Drama - DVD

<p>Three thousand men are crammed into cells designed to hold 1800. And with the overcrowding comes the hard-time toughness, the mess-hall ritual, the dark agony of the hole, the cigarettes as currency, the hidden shivs, the hushed voices in the yard, the scheming and...

<p>Chad Everett and James Daly, as Chief of Surgery Joe Gannon and Chief of Staff Paul Lochner, lead their hit medical drama into its fourth outing tackling controversial topics and cutting-edge medicine simultaneously. Alternative medicine, parapsychology, professional sports' abuse of performance enhancing drugs, "angels...

<p>Eight is no longer enough in the show's fifth and final season. First up, Susan's (Susan Richardson) and Merle's (Brian Patrick Clarke) baby girl raises the stakes in And Baby Makes Nine, then a young Ralph Macchio takes it all the way to ten,...

<p>Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy! Not that she plans to when she heads west to her family's Montana ranch. But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario, meets...

<p>James Cagney and Pat O'Brien hit the deck as well as each other in this rousing Oscar nominee for Best Picture (1934). When cocky naval yard worker Chesty O'Connor (Cagney) battles Chief Petty Officer Biff Martin (O'Brien) over a dame, he not only loses...

Bankrolled by a count with a taste for practical jokes, streetwise bargirl Anni (Joan Crawford) passes herself off as an aristocrat at a posh Alpine resort. There she plans to land a wealthy husband (Robert Young) pronto, even though she's drawn to the town...

Richard Dix stars as Pike Winslow, a bumbling heir to a large fortune. Winslow is also The Reckoner, a mysterious avenger and investigator who always leaves behind a business card printed with the scales of justice. He leads a pair of justice-minded vigilantes --...

<p>Need a no-fuss way out of a broken marriage? Got an itch to turn a spin of the roulette wheel into easy money? Reno is the movie and the place where it all happens. Richard Dix, whose Cimarron and The Conquerors make him no...

<p>As the Seventies came into its own, the intrepid agents of the FBI saw the Cold War and the Culture War cool down, but the domestic war on crime starts to come to a boil. Whether its suburban salesmen roiling with self-loathing who plan...

<p>Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat has received many dramatic treatments since its birth over eighty years ago. But none is more satisfying than this 1936 production, widely accepted as the best and most...

<p>Joan Crawford, William Powell and Robert Montgomery shine in this sparkling drawing room comedy, costarring Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph and Nigel Bruce. When wealthy American widow Fay Cheyney (Crawford) sets up house in London, she quickly becomes the darkling of British society. But looks...

<p>When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original icons met: a leading comic actor of our time and the character whose loopy adventures made John Irving's novel a literary milestone and runaway bestseller. Fans of Williams' dramatic...

<p>Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) amuses and befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey (Lowell Sherman), who stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary charms her way into a screen...

<p>It's her life -- she'll live it the way she wants! And since she's played by Joan Crawford at the peak of her MGM allure, she'll live that life in a captivating array of fashions by Adrian. Crawford plays New York socialite Kay Bentley,...

<p>Three girls, three guys, three roads to happiness -- and perhaps not all of those roads lead there. A trio of Depression-era shopgirls deals with big-city life and also yearns for Mr. Right (or Mr. Right Now!) in Our Blushing Brides, a film that...

<p>James Cagney gives a knockout performance in this two-fisted boxing drama costarring Marian Nixon, Virginia Bruce, Guy Kibbee and Dickie Moore. While resting up at a New Mexico health ranch, lightweight contender Jimmy Kane (Cangey) falls for Peggy Harmon (Nixon), a beautiful widow with...

Gravel-voiced granite man-of-noir Charles McGraw stars in this classic flick about crime and passion, taken and shaken with a twist. McGraw plays "Honest" Joe Peters, a Los Angeles-based insurance detective gifted with a mind for graft but a soul for the straight and narrow,...

