1910s movies

Out of Africa (1985)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Redford, Robert | Brandauer, Klaus Maria | Kitchen, Michael | Bowens, Malick | Thiaka, Joseph | Kinyanjui, Stephen | Gough, Michael | Hamilton, Suzanna | Kempson, Rachel | Crowden, Graham | Phillips, Leslie | Bugara, Mike | Rimmer, Shane | Seda, Job
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.

Titanic (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Deep-sea explorer Brock Lovett has reached the most famous shipwreck of all - the Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a diamond called ‘The Heart of the Ocean’, he discovers the safe does not hold the diamond but a drawing of a beautiful woman wearing it. When Brock is later interviewed on TV, he shows the drawing to the cameras, and a 100-year-old woman named Rose Calvert living in Michigan recognizes the woman in the drawing - herself! On a visit to Brock’s explorer ship over the wreck, Rose tells her story of the Titanic and its ill-fated voyage. Engaged to a would-be steel magnate, Caledon Hockley, she boards the Titanic’s first-class suites with him & her mother in Southampton. Also boarding are Jack Dawson & his friend Fabrizio, after a lucky poker game wins them tickets in steerage. When Rose attempts suicide by jumping off the stern in 3rd class, Jack pulls her back onto the ship…and a bond is forged between them as Jack is invited by her into 1st-class the following day. Rose’s mother & Cal Hockley try desperate measures to keep them apart. But that strategy goes out the window when the Titanic collides with an iceberg, and due to a design flaw begins to sink - despite being proclaimed ‘unsinkable’. Now Rose & Jack must fight to stay alive, but is young Jack already doomed because of his lower status as a steerage passenger?

Color Purple, The (1985)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, Danny | Goldberg, Whoopi | Avery, Margaret | Winfrey, Oprah | Pugh, Willard E. | Busia, Akosua | Jackson, Desreta | Caesar, Adolph | Chong, Rae Dawn | Ivey, Dana | Jackson, Leonard | Guillory, Bennet | Patton Jr., John | Anderson, Carl | Beaubian, Susan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life…

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Salkey, Jason | O'Toole, Peter | Morgan, Lara | Franks, Adam | Witcher, Guy | May, Joseph | Bradley, John | Chancellor, Anna | Hoath, Florence | Nicholls, Phoebe | Kavanagh, Leonard | Earl, Elizabeth | McGann, Paul | Lesser, Anton
Directors: Sturridge, Charles
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Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings… which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it’s quite normal, are excited about this “photographic proof” that fairies exist… even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.

Wild Bunch, The (1969)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Holden, William | Borgnine, Ernest | Ryan, Robert | O'Brien, Edmond | Oates, Warren | Sánchez, Jaime | Johnson, Ben | Fernández, Emilio | Martin, Strother | Jones, L. Q. | Dekker, Albert | Hopkins, Bo | Taylor, Dub | Harper, Paul | Russek, Jorge
Directors: Peckinpah, Sam
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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharif, Omar | Christie, Julie | Chaplin, Geraldine | Steiger, Rod | Guinness, Alec | Courtenay, Tom | McKenna, Siobhan | Richardson, Ralph | Tushingham, Rita | Rockland, Jeffrey | Sharif, Tarek | Kay, Bernard | Kinski, Klaus | Tichy, Gérard | Willman, Noel
Directors: Lean, David
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Gallipoli (1981)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: Australia
Actors: Lee, Mark | Kerr, Bill | Hopkins, Harold | Yunipingli, Charles Lathalu | Harris, Heath | Graham, Ron | Nicolson, Gerda | Gibson, Mel | Grubb, Robert | McKenzie, Tim | Argue, David | Anderson, Brian | Evans, Reg | Giddy, Jack | Peterson, Dane
Directors: Weir, Peter
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A promising track star’s running career is interrupted by Australia’s entrance into World War I. Archy is an excellent candidate for the Olympics, and coached by his Uncle Jack - “How fast can you run?” “As fast as a leopard!” - he nonetheless abandons his athletic pursuits in order to do the patriotic thing - join up.

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: UK
Actors: Farrell, Nicholas | Havers, Nigel | Charleson, Ian | Cross, Ben | Gerroll, Daniel | Holm, Ian | Gielgud, John | Anderson, Lindsay | Davenport, Nigel | Campbell, Cheryl | Krige, Alice | Christopher, Dennis | Davis, Brad | Magee, Patrick | Egan, Peter
Directors: Hudson, Hugh
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

Red Baron, The (2008)

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Schweighöfer, Matthias | Schweiger, Til | Headey, Lena | Fiennes, Joseph | Bruch, Volker | Mehmet, Maxim | Schroeder, Steffen | Koffler, Hanno | Mewes, Tino | Misske, Ralph | Prahl, Axel | Schweighöfer, Gitta | Vlasák, Jan | Bruna, Radek | Caspe, Brian
Directors: Müllerschön, Nikolai
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Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Headey), Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.