Drama - DVD

<p>During World War II, U.S. studios released numerous films lauding the nation's allies. Greer Garson persevered in the Battle of Britain in Mrs. Miniver, Humphrey Bogart fought with the Free French in Passage to Marseille, Robert Taylor saluted Soviet allies in Song of Russia....

<p>Miss Moffat, an Englishwoman who relocates to an early 1900s mining community, is astonished to see children working in the mines. "After one week," a townsman observes, "they are old men." She resolves to make the children -- and especially one prize pupil --...

The 7th Cavalry Regiment, Gen. George Armstrong Custer says, rides "to hell or to glory. It depends on one's point of view." The point of view of Raoul Walsh's spectacular They Died with Their Boots On decidedly favors glory. Errol Flynn portrays the famed...

<p>"Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." Inspired by history and Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade tells the tale of a band of British Lancers who challenge an army of 25,000 Russians. The film's highlight: the charge itself, a...

<p>He was Hollywood's ideal of the boy next door. She was America's Sweetheart. Ronald Reagan and Doris Day headline a winning chapter from our national pastime: The Winning Team. Reagan is Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Hall of Fame pitcher whose baseball victories paralleled triumphs...

<p>A notorious bandit confesses to rape and murder, and justice is sure to be swift. But wait. Witnesses to the outrage come forward, each offering different versions of the events. Does truth lie in the eyes of the beholder? A year after Hud, star...

<p>It's why the tropics are hot. In the early days of World War II, Marine Sgt. James O'Hearn brawls his way from China to a palm-fringed isle, from barroom to brig, from romance with a beautiful gal to rivalry with a leatherneck pal, and...

<p>Power, directed by Sidney Lumet (Network, Prince of the City) depicts how calculated and dehumanized the political process has become. The film shows the maneuverings of political candidates as they try to get elected, and the people hired to sell them to the public...

<p>On a body-strewn Pacific hell, nine Japanese surrender to American troops. Then another handful. Then another. Soon, hundreds give up, urged by a lone warrior fighting tough and speaking their language. But the warrior isn't a countryman. He's Marine Guy Gabaldon, a non-Asian kid...

<p>Helen Morgan has beauty, talent, success. Yet they mean nothing to her without the love of Larry Maddux, the bootlegger who leads Helen on and drops her so often she finally hits bottom. Set in the roaring '20s, The Helen Morgan Story is also...

<p>Is there a better dog in all Yorkshire? Every day, Lassie waits for Joe (Roddy McDowall) outside school. One day she isn't there, and Joe learns the terrible news: Lassie's been sold by his impoverished family. This first Lassie screen adventure is a triumph...

<p>It's Christmastime as young Robbie Eunson pulls his little sister on a sled through the snow to a snug house in the woods. But this is no yuletide treat. Instead, Robbie is fulfilling the promise he made to their dying mother -- that he...

<p>George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in They Drive by Night, a feisty tale of brothers trying to make it as independent truckers. Ann Sheridan plays a truck-stop waitress dishing both the daily special and the patter. And Ida Lupino is...

<p>Within the Hardeman family that runs the Bethlehem Motors auto empire, Angelo Perino's an outsider. But that won't stop him from bringing on line an innovative new car -- The Betsy -- and making his presence known from the boardroom to the bedroom. Making...

<p>With lots of spiffy patter and a colorful array of underworld types, Brother Orchid spoofs the gangster genre as it serves its most hard-boiled crime icon sunny-side up. Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) plays racketeer Little John Sarto, who poses as Brother Orchid and...

<p>Based on the character created by Louis L'Amour and the John Wayne film of the same name, Hondo depicts the adventures of former cavalry scout Hondo Lane (Ralph Taeger) and his dog, Sam (himself), as he tries to broker a peace between the white...

<p>With a secondhand trumpet and the loving guidance of a brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as a superb musician whose talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate search for an elusive high note -- trapped in...

<p>Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives has elegant taste, a yen for gambling and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. When he crosses paths with sinister Abner Procane, he gets something else: a price on his head. St. Ives is a hard-boiled update of classic...

<p>From the director of A Rage in Harlem comes Deep Cover, an action police thriller in the explosive style of the classic The French Connection. Laurence Fishburne (Boys N The Hood, The Matrix) stars as an undercover cop who uses drug-dealing attorney Jeff Goldblum...

<p>Widower Jake Barnes moves with his daughter and son to a fishing village in Alaska, and earns his keep as a bush pilot by ferrying supplies to remote locations throughout the state. While the daughter loves her new home, the son cannot stand it....

<p>Lady Luck has fled Hong Kong's Lucky Dragon Casino. Its manager has squandered the profits. Its owner has been snuffed by the mob. And the heir to the casino is in hiding. But Lucky Dragon still holds one last ace: security expert Josh Randall....

<p>Natural Born Killers meets True Romance in this sexy, psychological thriller from acclaimed director John McNaughton. Chris Anderson (Luke Perry) and his wife, Pam (Ashley Judd), live a fairly normal life, until Chris loses his job on the police force and secretly turns to...

<p>Glamorous socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) takes what she wants -- clothes, alcohol, men -- uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets brilliant young violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield). But this is one toy she can't break. Instead, her love for...

