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Spartacus
(1960) [PG]

This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes of footage cut from the film's original release, plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), the bold gladiator slave and Varinia (Jean...  More

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (2 disc set)
(1927) [R]

An attractive woman from the city, on vacation, stays in a small farming community and dazzles a young married farmer. The wicked woman suggests that the man's deceptively dowdy-looking wife might "accidentally" drown. Can he, will he go through with it? The scene changes; in unexpected company,...  More

Murder On The Orient Express
(1974) [PG]

This 1974 production of Agatha Christie's 1934 classic directed by Sidney Lumet is a judicious mixture of mystery, murder and nostalgia. Which member of the all-star cast, onboard the luxurious train, perforated the no-good American tycoon (Richard Widmark) with a dagger twelve times? Albert...  More

The Wicker Man: The Director's Cut
(1973) [R]

When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle (a brilliant performance by the legendary Christopher Lee), is not what it seems as the devout Christian...  More

Don't Look Now
(1973) [M]

Daphne Du Maurier's shattering psychic thriller has rightly taken its place as one the great British horror films. A truly original film, Don't Look Now is a superb psychological thriller, an eerie horror story, and much more. When a little girl is drowned, her parents (Donald Sutherland and...  More

October 1917 (Ten Days That Shook the World)
(1927) [PG]

Borrowing its title from a book by American journalist John Reed (of Reds fame), Sergei Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World reenacts the crucial week-and-a-half in October, 1918, when the Russian Kerensky regime was toppled by the Bolsheviks. While Eisenstein takes certain liberties in...  More

Sink The Bismarck
(1960) [G]

The story of one of World War II's most famous sea battles is brought to the screen in this exciting, semi-documentary style movie. In the Spring of 1941, Nazi Germany's greatest battleship - the Bismarck, scourge of Atlantic shipping, is pinned down at her anchorage in Norway. Making a break for...  More

Seven Days In May
(1964) [G]

It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen in America. Or can it? At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and a President with a low public approval rating. At stake is the survival of the...  More

In The Heat Of The Night
(1967) [M]

While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however,...  More

Blackboard Jungle
(1955) [PG]

A teacher in a New York slum school fights to win the respect of his pupils. The opening credits are backed by Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock' - the first-ever use of rock music in a feature film.

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