After a group of mercenaries raid a gang's den, they flee to a country hideout with two hostages. A Stoic, a member of a criminal clan, enraged about the women's capture, attacks the mercenaries. The conflict escalates into an explosive showdown between the Stoic and the mercenaries' ruthless boss determined to kill him.
Prominent Manhattan businessman Dick Martin is ruined when his adulterous wife runs off with his lawyer and his board of directors forces him out of the corporation that bears his name. To forget his woes, he takes a job on a tramp steamer as a stoker, endlessly shoveling coal into the ship's insatiable furnace. When an engine explodes, he saves the life of beautiful Margarita Valdez and the grateful passenger hires him to work on her Nicaraguan coffee plantation. Laboring in the steaming...
The theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry sets the plot in motion for this star studded promotional short. The production, which includes cameos by Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson and Wallace Beery, was made to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatorium. And get this it was produced in association with a cigarette company! Also, keep an eye out for several of the lovable Our Gang kids, including Norman "Chubby" Chaney and Matthew "Stymie" Beard!
Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Michael Bates. Research scientists head for an eerie gothic mansion where they intend to create a new recording medium. However, what they find is an unfinished room within the mansion ripe with strange noises. A ghost is seen. The scientists soon realize that there is a supernatural terror hiding within the stone walls of the horrible mansion. This terrific British chiller is a must-see! Color, 16mm.
Throughout time, man has experimented with mind-altering substances, ranging from the mild to the extreme. Recent research suggests that the famed Oracle at Dephi, the source of psychic knowledge consulted by thousands across the ancient world, actually sat atop fault lines that released toxic gases, which in turn brought forth the prophetic visions. Some argue that the introduction of coffee to England was a catalyst for the move out of the Dark Ages and into the Enlightenment. And Francis...
For the first time on Blu-ray, money isn't everything and Bill Miller is the guy who keeps proving it. He's carved out a modest niche as a singer in the off-off-vaudeville circuit. But suddenly his act is big news. Well not just his act. He's now teamed with a manic comic. Yet Bill can't admit that the reason for his success is The Stooge. One sings, one clowns...sounds like anyone you know? Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis bring their straightman-funnyman act to this show biz story set in the...
BACK ON DVD! Money isn't everything and Bill Miller is the guy who keeps proving it. He's carved out a modest niche as a singer in the off-off-vaudeville circuit. But suddenly his act is big news. Well, not just his act. He's now teamed with a manic comic. Yet Bill can't admit that the reason for his success is The Stooge. One sings, one clowns...sounds like anyone you know? Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis bring their straightman-funnyman act to this show-biz story set in the 1930s. Songs include...
A police informer makes off with a lot of money so he can live well in Miami.
The famed New York nightspot The Stork Club provides the setting for this entertaining Betty Hutton musical. Hutton plays Judy Peabody, a poor but spunky hatcheck girl, who one night saves an old hobo from drowning. But the old bum, Jerry Bates (Barry Fitzgerald) turns out to be a millionaire who expresses his gratitude by setting the wise cracking Judy up in luxury. Even though Bates expects nothing in return, complications ensue when Judy's G.I. boyfriend Danny (Don DeFore) begins to suspect...
Don Defore can't give Betty Hutton anything but love...Barry Fitzgerald can't give her anything but millions! They'll give you the time of your life at New York's capital of Glamour, Gaiety, Love, Laughter and Music! It's all about a hat check girl (Hutton) at New York's most popular night club who saves a wealthy man from drowning, and how her love life is affected by his endless gratitude. With a story in the tradition of Damon Runyon, and songs by Sammy Cahn and Hoagy Carmichael, director...
For years, the brain was terra incognito for surgeons, but recent advances have made it possible to correct many brain disorders through surgery. THE STORM WITHIN ventures inside the operating theater where pediatric surgeon Dr. Ben Carson corrects a rare brain disease that causes more than 100 seizures a day. Witness the operation, and trace the discoveries and breakthroughs that have opened the brain up to surgeons like Dr. Carson. As the global environmental movement gains strength,...
In the greatly anticipated third season of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, the legendary Academy Award winner continues his groundbreaking adventure. Morgan travels to ancient religious sites and modern-day centers of spiritual meaning to participate in dazzling cultural spectacles and hear moving personal stories.
This exciting look at the genius of Tolkien shines a light on all the heroes and villains of The Lord of the Rings and how Tolkien's life experiences helped shape the story and characters that have become giants in fantasy fiction.
Without Me You Are Doomed To A Life Of Eternal Agony! - Jim JonesJonestown, Guyana, December 18, 1978: Self-appointed messiah Jim Jones takes his own life along with 913 members of The People's Temple in the most horrific mass-murder-suicide of the 20th century!Indianapolis Indiana, 1964: Young idealistic minister Jim Jones provides tireless service to the desperately needy and gains a devoted congregation. The power of the charismatic leader grows rapidly with his "People's Temple." Jim is...
Discovered in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa in 1995 by Palaeo scientist Ron Clarke, this is the story of a twenty-one-year excavation of the most complete Ape woman fossil skeleton ever found in the history of the world.
Struggling to find the correct script, music and choreography for a high school play, a group of students find inspiration when they discover the origin and the true meaning behind Mother's Day.
At last...the best of Sunday night TV is back! It's the legendary TV show popular with audiences for 29 years. The longest-running prime-time series in television history (1954-1983). The winner of numerous awards, including seven Emmys. It's THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY! This rousing tale of England's renowned rebel to the rich and patriot to the poor is brimming with Disney's storytelling magic. The whole family will love going bow-to-bow alongside Robin, Friar Tuck, Little John, and Maid...
Elves living in the North Pole must grant Nicholas Claus' wish to give all children around the world gifts for Christmas.
Sixteen times out of the starting gate. Zero times in the Winner's Circle. Those were the humble beginnings of the undersized, underdog bay colt who became one of the greatest thoroughbreds in horseracing history. With actual racing footage of "the Biscuit," The Story of Seabiscuit mixes fact and fancy into an endearing tale of rags-to-riches success. Shirley Temple plays the student nurse whose romance with the colt's jockey (Lon McCallister) is clouded by her fears about a sport in which a...
In the quiet of an Austrian winter, a young priest received heavenly inspiration to commemorate the most significant event in history by writing the world's most beloved Christmas carol, "Silent Night." On one winter evening in 1818, God used Father Mohr to describe the miracle birth of the Christ Child in the world's most memorable Christmas carol, now sung around the world in 120 languages.
"In a day when the world is suffering from the nemesis of mediocrity and the dearth of great leadership, when people tend to lose their moral responsibility, it is indeed consoling to know that someone in the midst of chaos is keeping the blueprints of a moral order, and that a great voice still rings out, proclaiming that peace is grounded not on power but on justice and on love...Never in history has there been so many shorn and bleeding lambs. Rarely before has God in his providence given...
The ultimate love triangle. The story takes place in both past and present times. People loved each other, or expressed their affections not so differently in any era.
After 15 years of marriage, Ben (Bruce Willis) is still the free-spirited person he's always been while Katie (Michelle Pfeiffer) is left to handle life's messy little problems. So when the kids go off to summer camp, they face the most important decision of their married life. Do they end their story or begin a new chapter? From start to finish, Rob Reiner gives us reason to laugh and cry in his entertaining outlook on marriage.