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Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
6.5
Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and with clips from Salt's films, chiefly Midnight Cowboy.
Documentary
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
6
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind the scenes during production of the movie through new interviews done with director Robert Altman as well as Richard Zanuck, who was head of production for 20th Century Fox at the time, and others.
Documentary
Red Hollywood
6.1

Red Hollywood

Aug 16, 1996
A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.
Documentary
The Hollywood Ten
6.6

The Hollywood Ten

Jan 15, 1950
A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With that act of defiance, they were sentenced to one year in prison simply for speaking their minds and exercising their constitutional rights as concerned citizens. This is their story, their version of the facts, and their opinions.
Documentary
Ambre
6.1

Ambre

Oct 10, 1947
Drama
Britannia Mews
6.7

Britannia Mews

Mar 31, 1949
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Drama
île Vierge
5

île Vierge

Aug 07, 1959
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Drama
Le Cardinal
6.5

Le Cardinal

Dec 12, 1963
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Drama
Woman of the Year
1

Woman of the Year

Jul 28, 1976
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
Comedy
Meet Dr. Christian
1

Meet Dr. Christian

Nov 17, 1939
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Comedy
Mortadella
5.4

Mortadella

Dec 22, 1971
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Comedy
Mortadella
5.4

Mortadella

Dec 22, 1971
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Comedy
The Greatest
5.6

The Greatest

May 17, 1977
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
Drama
Arkansas Judge
1

Arkansas Judge

Jan 28, 1941
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
Action
Laura
7.6

Laura

Oct 11, 1944
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Drama
Swiss Tour
1

Swiss Tour

Nov 29, 1949
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
Drama
Les faux-durs
5.6

Les faux-durs

Nov 18, 1977
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
Comedy
Brotherhood of Man
6

Brotherhood of Man

Jan 12, 1945
Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.
Animation
7.905

Feb 28, 1983

La guerre n'est jamais facile à vivre, surtout quand on travaille dans un hôpital militaire mobile pendant la guerre de Corée. Pourtant, un groupe de chirurgiens et d'infirmières prend les choses avec humour, semant la pagaille dès qu'une occasion se présente.
War & Politics