attack) features a joint U.S. and Japanese production...  More