<p>Two generations of tragic love make Smilin' Through one of the screen's great romances. The story begins in 1868 England, when John Carteret's fiancee is shot dead on the couple's wedding day by a rejected lover aiming at the groom. Flash forward to 1915,...

<p>One of the most popular and influential medical series in television history makes its first house call in this long-awaited DVD collection. Starring Richard Chamberlain in the role that rocketed him to fame and made him a teen idol, Dr. Kildare follows the gifted...

<p>Tinseltown tough guy supreme George Raft (Scarface) stars as a rogue detective obsessed with finding the femme fatale inside a rogues' gallery of eye-popping pinups after a composer's supposed suicide. Successful songsmith Keith Vincent is a serial seducer of women -- all brunettes, all...

<p>George Raft plays Johnny Torno, a tougher than asphalt character careening between religion and revenge in this taut film noir character drama produced and directed by Roy Del Ruth. Torno thinks everything's jake thanks to the safe return of his brother Jess (Arthur Franz),...

<p>Like a sailor with a girl in every port, Harry Mork has his own list of people, pulchritude and places. But that's changing for this roving salesman with a roving eye. He's found his match: a haughty, worldly-wise widow he plans to marry. But...

<p>"When poets love heaven and earth, fall back to watch!" exclaimed ads for this prestigious film. The hyperbole was prophetic. So many moviegoers watched The Barretts of Wimpole Street that is became one of 1934's top box-office hits. Based on Rudolf Besier's play, the...

<p>Superstar cowboy actor "Wild Bill" Elliot traded in his boots and spurs at Allied Artists for gumshoes and a badge in a series of crackling crime dramas playing a Los Angeles County Sheriff's department detective lieutenant. Dubbed Lt. Andy Flynn in the first film,...

<p>A young Robert Wise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Sound of Music) directs this on-location mystery noir shot in Mexico City and Cuernavaca. When a diamond necklace goes missing in Mexico, so too does the insurance investigator tasked with its retrieval. A second...

<p>America's favorite intern, Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain), returns in the second season of his smash hit NBC series alongside mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). Thanks to Chamberlain's and Massey's able embodiment of the characters originally made famous by Lew Ayres and Lionel...

<p>Although not the first actor to don the scrubs of Max Brand's Dr. Kildare, Lew Ayres soon became synonymous with the young intern, playing the unconventional doctor in nine films for MGM from 1938 until 1942. Lionel Barrymore starred opposite as the curmudgeonly mentor...

<p>Vanessa Redgrave stars in this scorching motion picture version of Tennessee Williams' classic Orpheus Descending. Lady Torrance (Redgrave) lives a loveless life in a boring southern town -- until Val (Kevin Anderson), a handsome young stranger in a snakeskin jacket, brings out her long-forgotten...

<p>Turn-of-the-century Africa, Colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidden dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of the traders is sea captain Marlow (Tim Roth, Reservoir Dogs), who penetrates the depths of the Congo's streaming jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz...

<p>Hollywood superstars Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck are dynamic in this light and energetic performance. Mags Church (Cecilia Peck, Torn Apart) is an aspiring artist about to get her first Manhattan gallery showing. But she needs to return home and complete an unfinished portrait...

<p>Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Plummer, Franco Nero, Marthe Keller, Maximilian Schell and Julia Ormond star in this powerful tale of two women: one mother to an empire; one destined to overpower her. The year is 1744, and a young woman (Ormond) is torn from her...

<p>From director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity, HBO's The Deal) and writer Shawn Slovo (Catch a Fire) comes a behind-the-scenes look at Muhammad Ali's historic Supreme Court battle for Conscientious Objector status to the Vietnam War, and a portrait of the changing tides...

<p>At a Buenos Aires cafe, a blind man notices a stranger's cologne. He has smelled that scent only once before -- some 20 years earlier when he encountered notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The tip reaches Israeli intelligence and an elite team springs into action....

