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(0)Will Geer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Will Geer had a checkered life. A very reliable character actor in Hollywood movies in the late 40s, he was blacklisted in the early 50s because of his communist-related activities. When the blacklist was finally broken in the early 60s, directors started hiring him again. But by now, he was in his 60s himself and always played old men. Towards the very end of his life, he was cast as Grandpa Walton in the hit series "The Waltons," and became a much-beloved...
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
Banned at the time of its initial release and made by blacklisted filmmakers, this bold, radical film tells the story of Mexican-American workers who call a strike over the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages they receive in comparison to their white co-workers at a Zinc mine in New Mexico.Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) organizes the strike but is shown to be a hypocrite, treating his pregnant wife (Rosaura Revueltas) with similar unfairness. However,...
4) Brother John
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
John Kane left his home in Alabama when he was sixteen years-old. There is no way to reach him yet whenever there is a death in the family, he knows to return home. This time he returns to his sister's deathbed. His mysterious appearance stirs the interest of the townsfolk, some thinking he is a Communist agitator, others thinking he is magical, and still others thinking he is a criminal.
7) Seconds
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape his life, Arthur succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into the handsome, young Tony Wilson, he begins a jet-set existence among a community of "Reborns." Nominated for Best Cinematography at the **Academy Awards** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.**
8) Seconds
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity, but after he begins his new life, but he soon realizes that his rebirth comes at a terrible price.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. This season is a big year for welcomes-- welcome back to John-Boy, visiting from New York, and to Grandma, finally home from the hospital. And welcome to the family for Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy, John Curtis. But all that joy is set against the tragedy of events in the outside world. As the Fall of 1939 turns into the Spring of 1940,...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the evening of October 30, 1938, Orson Welles's radio play "The War of the Worlds", performed live on the air by the Mercury Theatre troupe, accidentally provokes mass panic when people who missed the opening announcement that a play was being broadcast believed an alien attack was actually occurring.
14) Winchester '73
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and Stewart's own murderous brother.
15) Black like me
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
16) Broken arrow
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
18) Jeremiah Johnson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Language
English
Description
Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
20) Executive action
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
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