Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz live slaphappily ever after as newlyweds honeymooning in The Long, Long Trailer, breezily directed by Vincente Minnelli. They quickly find that the interior of a moving trailer is ideal for tossing a Caesar salad -- and everything else. That backing up their 40-foot, three-ton home is only a little more difficult than threading a needle wearing boxing gloves. And that trailer-park folks are neighborly sorts who turn the lovebirds' rig into the wrong, wrong trailer...
The award winning creators and executive producers of HOMELAND, Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, team up with award winning director Greg Barker for this documentary feature, which unpacks the human stories and drama behind America's involvement in Afghanistan, now the longest war in U.S. history. First-hand witnesses ranging from U.S. intelligence operatives, to soldiers and their families, Afghan officials, journalists, top government and military officials bring their experiences to life...
Captain Mattei (Auteuil) is about to arrest a gang of bank robbers when a sniper watching from a rooftop singlehandedly decimates a whole army of cops, allowing the gang to escape. Unfortunately, one of the members of the gang is wounded, and their plan falls apart. Then, while Mattei hunts down the sniper, the gang spirals into an abyss of violence and betrayal...
Dixie Evans, of the infamous Mowbray Gang, is on the lam after a post office robbery. In her desperate attempt to cross a nearby river in a canoe, she capsizes and is rescued by Dean Richardson, a wealthy doctor. The two fall in love and Dean proposes. Dixie requests that Dean never grill her about her past. However, Pete Mowbray has no intention of letting Dixie "go straight," an blackmails her. It doesn't take long for Dean to realize something's wrong with his new wife, and he sets out to...
Tony Kendall, Helga Line. A terrific monster movie! A beautiful woman transforms into a snarling lizard-type monster that rips apart local citizens in-and-around a forest-shrouded girls' school filled with bikini-clad beauties. Kendall is hired to hunt the creature down but is torn between his love for the mysterious Line, and his growing suspicion of whom she really is. The best Euro-horror film we've seen in a long while. Color, 16mm.
As the United States enters World War I, men from diverse backgrounds in New York are drafted into the 308th Regiment's 77th Division. These include a wealthy Jewish merchant's son in love with a wannabe actress, two rival gang members belonging to the Tong from Chinatown, a burglar, and a hard-hearted office efficiency expert nicknamed "The Kicker." After receiving training on Long island, they are shipped out under the command of Lt. Charles W. Whittlesey into the "Pocket" of the Argonne...
After a vicious street brawl, young Al Capone (Eric Roberts, Runaway Train) lets his little brother Jimmy (Adrian Pasdar, Top Gun) believe he has killed a man. Jimmy, haunted by his conscience, leaves town. Three years later, prohibition has swept American and a law-abiding Jimmy, now known as Richard Hart, is appointed marshal in the small town of Homer, Nebraska, and has married Kathleen (Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club) while Al has become the boot-legging crime boss of Chicago. For Al,...
"The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille" began as a filmmaking enterprise: "Let's dig up a 1923 film set and make a movie about it." It seemed like a good idea to a handful of young filmmakers in 1983. They never could have guessed their dream would take nearly 30 years to be realized. But in 2012, with funding from an independent "angel," an archaeological excavation of the site finally took place. What that excavation found is at the exciting climax of "The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille." Because...
Outraged that his daughter is suing her husband for a divorce, railroad magnate John P. Morgan takes off on his private train with his granddaughter, baby Alice Standish, in tow, determined that neither of the estranged couple shall gain custody. His plan is derailed when shotgun wielding thugs climb aboard, throw the conductor off, and hijack the train. Learning of the lost express, fearless railroad agent Helen Martin swings into action, determined to find the runaway train, and rescue...
Beatty is devastated when he discovers too late, that Ruth has left with her father. In the meantime, a heartbroken Beatty then tries to preoccupy himself with procuring new exciting and dangerous acts for the circus. When he learns that the schooner Ruth and her father had taken was shipwrecked on the Lost Island of Kamor, he sets off on a rescue mission to find them. Along the way, he must contend with Sharkey, a jealous rival, find and then rescue Ruth from a lion attack and then save the...