<p>"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his...

<p>It's 1950. Maj. Jefferson Pike is in an Allied military hospital, under the care of an American doctor. Pike is an amnesiac, and if he could recount the details of D-Day, his last memory, perhaps it would unlock his mind. Only it's really 1944,...

<p>From the director of Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse comes the comedy that shines a light on the dark side of human behavior. Take a journey from innocence to experience, kindness to cruelty and love to hate with an emotionally needy college student...

<p>"You could be a perfectly wonderful dancer if you wanted to," Irene tells the vaudeville second banana who will someday be her husband. They were even more wonderful together. Vernon and Irene Castle became King and Queen of the Ballroom, creating the Castle Walk,...

<p>Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married her wealthy foster sister. He's a remorseless killer. And yet she finds his brash confidence, square-shouldered good looks and constant aura of menace completely irresistible. Versatile director Robert Wise (The Day...

<p>U.S. Agent Jack Bearnes lies in an open field, shot and beaten. A giant, harrowing machine suddenly roars to life, its blades biting into the earth. Terrified, Bearnes tries to crawl away. But the machine crawls faster. As searing as a shot of tequila...

<p>Jack Webb stars as a Kansas City jazz cornetist, and when he takes on a vicious gang lord (Edmond O'Brien), the only thing faster than his famed deadpan delivery is the rapid-fire action. And the only thing more dynamic than the film's Dixieland- and...

<p>Fish or lamb chops? A wrong dinner selection gives food poisoning to the pilot and first officer of Flight 714 -- and that could mean doom for everyone aboard in Zero Hour!, the high-flying film based on a story by Arthur Hailey (Airport, Hotel)...

<p>Mickey knows about marriage. He knows it won't work if one partner is happy and the other miserable. No, a successful marriage requires both to be miserable! Love is such sweet misery in the witty story of when basketball referee Mickey (Billy Crystal) met...

<p>Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh...

<p>"American Flyers," Rex Reed wrote, "is a fine mixture of romance, humor and tears with action sequences among the most exciting ever captured on film. It's guaranteed to increase the viewer's adrenalin." Two-time Academy Award winner* Kevin Costner and David Grant star as brothers...

<p>After 14 years in exile, a South African freedom fighter (Ice Cube, All About The Benjamins, Friday) returns home for his father's funeral and finds that a lot has changed: Apartheid is over, but now the drug wars are destroying his people...and his brother...

<p>The inimitable Edna May Oliver takes over both trial and deliberations in this effervescent legal comedy-drama. When society dame Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond) stands accused of shooting her sugar-daddy husband, it appears that the French chorus-girl gold digger is getting the comeuppance her class-hopping...

<p>Carried Away, from the author of Legends of the Fall, will sweep you away in an emotional current of desire, betrayal and redemption, Joseph and Rosalee are teachers in a small town turned upside down by the arrival of an enticing 17-year-old, the precocious...

<p>Jeanne de la Motte-Valois knows what she wants. She also knows how to get it -- by conniving, deceiving and betraying. And by doing it so scandalously that it helps send Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Wealth and desire. Politics and corruption. Celebrity...

<p>Gregory La Cava directs Mary Astor in this wise and witty drawing-room war of the sexes, in which manners never falter while scandal simmers at the surface. Mrs. Nancy Gibson (Astor), on a return cruise to the States after a long absence, makes the...

<p>Enough stars to light five marquees. Enough subplots of passion, power and greed to fill 10 movies. Plus fiery special effects galore. From The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno producer Irwin Allen, and continuing that spectacular and devastating moviemaking tradition, comes When Time...

<p>Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break. John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young costar. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa,...

<p>Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena...

<p>They share the same birth month, so the orphanage calls them the December Boys. But these teens -- Maps, Spit, Spark and Misty -- have much more in common. With no hopes of ever joining a family, they form their own familial bonds. Then...

<p>The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory, wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time, a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love...

<p>Think of them as working men who work the angles. Rodrigo is the rookie. Richard is the mentor who knows crime like a book. But a new book is about to be written. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal navigate the con-or-be-conned...

<p>"You've changed my mind for me so often it's a miracle I've got one left." Attorney Stephen Holland (Herbert Marshall) has had it with manipulative, disdainful wife Cynthia (Mary Astor) arranging his life like a windup toy -- to the point that he storms...

<p>Largely fictionalized biopic of turn-of-the-century nightingale Jenny Lind, highlighted by her true-to-life intersection with showman P.T. Barnum.</p>

<p>Jailbird Nick Burton (Lee Tracy) has a secret -- while the warden may run the prison, he runs the men. Big or small, Nick can outscheme, outtalk (and how!) and outfight 'em all. So when an unexpected bumper crop of millionaires end up in...

<p>Psst! Did you hear about Beau and Naomi? Everyone who's anyone on campus is in the know. But what almost no one knows is that the vicious rumor is a hoax. Three journalism students planted the trashy little story, planning to track how it...

<p>Take an ocean voyage of full-masted fright with Dead Calm, "a spare, smart, seductive piece of moviemaking with enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours" (Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times). Thriller specialist Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Saint) directs three splendid actors...