Drama - DVD

<p>Heroes are born when bullets fly, when the earth explodes, when cannons roar. From the director of Hamburger Hill and The Dogs of War comes an explosive new film set during one of World War II's most shocking and unforgettable battles -- the battle...

<p>Anthony Hopkins gives an Emmy Award-winning performance as Adolf Hitler over the 105 days of his decline. With the Third Reich crumbling around him, Hitler rages as he faces the final hours before a choice must be made between suicide and surrender.</p>

<p>In 1800 there were 300,000 Native Americans living in California; by 1900 only 20,000 remained. Of the thousands who witnessed this slaughter, it was thought that none remained wild, until the day in 1911 when they called "Ishi" was captured raiding a slaughterhouse. Dr....

<p>He was the only president to be elected three times, and is admired for his leadership during some of this nation's most challenging times, most notably, World War II and the Great Depression. Despite these historic accomplishments, many Americans have never known of Franklin...

<p>Picturehouse and HBO Films present a story about Hal Hefner, an ordinary, shy 15 year-old boy who's struggling to make it through High School. On top of his parents' recent divorce and an obsessive- compulsive, kleptomaniac older brother, Hal has a stuttering problem. In...

<p>Gary Sinise is "Give 'em Hell" Harry, a simple man of the people who became one of America's greatest presidents. Through victory in the second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, through the birth of the United Nations and his decision...

<p>The 80's... It was a time when everybody was doing the big bucks, but f. Ross Johnson, CEO of R.J. R. Nabisco has every intention of making a fortune. When Johnson (James Garner) decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his...

<p>An official selection in the 2005 Cannes Film festival, GUS VAN SANT'S LAST DAYS is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. The film introduces us to Blake (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers), a brilliant, but troubled musician. Success has left him in a...

<p>Loose women. Unscrupulous heels. Adulterous husbands. Unfaithful wives. Pre-Code Hollywood had them all, with most sins going unpunished. Starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Loretta Young and quintessential screen scoundrel Warren William in two of his best, Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Seven shines the spotlight...

<p>The folks who live in the teeming tenements lining Manhattan's Tenth Avenue could sure use an angel. And they have one -- Flavia Mills, a little girl with big dreams who touches the lives and hearts of everyone in her run-down neighborhood. Margaret O'Brien...

<p>Audacious, controversial and shockingly frank, Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Six turns the spotlight on adultery, alcoholism, prostitution and racism, issues the Production Code would soon ban from the screen. Starring the pre-Code era's biggest stars, including John Gilbert, Richard Barthelmess, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis and...

<p>When young Jim Halsey stops to pick up a hitchhiker, he opens the door to terrible evil. The mysterious hitcher is a relentless slaughterer, preying on those who invite him into their lives.</p>

<p>David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper star in an outrageous comedy based on a true story that takes you behind the scenes of one of the scientific world's most impactful discoveries. From the hip 60's to the happening 70's and into the excessive 80's, two...

<p>Emmy award winner Kenneth Branagh, the man who redefined Shakespeare for a whole new generation with Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, brings the Bard's most delightful comedy to sensational life! Rosalind is a young woman living in the court of her...

<p>For some men the Civil War never ended. Graff (Mickey Rourke) is one of these men. With his gang of former Confederate soldiers, he roams the country robbing Yankee banks. Graff is a tough and demanding leader whose renegade band follows him without quesiton...

<p>Treasure Lee has moved out of 'juvenile' into the state penitentiary. Now she needs to learn how the system works, search out where the power lies, and find herself a new lover. Treasure soon meets up with Brownie, a jail-toughened lifer dealing drugs and...

<p>Combining Nelson Eddy's fine baritone voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, Let Freedom Ring distinguishes itself as a most unusual western. While boasting its share of bad guys and two-fisted action, this ambitious film delivers a powerful and heartfelt message. The...

<p>English director Alfred Hitchcock, a.k.a. The Master of Suspense, is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock's leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an...

