Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness
The Day After (1983)
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small town residents of eastern Kansas
Julia (1977)
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany
Parenthood (1989)
Four Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children each in their own different style and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
In Missouri, during the 1840s, young Huck Finn fearful of his drunkard father and yearning for adventure, leaves his foster family and joins with runaway slave Jim in a voyage down the Mississippi River toward slavery free states
A Thousand Acres (1997)
A family is torn apart after a father gives his valuable farm land to his daughters
Storyville (1992)
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his familys deep secrets
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Once they said God himself couldnt sink her Then they said no man on Earth could reach her But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlant
Hurricane (1979)
The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father Amid this man made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled
Julius Caesar (1970)
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk
Isadora (1968)
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed peoples ideas of ballet Her nude, semi nude, and pro Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time
Black Rainbow (1989)
A medium has a vision of a hit man killing his target The vision comes true, and the same hit man is assigned to kill her Her drunk fathermanager doesnt believe she has the gift, and a curious journalist tries to protect her
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight In revenge, Clantons thugs kill the Marshals brother Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday
Reunion (1989)
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart However, they dont realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well to do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager The problem The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
Paris at the turn of the century Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol type theatre where the players have suddenly become real life victims Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow
Burden of Dreams (1982)
A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo 1982
Laguna Heat (1987)
After his partner is killed, private detective Tom Shephard returns to his home in Laguna Beach, California, where he finds himself embroiled in a series of nightmarish murders that take him back to the past and some twisted famil
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
After WWIII, Vic and his telepathic dog wander a post apocalyptic wasteland in 2024 as they scavenge for food and sex They stumble into an underground society where the old ways are preserved He finds a new purpose in his life
Comes a Horseman (1978)
A brave and proud woman struggles for her land, finding help and something more in unexpected way
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Struggling single mother Nora McPhees life is disrupted when her long lost father Max Dugan returns in hopes of spending some time with her and her son Michael to make up for lost time because Max is dying
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack Trapped in whats left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life
The St. Valentines Day Massacre (1967)
Al Capones Valentines Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago
Tender Is the Night (1962)
A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover
Cabo Blanco (1980)
In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru
Melvin and Howard (1980)
The story of hard luck Melvin E Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Struggling single mother Nora McPhees life is disrupted when her long lost father Max Dugan returns in hopes of spending some time with her and her son Michael to make up for lost time because Max is dying
Square Dance (1987)
A 13 year old girl changes a pleasant life in the countryside for a troubled life in the city
The Night They Raided Minskys (1968)
A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre
The Long Hot Summer (1985)
A loner arrives in a small town only to be condemned for the sins of his father
The Enemy Within (1994)
A Colonel working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to use military force to remove the elected President, who always opposed Pentagon budget increases, and to replace him with a much tamer Vice President
Long Days Journey Into Night (1962)
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse
Zenith (2010)
A retro futuristic thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity
The War Between Men and Women (1972)
A sarcastic, near sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes
Sakharov (1984)
Biography of Russian physicist amp dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize Sakharovs actions first caused him to lose a senior party position, then ha
The Woman Condemned (1934)
Jerry, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara, a girl accused of murder, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
A middle aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward
A Strange Adventure (1932)
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders comitted by a hooded killer in an old dark house
Haywire (1980)
Based on autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of her parents
Empire of the Air The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the responsibility for its invention and early success