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	Europe		Asia
	Africa		Australia
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Canada

• 1948 - Johnny Belinda. (103 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Agnes Morehead. Summary: Story of a deaf mute farm girl on Cape Breton Island. [CAPE BRETON ISLAND]
• 1950 - The Cariboo Trail. (81 minutes) Director: Edward L. Marin. Cast: Randolph Scott, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Douglas Kennedy, Dale Robertson, Jim Davis. Summary: It's the prospectors vs. the cattlemen in Canada.
• 1960 - Sunrise at Campobello. (143 minutes) Director: Vincent J. Donehue. Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Alan Bunce, Hume Cronyn. Summary: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal fight against polio and his public political activites. [NEW BRUNSWICK]
• 1982 - The Grey Fox. (92 minutes) Director: Phillip Borsos. Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Timothy Webber. Summary: Canadian gentleman bandit, Bill Miner, was released from San Quentin Prison on June 17, 1901, after serving thirty-three years for robbing stagecoaches. [CANADA]
• 1985 - Ann of Green Gables. (240 minutes) Director: Kevin Sullivan. Cast: Megan Follows, Richard Farnsworth, Colleen Dewhurst. Summary: In 1908, Anne is taken as a foster child into the Prince Edward Island home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert [based on L. M. Montgomery's novel] [PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND]
• 1987 - Anne of Avonlea. (224 minutes) Director: Kevin Sullivan. Cast: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Wendy Hiller. Summary: On Prince Edward Island, Anne Shirley matures and falls in love. [based on L. M. Montgomery's novel] [PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND]
• 1988 - The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick. (95 minutes) Director: Allan A. Goldstein. Cast: Saul Rubinek, Jan Rubes, Fairuza Balk, Noam Zylberman. Summary: A young Jewish boy growing up in 1960s Canada wants to enter a dual piano competition with a gentile girl.
• 1997 - True Heart. (92 minutes) Director: Catherine Cyran. Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Zachary Ty Bryan, August Schellenberg, Dey Young, Michael Gross. Summary: A sister and brother are plane-wrecked in Canada and are helped to survive by a native.
• 1998 - The Red Violin. (132 minutes) Director: Francois Girard. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Don McKellar. Summary: Flashbacks from a Montreal auction in 1997 of violins from the Chinese revolution. Authentication by a 20th century musicologist/father, who also is taken under its spell. The story includes the travels of the red violin made in Italy by a master craftsman in the 1600s for his yet-to-be-born son, in Austria in the 1700s, to England in the 1800s, to China during the 1900s and the people whose lives it touched. Also used is a tarot card reader in the 1600s with the wife of the violin craftsman. [ITALY; AUSTRIA; FRANCE; ENGLAND; CHINA; CANADA]
• 2001 - The Score. (124 minutes) Director: Frank Oz. Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, Marlon Brando. Summary: A jazz nightclub owner/safecracker from Montreal considers retiring and settling down with his girlfriend, but his partner who owes a crime boss much money, convinces him to do one more score breaking their self-proclaimed rules of stealing in one's own backyard - - Montreal!
• 2001 - The Shipping News. (111 minutes) Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Blen, Rhys Ifans, Cate Blanchett. Summary: A lonely inksetter from New York, moves his family to his family homestead in Newfoundland. [NEWFOUNDLAND]
• 2001 - The Stork Derby. Cast: Megan Follows, Pascale Montpetit. Summary: When an attorney leaves his fortune to a woman giving birth to the most children over a 10-year span, some women see it as a way to get out of poverty.

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Mexico

• 1947 - Out of the Past. (97 minutes) Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb. Summary: A private eye allows himself to be duped by the two-faced mistress of a big-time gangster. [CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, NEVADA, MEXICO]
• 1952 - Viva Zapata!. (113 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Jean Peters, Joseph Wiseman. Summary: Focus on Mexican revolutionary learder, Emiliano Zapata. [MEXICO]
• 1953 - Blowing Wild. (90 minutes) Director: Hugo Fregonese. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman, Ward Bond. Summary: Portrayal of American wildcatters facing bandits to seek riches in the oil fields of South America, Central America, and Mexico while involved in love triangles. [SOUTH AMERICA; CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO]
• 1954 - Vera Cruz. (94 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam. Summary: Two Americans escort a carriage holding a countess and a three million dollar gold treasure from Maximilian's palace in Mexico City to Vera Cruz. [MEXICO]
• 1970 - Two Mules for Sister Sara. (105 minutes) Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine. Summary: A man and a nun work complete a job together. [comedy] [MEXICO]
• 1982 - Barbarosa. (90 minutes) Director: Fred Schepisi. Cast: Willie Nelson, Gary Busey. Summary: A pair of outcasts on the run meet in Mexico. [MEXICO]
• 1988 - The Milagro Beanfield War. (118 minutes) Director: Robert Redford. Cast: Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Walken. Summary: When a small Mexican village is threatened by development, rebellion rouses the pride and spirit of its people. [MEXICO]
• 2000 - All the Pretty Horses. (117 minutes) Director: Billy Bob Thornton. Cast: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Penelope Cruz, Ruben Blades, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard. Summary: In post World War II Texas, two buddies head for Mexico seeking work as cowboys. [based on the Cormac McCarthy novel] [MEXICO]
• 2000 - One Man's Hero. (122 minutes) Director: Lance Hool. Cast: Tom Berenger, Joaquim De Almeida, Daniela Romo, Patrick Bergin. Summary: True tale of Sergeant John Riley and his Saint Patrick Battalion of Irish immigrant soldiers who enlisted to fight in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) because they were maltreated by the U. S. Army for their Catholicism. [MEXICO]
• 2001 - The Mexican. (123 minutes) Director: Gore Verbinski. Cast: Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman. Summary: While he is trying to pull off a job, a criminal's girlfriend is kidnapped. [MEXICO]

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Central America

• 1953 - Blowing Wild. (90 minutes) Director: Hugo Fregonese. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman, Ward Bond. Summary: Portrayal of Americans facing bandits to seek riches in the oil fields of South America, Central America, and Mexico. [SOUTH AMERICA; CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO]
• 1985 - Kiss of the Spider Woman. (119 minutes) Director: Hector Babencio. Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga. Summary: In a Latin American prison, two cellmates reveal that they are both victims of society.
• 1986 - Salvador. (120 minutes) Director: Oliver Stone. Cast: James Woods, John Savage, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, Elpidia Carrillo, Tony Plana, Cynthia Gibb. Summary: Events in El Salvador around 1980 - 1981 revealed from the perspective of screenwriter-photojournalist Richard Boyle.
• 1997 - Rough Riders. (182 minutes) Director: John Milius. Cast: Tom Berenger, Gary Busey, Brad Johnson, Illeana Douglas, Chris Noth, Brian Keith, George Hamilton, Sam Elliott. Summary: The American-Spanish conflict of 1898.

The Caribbean

• My Little Assassin. Cast: Gabrielle Anwar, Joe Mantegna. Summary: A young American falls in love with Fidel Castro during the early years of his dictatorship.
