Drama - DVD

<p>Gravely wounded following a daring nighttime commando raid, Captain Craig Killian (John Loder) returns to England to the closest hospital, a private sanitarium, to treat his injuries. Little does anyone suspect that Killian has been intercepted by Nazi spies who secretly run the sanitarium...

<p>In this heart-warming coming-of-age story set in a remote Derbyshire village, you'll share the villagers' joys and crises as Bert Middleton takes a nostalgic look back at his youth, between 1914 and 1929. Season 1, 1914-1919: When a bus drives into the village for...

<p>A carpool ride to work at an aircraft plant is the device connecting five separate stories of the patriotic war effort at home. Five strangers are enjoying a silent car ride when the driver (Charles Arnt) surprises them with an invitation to Sunday supper,...

<p>Overeager cub reporter Chick Brian (Eric Linden) thinks he has the story that will land him the front-page byline of his dreams when he snaps a picture of a diamond smuggler in a most candid situation. Unfortunately for the hapless Chick, it only lands...

<p>Powerful public-relations man Jeff Bidwell (Robert Montgomery) is the secret king of Broadway, a fixer and advisor to a procession of Manhattan's most powerful. Within the confines of his exclusive club, Bidwell's patrons range from divorcees to generals, and from the district attorney to...

<p>Though they all live in and share the same home, the Carter children could not be more different. Murray Carter (Preston Foster), the shopkeeper, is the conscientious provider who keeps his mother, Anna (May Robson), and the family afloat after their father's passing. Dick...

<p>Legendary Warner Bros. character actor Barton MacLane dazzles in a rare leading-man role as a hardened blue-collar employee who works his way up the corporate ladder. Steel-mill foreman Chris Bennett (MacLane) is well-liked by his coworkers and knows the ins and outs of the...

<p>For the first film adaptation of the Broadway smash operetta New Moon, M-G-M transplanted the action from Louisiana to Czarist Russia, but wisely brought in two luminaries from the Metropolitan Opera, Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, to play star-crossed lovers Lieutenant Michael Petroff and...

<p>Death is only the beginning in this fun-filled, family-focused romantic fantasy ably anchored by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mainstay Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz). Shipbuilder Sam Griggs (Morgan) suffers a fatal coronary while struggling to ensure his family's future with a shaky, secret real-estate investment he...

<p>Forty-eight-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison just lost his job. Soon he'll lose his wardrobe, temper, self-respect and maybe his mind. In urban life's grueling guerrilla war, Mel just became The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Adapting his 1971 stage hit, Neil Simon develops Mel's anxiety-ridden plight...

<p>In early 20th-century New York, former heavyweight champion Roy "Slag" McGurk (Wallace Beery) considers himself the "King of the Bowery." The truth is, Slag is hired muscle for local saloonkeeper Mike Glenson (Edward Arnold) and a kept man, thanks to the generosity of local...

<p>Jackie "Butch" Jenkins (My Brother Talks to Horses) stars as the mischievous title character, a young army brat facing some painful life lessons, in this early feature from celebrated director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon, A Man for All Seasons). Dubbed the "best battery captain...

<p>This heartfelt paean dedicated to the inhabitants of New York's Lower East Side serves up laughter and tears along with the chicken soup. Mendel Marantz (George Sidney) may be a lackluster plumber, but he's a first-rate inventor -- at least in secret! Forbidden from...

<p>The fire of Barbra Streisand. The magnetism of Kris Kristofferson. The reckless world of big-time rock 'n' roll. All three bring a new passion and timeliness to A Star Is Born, one of the screen's classic love stories (previously filmed in 1937 and 1954)...

<p>This tuneful sports comedy-drama follows a college football star who must choose between preserving his health and playing in the big game. Wealthy Carlton College alumnus Grant Haines makes a secret pact with the college president (Douglas Wood) that he will bequeath his fortune...

<p>In this crackling pre-Code caper, RKO takes us on a behind-the-scenes look at the adrenaline-fueled lives of the headline hunters. Daredevil newsreel photographer Bill Allen (William Gargan) has shaky ethics, while newspaper reporter Jane Mallory (Frances Dee) is a straight arrow. But when the...

