A couple returns home to armed strangers waiting to terrorize them. As they seek help and try to get evidence, they're captured and tortured. They escape and attempt to get revenge, but all help is compromised and there's no where to run.
Thorin Oakenshield and the dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed the vast wealth of their homeland, but now face the consequences of having unleashed the terrifying Dragon Smaug upon Lake-town. Meanwhile, Sauron, the Dark Lord, has sent forth legions of Orcs to attack the Lonely Mountain, and Bilbo Baggins fi nds himself fi ghting for his life as fi ve great armies go to war. As darkness converges, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide -- unite or be destroyed.
Movie Man John K. Carpenter presents a brand-new collection of lost Keystone comedies from the vault starring this unfairly forgotten funnyman!
Audrey Hepburn was one of movies best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication, and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career, and the family and friendships that were her priority. Directors Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards and Stanley Donen,...
What is the Holy Grail? Is it the cup that caught the blood of Jesus? Or the cup he used at the Last Supper? Is it a dish? A platter? Or is it like the Philosopher's Stone? Of course, it could also be a Royal and Holy Bloodline, descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene... but that's just fiction isn't it? To many people, the tale revolves around a small parish in southern France and the strange world of the priest. What mystery was he hiding? What does it all have to do with Rosslyn Chapel and...
Johnny Hardwick grew up at the racetrack and knows that his horse Honeyblossom, is unbeatable. At an after-race party, Johnny comes to the aid of a woman who is being molested by a brute and in the ensuing fight breaks a bottle over the man's head. Wanted by the law, he flees to the tiny backwater town of Madison Springs where he falls in love with pretty Margaret Warren and lands a job in her dad's grocery store. When Margaret tells Johnny that her father is about to wager his life savings on...
The big game came and went, but the stadium's next door neighbors are still here. This film shines a light on a subject much more in need of attention than football: The glaring inequity highlighted by a state-of-the-art venue across from a historic neighborhood whose demise we've allowed for decades.
Prepare for nonstop, fast-paced fun as Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps join Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall and John Leguizamo in this outrageously funny family comedy. New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric) and sanitation engineer Ed Norton (Epps) are best friends who always dream of making it big. Their most recent "get-rich-quick" plan finds the boys out to make their fortune by hiring a dog trainer (Leguizamo) to race their pet greyhound. After discovering their savings have...
Socialite Amy Burke lives in spoiled seclusion in the uptown mansion of her millionaire grandfather, Alexander Guthrie. She has a fight with the old man, and goes to live with her father in a tenement on the Bowery. At first Amy is disgusted by her impoverished neighbors,but eventually she assimilates and begins to make new friends. Her grandfather visits to see how the girl is doing and is shocked to find her shooting craps and living like a hoodlum. But when Amy reaches out to save a sick...
Vincent Lubeck, a violent thug just released from prison, is poised to make his mark on the city. He gathers a team of ruthless accomplices to plan an armored car heist that will make him a millionaire. His family attempts to place him on the straight and narrow, but instead Vincent betrays their love and uses them as pawns in his diabolical scheme. When his brother stumbles onto the plot, the criminal brutally attacks his own flesh and blood, leaving him for dead. Driven mad with his...
William Powell makes a rare return to the shady characters he played prior to Philo Vance and Nick Charles in this powerful drama set during the Roaring Twenties. Coming home from the Great War without a job or prospects, reporter Terry O'Neill (Powell) crashes a wedding where socialite Kay Lorrison (Esther Williams) lands him a job on her uncle's paper. Running a campaign against an unethical tycoon, O'Neill decides to switch sides and leaves Kay behind to join him. Making a fortune on Wall...
Kirk Douglas must choose between orders and conscience in this intense psychological drama costarring Nick Adams and Robert Walker, jr. in his screen debut. As the Korean War winds down, Sgt. Briscoe (Douglas) and his men (Adams and Walker, jr.) capture an enemy pilot (Enrique Magalona) who's just bombed a hospital and school. Ordered to execute the soldier, the three Americans come into conflict over the difference between killing a man in combat and shooting an unarmed prisoner of war. Based...