<p>Every year in Pakistan, at least 100 people are victimized by acid attacks. The majority of these are women, and many cases go unreported. With little or no access to reconstructive surgery, survivors are physically and emotionally scarred, while many reported assailants -- typically...

<p>Nuclear war-- a nightmare that may become grim reality for the world in this riveting thriller. When a fanatical group opposed to friendly U.S./Soviet relations explodes a nuclear missile over a Russian city, it begins a chain reaction of accusations and actions that begin...

<p>(Drama) In April 1994, one of the most heinous genocides in world history began in the African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen. This...

<p>As the Summer of Love faded to the winter of our national discontent in the fall of 1968, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.), Special Agent Colby (William Reynolds), and Assistant Director Ward (Philip Abbott) continue to battle the nation's enemies, foreign and domestic. Delivering...

<p>Lisa Hartman avenges the death of the man she loved in this fiery tale of passion and hate, costarring Bruce Dern, Betty Buckley and Howard Duff and based on the bestselling novel by Jonell Lawson. When her beloved husband dies in a mine explosion,...

<p>Kim Novak and Tony Curtis make their TV movie debuts in this poignant tale of shattered dreams from director Peter Medak (The Ruling Class). A chorus girl for 14 years, Gloria Joyce (Novak) is at the end of the line. She's just turned 36,...

<p>In his sophomore and, sadly, final season, Harry Orwell steps a little lighter but never stops searching for the truth. Or working to restore his boat, "The Answer." Continuing the shift in tone that began with the first season's mid-season shift from San Diego...

<p>Screen legends Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind) and Gene Tierney (Laura) team up in this exciting drama about a passionate love affair set in postwar Russia. Philip Sutherland (Gable), a foreign correspondent based in Russia, falls in love with Maria Lamarkina (Tierney), a...

<p>Academy Award winner Patty Duke searches for her daughter’s killer in this shocking true story, costarring Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Loretta Swit. A popular 17-year-old girl, Jenny Monroe (Thiessen) is found beaten, tortured and drowned in a creek. Her best friend, Ellen Holloway (Margaret Welsh),...

This directorial debut of Chinatown Oscar winner Robert Towne is a bracing celebration of athletes who live the way they play: with total passion. Mariel Hemingway plays a promising hurdler who finds needed emotional and athletic seasoning with a caring mentor (Patrice Donnelly). After...

<p>Promote someone else to the rank of lieutenant? Over Iago's dead body! And more pointedly, over the dead bodies of nearly everyone ensnared in Iago's plot of revenge. Jealousy, passion, misplaced trust: the themes of Shakespeare's towering tragedy permeate this fresh Othello from writer/director...

<p>Rod Steiger plays the tattoo-covered title role in this fascinating vision of doom and danger based on the classic short story collection by futurist Ray Bradbury. Robert Drivas portrays a good-natured drifter who can't tear his eyes from Steiger's freakish illustrations. And Claire Bloom...

<p>"You gotta git your minds fixed," the rural preacher tells Sunday School children. And the best way to do that fixin' is from Old Testament stories narrated by the preacher, played by a black cast, backed by the joyful gospel sounds of the Hall...

<p>The Marines have landed! Cpl. Eddie Birdlace and three buddies are on the loose among San Francisco's bars, tattoo parlors and blue-movie houses. They've also organized a "dogfight," a wager with simple rules. Each guy puts in $50. And the one who finds the...

<p>The batters couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat. The fielders must be using frying pans instead of baseball mitts. It looks like the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates haven't got a prayer until the prayers of a young orphan girl get the...

<p>Director Howard Hawks makes his talkie debut with this antiwar classic, an action-packed WWI adventure powerfully told with "a characteristically Hawksian emphasis on professionalism, self-respect and loyalty" (Time Out Film Guide). Tormented over his sending eager young recruits to their deaths, Major Brand (Neil...

