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During World War II, the crew of a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet experience an event unlike any event ever experienced by the United States Navy. A ship’s captain is removed from command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it […]

This political drama film noir, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor (Broderick Crawford), and Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge) in 1949, centers on the rise and fall of Willie Stark, an idealistic but ruthless politician in the American South, patterned after Louisiana Governor Huey Long. Staring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes […]

This film is a political drama about a fierce U.S. Senate battle over a controversial Secretary of State nominee, Robert Leffingwell. The confirmation hearings expose lies, political blackmail and hidden pasts, driving an idealistic senator to tragic despair as Washington politicians trade ethics for power. Staring Henry Fonda, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Peter Lawford and […]

This film is based on the 1952 novella, Old Man and the Sea, written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major fictional work Hemingway published during his lifetime. Exploring themes of human dignity and perseverance, the novella tells the story of Santiago, an aging […]

This 1993 historical romantic drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes, is based on Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, Age of Innocence, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. New York society scion Newland Archer is […]