The hoolock gibbons of Bangladesh have been brought to the brink of extinction by the relentless destruction of their forested habitats throughout the country, even in the most highly protected forest reserves. Numbering in the several thousands only 30 years ago, the hoolocks of Bangladesh now number less than 300, and that population is dwindling fast. The Wildlife Trust Of Bangladesh developed and co-produced this one-hour, high-def, TV documentary special on the plight of the hoolocks in...
In the chaotic days following the American Civil War, a strong-minded ex-Union soldier, Ralph Hartsook (Norman Foster), sets out to become a school teacher in a dusty Indiana town. Even though bitterness against the "Yankees" still runs deep, he gets the job - mainly because none of the townspeople thinks he'll last very long. Facing a hostile classroom, Ralph slowly wins over his pupils, especially class bully Bud Larkin (Fred Kohler, Jr.).Trouble ensues when the schoolmaster falls for the...
Forever one of comedy's reigning kings, the immortal Jack Benny trades in his royal scepter for a heavenly trumpet in this brilliant in this 1945 comedic fantasy about an innocent angel faced with the dubious task of destroying an all-to-indulgent Earth. Since persecution and hatred have soared out of control, Heaven's "front office" sends Athanael (Benny), a trumpet player in Heaven's orchestra, to Earth to play the first four notes of the "Judgment Day Overture." The notes must be played...
A revealing, intimate documentary from veteran actor-insider Ruben Pla, The Horror Crowd spotlights the Hollywood horror community, covering such wide-ranging topics as Women In Horror, Race Relations, Being The Weird Kid, Sparking The Imagination, Helping Each Other, Film Festivals, and The Dark Side.
When a kindly junk dealer gives a group of poor French children a headless toy horse, the kids dub themselves "The Knights Of The Headless Horse." The broken toy becomes their only source of fun as they race down the narrow streets of their village. But suddenly the horse becomes the pawn in another game -- a deadly race against time between a ruthless gang of train robbers (led by Herbert Lom) and the town's honest police inspector (Jean-Pierre Aumont). The stakes are high: A hundred million...
Terrorists break into an operating room and take the surgical team hostage in this gripping suspense thriller based on the best-selling novel by Gerald Green (The Last Angry Man) and starring Bradford Dillman, Loretta Swit, Cameron Mitchell, Vic Morrow and Carl Weathers. As Dr. Eric Lake (Dillman) and his staff perform open-heart surgery on billionaire Walker Bench, terrorist John Trask (Stephen Davies) and his men enter the room and hold the physicians at gunpoint. Demanding $10 million in...
The life-or-death situations where an armed assailant is holding innocent people hostage are among the most difficult in all of law enforcement. THE HOSTAGE TAKERS focuses on several prominent cases, revealing the unique forces involved. From the Hanafi siege of three Washington D.C. buildings in 1977 to the 12-hour standoff at an Alabama elementary school in 1988, footage shows how the police respond to these explosive situations. Trained negotiators reveal the different approaches they use...
The hilarious Rob Schneider has been a gigolo. He's been an animal. And now a curse will make him something he's never been before -- a woman! Jessica Spencer is the hottest, most popular girl in high school. But she gets a big dose of reality when she wakes up in the body of a 30-something-year-old lowlife male (Schneider) and quickly discovers that trading on your looks isn't so easy when you're a girl who constantly needs a shave. How in the world can Jessica convince her friends (Anna...
Masters of the musical Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart contribute three songs to this lighthearted reverse-Cinderella romance. High atop a skeletal skyscraper under construction, riveters Bill Dugan (Tom Dugan) and Hap Harrigan (Ben Lyon) cry "Got ya!" while catching red-hot rivets and singing "Nobody Loves a Riveter (But His Mother)" when a sleeping beauty in a neighboring penthouse catches Hap's eye. Enraptured, Hap misses his "Got ya!" and a rivet crashes through the boudoir window, causing...
THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY (1981): Dr. Norman Boyle moves his wife and son to a secluded mansion in upstate New England. The house was formerly the property of Boyle's colleague Dr. Peterson, who seemingly died in a bizarre murder-suicide with his teenaged mistress. When the Boyles experience strange unexplained phenomena within their new home, they realize Peterson's death was no suicide. He was the victim of Dr. Freudstein, a deranged scientist who has been alive in the basement of the house...
A look inside the small town of Beattyville, located deep in the heart of America's Appalachian mountains.