<p>A trainload of silk puts Neil Hamilton on the fast track to murder in this full-throttle thrill-ride costarring Sheila Terry and Guy Kibbee. As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton (Arthur Hohl) corners the market with plans to...

<p>Big, bold and powerful, Sweepings tells the decades-spanning tale of a self-made man whose dream of a family dynasty crashes around him. Lionel Barrymore ages from youth to elderly patriarch as Daniel Pardway, who builds a department-store empire in the aftermath of the Great...

<p>An unfaithful wife is accused of her invalid husband's murder in this powerful adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's controversial 1928 stage play The Sacred Flame, starring Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent and Colin Clive. Shortly after his marriage to Stella (Hutchinson), wealthy aviator Maurice Trent...

<p>Speed kills, as Peter Graves attempts to bust up a black market amphetamine racket in this action-packed thriller directed by two-time Academy Award nominee* Joseph Newman (This Island Earth). When bootleg bennies threaten to destroy the long-distance trucking industry, undercover FDA agent Tom Kayler...

<p>Filmed primarily on Long Island -- the birthplace of the post-WWII suburban American Dream -- this 54-minute film documents the challenges and frustrations facing several unemployed or under-employed people who are trying to land new jobs and make ends meet in the face of...

<p>Pretty Eden Lane earned herself a one-way ticket to the slammer for the murder of her boyfriend. But the cop escorting Eden to prison has his doubts about her guilt -- especially when Eden glances out their train window and claims she sees the...

<p>Hard-drinking New York socialite Jerry Seevers returns from WWI combat and finds that his fiancee now loves someone else. Drunkenly, Jerry retaliates by marrying party girl Dot. But the next morning he wants out of his vows and flees west to his Arizona ranch...

<p>Americans have had a long love affair with dogs, with many of us referring to our canine companions as best friends, significant others, soul mates, even children. But lost amidst all the pampering and pedestaling are hard and often tragic truths surrounding dog ownership,...

<p>Reenlisting to serve in Korea, Master Sgt. Danny Young (John Hodiak) launches a second front when he discovers the Red Cross nurse (Linda Christian) he once dated is engaged to fellow combat photographer Sgt. Mitch Turner (Stephen McNally). Their rivalry, however, is soon put...

<p>Dead men tell no tales in this action-packed search for a lost treasure in gold starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson, produced by legendary exploitation filmmaker Harry Alan Towers (The Face of Fu Manchu). Suspicious of the loss of a diamond dredger off the...

<p>The place: the Spanish province of Castile. The time: 350 years before the Crusades. From this mystery-shrouded age comes the battle-swept adventures of Fernan Gonzalez, the nobleman who emerged from self-imposed exile to overthrow the grip of Moorish tyranny with his mighty sword. Starring...

<p>The search begins. For the mistress and the son of a mob boss. For Barry "Bottomless Pit" Rosen, missing soon after he won a competitive chili-eating contest. For an air traffic controller who reported possible terrorist activity. For a basketball star, a stripper, a...

<p>Robert Mitchum stars alongside son Christopher and grandson Bentley in this powerful drama about family and forgiveness costarring Tess Harper and Claire Bloom. Diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, Wyoming ranch foreman Jack Palmer (Robert Mitchum) makes the trek to Los Angeles for treatment. On...

<p>The kid stars of Broadway's Dead End were seasoned series vets by 1939, having already appeared in a number of films backing up the likes of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Pat O'Brien. By 1939, their popularity propelled them to headliner status and the...

Richard Basehart delivers an incendiary performance as history's most notorious madman in this searing expose of the private life of Adolf Hitler. A semi-factual account of the Fuehrer's rise and fall, this rarely seen film follows Hitler's political career from the failed Beer Hall...

<p>A brilliant cast brings playwright Anton Chekov's masterpiece of the capricious power of passion to the screen. The story is set during two gatherings, two years apart, on the same Russian country estate and among six lovers, most of whom are not loved in...