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- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.Shane has been a gunfighter much too long. He wants to live a better life, but he’s drawn into a fierce battle between a ruthless cattleman and a group of settlers. Shane straps on his guns one more time and fights for the rights and honor of the people he has come to cherish.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAl PacinoJohn RandolphJack KehoeAn honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.Frank Serpico is the kind of cop other cops hate – uncompromising, unconventional, and undercover. His honesty turns a corrupt NYPD inside out. Shot in the face and left for dead, Serpico survives – as does his legacy – with the NYPD taking a hard look at its own practices.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsCicely TysonPaul WinfieldKevin HooksThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.In 1933 Louisiana, the Depression is almost killing Nathan Morgan and his family. Caught trying to steal a little food for his family, the black sharecropper is sent to jail. His oldest son David sets out on his personal odyssey through the back roads of the Bayou State to visit his father in jail, along with his devoted canine, Sounder.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsMeryl StreepKurt RussellCherA worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.Karen Silkwood works at a nuclear facility, where safety conditions are deplorable. She stands up to a menacing corporation and plans to tell her story to a reporter from the New York Times. She never gets there.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsChristopher ReeveMargot KidderGene HackmanAn alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.A baby boy is jettisoned from a dying planet and lands on Earth. As he grows up, he discovers that he possesses superhuman powers. Shunning public gratitude or notoriety, he disguises himself as an ordinary news reporter, the least likely guy to be out fighting crime, rescuing folks in distress, or saving the planet.
- DirectorGary RossStarsTobey MaguireJeff BridgesElizabeth BanksTrue story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.The horse is too small, the owner’s had more heartbreak than any parent should endure, the trainer’s never had a winner, and the rider’s half-blind. Yet Seabiscuit becomes Horse of the Year in 1938.
- DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.A slave all his life, Spartacus is trained as a gladiator at a school where the students face certain death. Spartacus orchestrates a major escape, and news of this starts a rebellion of fellow slaves against the Roman Empire, with Spartacus the leader. He is eventually executed and many step forward to take his place, but just before dying, he is able to see his newborn son, one who will be raised in freedom.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.A group of strangers head west in routine manner, until it becomes clear that they are in the path of Geronimo, the Apaches, and a pack of marauding outlaws. The passengers must work together as a team to stay alive.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineTom McNamaraStarsMary PickfordRoy StewartMary Louise MillerMolly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.Molly is the oldest of a group of badly mistreated orphans on a farm in the American swamplands. At least one of the youngsters has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom by the farmer. Little more than a child herself, Molly leads her flock through alligator-infested waters to a better life.
- DirectorGordon ParksStarsRichard RoundtreeMoses GunnCharles CioffiA crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.John Shaft is cleaning up Harlem, but he can’t do it alone. He galvanizes his enemies, and together they take on the White Mafia in a show of strength the neighborhood has never seen.