<p>When American heiress Pearl Saunders (Constance Bennett) marries Sir George Grayston (Alan Mowbray), everyone thinks it's a brilliant match. Sir George is delighted with Pearl's money, and Pearl is in love with her new husband's title in director George Cukor's adaptation of W. Somerset...

<p>The Star Witness is a gripping crime thriller by way of courtroom drama in this early talkie directed by cinema titan "Wild Bill" William A. Wellman. The Leeds family (mother Abby, father George and their four children) have just sat down for dinner with...

<p>Sgt. Mooney of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police is dispatched to the frozen tundra with orders to catch the daring thief who stole a shipment of gold. Mooney's suspicions immediately fall upon the dashing, devil-may-care trapper Louis LeBey (Gilbert Roland), known as "The Fox."...

<p>Smooth-talking Mexican bandit Montero (Rod La Rocque) and his deaf-mute sidekick, Colosso (Mitchell Lewis), are being pursued through the sand dunes of southern Arizona by lawman "Bobcat" Manners (Walter Long) and his posse. Montero plans to rob a bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins...

<p>In her first talkie, Mary Pickford won 1929's Best Actress Academy Award for her delightful portrayal of Norma Besant, a flirtatious socialite who falls in love with a poor ne'er-do-well. When Norma tells her father she has fallen in love with Michael Jeffery (Johnny...

<p>City-slicker carnival barker Windy (William Haines) thinks he got all the angles covered when he swindles a group of cowboys with a rigged roulette wheel while running a sideshow out West. But Windy didn't count on two things -- getting robbed by his leading...

<p>The Codys are back, and the ties that bind them are about to be stretched to the limit in the third season of this bold, adrenaline-fueled hit drama about a Southern California crime family. Ellen Barkin (Sea of Love) stars as Cody clan matriarch...

<p>John, aka Lord Teylesmore (Ralph Forbes), thinks he's found a way to get popular London stage actress Elsie Hilary (Ruth Chatterton) to marry him after she's turned down his daily proposals for a year -- he'll announce their engagement in all the papers! Shocked...

<p>Prejudice keeps a free spirit from the man she loves, triggering a series of tragedies.</p>

<p>Broadway diva Judy Carroll (Constance Bennett) loses custody of an orphaned baby after testifying on behalf of notorious embezzler Commissioner Al Howard (Walter Pidgeon in an early film appearance). Devastated by the loss, she's sent abroad with her inebriated mother, Snooks (Jobyna Howland), by...

<p>When The Jazz Singer was released in theaters, the future of Hollywood changed. For the first time in a feature film, an actor spoke on-screen, stunning audiences and leaving the silent era behind. Al Jolson was the history-making actor, playing the son of a...

<p>Ten years after he became President of the Interstellar Alliance, John Sheridan returns to Babylon 5 for the IA's anniversary celebration. When a technomage shows him a glimpse of a future Earth destroyed in a devastating Centauri assault and a demonic entity makes itself...

<p>Robert Montgomery stars in and directs this snappy adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective mystery. Montgomery portrays Marlowe, private eye. As director, he's also the film's private eyes, using a subjective camera presenting the action from Marlowe's point of view. What Marlowe sees, we...

<p>Justin McLeod has been an outsider since he arrived in Cranesport, Maine. There, he lives with the solitude his tragic past and disfigurement have forced upon him. But that isolation is unexpectedly about to change. Mel Gibson (who would go on to win two...

<p>No body, motive or weapon. The facts in the Australian murder trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain didn't add up. But other things did: bigotry against the couple's religion. Scattershot forensic evidence taken as fact. And a hysteria that was the 1980s equivalent of...

<p>Love thy neighbor. Words to live by for Sid's sexy sister Abby Cunningham --especially with the male neighbors in her new hometown, Knots Landing. Maybe it's Abby's influence, but bed-hopping becomes the latest cul-de-sac sport. Who cheats? It's simpler to list who doesn't in...

<p>Wad "Million-Mile" Madison (Robert Armstrong) is the pilot you want flying your aircraft -- sure and steady on the stick, his passengers' safety of utmost concern. Playboy stunt pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth), however, disregards caution and convention in pursuit of flight records and...

