Documentary short film (Oscar Winner 1945) depicting the harrowing battle between the US Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.

With the Marines at Tarawa 1944

Based on the Agatha Christie novel, Ten Little Indians. Ten people are invited to an isolated place only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Everyone becomes a suspect as they wonder, who is it?

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The story of one woman's confinement in a WW II Japanese prison camp. The true story of Agnes Newton Keith's imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII. Separated from her husband and with a young son to care for she has many difficulties to face.

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Aboard the trans-Sirberian express, an English anthropologist is transporting a frozen monster he unearthed in Manchuria.He believes may be the Missing Link. Horror strikes when during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to kill off passengers. Also released as Panic in the Trans-Siberian Train.

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Original title: Chelovek s kino-apparatom. This experimental film is really three in one: a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of that documentary and a depiction of an audience watching that documentary. We see the cameraman and the editing of the film, but what we don't see is any of the film itself. With English subtitles.

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Also released as "The Girl Was Young". When an actress is murdered by her jealous estranged husband, her boyfriend, writer Robert Tisdall discovers her body on the beach. He is erroneously thought to be the murderer. He is able to escape and goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence.

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Oo-Le-Le...It's What Makes Paris Paree! Also known as Fresh From Paris.

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A 1945 propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length exploration of why one of the two major Axis countries started World War II and what had to be done to keep them from "doing it again".

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Follows Ben (Duane Jones), Barbra (Judith O'Dea), and five others, who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania and attempt to survive the night while the house is being attacked by mysteriously reanimated ghouls, otherwise known as zombies.

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Vincent Price plays, a desperate and lonely man who's left alone in an apocalyptic world, When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the last man left on earth. He has no choice but to become a reluctant vampire hunter. A thought-provoking, creepy classic.

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German alchemist Faust is the object of a wager between God and Satan. Satan sends Mephisto to Earth to offer Faust an end to the plague that is making it's way through the local population, and eternal youth, in return for the small price of his soul. German with English subtitles.

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Deep down below the Paris Opera House, the phantom reigns in forgotten chambers, amid underground canals. He has fallen in love with the beautiful Christine and attempts to helps her career, while threatening to kill the prominent singer Carlotta. Christine is thankful and meets her `master' in the catacombs, but her appreciation is soon replaced by fear when she discovers that her benefactor is the horribly scarred Phantom of the Opera.

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** 8.2/10 IMDB RATING ** Le Voyage dans la Lune. Narrated in English. This short 1902 film follows a group of astronomers on a trip to the moon. The first science fiction film and the first animation - true cinematic history!

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A Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters because he needs to make money.

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Documentary following a day in the life of the city of Berlin, Germany in 1927. A train pulls into the station before dawn and we watch the city come to life.

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On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane.

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As known as Nanook of the North. Widely held as the first anthropological documentary film ever made, it documents a year in the life of an Inuit Eskimo (Nanook) and his family.

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After Ceddie's father ides, he and his mother move together to Brooklyn. When Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, passes away too, Ceddie learns he's heir to his father's family's fortune. He is sent to England to live with the unsympathetic lord who oversees the trust.

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Dr. Varnoff captures twelve men for his experiment: to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Newspaperwoman Lawton gets too snoopy for her own good.

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A Swedish documentary with English subtitles about the history of witchcraft up until the early 1900s. Include recreations of historical events.

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** 8.0/10 on IMDB (17000 votes) ** Historically Important horror film in the German Expressionist style that continues to influence filmmakers today. At a fair, Alan and his fiancée Jane meet Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist, Cesare, who can predict the future. Cesare reveals to Alan that he only has until dawn to live. This prediction proves true when Alan is murdered. Cesare becomes the prime suspect and then abducts Jane before dying himself. Dr. Caligari retreats to a mental asylum, where his truth is revealed.

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A group of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. Traveling with them are Billy & Maria Dannreuther. The six are headed for Africa, and it soon becomes apparent that all are intent on buying land rich in uranium. Turns out they aren't the only ones, either!

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** Nominated for Sundance Grand Jury Prize ** Cult classic. The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed in New York City. While he can't talk, he is very empathic and handy. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's planet arrive to capture him.The story is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States.

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Casper leaves home to make friends, but unintentionally scares several potential ones he meets. Then he befriends two small children who take him home. Unfortunately, he frightens their mother and gets upset. Will he ever be able to make friends? But when a banker who comes to foreclose on the woman's house, Casper frightens him away and finally wins her heart.

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A tribute to the US 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson's prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is. Not preachy.

