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The adventures of a crusty, dyed-in-the-wool bachelor, Charlie Allnut, and his nemesis, Rose Sayer, in World War I Africa. The pair struggles against the climate, the river, the bugs, the Germans, and each other, until love overcomes all. Includes the documentary Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen.

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Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle’s spiritural dimension named for the Xhosa word for “power”. An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and triumph.

Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals the time machine, and with it a book that allows his young self to amass a gambling fortune, which has significant consequences to the present. To correct the problems, Marty and Doc must return to 1955 to retrieve the book.

Entering Casablanca is easy, getting out is much harder, especially if your name is on the Nazis’ most-wanted list. At the top of the list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one – especially Victor’s wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo’s safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what’s more important.

Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of Lord Grantham and the rest of the Crawley family, as well as the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.

A young American man journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English.

Frank and Cathy’s middle-class family looks perfect from the outside, but behind closed doors she is having an affair with their African-American gardener, and he is struggling to deal with his homosexuality.

Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin’ he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.

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.

It’s love when a greaser falls for a good girl in this classic musical depicting young life in the fifties.

In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, ‘Mrs. Dalloway, under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband’s birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf’s novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it.

The true story of the women’s professional baseball league during WWII. Extras include: commentary track by director Penny Marshall, 15 deleted scenes, Madonna music video, and a making-of documentary.

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. Follow Harvey Milk’s powerful journey to inspire hope for equal rights during one of the least tolerant times in our nation’s history.

Based on the book The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less by Terry Ryan.

A young man begins an affair with an older woman and learns years later about a secret she’s been harboring, when she must stand trial for Nazi war crimes.

The legendary Sherwood Forest outlaw leader comes to life in this 12th century medieval epic adventure.

Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, prospective ladylove and shrewish co-star

After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.

Richard Collier is overwhelmed with emotion whenever he looks at a picture of a beautiful young woman at an old house. Convinced she is his love from the past, Richard desperately attempts to take himself back in time to be with her.

After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.

Based on Harper Lee’s novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.

An idiosyncratic FBI Agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.