• 1933 - Emperor Jones. (73 minutes) Director: Dudley Murphy. Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington. Summary: A Georgia Pullman porter kills a man, is sent to a chain gang, escapes to a Caribbean island on a ship, and becomes emperor of the island only to be deposed and killed.
• 1944 - Lifeboat. (96 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Hume Cronyn. Summary: During World War II, eight survivors from a cross-section of society survive the cramped quarters of a small lifeboat trying to reach Bermuda after their Allied freighter is torpedoed by a German U-boat. [BERMUDA/ENGLAND]
• 1944 - To Have and Have Not. (100 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Hoagy Carmichael, Dolores Moran. Screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Summary: Based on an Ernest Hemingway novel set in 1940 Martinique during the Vichy overthrow.
• 1958 - Tamango. (100 minutes) Director: John Berry. Cast: Curt Jurgens, Alex Cressan, Dorothy Dandridge. Summary: A slave ship purchases a cargo in Africa and on the way to Cuba, the crew fights for freedom.
• 1971 - Bananas. (82 minutes) Director: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser. Summary: A man gets involved in a Caribbean revolution.
• 1988 - Overboard. (106 minutes) Director: Garry Marshall. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond. Summary: An heiress falls off her yacht, loses her memory, is claimed by the ship carpenter to be his children's mother.
• 1989 - Moon Over Parador. (103 minutes) Director: Paul Mazursky. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey. Summary: A struggling New York actor is kidnapped and forced to impersonate the late dictator of Parador, a Cribbean nation and gets better and better at it when the dead leader's mistress helps him.
• 1990 - Havana. (130 minutes) Director: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Redford, Lena Oiln, Alan Arkin, Raul Julia, Tomas Milian, Tony Plana. Summary: In 1958 Cuba, a gambler falls in love with a politically involved widow prior to the revolution.
• 1992 - Captain Ron. (100 minutes) Director: Thom Eberhardt. Cast: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Paul Anka. Summary: A Chicago businessman who inherits his uncle's yacht, drags his family to the Caribbean where he hires a skipper to pilot and fix-up the run down boat.
• 1996 - White Squall. (127 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, Ryan Philippe, David Lascher. Summary: 1960s oceanbound, square-rigged brigantine, The Albatross, is the growing-up and academic home for a group of young men as they form a community until the white squall hits.
• 1997 - Out to Sea. (106 minutes) Director: Martha Coolidge. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon, Gloria De Haven, Brent Spinter, Elaine Stritch, Hal Lenden, Donald O'Connor, Edward Mulhare. Summary: Two brothers-in-law posing as dance instructors on a Caribbean cruise ship hope to meet wealthy women on board.
• 1998 - How Stella Got Her Groove Back. (124 minutes) Director: Kevin Sullivan. Cast: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael J. Pagan. Summary: A forty-year-old stockbroker and single mother has a love affair with a twenty-year-old Jamaican while vacationing in the tropics.

South America

• 1941 - The Great Lie. (101 minutes) Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan. Summary: Melodramatic story of a pilot man who marries a professional pianist and finds out the marriage is illegal because her divorce was not yet formal. When the actual date arrives, she prefers to give a concert in Philadelphia than get married legally. He returns to Maryland and proposes to his former fiance who accepts. He gets a job helping Washington, D. C. with his flying skills and turns up lost. The pianist learns she is pregnant. The legal wife wants to raise the child. She goes with the pianist to Arizona until the boy is born and the pact of insuring the pianist's monetary problems for the gift of raising the son is formed until the husband turns up found. [ARIZONA; MARYLAND; NEW YORK; WASHINGTON, D. C.; SOUTH AMERICA]
• 1946 - Gilda. (110 minutes) Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray. Summary: An American gambler in Buenos Aires is hired by the owner of a gambling casino. The owner goes on a business trip and returns with a bride who was formerly involved romantically with the American gambler. [ARGENTINA]
• 1946 - Notorious. (101 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Summary: An FBI agent and the daughter of a convicted traitor attempt to uncover Nazis in postwar Rio. [BRAZIL]
• 1948 - Romance on the High Seas. (99 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don DeFore, Oscar Levant. Summary: Musical showing love and impersonation on a South American cruise.
• 1953 - The Naked Jungle. (95 minutes) Director: Byron Haskin. Cast: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad, Romo Vincent, Douglas Fowley. Summary: A South American plantation owner and his wife.
• 1953 - Blowing Wild. (90 minutes) Director: Hugo Fregonese. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman, Ward Bond. Summary: Portrayal of Americans facing bandits to seek riches in the oil fields of South America, Central America, and Mexico. [SOUTH AMERICA; CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO]
• 1954 - Creature From the Black Lagoon. (79 minutes) Director: Jack Arnold. Cast: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning. Summary: In the Amazon River, a scientific team discovers an amphibious creature which falls in love with the female assistant and kidnaps her only to be sought by the scientist and returned to his watery home.
• 1955 - We're No Angels. (90 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Basil Rathbone, Joan Bennett, Feo G. Carroll. Summary: Three Devil's Island escapees "adopt" a family on the island and try to protect them from an uncle.
• 1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (112 minutes) Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross. Summary: Criminal adventures of Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh in the United States and South America finally being tracked down in 1909 in Bolivia and killed. [UTAH; WYOMING; CHILE; BOLIVIA; PERU]
• 1971 - Murphy's War. (108 minutes) Director: Peter Yates. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Sian Phillips, Horst Janson. Summary: Story of revenge as a merchant seaman, the sole survivor of his ship's massacre by a German U-boat on a South American river.
• 1973 - Papillon. (150 minutes) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon. Summary: Based on Henri Charriere's escape from Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana. [FRENCH GUIANA]
• 1982 - Missing. (122 minutes) Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Janice Rule. Summary: The father and wife of a journalist disappears during a bloody coup in South America.
• 1984 - Romancing the Stone. (106 minutes) Director: Robert Zemeckis. Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda. Summary: A jungle hunter helps a writer of romances find her kidnapped sister in South America while experiencing adventures.
• 1985 - Emerald Forest. (110 minutes) Director: John Boorman. Cast: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman. Summary: Story of Bill Markham, an American engineer, who goes to the Amazon jungle to build a dam only to have his 5-year old son stolen by a native tribe known as the Invisible People. Markham spends ten years searching for his son.
• 1986 - Mosquito Coast. (117 minutes) Director: Peter Weir. Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton. Summary: Fed up with the materialistic life in the United States, a man takes his wife and four children to the wilds of the Mosquito Coast attempting to be similar to the Swiss Family Robinson.
• 1988 - Vibes. (1988) Director: Ken Kwapis. Cast: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands, Peter Falk. [Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel script] [Hiring of two psychics to find an archaeological site in Ecuador where there is a treasure]
• 1989 - The House on Garibaldi Street. (98 minutes) Cast: Topol, Martin Balsam. Summary: The Israelis plan to kidnap Adolph Eichmann from his hiding place in Argentina and to bring him to trial.
