A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd Read More »
Biography
Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) Andy Wolk, Judd Nelson, Mädchen Amick, David Gianopoulos
This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio Read More »
Berthe Morisot (2012) Caroline Champetier, Marine Delterme, Malik Zidi, Alice Butaud
At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Read More »
The House of Rothschild (1934) Alfred L. Werker, George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. Read More »
The Vanishing Virginian (1942) Frank Borzage, Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »
Leadbelly (1976) Gordon Parks, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »
Brakhage (1998) Jim Shedden, Jerry Aronson, Jane Brakhage, Marilyn Brakhage
Jim Sledden’s 1998 documentary Brakhage is an interesting, well-constructed portrait of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage Read More »
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Read More »