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A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to...
A mild-mannered cattle rancher takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw to the train that will deliver him to prison. This apparently simple mission turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that tests each man's particular brand of honor.
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and...
"66 authors, 82 Stories. Authors Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edward Lear, Oscar Wilde, James Thurber, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Saki, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence etc.
The incredible flash-biography collection covers the entire spectrum of achievement. It's like being invited to a party with 117 of the most intelligent, most athletic, most expressive, and most attractive people who have ever lived. Whether interested in science, politics, sport...
David and Goliath: Prophets fortell that a young shepherd named David will rise up and seize the crown from King Saul of Israel after battling the giant Goliath to the death.
Comedy farce parody on 007 Bond films, featuring Sellers as a baccarat player recruited by the agency to impersonate the aging spy (Niven) in an effort to smash "SMERSH."
Hercules: The story of Hercules tells of the quest for the Golden Fleece, the heroic efforts by Hercules to de-throne the evil King Pelias and his love for the King's beautiful daughter, Lole. Hercules wrestles a ferocious lion, defeats the Cretan Bull and manages to take down t...
Orson Welles narrates Jack London's short story about a lone man, hiking through the Alaskan wilderness en route to a mining claim, who attempts to build a fire to survive after temperatures reach seventy-five degrees below zero.
A documentary film about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to make a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, starring Jodorowsky's own 12-year-old son, as well as Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali with music by Pink Floyd; film...
"Citizen Kane" The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
"Directors operate behind the scenes managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions onscreen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrat...
Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it.
This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
David and Goliath: Classic Bible story of a young man who single-handedly defeats the giant with his sling shot.
A violent blast destroys the U.S. government's top-secret Groundstar Research Complex, and six high-ranking scientists are incinerated. The saboteur, employee John David Welles, is found barely alive and clutching stolen national security documents. But when ruthless government i...
After Scott Carey encounters a radioactive mist on a boating trip, his life takes a terrifying turn as he shrinks to a height of two inches.
Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity₂s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six mont...