Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and...
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Kurosawa
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2001
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This animated children's film introduces kids to the life and times of Rashi, history's most studied Biblical commentator....
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1999
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George Orwell's political fable about corruption and betrayal in post-revolutionary Russia gets a new look in this version...
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1999
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Two fictional characters, The Narrator (Paul Scofield) and Robinson, provide the wry commentary for Patrick Keiller's...
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1997
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When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness...
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Judge Danforth
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1996
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Filmed on location in Holland, the made-for-cable The Little Riders is set during the wartime Nazi occupation of that...
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Pieter Roden
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1996
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It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a...
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Mark Van Doren
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1994
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Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit was given one of its few TV presentations in this six-part British adaptation,...
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1994
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A side of London rarely experienced by tourists is seen in this spare, austere mix of narrative film and documentary. The...
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1994
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In this movie, filmed in the Moroccan desert and utilizing a cast of native Bedouins, stories are taken verbatim from the...
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1994
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Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the...
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Doctor Vaclav Orlik
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1992
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The Ghost
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1990
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French King
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1989
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In this English drama, set during World War I, a strange, deaf man, known to all as "The Birdman" (Paul Scofield), must...
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The Birdman
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1989
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This 1988 TV movie covers much of the same ground previously assessed in the stage and movie versions of The Diary of Anne...
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Otto Frank
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1988
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In this ghostly comedy set on New Year's Eve, 1767, a dissatisfied young worker makes a bargain with a soul collector who...
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1987
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Alexei Karenin
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1985
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Much of 1919 takes place in 1984, but the spectre of that year looms large over the proceedings. Paul Scofield and...
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Alexander Scherbatov
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1984
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Originally made for television, the film centers on an Egyptian archaeological expedition, and the discovery of the tomb of...
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1980
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This biographical video covers the life and poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Known as the British romantic poet, this film...
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1974
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Zharkov
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1973
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Tobias
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1973
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In director Peter Brook's King Lear, Paul Scofield portrays the title character, a senile old ruler, whose susceptibility to...
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King Lear
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1971
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The Accountant
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1970
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1969
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Subtitled A Film About London, this drama is a quintessential experimental counter-culture film of the late 1960s that...
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1968
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Although the late Sir Winston Churchill will be forever remembered as the Prime Minister who bravely led Britain through the...
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1967
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Thomas More
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1966
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Col. von Waldheim
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1964
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The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British...
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Tony Fraser
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1958
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Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of...
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Philip II
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1955
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