• 1991 - At Play in the Fields of the Lord. (186 minutes) Director: Hector Babenco. Cast: Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Tom Waits. Summary: Effects of the contact of two missionary families and an American mercenary on the life of a native Indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest. [based upon a Peter Matthiessen novel]
• 1995 - The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story. (123 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Kamala Dawson, Luis Guzman, Nigel Havers, Tomas Milian, Edward James Olmos. Summary: Efforts of rainforest nonviolent activist, Chico Mendes, who stood against slash-and-burn deforestation tactics helping to alert the world to the plight of the Amazon.
• 1996 - Evita. (134 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail. Summary: Story of the first lady of Argentina. [based on the pop opera of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice]

Europe

• 1929 - Juno and the Paycock. (85 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Sidney Morgan. Summary: Sean O'Casey's tragic story set during the Dublin uprising focusing on a poor family consisting of a young unwed mother, an anticipated inheritance, and an unwise young man. Hitchcock uses melodrama and sinister moods to set his plot. [IRELAND]
• 1933 - Farewell to Arms. (81 minutes) Director: Frank Borzage. Cast: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack LaRue. Summary: Based on Ernest Hemingway's novel set during World War I with two lovers, an American driving an Italian ambulance who meets and falls in love with a British nurse. [ITALY]
• 1934 - The Count of Monte Cristo. (114 minutes) Director: Rowland V. Lee. Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer. O. P. Heggie. Summary: A sailor falsely accused of helping Napoleon in exile escapes from his 15-year prison sentence and seeks revenge. [based on an Alexander Dumas novel] [FRANCE]
• 1934 - Madame Bovary. Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Reginald Owen. Summary: Story of a 19th century courtesan and her romance with King Louis XV. [FRANCE]
• 1934 - Of Human Bondage. (83 minutes) Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny. Summary: A gentleman doctor is inexplicably infatuated with a working class waitress. [ENGLAND]
• 1934 - The Scarlet Pimpernel. (95 minutes) Director: Harold Young. Cast: Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Merle Oberon, Nigel Bruce. Summary: An English aristocrat leads a double life aiding French revolutionaries while posing as a foppish member of British society. [ENGLAND; FRANCE]
• 1935 - Anna Karenina. (95 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, Basil Rathbone. Summary: Leo Tolstoy's story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia, in which the wife of an aristocrat falls in love with a dashing cavalry officer. [RUSSIA]
• 1935 - The Informer. (91 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster. Summary: In 1922 Dublin, the hard-drinking Irishman, Gippo Nolan, informs on his friend during the Irish rebellion for money to impress his girlfriend. The IRA group to which he belongs finds him out. [1935 Best Actor - Victor McLaglen; Best Director - John Ford; Best Screenplay - Dudley Nichols; Best Score: Max Steiner. [IRELAND]
• 1935 - Les Miserables. (108 minutes) Director: Richard Boleslawick. Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, John Beal, Rochelle Hudson. Summary: In France, a reformed criminal is pursued by a police inspector. [based on a Victor Hugo novel] [FRANCE]
• 1935 - Roberta. (106 minutes) Director: William A. Seiter. Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Robers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Calire Dodd, Victor Varconi. Summary: An American bandleader of the Wabash Indianians arrives in Paris to find that the nightclub owner mistook them for American Indians and does not want them. The bandleader's friend approaches his aunt, the owner of a fashionable dress salon for help. The plot takes us through a gig, the inheritance of the dress shop, and the romance that pursues. (Music: Max Steiner) [PARIS, FRANCE]
• 1935 - A Tale of Two Cities. (121 minutes) Director: Jack Conway. Cast: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allen. Summary: Life during the turmoil of the French Revolution. [FRANCE]
• 1935 - Top Hat. (101 minutes) Director: Mark Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes. Summary: An American entertainer working on the London stage meets another American to whom he is attracted. She rebuffs him believing that he is already married. A mistaken-identity plot follows. [ENGLAND]
• 1936 - Beloved Enemy. (86 minutes) Director: H. C. Potter. Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, David Niven. Summary: A leader of the Irish revolution and the woman who loves him. [IRELAND]
• 1937 - Heidi. (88 minutes) Director: Allan Dwan. Cast: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher. Summary: A young girl is taken from her kind grandfather in the Swiss Alps and forced to live with a cruel aunt. [based on the Johanna Spyri novel] [SWITZERLAND]
• 1937 - Maytime. (132 minutes) Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore. Summary: Flashback from a small American town in the early 1900s as an elderly recluse recalls the tragic events of her life forty years previously when as an opera singer in France she met and fell hopelessly in love with an American singer. Unfortunately it was too late, because she has just accepted another man's proposal of marriage. Both singers met in New York City years later, renew their feelings for each other, stir the jealousy of the husband who shoots the singer in a rage. [FRANCE; NEW YORK]
• 1937 - Night Must Fall. (117 minutes) Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, E. E. Clive, Kathleen Harrison, Merle Tottenham. Summary: In a weird forest, this suspenseful drama studies the psychotic behavior of a page boy who comes to work for a hypochondriac woman and her servant niece bringing a woman's head in a locked leather hat box which he hides under his bed and the police investigating the possible murder of a missing local woman. [ENGLAND]
• 1938 -The Adventures of Robin Hood. (103 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Eugene Pallette. Summary: Sir Robin of Locksley valiantly defends the English downtrodden and gains the love of Maid Marian as Prince John rules in place of Richard with clashes between the Normans and the Saxons. [ENGLAND]
• 1938 - The Citadel. (112 minutes) Director: King Vidor. Cast: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison. Summary: Story of a Welsh doctor who temporarily overlooks his values. [based on the work of A. J. Cronin]
• 1938 - The Dawn Patrol. (103 minutes) Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp. Summary: Two fighter pilots in France during 1915 face the realities of war and laearn abouat friendship, heroism, and patriotism. [FRANCE]
• 1938 - Divorce of Lady X. (90 minutes) Director: Tim Whelan. Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Ralpph Richardson. Summary: This British comedy sets up a series of misunderstandings beginning withs a severe fog one night forcing the ball attendees at that hotel ball to seek hotel guests with suites to volunteer shelter for ball attendees. A barrister lets a woman stay overnight and becomes "the other man" in a set-up divorce case. [ENGLAND]
• 1938 - Marie Antoinette. (149 minutes) Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, John Barrymore, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, Anita Louise, Reginald Gardiner. Summary: Life of the Austrian princess who became queen of France including her romance with Swedish Count Axel de Fersen. [FRANCE]
• 1938 - The Shopworn Angel. (85 minutes) Director: H. C. Potter. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, Nat Pendleton, Alan Curtis, Sam Levene. Summary: In New York City during World War I, a shy soldier from Texas about-to-be shipped out to France, falls in love with a self-loving actress who toys with his affections, is touched by his sincerity, and marries him on the night he ships overseas. [NEW YORK; FRANCE]
• 1939 - Goodbye, Mr. Chips. (114 minutes) Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Heinreid. Summary: When teacher Charles Chipping, known throughout Brookfield School in 1870 England, falls in love with a beautiful woman, the life of this once austere, humorless man changes immediately for the better. [ENGLAND]
• 1939 - Intermezzo: A Love Story. (70 minutes) Director: Gregory Ratoff. Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman. Summary: A young pianist who tutors the daughter of a world renowned violinist has an affair with him in Europe.