Clyde Beatty, the world's greatest animal trainer, travels the jungles of the world in search of exotic beasts and adventure. Beatty's expeditionary dirigible crashes on a remote unexplored island teeming with wild animals. He discovers that two fanatic cultists on the island have killed the skipper of their group and stolen the priceless treasure of Kamor. Ruth Henderson (Cecelia Parker) enlists Beatty to help find her scientist father who has dissapeared in the wilderness and while pursuing...
Through remarkable home movies -- gathered from archives and attics and now seen for the first time - The Lost Kennedy Home Movies tells the story of the children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, as they grew up in the 1930s and 40s and then burst into the national spotlight during the political careers of John, Robert and Ted Kennedy. The special concludes in November, 1963, with scenes of the last weekend Jack and Jackie Kennedy spent with Caroline and John, Jr., just two weeks before Dallas. The...
Unravelling the hidden agendas of the world's richest men and most powerful art institutions, THE LOST LEONARDO reveals how vested interests became all-important, and the truth secondary.
The last surviving native Americans on Long Island is the focus of The Lost Spirits. The film chronicles their struggles as an indigenous people to maintain their identity amidst relentless modernization and a heartless beauracracy.
Archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a mission to find Alexander the Great's lost tomb. Excavating in a public garden in the center of Alexandria, Egypt, the city he founded 2,300 years ago, she has discovered a rare marble statue of Alexander, Greek treasures and secret tunnels. But Pepi's biggest find is an extraordinary discovery even she was not expecting.
A treasure hunter discovers an old journal that, along with a compass he inherited as a boy, leads to an ancient Hawaiian secret that's been lost for generations. This powerful staff is known to contain a mystical force that could destroy the island. But his greedy rival is determined to secure the staff's powers for himself, leading to a cat-and-mouse game through the wild Hawaiian rainforest.
Jaded reporter Susan Allison receives a sentimental Valentine's Day assignment: the story of Caroline Thomas, who has waited 60 years for her pilot husband - declared missing in action during World War II- to return to her.
"Our creature animation in the Jurassic Park films basically descends from The Lost World of 1925. Willis O'Brien is our great pioneer, and this superb restoration inspires new awe for his imagination and craftsmanship." - Stan Winston Newly restored with 50% more footage than any version generally available for seventy years, here is the model for King Kong , Jurassic Park and Godzilla : a story of living dinosaurs from the Jurassic Age written by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur...
Young and adventurous reporter Edward Malone (Lloyd Hughes) is dispatched by his editor at the London Record Journal to cover a lecture by the boisterous Professor Challenger (Beery), who is convinced that dinosaurs are still roaming the earth. While the community thinks him a crackpot, he finds a believer in the esteemed hunter/explorer Sir John Roxton (Lewis Stone), who befriends Malone. Malone is introduced to Paula White (Bessie Love), whose father was left behind in the Amazon outback to...
Arthur Conan Doyle's epic tale comes to life in this classic from the silent era. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, and Wallace Beery star as explorers who learn that dinosaurs still exist in South America. Of course, the expedition can't end without them trying to bring a prehistoric creature back to London, which results in catastrophe. This was the first full-length feature film to utilize stop-motion animation. The painstaking process perfectly enables us to see the mighty prehistoric monsters...
A crew of daring adventurers braves the pitiless white wasteland of Antarctica in a bid to be the first explorers to reach the South Pole by zeppelin. Led by intrepid Commander Donald Hall and his best friend and first mate, Lt. Tom Armstrong, the expedition's progress is broadcast to the world by radio. The anxious public is riveted by news of the initial success in reaching the Pole, then horrified by news of a freak blizzard that ices the doomed airship out of the sky. No one follows the...
On April 19, 1956, the hour-long anthology series Climax! presented "The Lou Gehrig Story", a dramatization of the life of the famed New York Yankees baseball star. The program focuses almost exclusively on the the first baseman's battle with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, now commonly called "Lou Gehrig's Disease.") In heartbreaking scenes, the debilitating illness affects Gehrig's ability to play, forcing him to retire from the game. It concludes with Lou's legendary retirement speech...
The town of Burlap, Pennsylvania is just too provincial for fast- talking Joe Miller, a self-possessed ham with big, big plans for radio stardom. His job at the railroad station pays peanuts and the girl he planned to give a tiny engagement ring to has accepted an offer from a wealthier suitor. After slipping the ring onto the finger of a pretty young woman as she sleeps in a train car bound for New York City, Joe decides to follow the girl and the ring to the Big Apple. His grand dreams of...