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42) Mrs. Miniver
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
A family in a small English town struggles through the 1940 bombing of England by Germany.
43) Capote
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners,...
47) The Dirty Dozen
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Twelve convicts, most of them murderers, are recruited in World War II to infiltrate a protected German retreat and kill the generals there, in exchange for their release from prison.
48) Broken rainbow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
49) Norma Rae
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Grinding out her life in a small southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae (Sally Field) joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the southern mill. Based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton.
50) Sideways
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
51) Sophie's choice
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor.
54) Amour
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
58) Pocahontas
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Description
Disney's take on this historical confrontation between European settlers and Native Americans follows the paths of two future lovers. One is British adventurer John Smith, who travels the Atlantic with the Virginia Company to establish Jamestown.
59) Anchors Aweigh
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Two love-sick sailors on shore leave who both fall for the same woman. Gene Kelly's famous dance routine with an animated mouse is a classic scene.
60) Rosemary's baby
Pub. Date
1968.
Description
After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.
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