• 1939 - Jamaica Inn. (98 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Mervyn Johns. Summary: In 1819, a young woman from Ireland arrives at the Jamaica Inn home of her late mother's sister to live with her, only to find her uncle criminally following the orders of the local English squire by causing planned shipwrecks, killing the crew, and claiming the cargoes. [ENGLAND]
• 1939 - Man in the Iron Mask. (119 minutes) Director: James Whale. Cast: Louis Hayward, Warren William, Alan Hale, Bert Roach, Miles Mander, Joan Bennett, Joseph Schildkraut. Summary: At birth twin brothers are separated, one to become the king of France, the other a member of the Three Musketeers. [based on an Alexander Dumas novel] [FRANCE]
• 1939 - Midnight. (94 minutes) Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Monty Woolley. Summary: An American showgirl turned con artist and opportunist traveling in Europe finds herself in Paris with no money and no luggage. Rescued by a Parisian cabbie, she leaves him because he has no money. Finding herself at a glamorous party, she assumes the role of a Hungarian countess and is commissioned by a wealthy aristocrat whose wife is in love with a French playboy to make distract the playboy while being funded by the aristocrat. [FRANCE]
• 1939 - Nurse Edith Cavell. (98 minutes) Director: Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, George Sanders, May Robson, Edna May Oliver. Summary: Real-life English nurse gets British out of Belgium in World War I. [BELGIUM]
• 1939 - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. (106 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Nanette Fabares, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson. Cast: In 1530s England, Queen Elizabeth and the power-hungry Lord of Essex, her suitor and lover, pit their personalities and ambitions ending in the sentencing to death of Essex who wants to be king rather than consort.
• 1939 - Wuthering Heights. (103 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, David Niven. Summary: On the moors of England, traces the relationship of a foundling Gypsy boy and the spoiled daughter of the house. [based on an Emily Bronte novel] [ENGLAND]
• 1940 - Brother Orchid. (91 minutes) Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp, Cecil Kellaway, Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy. Summary: An American gangster goes broke in Europe trying to get some class. [EUROPE]
• 1940 - The Fighting 69th. (90 minutes) Director: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Dennis Morgan. Summary: A tough and cocky soldier becomes part of the celebrated Irish-American regiment, The Fighting 69th, fighting in the trenches of World War I and learning of fear. [EUROPE]
• 1940 - The Shop Around the Corner. (100 minutes) Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut. Summary: In a pre-World War II Budapest, Hungary gift shop, a reliable working man adds interest to his life by corresponding through the mail with an anonymous woman who unknowingly becomes his co-worker and love interest. [HUNGARY]
• 1940 - Waterloo Bridge. (103 minutes) Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, C. Aubrey Smith, Maria Ouspenskaya. Summary: Myra, a fragile ballerina, and Roy, a British army officer, meet and fall in love on the famed bridge during a London air raid in World War I. They are about to marry but Roy is suddenly called to the front. Having lost her job and believing Roy dead in action, Myra turns to prostitution. [ENGLAND]
• 1941 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (127 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Barton MacLane. Summary: The story of a radical English doctor whose experiments lead him to the discovery of a destructive potion that transforms him into a hideous creature of unbridled emotions. [ENGLAND]
• 1941 - How Green Was My Valley. (118 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, John Loder, Barry Fitzgerald. Summary: Life of a Welsh mining family as seen through the eyes of its youngest child. [based on a Richard Llewellyn novel] [WALES]
• 1941 - Sergeant York. (137 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges. Summary: Alvin C. York, a pacifist from Tennessee during World War I, is torn between his principles and his patriotic duty while he becomes a hero in that war. [based on the diary of Sergeant York] [EUROPE]
• 1942 - Desperate Journey. (106 minutes) Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan. Summary: During World War II, American pilots stranded in Germany struggle to cross the border. [GERMANY]
• 1942 - Mrs. Miniver. (134 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty. Summary: In a small town in England, the Miniver family shows us the 1940 bombing of England during World War II and how war touches the lives of everyone. [ENGLAND]
• 1942 - Once Upon a Honeymoon. (117 minutes) Director: Leo McCarey. Summary: A naive American woman from New York living in Europe and seeking a wealthy husband marries a Nazi sympathizer and worker for Adolph Hitler and sees Austria, Poland, Czechosklovakia and France fall to Hitler as she continues on her honeymoon. Will the charming new journalist who seeks her story and falls in love with her be able to convince her that she is in danger? [AUSTRIA, POLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA]
• 1942 - Secret Mission. (90 minutes) Director: Harold French. Cast: Hugh Williams, James Mason, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann, Nancy Price, Roland Culver. Summary: During World War II, four British intelligence agents infiltrate the heart of occupied France in this cloak and dagger thriller. [FRANCE]
• 1942 - To Be or Not to Be. (99 minutes) Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack. Summary: In Warsaw, Poland, a theatrical troupe becomes involved in the Underground to overcome Hitler and the Third Reich. [POLAND]
• 1943 - Background to Danger. (80 minutes) Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. Summary: A United States agent posing as an American machinery salesman in Turkey, becomes involved in a series of plots and counter-plots to draw neutral Turkey into the war on the Nazi side.[based on an Eric Ambler novel] [TURKEY]
• 1943 - For Whom the Bells Toll. (174 minutes) Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Arturo DeCordova, Mikhail Rasumny. Summary: Film version of Ernest Hemingway's story about patriots and outsiders fighting during the Spanish Civil War. [SPAIN]
• 1944 - Gaslight (114 minutes) Director: George Cukor. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Charles Boyer, Angela Lansbury. Summary: Based on Patrick Hamilton's psychological thriller play showing the life of an innocent child who witnessed the murder of her aunt in London, went to Italy to study music, married a man in Italy and returned to London to live in the house on Thornton Square where her aunt was killed. Her husband tries to drive his wife insane. [LONDON, ENGLAND; ITALY] (Academy Award for Ingrid Bergman. Screen debut of Angela Lansbury)
• 1944 - Lifeboat. (96 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Hume Cronyn. Summary: Story by John Steinbeck taking place during World War II as eight survivors from a cross-section of society survive the cramped quarters of a small lifeboat trying to reach Bermuda after their Allied freighter is torpedoed by a German U-boat. [BERMUDA/ENGLAND]
• 1945 - Song to Remember. (113 minutes) Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, George Coulouris, Nina Foch, Sig Arno. Summary: Life of Polish born pianist-composer Frederick Chopin as he shares his music in Paris, France. [POLAND; FRANCE]
• 1945 - A Walk in the Sun. (117 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Sterling Holloway, John Ireland. Summary: During World War II, an American army unit attacks a German stronghold. [GERMANY]
• 1946 - The Captive Heart. (108 minutes) Director: Basil Dearden. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Jack Warner, Basil Radford, Mervyn Johns, Jimmy Hanley. Summary: British POWs and their Nazi captors. [GERMANY]
• 1946 - To Each His Own. (122 minutes) Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Virginia Welles, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin, John Lund. Summary: Flashback into the life of Jody Norris of Pearson Falls, New York, who meets, falls in love with, and bears the son of a World War I fighter pilot only to have him die in combat leaving her to devise a plot to raise her son as a single parent. During World War II in England as a cosmetic factory owner, Jody meets her pilot son who has been adopted by her friends in New York and has never know who his biological mother is. He realizes that he is her biological child. [NEW YORK; ENGLAND]