<p>Helen Twelvetrees and Robert Young play a pair of siblings caught up in an "honor killing" in this eyebrow-raising pre-Code courtroom drama. Young Dick Ogden (Young) will do anything to protect his older sister, Joan (Twelvetrees). Unfortunately, Joan's judgment in men is lacking. Wooed...

<p>After German underground leader Kurt Muller arrives with his family in Washington, DC, he soon finds the tentacles of Nazi terror have a very long reach. Lillian Hellman's 1941 stage hit (adapted by Dashiell Hammett) retains its emotional and intellectual power in this suspenseful...

<p>In the early days of World War I, nurse Laura Mattson (Diana Wynyard) enjoys a tryst with Lt. Geoffrey Aiken (Robert Young), who is promptly mortally wounded on his first mission. Pregnant and alone, Laura accepts a marriage proposal from soldier Ned Seward (Lewis...

<p>Cowboy star Dick Foran trades in spurs for snowshoes in this rare, early, Technicolor Warner Bros. "(North)Western" from the golden age of motion pictures, adapted from the novel by William Byron Mowery. Dick Foran plays Sgt. Alan Baker, scarlet-clad sentinel of Saskatchewan. When a...

<p>Dapper old rascal and park-bench regular Julius (Laurence Olivier) wants to make a place in our jumbled world for A Little Romance. Specifically, he aids and abets Diane Lane and Thelonious Bernard as 13-year-olds in Paris whose genius IQs are no match for the...

<p>Doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) pursues an old flame, nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie), aboard the SS Arcturus, bound from Shanghai to San Francisco. Challenging Craig's courtship is Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen), the ship's chief engineer. The rivalry comes to a sudden halt when...

<p>Convicted of a murder she didn't commit, Ann Gray (Maureen O'Sullivan) is on the way to the big house when a freak car accident sets her free. The now-fugitive Ann finds unlikely sanctuary with playboy attorney Tony Baxter (Joel McCrea), who already had eyes...

<p>One flies them. The other keeps them flying. Nothing in their job descriptions says they must like each other. Ever since a run-in during the Korean War, grizzled airplane mechanic Sgt. Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden) has disliked hotshot pilot Col. Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist,...

<p>Remember your favorite teacher? The one who believed in you and made you believe in yourself? So does every student who ever walked into Marva Collins' classroom. In an NAACP Image Award-winning performance, Cicely Tyson stars as Marva in this inspiring true story of...

<p>Singer/songwriter Willie Nelson is the heart and soul of Honeysuckle Rose, a steel-stringed portrayal of life on the road with a country music band -- and of the romantic potholes that somehow can't be avoided. The film's not autobiographical...but Nelson knows the territory. Dyan...

<p>Swellegant and elegant. Deluxe and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on-screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose...

<p>Elvis Presley wrote musical history across his 24-year career. Now his "authorized biography" unfolds in this marvelous exploration of a life that impacted the world like no other's. From executive producer and award-winning documentarian David L. Wolper (Roots, L.A. Confidential), This Is Elvis is...

<p>Widow Karen Stone is wealthy and beautiful. Her acting successes are a memory. She lives alone in a luxury apartment overlooking the Roman steps where romantic liaisons take place. And she waits. Academy Award winners* Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty are lady and lover...

<p>Oscar -winner* William Holden made his first major TV appearance in decades with this landmark adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's depiction of life on the LAPD beat. Nominated for five Emmys and winning three (including an acting award for Holden), The Blue Knight pioneered "novels...

<p>The early 1960s were a time with a TV landscape thought of as more innocent than today, but behind the scenes, changes were roiling the nation. Into this fray stepped a groundbreaking series based on true stories from the nation's high school students and...

<p>Hollywood heavy Joseph Calleia takes a different kind of role and headlines as a good guy up against the mob in this crackling crime drama. Borrowing a bit of Warner Bros.' "ripped from the headlines" sensibility, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer utilizes their deep bench of quality contract...

<p>Child star Jackie Cooper was riding the crest of his fame, thanks to The Champ, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tapped him for this unique drama tackling divorce from the child's point of view. Young Terry Parker (Cooper) returns home to a most unexpected and unwelcome surprise...