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42) Out of Africa
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and the mysterious white hunter.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An exclusive look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards as top stars and filmmakers discuss their Oscar wins and tell never-before-told tales of Hollywood's biggest night, in a collection of original interviews with Turner Classic Movies host and entertainment media journalist Dave Karger. For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50 Oscar Nights takes readers behind the scenes of...
45) The Dirty Dozen
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Twelve convicts, most of them murderers, are recruited in World War II to infiltrate a protected German retreat and kill the generals there, in exchange for their release from prison.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Based on a true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
48) Sophie's choice
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor.
49) The river
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A farm couple in Tennessee fight against the local power company that wants to flood their land as part of a plan for future power development.
50) Amour
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
51) Broken rainbow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
52) Norma Rae
Pub. Date
1982
Formats
Description
Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town discovers that she has a social consciousness when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
54) Pocahontas
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Description
Disney's take on this historical confrontation between European settlers and Native Americans follows the paths of two future lovers. One is British adventurer John Smith, who travels the Atlantic with the Virginia Company to establish Jamestown.
55) Rosemary's baby
Pub. Date
1968.
Description
After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.
59) High noon
Pub. Date
2002
Description
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
60) Norma Rae
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Grinding out her life in a small southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae (Sally Field) joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the southern mill. Based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton.
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