• 1947 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. (104 minutes) Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Natalie Wood. Summary: At the turn of the century, after moving into a cottage on the English coast, a young widow and her daughter learn that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare them away, he soon falls into a most unlikely love affair with her! [ENGLAND]
• 1947 - Golden Earrings. (95 minutes) Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Reinhold Schunzel, Dennis Hoey, Quentin Reynolds. Summary: A British agent and his partner escaping from Nazis meet in Stuttgart to steal Hitler's poison gas formula under disguise and with the help of a gypsy. [based on a Yolanda Foldes novel] [GERMANY]
• 1949 - Adam's Rib. (101 minutes) Director: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, Hope Emerson. Summary: A New York husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor. [NEW YORK]
• 1949 - Battleground. (118 minutes) Director: William Wellman. Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Denise Darcel, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore. Summary: World War II's Battle of the Bulge. [BELGIUM]
• 1949 - I Was A Male War Bride. (105 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Kenneth Tobey. Summary: A comedic farce based on the real-life story of Henri Rochard, a French officer who married an American WAC at the end of World War II in Germany and attempted to navigate the bureaucratic military redtape to get into the United States. [FRANCE and GERMANY]
• 1950 - The Big Lift. (120 minutes) Director: George Seaton. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, O. E. Hasse. Summary: In 1945 post-World War II Berlin, an American pilot falls in love with a German girl. [GERMANY]
• 1950 - The Wooden Horse. (101 minutes) Director: Jack Lee. Cast: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steele. Summary: British POWs tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp. [GERMANY]
• 1952 - The Cruel Sea. (121 minutes) Director: Charles Frend. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott, Virginia McKenna. Summary: A crew fights the Germans and the sea during World War II. [based on a Nicholas Monsarrat novel] [GERMANY; ATLANTIC OCEAN]
• 1952 - Ivanhoe. (106 minutes) Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams. Summary: 12th century England's King Richard the Lionhearted's Holy Crusades. [ENGLAND]
• 1952 - The Man in the White Suit. (84 minutes) Director: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker. Summary: A scientist attempting to invent a fabric that can't be torn, frayed, or stained causes confusion in the textile industry, the economy, and the unions. [ENGLAND]
• 1952 - The Quiet Man. (129 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Mildred Natwick, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond. Summary: In this comedy-love story, an American ex-boxer returns to his native land of Ireland in a rural village where he interacts attempting to understand the culture of the people while marrying a spirited woman. [IRELAND]
• 1953 - Knights of the Round Table. (115 minutes) Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker. Summary: Set at the court of King Arthur and featuring courtly manners, bloody battles, and romantic intrigue. [ENGLAND]
• 1953 - Never Let Me Go. (94 minutes) Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Clark Gable, Gene tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn. Summary: After World War II, a foreign correspondent based in Russia falls in love with a ballerina, marries her, and when she appiles for an exit visa and is denied it. Returning to the United States, he devises a plan to return to Russia and to rescue her. [RUSSIA]
• 1953 - Roman Holiday. (119 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert. Summary: An American newspaperman in Rome entertains a princess who has slipped away from her entourage. [ROME, ITALY]
• 1953 - Stalag 17. (120 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Peter Graves. Summary: A group of American POWs during World War II are imprisoned in Germany's POW camp - Stalag 17. Attempting to escape, two of them are killed realizing that spy is amongst them. [GERMANY]
• 1954 - Brigadoon. (108 minutes) Director: Vincente Minelli. Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones, Albert Sharpe. Summary: Fable about two Americans find a Scottish village which comes to life one day every hundred years. No one grows older and love can be eternal. The magic spell will be broken if anyone leaves the village. Two outsiders discover Brigadoon while hunting in the Scottish Highlands. What will happen when one of them falls in love and wants to stay, but the other wants to return to New York. [SCOTLAND; NEW YORK]
• 1954 - Demetrius and the Gladiators. (101 minutes) Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward. Summary: After the death of Christ, emperor Caligula in Rome is obsessed with getting the robe of Christ which Demetrius, a pious Christian, has. [ROME, ITALY]
• 1954 - Three Coins in the Fountain. (102 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Clifton Webb, Rossano Brazzi, Louis Jourdan, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jean Peters. Summary: Three American women traveling to Rome hope that the wishes they make by tossing coins into the Trevi Fountain will find them romance. [ITALY]
• 1955 - The End of the Affair. (118 minutes) Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing, Michael Goodliffe. Summary: During World War II, in England, an American writer and the wife of a British civil servant fall in love. [based on a Graham Greene novel] [ENGLAND] (1939 - 1945) [See: 1999 version]
• 1955 - To Catch a Thief. (103 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. Summary: A retired cat burglar living in France is suspected of returning to thievery when jewel thefts surface on the French Riviera. [FRANCE]
• 1955 - Lady Godiva. (89 minutes) Director: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen. Summary: In 11th century Coventry, England, a Saxon nobleman marries a Saxon woman to thwart the attempts of the Normans to trap him into an arranged marriage with a Norman woman during the unsteady reign of King Edward and the Saxon-Norman conflict. [ENGLAND]
• 1955 - Lola Montes. (110 minutes) Director: Max Ophuls. Cast: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner. Summary: Flashbacks of the loves of a 1900s heroine, now part of a circus act. [VIENNA, AUSTRIA]
• 1955 - Strategic Air Command. (114 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Steward, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Bennett, Rosemary DeCamp. Summary: A professional baseball player is called to serve in active duty during World War II. [EUROPE]
• 1955 - To Hell and Back. (106 minutes) Director: Jesse Hibbs. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Gregg Palmer, Jack Kelly, Paul Picerni, Susan Kohner. Summary: The heroic Army exploits and feats of heroism of Texas-born, Audie Murphy, during World War II. [based on the biography of Audie Murphy] [EUROPE]
• 1955 - The Virgin Queen. (92 minutes) Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall. Summary: Focus on the early life of Elizabeth I and her love for Sir Walter Raleigh. [ENGLAND]
• 1956 - Anastasia. (105 minutes) Director: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamroff. Summary: Is she or isn't she Russian Czar Nicholas's daughter? [RUSSIA]
• 1957 - Boy on a Dolphin. (111 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren, Laurence Naismith, Jorge Mistral. Summary: A woman swimming near the isle of Hydra with her boyfriend cuts her leg on an old sunken treasure, sees a gold-covered statue of a boy atop a dolphin which leads to a group of archaeologists needing her to help locate it. [GREECE]
• 1957 - A Farewell to Arms. (152 minutes) Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica. Summary: Story of a romance between an American ambulance driver wounded in World War I and his nurse. [based on an Ernest Hemingway novel] (World War I, 1914 - 1918) [ITALY]
