Essential Films Presented in Glorious Black & White

Italian director Guido Anselmi has lost all inspiration for his upcoming movie. His mistress, wife, producer, and his friends are adding to his frustration. So Anselmi retreats into his dreams sheltering himself from the pressure, and finds inspiration to make his new film and courage to face the world.

BASED ON THE UNSUCCESSFUL 1905 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, SERGEI EISENSTEIN'S MASTERPIECE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN IS PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DVD. OFTEN VOTED ONE OF THE TEN GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE, THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES A POWERFUL MUSICAL SCORE BY N. KRUIKOV.

A hypnotist in black exhibits a cabinet, which contains a pale man in black in a trance. Silent.

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Set in World War II, a bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this romantic film that won the Academy Award for best picture in 1943.

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An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominent publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it

Fueled by paranoia and a fanatical sense of patriotism, two psychotic generals--led by a bizarre wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist--trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs.

Henry Spencer's hair sticks straight up, and his girlfriend's offspring looks like larva. Directed by David Lynch.

John Merrick was known as the elephant man because of a deadly disease that transformed his features and proportions into something monstrous. He survived as a circus freak show attraction until Frederick Treves decided to "rescue" him and to introduce him to society. Treves tries hard to protect his charge--and slowly the physically deformed Merrick emerges from his shell and reveals a keen mind and a sensitive soul. But Merrick, realizing that he can never truly be a part of the "normal" world, eventually makes a difficult, heartbreaking decision...

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Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle, Johnnie Gray sets out to single-handedly win the war with his cherished locomotive. When Northern spies steal his train, the intrepid Confederate takes on the entire Union army to get it back.

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Only the highest of high society gains entrée to the Grand Hotel, a fabulous place where "nothing ever happens." Its guests, however, provide plenty of intrigue: a ballerina in love with a fallen lord; a secretary mesmerized by a tyrant; a sick man searching for a last hurrah; and a lonely doctor.

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It's the real-life face-off between TV newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Despite corporate pressure to back off, Murrow and his CBS staff are determined to examine the lies and fear tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist witch-hunts.

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Runaway socialite Ellie Andrews is en route to the Big Apple to elope with a fortune-hunting flyboy. Along the way she meets crusty newspaperman Peter Warne, who's just been sacked and -- unbeknownst to Ellie -- plans to sell her story to get his job back.

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The classic film starring Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade. Following the death of Sam's partner, Sam is engulfed in a quest for a priceless Maltese Falcon statuette.

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Marlon Brando plays a ex-fighter who gets a job on the docks working for a crooked ganster. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, 1954.

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Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.

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Steven Spielberg's greatest film. Schindler's List, based on the book by Thomas Keneally, tells the true story about a Nazi industrialist who saved more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps during World War II.

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With rumors buzzing about a potential Indian raid, troubled passengers climb aboard the Overland Stage headed for Lordsburg. En route they run into the Ringo Kid (John Wayne), a notorious outlaw who's bolted from jail seeking vengeance on the men who framed him for murder. But the true threat looms down the road, where marauding Apaches could strike without warning.

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In New York over Christmas, a tipsy detective and his wife and dog solve the murder of an eccentric inventor. (90 min)

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The award winning story of a small child who learns that there is evil in world. Set in the backdrop of the South, during the Depression, a white woman accuses a black man of rape. And while he is obviously innocent only one man will step up to defend him.

Classic courtroom drama about a teenage boy accused of killing his father and the jury that must decide his fate