<p>"Why was I not made of stone like thee?" Quasimodo, bellringer of Paris' Notre dame Cathedral, is more hideously deformed than any of the nightmarish stone gargoyles adorning the famed building. Yet he is very much made of flash, blood and human emotion. The...

<p>Earl Rogers (Treat Williams: Prince of the City, Smooth Talk, Hair) was raised to believe in truth and justice by his father, Reverend Rogers (Glenn Ford: The Big Heat, Gilda, Superman). But soon he discovered that truth and justice have little to do with...

<p>All the heart. All the determination. All the love. For the Malone family, it's all for the most important person in the world: a year-old child left on their doorstep. Based on the same-title novel by Sarah, Plain and Tall author Patricia MacLachlan, Baby...

<p>Following the success of Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory, comes this rollicking volume of mostly musical shorts produced by MGM. Two-reel Technicolor extravaganzas, one-reel earthy "tabloid musicals," showstopping MGM revues and more are waiting in the wings in this 3-Disc Collection of...

<p>A veteran actor who's seen it all and a young, up-and-comer join for a season of reperatory theatre.</p>

<p>The reviews are in - and Heidi has taken the critics and the public by storm! Critics across the nation praise this adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer-Prize winning play about one woman's quest for fulfillment. Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies) stars as Heidi Holland,...

<p>Starring Leonard Nimoy in one of the most powerful performances of his career, this stirring film, based on a true story, tells of one man's fight for justice. Mel Mermelstein (Nimoy, Star Trek) is offered $50,000 by the Institute for Historical Review, a revisionist...

<p>Equal justice. Unequally dispensed. What would you do if it happened to your child? What Jacob Doyle does when his estranged son is wrongly convicted of murder is kidnap the jury at gunpoint and issue a single demand: prosecuting D.A. Ned Stark has 24...

<p>K STREET is an experimental fusion of reality and fiction--an entertaining, fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The series ventures inside the world of powerful political consultants--a world that few people ever experience first-hand. Produced on...

<p>The story of a young, lightning fast Latino boxer who must navigate the path between his newfound fame, with all its seductive trappings, and his humble yet proud roots growing up on the hardscrabble, mean streets of Jackson Heights, Queens. Surrounded by his childhood...

<p>Joe Gimlet, a Depression-era tobacconist, knows what he would do if he could start life over -- go for the dough and all the power and prestige it brings. Surprisingly, Joe gets his chance to Turn Back the Clock. As Joe, Lee Tracy (Blessed...

<p>At the dawn of the Seventies the Culture War captured as much attention as the Cold War, and the storylines seen in this sixth season of The FBI (drawn from real Bureau files) reflected this. While still on the watch for saboteurs and spies...

<p>A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? Killjoy aims to keep you guessing, plunging you into a whodunit that earned scripter Sam H. Rolfe the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award....

<p>Helena Bonham Carter gives a Golden Globe -nominated performance as the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald in this compelling story about conspiracies and cover-ups costarring Frank Whaley as the accused assassin. Thrust into the national consciousness on November 22, 1963, Marina Oswald (Bonham Carter)...

<p>New York Globe Columnist Jimmy Russell (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) prowls his Broadway beat, digging up the racy gossip his readers devour with their morning toast and cup of joe. It's a glamorous life - until Jimmy's attempt to help his actress girlfriend (Francis Dee)...

<p>Based on a true story (and novel). Shuhao (Bryan Chang) is a twenty-four-year-old Taiwanese university graduate, whose older brother Shuwei, dies unexpectedly on a bicycle trek to Lhasa. Now, Shuhao decides to fulfil his brother's final wish and sets out to complete the journey...

<p>Wealthy shoe manufacturer John Reeves (George Arliss) relishes a challenge, whether it's beating his competitors in business or helping a couple of spoiled rich kids find purpose in life. Years ago, Reeves lost the girl he loved to a manufacturing rival. Now, after both...