• 1957 - The Enemy Below. (98 minutes) Director: Dick Powell. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens. Summary: An American captain and a German captain try to outmaneuver each other during the war. [GERMANY; ATLANTIC OCEAN]
• 1957 - The Colditz Story. (97 minutes) Director: Guy Hamilton. Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Theodore Bikel. Summary: True story of World War II POW plans to escape from a Colditz Castle, Germany's fortress prison. [GERMANY]
• 1957 - One That Got Away. (111 minutes) Director: Roy Baker. Cast: Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon, Alec McCowan. Summary: Based on a true story of a German aviators who once captured keeps escaping from British prisoner-of-war camps. [based on a Kendal Burt and James Leasor book][GERMANY]
• 1957 - Paths of Glory. (89 minutes) Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready. Summary: During World War I in France, a regiment of soldiers are assigned suicide missions. [based on a Humphrey Cobb novel] [FRANCE]
• 1957 - The Pride and the Passion. (132 minutes) Director: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf, Philip Van Zandt. Summary: During the 1810 Spanish War of Independence, after Napoleon invades Spain, a group of guerillas attempt to transport a big cannon across Spain to Avila where they intended to launch a counterattck against the French army headquarters there. [based on a C. S. Forester novel] [SPAIN]
• 1958 - Me and the Colonel. (110 minutes) Director: Peter Glenville. Cast: Danny Kaye, Curt Jurgens, Nicole Maurey, Francoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff. Summary: In 1940 World War II France, a Polish Jew and an anti-semitic colonel are forced to flee the Nazis together. [FRANCE]
• 1959 - Dance With a Stranger. (102 minutes) Director: Mike Newell. Cast: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, David Troughton, Stratford Johns. Summary: Based on the true life story of Ruth Ellis, who was hanged on July 13, 1955 at London's Holloway prison for shooting her lover outside a London pub. [ENGLAND]
• 1959 - The Diary of Anne Frank. (151 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schilkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn. Summary: The lives of eight Jewish people being hidden in an attic in Holland for two years attempting to avoid arrest by the Nazis during World War II. [HOLLAND]
• 1959 - Shake Hands with the Devil. (110 minutes) Director: Michael Anderson. Cast: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Cyril Cusack, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Harris. Summary: In 1921 Dublin, an Irish-American student innocently becomes involved in rebel activities and finds himself a fugitive. He joins an IRA cell led by James Cagney, whom he first admires, but soon comes to realize is a murderous fanatic. [IRELAND]
• 1960 - It Started in Naples. (100 minutes) Director: Melville Shavelson. Cast: Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica. Summary: In Naples, Italy, a Philadelphia attorney tries to get custody of his Italian nephew. [ITALY]
• 1960 - Midnight Lace. (100 minutes) Director: David Miller. Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Perry. Summary: An American married to a successful businessman and living in London finds her life in danger when she receives threatening telephone calls . . but will anybody believer her? [ENGLAND]
• 1960 - Sink the Bismarck. (97 minutes) Director: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter. Summary: The English Royal Navy must destroy the German floating fortress, the Bismarck, the most powerful battleship in the world. [GERMANY]
• 1960 - The Steamroller and the Violin. (43 minutes) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Summary: The friendship between a young violinist boy and a macho driver of a steamroller in Russia. [RUSSIA]
• 1960 - Two Way Stretch. (87 minutes) Director: Robert Day. Cast: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Wilfrid Hyde White, Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge. Summary: A group of thieves plan a robbery from their prison cells, plan to execute the plan, and to return to their cells as their alibi. [ENGLAND]
• 1960 - Two Women. (99 minutes) Director: Vittorio De Sica. Cast: Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone. Summary: A widow with her 13-year old daughter leaves war-ridden Rome to return to her village. [ITALY]
• 1961 - El Cid. (184 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Hurd Hatfield. Summary: Adventures of the medieval Spanish hero. [SPAIN]
• 1961 - The Guns of Navarone. (145 minutes) Director: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. Summary: A multi-national team is assigned to destroy German guns blocking the Allied passage to the Aegean Sea. [GERMANY]
• 1961 - Judgment at Nurenberg. (178 minutes) Director: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maxmillan Schell, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland. Summary: A judge in the Nurenberg Trials after World War II must decide how blameful the citizens who followed orders were to be. [GERMANY]
• 1961 - Paris Blues. (98 minutes) Director: Cast: Paul Newuman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward, Diahann Carroll. Summary: Two American women vacationing in Paris meet two American professional musicians living in Paris, fall in love, and plan their future lives. [FRANCE]
• 1962 - Damn the Defiant. (101 minutes) Director: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Anthony Quayle. Summary: During Napoleonic times, the commanding officer of a British warship has friction with his second officer. [MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ENGLAND; FRANCE]
• 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia. Director: David Lean. Cast: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole. Summary: Story of T. E. Lawrence, who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I. [ARABIAN PENINSULA]
• 1962 - Pressure Point. (91 minutes) Director: Hubert Cornfield. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk. Summary: A black psychiatrist during World War II is assigned to evaluate a bigoted prisoner jailed for sedition as a member of the American Nazi party. [GERMANY]
• 1963 - Charade. (114 minutes) Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy. Summary: Comedy-mystery involving a widow in Paris seeking a fortune left by her husband while being trailed by her husband's colleagues. [FRANCE]
• 1963 - The Great Escape. (172 minutes) Director: John Sturges. Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn. Summary: Known troublemakers in a 1942 high-security German prisoner-of-war camp are determined to escape. [based upon the Paul Brickhill novel] [POLAND]
• 1963 - The Longest Day. (180 minutes) Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Sean Connery, Robert Wagner. Summary: Re-creation of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in June, 1944. [FRANCE]
• 1964 - Mary Poppins. (140 minutes) Director: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Hermione Baddeley. Summary: An English nanny believes that "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down." [ENGLAND]
• 1964 - My Fair Lady. (170 minutes) Director: George Cukor. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper. Summary: In the years before World War I, a phonetics teacher, Professor Higgins, brags to his friend that in three months he can have a Cockney flower seller, Liza Doolittle, speaking faultless English and be able to pass her off as royalty. [ENGLAND]
• 1964 - The Train. (133 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Michael Simon, Suzanne Flon, Wolfgang Preiss, Richard Munich. Summary: World War II thriller about a French railway inspector in the resistance to prevent the Nazis from trying to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings. [FRANCE]
• 1965 - Dr. Zhivago. (176 minutes) Director: David Lean. Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay. Summary: A Russian doctor's life is altered by the 1918 Russian Revolution upheaval. [RUSSIA]
• 1965 - The Hill. (122 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Michael Redgrave, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson, Ian Hendry. Summary: Psychological and mental agony faced by a group of British military prisoners at the hands of a drill sergeant.
