Raymond Massey plays Abe Lincoln in this moving adaptation of Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Expanded a bit for cinematic purposes, the film traces Lincoln's progress from his days of scrambling for a living as a woodsman, to his courtship ...
Allen and Albert Hughes followed up their successful debut, Menace II Society, with the sweeping
crime drama Dead Presidents. That film comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. An English soundtrack ...
One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming
Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel ...
Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of
Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured, tortured, ...
Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great
hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, ...
Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis
XVI with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song which ...
After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987)
and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in ...
Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as
seen through the eyes of fictional 19th-century Londoner Jonathan Blake (Tyrone Power, in his first starring role). A lifelong friend of naval hero Lord Nelson, ...