1927/28 |
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The story of two men who go to war and the girl they both leave behind. Aerial battle sequences still rank among the best in motion picture history.
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1928/29 |
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This is the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar. Anita Page and Bessie Love star as two sisters in love with the same man.
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1929/30 |
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A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.
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1930/31 |
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Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie.
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1931/32 |
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The rich and disillusioned come together at Berlin's Grand Hotel in the early 1930's.
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1932/33 |
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Traces the lives of two different families over three decades from the Boer War to the close of the 19th century through World War I and the early 1930's.
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1934 |
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A rich young woman marries an idle playboy against her father's will. Her father holds her captive on his yacht but she escapes and, while on her way to New York, becomes entangled with an unemployed news reporter.
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1935 |
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In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear.
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1936 |
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Follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.
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1937 |
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Explores the career of the novelist who championed the cause of France's oppressed.
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1938 |
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Comedy about the Sycamores, an eccentric family of free spirits, and the problems that arise when Alice, the one stable member, falls for her boss's son.
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1939 |
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Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara family's Georgia plantation, Tara, in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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1940 |
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A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
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1941 |
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A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
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1942 |
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Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does it so well that Winston Churchill would say Mrs. Miniver was more vital to the nation than a fleet of destroyers.
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1943 |
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In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
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1944 |
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A new priest upsets the balance of the old and fading parish at St. Dominic's with his new ideas.
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1945 |
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Realistic portrayal of the devastating effects of alcohol on a dissatisfied would-be writer.
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1946 |
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Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives.
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1947 |
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A writer researches a story on discrimination by telling people he is Jewish, and is shocked by the prejudice he finds.
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1948 |
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In Shakespeare's classic drama exploring madness, guilt, justice and self-perception, Denmark's Prince Hamlet feigns madness in order to catch his father's killer.
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1949 |
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A political demagogue governor of a Southern State believes that every man has his price and that the end justifies the means. Based on the life of Huey Pierce Long, governor of Louisiana and senator.
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1950 |
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Comedy showing the rise to fame of a ruthless and ambitious young actress.
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1951 |
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Presents the romantic adventures of a carefree young artist in post-WWII Paris.
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1952 |
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A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus.
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1953 |
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The tangled lives and loves of Army enlisted personnel and their women at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in the waning days of peace before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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1954 |
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Ex-fighter Terry Malloy (Brando) could have been a contender, but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. When his crooked brother, Charley the Gent (Rod Steiger), is brutally murdered Terry battles to crush Friendly's underworld empire.
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1955 |
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Ernest Borgnine stars as a lonely bachelor who finds romance with another lonely soul who had given up on love.
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1956 |
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A Victorian era adventure in which the eccentric and precise Phineas Fogg makes a daring wager that he can circle the globe in just eighty days.
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1957 |
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British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
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