• 1965 - Operation Crossbow. (116 minutes) Director: Michael Anderson. Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard. Summary: A small band of commandos during World War II attempt to destroy a Nazi secret missile stronghold.
• 1965 - The Prisoner. (91 minutes) Director: Peter Glenville. Cast: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson. Summary: A cardinal, held as a political prisoner in a communist country, is interrogated and brainwashed.
• 1965 - The Sound of Music. (172 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker. Summary: Maria does not fit in at the convent and becomes the governess of the large Baron Von Trapp family, later marrying the baron. They leave Austria during the Nazi invasion. [AUSTRIA]
• 1965 - Von Ryan's Express. (117 minutes) Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, James Brolin, Luther Adler. Summary: Escape from a World War II prisoner of war camp aboard a German train and safety in Switzerland. [GERMANY/SWITZERLAND]
• 1966 - The Blue Max. (156 minutes) Director: John Guillermin. Cast: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp. Summary: The war as seen through the eyes of Kaiser Wilhelm II, ace pilots, superior officers. [GERMANY]
• 1966 - How To Steal A Million. (127 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Charles Boyer, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffin. Summary: A noted burglar and the daughter of an art forger rob a museum to save the honor of the forger.[FRANCE]
• 1966 - A Man for All Seasons. (120 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnermann. Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York. Summary: During the 16th century, Sir Thomas More refuses to help King Henry VII break with the Catholic church and form the Church of England. [ENGLAND]
• 1967 - Camelot. (178 minutes) Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries. Summary: The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table with Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and the fall of Camelot. [ENGLAND]
• 1967 - Caprice. Cast: Doris Day, Richard Harris. Summary: A cosmetics consultant involved in industrial espionage is bothered by a narcotics ring. [SWITZERLAND]
• 1967 - The Dirty Dozen. (150 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Robert Webber. Summary: During World War II, an army major selects 12 men convicted of violent crimes and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi line. [based on an E. M. Nathanson novel]
• 1967 - To Sir With Love. (105 minutes) Director: James Clavell. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Lulu. Summary: The influence of a black teacher on his group of poverty-stricken teenagers in London's East Side. [ENGLAND]
• 1968 - The Devil's Brigade. (130 minutes) Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Cast: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Michael Rennie, Dana Andrews, Claude Akins, Carroll O'Connor, Richard Jaeckel. Summary: Teaming of GI misfits and Canadian commandos raiding Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II. [NORWAY]
• 1968 - The Fixer. (130 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm. Summary: Based on real happenings in Tsarist Russia, a Jewish man accused of murdering a Gentile child is imprisoned and pressured to take responsibility for the crime and to renounce his religion. [based on a Bernard Malamud novel] [RUSSIA]
• 1969 - Anne of the Thousand Days. (146 minutes) Director: Charles Jarrott. Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Richard Burton, Anthony Quayle. Summary: Anne Boleyn is pressured to marry England's king, Henry VIII as his second wife, falls in love with him, bears him a child, Queen Elizabeth I, and then is beheaded due to intrigue at court. [ENGLAND]
• 1969 - The Battle of Britain. (133 minutes) Director: Guy Hamilton. Cast: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curt Jurgens, Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier. Summary: The British Royal Air Force saves England from invasion when it fights off the Luftwaffe at the beginning of the World War II. [ENGLAND]
• 1970 - The Last Valley. (125 minutes) Director: James Clavell. Cast: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif. Summary: During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), violence erupts when an isolated valley outside the bounds of the war, becomes a winter haven for a band of mercenaries.
• 1970 - The McKenzie Break. (106 minutes) Director: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Brian Keith, Helmlut Girem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Patrick O'Connell. Summary: Escape of Germans from a World War II P.O.W. camp in Scotland. [SCOTLAND]
• 1970 - The Twelve Chairs. Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Mel Brooks, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Ron Moody. Summary: Where are the jewels stuffed into one of the twelve chairs of a mother-in-law in Russia? [RUSSIA]
• 1971 - Nicholas and Alexandra. (183 minutes) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave. Summary: Events preceding the Russian Revolution (1905-1917) until the deaths of Czar Nicholas, his wife, Alexandra, and his family. [RUSSIA]
• 1971 - Waterloo. (123 minutes) Director: Sergei Bondarchuk. Cast: Rod Steiger, Orson Welles, Christopher Plummer, Jack Hawkins, Dan O'Herlihy, Virginia McKenna, Michael Wilding. Summary: Defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. [FRANCE]
• 1972 - Cabaret. (128 minutes) Director: Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey. Summary: In 1931 Germany, the life interacting in a nightclub unfolds. [GERMANY]
• 1973 - The Last of Sheila. (119 minutes) Director: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, Raquel Welch, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane. Summary: A Hollywood mogul whose wife had been killed by a hit-and-run driver a year previously, invites a group of his varied Hollywood friends on a Mediterranean cruise using the ports-of-call as his gameboard for suspense.
• 1974 - QB VII. (312 minutes) Director: Tom Gries. Cast: Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron, Lee Remick, Anthony Quayle. Summary: A Polish ex-patriate doctor living in England sues an American writer for libel when accused of performing criminal medical procedures for the Nazis during World War II [based on a Leon Uris novel] [ENGLAND/POLAND]
• 1977 - A Bridge Too Far. (176 minutes) Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elliot Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann. Summary: Recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland during World War II and the later disastrous Battle of Arnhem. [HOLLAND]
• 1977 - Cross of Iron. (119 minutes) Director: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner. Summary: 1943 World War II as seen through the heroics of German soldiers. [GERMANY; RUSSIA]
• 1977 - The Duellists. (101 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens, Tom Conti. Summary: Feud between two French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. [FRANCE]
• 1978 - Breakthrough. (115 minutes) Director: Andrew M V. McLaglen. Cast: Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Curt Jurgens. Summary: After an Allied forces plot fails to end Hitler's life, a German officer saves the life of an American colonel. [GERMANY]
• 1978 - Holocaust. (250 minutes) Director: Marvin Chomsky. Cast: Meryl Streep, Michael Moriarty, Joseph Bottoms, Fritz Weaver, James Woods, Tom Bell, Ian Holm, Marius Goring, David Warner. Summary: Follows two families through Hitler's Third Reich in Germany. [GERMANY]
• 1978 - Midnight Express. (121 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt. Summary: The true story of American, Billy Hayes who spent 5 years in a Turkish prison for smuggling hashish. [TURKEY]
• 1980 - Mc Vicar. (112 minutes) Director: Tom Clegg. Cast: Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Steven Berkoff. Summary: Based on the true-life story of John McVicar who escaped from the high-security wing of a British prison and became known a "public enemy Number 1" [ENGLAND]
