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Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case in 1954; viewers follow a young Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who argued the racially-charged lawsuit before the Supreme Court. When the black students of Clarendon County, South Carolina are denied their request for a single school bus, a bitter and courageous battle for justice and equality begins.
2) Elmer Gantry
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One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
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Luchino Visconti's award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions - her lover, her daughter and the daugther's boyfriend - he is forced to rent them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. Before long his quiet routine is turned upside down and the introverted professor becomes...
5) Airport
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Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
6) The leopard
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After the reunification of Italy, an aging Sicilian prince sees his influence slipping away with the growth of national movements and his nephew's attempts to take power.
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In 1978, when two American executives are arrested and held captive in Iran, magnate H. Ross Perot employs a daring new strategy to secure their rescue. Assembling a team led by retired Colonel Arthur D. Simons, Perot launches a bold campaign to extract his captured employees, but will his unsanctioned operation result in the safe return of its targets, or in disaster?
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Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John 'Doc' Holliday and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of Earp's brothers. This leads the men into the most devastating showdown in wild West history.
11) Trapeze
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A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.
12) The Rainmaker
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Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blosssoms into full womanhood.
13) Ulzana's raid
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A scout assigned to aid the cavalry in tracking down a band of renegade Indians, attempts to teach an idealistic lieutenant that the only way to fight brutality is with a stronger force.
14) Local hero
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Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
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When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
18) Atlantic City
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In this **Oscar**-nominated romantic thriller, Atlantic City has been revitalized with the legalization of gambling. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes for its citizens. One of these citizens is Lou (Burt Lancaster), a longtime mob flunkey and bodyguard/boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid). Lou's romantic interests begin to waver when he meets Sally (Susan Sarandon), a young casino croupier, after she unwillingly gets...
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Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
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