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Mayme walks out on her husband, Pete Palooka, after he wins the middleweight championship and gets caught up with life in the fast lane. She leaves raise their son alone. Fight manager Knobby Walsh discovers Joe's surprising punching power and signs him.. Palooka steals the championship (and girlfriend from reigning champ McSwatt when he shows up drink. But when McSwatt and his manager trick Joe into a rematch, it's time to test his real boxing talent and decide the kind of life he really wants.

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Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton comedy short from 1919.

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Also known as Strauss' Great Waltz. A musical romantic comedy by Hitchcock, co-written by his wife, the story follows the younger Strauss is his quest to write music when his fiancee wants him just to work in her family's bakery.

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Priest turned vigilante Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance) who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to town they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny to seek revenge for his death.

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A scientist begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul, but, the science community rejects him. As he risks losing everything he's worked for, he takes desperate measures to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a man who changed his mind. Re-released as the Man Who Lived Again.

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Four American friends in desperate need of money, decide to make a commando-like raid in a South American country and steal $5 million from the hacienda of a drug dealer. The friends succeed in stealing the money, but have trouble getting out of the country as the drug dealer and a small army of bandits hunt them down.

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Two brother battle it out in this story of a range-war in the Texas Panhandle. Just who is good and who is bad is not at clear as they'd thought.

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Middle-aged Chris Cross has a gold watch and little else. One rainy night, he rescues the delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend, Johnny. Chris is smitten with Kitty, while Kitty's boyfriend convinces her to try and con Chris out of the fortune they mistakenly think he has. The results are not what they expected.

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This is the original (uncut) Charlie Chaplin's first full-length movie. The Little Tramp meets an abandoned baby in an alley and takes care of him. As the child gets older, they become partners in crime, scamming in order to survive. But welfare services attempt to take the boy away. The Little Tramp starts a desperate search for The Kid.

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A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.

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In 13th century Russia a Russian prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. Based on an actual battle at a lake near Novgorod.

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Ginger King longs to become a flapper and when she gets sent to a boarding school where she learns to flirt and becomes involved with a bank robber, her dream comes true.

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The War Crimes Commission sends Wilson to find Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, to track down Kindler. Unfortunately Meinike is murdered before he can identify Kindler. Wilson is only left with the knowledge of Kindler's fascination with antique clocks as a lead.

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WHY WE FIGHT SERIES: FILM #1 Produced by the US Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the earliest beginnings of the second world war starting with Japan's invasion of China in 1931, to the Nazi's march across europe. **Best Documentary Academy Award in 1943** This famous propaganda piece, used as a US Army training film in WWII before theatrical release, asks 'why we fight.' The answer compares the 'free' and 'slave' worlds. Included: development of dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan, while anti-militarism and isolationism rise in the USA; a look at enemy propaganda; and the first acts of aggression. Walter Huston narrates a combination of archival footage, maps, and other graphics.

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Undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop joins a safari to nab a suspected killer. He joins a scientist on the hunt for a white gorilla he thinks is the missing link between man and ape.

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Adaptation of The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a lonely old miser. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future and given the opportunity to change his heart, mind and life.

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The religious fire-cult leaders, the High Priestess and Ashok ordered the killing of Indria and her husband. Now Indria's brother, the elephant trainer Gunga Ram,has sworn revenge. Without the support of the Maharajah of Bakore or the Maharajah's General Pollegar, Gunga Ram sets out to expose and destroy the fire shrine of Sabaka.

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A ruthless, comical, fun-loving, romantic rebel general, General Jose Juan Reyes, preparing to make a stand against the Mexican-government army takes over a small Mexican town and imprisons the town leaders, including the father of fiery Maria Dolores Penafiel, who is among those citizens who take a stand against Reyes. Maria protests by slapping the face of Reyes, (the first of many times) and he is so enthralled by her spirit that he immediately declares she must become his wife. In response, she shows some more spirit, she sets off a firecracker under his horse. Reyes begins to soften and, with the aid of Father Sierra and Maria, who is about to marry her local suitor, he helps the town fight an influenza epidemic. He decides to retreat than stage a battle in the town against the advancing government troops. Maria is so stirred by the bugles of the retreating rebels, that she leaves her marriage ceremony and marches with Reyes and his ragged army across the desert into the sunset. Hello, Marlene Dietrich

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After the body of a dead politician is dumped at the door of police headquarters, police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates the apparent murder.

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A widow enlists Sherlock Holmes' help after her husband dies and she is mysteriously left penniless. A secret society her husband was a member of seems to have too many members dying lately and the surviving members are enjoying the financial benefits and it is Holmes' job to prove who is to blame.

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Sir Percy Blakeney, an 18th century English aristocrat, leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Based on the novel by Baroness Orczy.

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Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. He turns himself into Jan Tartu, a member of the Rumanian Iron Guard. But when his contacts are destroyed, his cover may get him killed by the very underground he needs to succeed.

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