• 1980 - Playing For Time. (140 minutes) Director: Daniel Mann. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Viveca Lindfors, Shirley Knight. Summary: True story of Fania Fenelon and a group of women in Auschwitz who survived by creating a small orchestra and playing for the Nazi officers. [GERMANY]
• 1980 - Watcher in the Woods. (84 minutes) Director: John Hough. Cast: Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Ian Bannen, Richard Pasco. Summary: An American family moves their family to England for the summer, renting a large English manor from Mrs. Aylwood, the owner whose daughter disappeared 30 years previously. Spine-tingling suspense and supernatural involvement. [ENGLAND]
• 1981 - Berlin Tunnel 21. (141 minutes) Director: Richard Michaels. Cast: Richard Thomas, Horst Buchholz, Jose Ferrer, Jacques Breuer, Nicolas Farrell, Ute Christensen. Summary: An American soldier in 1961 Berlin cannot get his girlfriend from East Berlin, so he attempts to sneak her out. [GERMANY]
• 1981 - Das Boot. (209 minutes) Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann. Summary: In the autumn of 1941, forty-three young German sailors aboard U-96 enter the war against Britain seeking adventure, respect, and heroism. [GERMANY]
• 1982 - The Return of Martin Guerre. (111 minutes) Director: Daniel Vigne. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Roger Planchon. Summary: Focus on a real 16th century court case in which a man who has been away at the wars for years returns to his family and village and cannot prove his identity. [FRANCE]
• 1983 - Another Time, Another Place. (102 minutes) Director: Michael Radford. Cast: Phyllis Logan, Giovanni Mauriello. Summary: In 1944 Scotland, a woman 15 years younger than her husband falls in love with one of the three Italian POWs staying at their farm. [SCOTLAND]
• 1983 - Gorky Park. (128 minutes) Director: Michael Apted. Cast: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacula, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox. Summary: When three mutilated bodies are found in a Moscow park, a Russian policeman must find the killer. [based on a Martin Cruz Smith novel] [RUSSIA]
• 1983 - Table For Five. (122 minutes) Director: Robert Lieberman. Cast: Jon Voight, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins. Summary: Attempting to bond with his children, a divorced man takes his three youngsters on a Mediterranean cruise. [MEDITERRANEAN]
• 1983 - To Be or Not to Be. (minutes) Director: Alan Johnson. Cast: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Tim Matheson. Summary: Two Polish actors try to outwit Nazis in 1939 Warsaw as World War II breaks out. [POLAND]
• 1984 - Cal. (102 minutes) Director: Pat O'Connor. Cast: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann. Summary: A teenager in 1984 Northern Ireland attempts to sever his ties to the IRA and is forced to seek help from the widow of the policeman he helped murder. [IRELAND]
• 1985 - Gulag. (120 minutes) Director: Roger Young. Cast: David Keith, Malcolm McDowell. Summary: An American athlete is shipped to a Soviet prison camp. [RUSSIA]
• 1985 - Murder With Mirrors. (100 minutes) Director: Dick Lowry. Cast: Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKern. Summary: In England, spinster sleuth Jane Marple comes to the aid of an old friend, whose ancestral home is threatened, and whose life seems to be threatened by slow poisoning. [ENGLAND]
• 1986 - 84 Charing Cross Road. (99 minutes) Director: David Jones. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham. Summary: Based on the life of Helene Hanff, a New York City writer and reader of English literature, who begins, in 1949, a twenty year correspondence with a London bookseller. [ENGLAND]
• 1987 - Escape from Sobibor. (120 minutes) Director: Jack Gold. Cast: Rutger Hauer, Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula. Summary: Based on the true-life escape of prisoners during World War II from a Nazi death camp. [POLAND]
• 1987 - Hope and Glory. (113 minutes) Director: John Boorman. Cast: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis, Ian Bannen, Sebastian Rice Edwards, Jean-Marc Barr. Summary: The boyhood experiences of John Boorman during the London blitz in England during World War II. [ENGLAND]
• 1987 - Hotel Du Lac. (75 minutes) Director: Giles Foster. Cast: Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Googie Withers, Julia McKenzie, Patricia Hodge. Summary: A London romance writer is exiled to a Swiss lakefront hotel on the off season to get over her lover, work on a new novel, and reflect on her life while observing her fellow guests. [SWITZERLAND; ENGLAND]
• 1988 - The Beast. (109 minutes) Director: Kevin Reynolds. Cast: Steven Bauer, George Dzundza. Summary: Soviet soldiers and Afghan rebels fight in the deserts of Afghanistan. [AFGHANISTAN]
• 1988 - High Spirits. (97 minutes) Director: Neil Jordan. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Gutenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Liam Neeson. Summary: The owner turns his family's haunted Irish castle into a tourist resort hotel. [IRELAND]
• 1988 - To Kill a Priest. (117 minutes) Director: Agnieszka Holland. Cast: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, David Suchet, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland. Summary: In 1984 Warsaw, Poland, a secret service police officer focuses on a Catholic priest who is aiding the Solidarity movement. [POLAND]
• 1988 - Waking Ned Devine. (91 minutes) Director: Kirk Jones. Cast: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt. Summary: How people confront a national-lottery incident. [IRELAND]
• 1989 - Valmont. (137 minutes) Director: Milos Forman. Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas. Summary: 18th century French aristocratic sexual liaisons. [FRANCE]
• 1990 - The Field. (107 minutes) Director: Jim Sheridan. Cast: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Tom Berenger, Brenda Fricker, Frances Tomelty. Summary: An American comes to Ireland searching for his roots and desiring to develop the land being rented and tenderly cultivated by Bull McCabe and his son. Covering the land with concrete is a mortal sin to Bull. An outsider owning that field is an outrage. [IRELAND]
• 1990 - The Hunt for Red October. (134 minutes) Director: John McTiernan. Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones. Summary: A Soviet commander defects and heads toward the U. S. coast in a Russian submarine during the Cold War. [based on a Tom Clancy work] [RUSSIA]
• 1990 - Mountains of the Moon. (130 minutes) Director: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Roger Rees, Fiona Shaw. Summary: During the Victorian Age, Sir Richard Burton explores Africa to search for the source of the Nile River in Africa. [ENGLAND; AFRICA]
• 1991 - The Inner Circle. (137 minutes) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky. Cast: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Bob Hoskins. Summary: During the dismantling of the Soviet Union, a young man is selected to be the projectionist for the movie buff and dictator, Josef Stalin in the Kremlin. [RUSSIA]
• 1991 - Yanks. (139 minutes) Director: John Schlesinger. Cast: Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn, Rachel Roberts, Chick Vennera, Arlen Dean Snyder, Annie Ross. Summary: Friendships developed during World War II in England between the English and the Americans from 1942 until D-Day. [ENGLAND]
• 1992 - Far and Away. (140 minutes) Director: Ron Howard. Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Eileen Pollock, Michelle Johnson. Summary: Irish immigrants from different social backgrounds come to New York in the late 1800s, search for land moving westward, and begin a life together. [IRELAND]
• 1992 - A Midnight Clear. (107 minutes) Director: Keith Gordon. Cast: Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Frank Whaley. Summary: In World War II Germany, a small army platoon on an intelligence mission, discovers a small group of frightened soldiers in a Nazi camp. [based on the autobiographical novel of William Wharton] [GERMANY]
• 1992 - Night On Earth. (128 minutes) Director: Jim Jarmusch. