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Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Despite cruel treatment by the brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Description
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.
4) Braveheart
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1996], c1995
Description
The dramatic story of William Wallace, who rallied medieval Scotland to fight for liberty.
7) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998, c1964
Description
A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.
8) Casablanca
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co./Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. : distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
12) American beauty
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
13) Gigi
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.
14) Gladiator
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Formats
Description
A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor.
15) Out of Africa
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914.
16) Forrest Gump
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody...
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
19) Ordinary people
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001, 1980
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
20) Rocky
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2001]
Description
Rocky Balboa, the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown and comes out a winner.
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