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West Side Story [(DVD)videorecording]
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry
of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young
woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former
head of the Jets.
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Taxi Driver [(DVD)videorecording].
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated
with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't
work out.
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The Deer Hunter [(DVD)videorecording]
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool
hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what
happens to friendship and courage under stress.
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M*A*S*H [(DVD)videorecording]
Highlights the outrageous antics of three skilled young surgeons drafted from civilian
life and assigned to a unit of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the
Korean War.
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North by Northwest [(DVD)videorecording]
An ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents.
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Jaws [(DVD)videorecording]
A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together
to hunt and destroy it.
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Rocky [(DVD)videorecording]
Rocky Balboa, the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and
the world heavyweight boxing crown and comes out a winner.
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The Gold Rush (DVD) [videorecording].
The Little Tramp searches for gold and love in the Klondike. Includes both the 1925
original version, and the 1942 re-issue, featuring a new score and narration from
Charlie Chaplin. Includes many Special Features.
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Nashville [(DVD)videorecording]
Set in Tennessee, Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters during 5 days
in the capital of country music. More than a portrait of these 24 people, the film
is a penetrating commentary on America at a particular time.
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Duck Soup [(DVD)videorecording]
As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to shambles.
Harpo and Chico are secret agents disguised as peanut vendors and Zeppo is Firefly's
secretary.
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Sullivan's Travels [DVD
videorecording]
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America
from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable
discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
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American Graffiti [(DVD)videorecording]
Four teenagers come of age in 1962 on the last summer night before they go off to
college, jobs, or the army.
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Cabaret [(DVD)videorecording]
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate
Berlin cabaret.
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Network (DVD) [videorecording].
A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network
tries to profit from his illness. Includes: commentary, The Making of Network, The
Cast and Characters, and much more.
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The African Queen [(DVD)videorecording]
Thrown together at the outset of World War I, the spinster sister of a British missionary
and the derelict captain of the launch, The African Queen, determine to pilot the
boat down an unchartered river in an effort to destroy a German gunboat which prevents
invasion by British forces. Setting: German East Africa in 1914.
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Indiana Jones and the Raiders
of the Lost Ark [(DVD)videorecording]
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical
Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must
discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes
and treachery to do so.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? [(DVD)videorecording]
A freewheeling, headlong slide into the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by
years of hatred and humiliation.
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Unforgiven [(DVD)videorecording]
Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A
widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept
one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized
and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned
and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty
has many more obstacles to overcome besides just finding and killing the gunslingers.
Little Bill is the town sheriff of Old Whiskey who keeps a tight hold on what goes
on in his town and outlaws all firearms within the city limits. He has little respect
for assassins and hired guns, and enforces his law with the most brutal of measures.
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Tootsie [(DVD)videorecording]
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a
job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses
up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls
in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
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A Clockwork Orange [DVD
videorecording]
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan
Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral
punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley
Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
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Saving Private Ryan [(DVD)videorecording]
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose
three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question
their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded
by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength
to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
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The Shawshank Redemption
[(DVD)videorecording]
City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two
brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison,
Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular
with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience
to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist
in the tale, Andy finds that survival comes down to a simple choice: get busy living
or get busy dying.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid [(DVD)videorecording]
Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable
outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the
law on their heels.
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The Silence of the Lambs
[(DVD)videorecording]
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her
from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain
a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath
Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
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In the Heat of the Night
[(DVD)videorecording]
A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city
black homicide detective as they investigate a murder.
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Forrest Gump [(DVD)videorecording]
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting
with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences
with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's
through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson,
Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the
significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody a generation.
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All the President's Men
[(DVD)videorecording]
The true story of how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the White House
involvement in the Watergate break in.
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Modern Times (DVD) [videorecording].
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious
assembly line job. Includes many Special Features.
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The Wild Bunch [(DVD)videorecording]
The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year
1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.
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The Apartment [(DVD)videorecording]
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his
boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
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Spartacus [(DVD)videorecording]
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial
Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
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Sunrise [(DVD)videorecording]
: a song of two humans
A villager in love with a city woman tries to kill his wife; later he repents and
spends a happy day with her.
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Titanic [(DVD)videorecording]
Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden
voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
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Easy Rider [(DVD)videorecording]
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find
it.
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A Night at the Opera
[(DVD)videorecording]
A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall
are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The
goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
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Platoon [(DVD)videorecording]
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles
of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst
enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the
anger growing within himself.
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12 Angry Men [(DVD)videorecording]
Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered
his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their
own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
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Bringing up Baby [(DVD)videorecording]
Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and
uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
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The Sixth Sense [(DVD)videorecording]
A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8 year-old boy who is experiencing
terrifying visions of the dead.
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Swing Time [(DVD)videorecording]
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry
his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher,
Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
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Sophie's Choice [(DVD)videorecording]
Sophie Zawistowska, the tragic Polish Catholic beauty who, having survived Auschwitz,
has settled in America after World War II. The time is 1947. Stingo, a 22 year-old
aspiring writer from rural Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic
couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture this young man's imagination.
The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each
harbors terrible and terrifying secrets.
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Goodfellas [(DVD)videorecording]
Details the rise and fall of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn kid who grows up idolizing the
"wise guys" from his neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters and doing
odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero. In his teens,
Hill distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting
on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with
his partner Tommy, he rises through the ranks to become Paulie's lieutenant. Soon
he finds himself the target of both the feds and the mobsters.
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The French Connection
[(DVD)videorecording]
Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity
of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France.
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Pulp Fiction [(DVD)videorecording]
A skillfully woven multi-Oscar nominated tale of small-time gangster life, Pulp
Fiction interweaves a number of different stories about petty thugs in L.A.'s criminal
underworld.
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The Last Picture Show
[(DVD)videorecording]
Story of the social and sexual mores in small-town Texas.
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Do the Right Thing [(DVD)videorecording]
This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while
tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of
Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will
change the lives of its residents forever.
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Blade Runner the final cut
[(DVD)videorecording].
In the future, replicants are synthetically produced humans with a limited life
span. A group of renegade replicants intent on discovering a way to lengthen their
lives are being tracked by the police. Includes added and extended scenes and much
more.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy [DVD
videorecording]
A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer,
and composer.
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Toy Story [(DVD)videorecording].
This new version contains improved video and audio along with several new bonus
features, including all-new games and music videos, new deleted scenes, documentary
featurettes, and more.
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Ben-Hur [(DVD)videorecording]
A peace-loving prince of Judea leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering
Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he
learns to fight, love, hate and, finally, forgive.
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