Weird science enters the twenty-first century in this laugh-out-loud tale of cloning gone mad! Young geneticist Max Fleming may be brilliant enough to have created the world's first cloning machine, but when it comes to women, he's a moron. So when he accidentally clones the girl of his dreams, he seizes the opportunity to create what he feels will be the perfect woman - one who acts just like a guy. But Max soon realizes that the differences between men and women are what make it all...
The Godfather, Don Vito Leoni (Loggia) runs his "family business" as if nothing in the world has changed, but it has. Everyone thinks he must be completely off-his-rocker when he decides to go legit. His sons will lose their gushy lifestyles if their clinically depressed father doesn't come to his sensces so the boys kidnap a shrink (Pollak) and order him to make their father think straight.
An arrogant corporate lawyer forces his wife to leave him so that he can find what's been missing from his life...and the mania begins. A victimized stripper vows to take over the world...and mayhem sets in. Two mismatched cops search for a deranged serial killer... and madness completely takes over! Individually, each movie will shock your senses. But together...they'll blow you away!
Starring comedy legend John Belushi, National Lampoon's Animal House is the ultimate college movie filled with food fights, fraternities and toga parties! Follow the uproarious escapades of the Delta House fraternity as they take on Dean Wormer (John Vernon), the sanctimonious Omegas and the entire female student body. Directed by John Landis (The Blues Brothers), the most popular college comedy of all-time also stars Tim Matheson, Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hulce and...
On the eve of Parks Canada's centennial, over 52 of the country's finest film and audio artists embark on a historic expedition to capture the majesty of the landscape in music and film.
This stylized film of Shakespeare's masterpiece from the National Theatre celebrates the theatrical imagination. In this contemporary retelling, a company of actors in a shuttered theater bring to life the tale of two young lovers who strive to transcend a world of violence and hate. Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley star as Shakespeare's immortal star-crossed lovers.
As long as young hearts endure, so will National Velvet and movies like it. in her star-making role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase. Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does. Superbly directed by Clarence Brown, this exciting winner of two Academy Awards * (one to Anne Revere for her...
Daniel Finley, "Finn," the free-spirited son of a Native American tribal councilman and Irish singer, attempts to navigate his worlds while hobbled by mental illness and a staggering contempt for compromise. His storyline weaves amidst those of Cheer, a volatile female inmate prone to reliving her past through her stories, and hapless car thief, Warren, during a reluctant hotel stay with a young prostitute.
Inspired by the 1938 report of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee's investigation into the repression of labor organizing, Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand's biting and beautiful Native Land (1942, though largely shot between '37 and '39) combines documentary footage with staged reenactments to depict the struggle of trade unions against corporations, their spies and contractors. Legendary singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson narrates the film through words and song, lending the work a...
In this four-DVD set, Dr. David Suzuki leads a group of children on twelve field trips to discover different aspects of the environment and learn how we are all "connected" to nature. Through their adventures, the children learn to appreciate their relationship with the environment and what they can do to protect it. The collection is designed to inform, stimulate and motivate parents and their children to take up an environmental project. It encourages the natural instinct children have for...
Enter an enthralling paradise where enjoyment of some of nature's most stunning spectacles and sounds is further enhanced by the melodic delights of Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mozart, Puccini, Grieg, Mussorgsky, and other great composers.
With their splendid voices, matinee-idol looks, vivacity (she) and stoutheartedness (he), Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were America's Singing Sweethearts, "a true team, mixing the chemistry that permits one to accept disguised princesses, dream melodies and beautiful doom" (Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical). Naughty Marietta is their first film together, a blithe tale of a French princess who arrives incognito in colonial New Orleans and falls into the manly arms of a captain with...
In Naughty School Girls (1975), a group of private-school seniors want to raise money to buy a new bell for their school, so they hit on the idea of putting themselves on the market. In Zero in and Scream (1971), a lonely man, tired of being rejected by women, gets ahold of a rifle and prowls the Hollywood hills, picking off rich couples.
In the 1940s, twenty-nine young men from government-run Navajo reservations bravely heeded the call of a nation, which once nearly wiped out their ancestors and the memory of their culture completely. During the second world war, the United States and its allies were struggling to find a code by which to communicate across the Pacific Ocean - one that could not be broken by the Japanese enemy. The solution came in the form of the Navajo people, whose language was as elusive as it was complex....
Navajo Code Talkers of WWII provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation.
In the heart of the American southwest, the 320 cops of the Navajo Police patrol some of the most rugged territory in the United States. These modern day warriors are on a mission to protect the largest Indian reservation in North America, and to preserve an ancient way of life. They must deal with big city crime like gangs, drugs, murders, and human trafficking while also protecting wildlife, cultural landmarks, and endangered archaeological sites. On a landscape straight out of the Wild...
Average western featuring Bob Steele as adopted Indian who tracks down his foster father's killer. Plot involves a jumping frog, a locket with a picture of his real mother who was killed by Apaches, his reunion with his real father, who recognizes locket, romance, and so on. "... two parts murder and revenge, spiced lightly with humor and stirred by the long arm of coincidence. But since the shooting, riding, fisticuffs, and jailbreaks follow through without scenic or romantic breathers, the...
Tom Kirk's parents were slaughtered in an Indian raid when he was just a child. A friendly Navajo found the boy and raised him as his son. When his adoptive father is murdered, Tom journeys to Canyon City to capture the killer. He finds his father's ring in the possession of con man and card player "Honest John" Grogan. Despite the evidence, Grogan has an airtight alibi for the time of the murder. The sheriff warns Tom against vigilantism, but "The Navajo Kid" decides to take the law into his...
Perhaps one of the greatest expressions of weapons, naval guns first encouraged nations to develop the concept of "sea power". From sail, to steam, to steel, the warships of the world exist for one purpose--to overpower the enemy at sea. Step aboard as we test the mighty force of enormous guns at sea.
"Truck" Cross (James Stewart) is a hardworking midshipman, sworn to regain his father's disgraced honor. Roger Ash (Robert Young) is a cynical, top-notch athlete hiding a heart of gold, and Richard Gates (Tom Brown) is the pampered but determined son of New York socialites. They are three very different young men who find themselves rooming together during their first year at the Naval Academy of Annapolis. Here they learn the real meaning of teamwork and competition as they lead the battle on...
Sailor beware! That sweet trick with the big eyes is looking for more than a good time. She wants a ring! As bad-boy tar Jack Kelly, silent-film leading man William Haines brings his trademark humor, charm and amazing good looks to his first Talkie and proves to be as hear-worthy as he is see-worthy. So successful was Haines's transition to sound that in 1930, one year after Navy Blues was released, he reigned as Hollywood's #1 male box-office star. This nifty little comedy-drama touting the...
This action-adventure-comedy begins innocently when a brash sailor Rusty Gibbs bets his fellow sailors that he can get a date with any woman. HIs pals make it tough by giving him one week to take "book worm" librarian Doris Kimbell to the Crow's Nest, a notorious night spot. Things turn serious as Rusty not only finds himself falling in love with Doris but that he has a rival for her affections in Julian Everett. The situation becomes deadly as Julian reveals himself to be part of a spy ring....
While out on patrol with a squadron of WWII Navy airmen, a pilot learns that he has just become a father. He can't wait to return to base so that he can see his wife and newborn child, but when he finally gets there he learns the tragic news - the mother has died due to complications from the delivery. His flying buddies are unable to console him and, in his misery, he takes his own life. Now the surviving squad members begin a new mission - keeping the baby out of the hands of officials who...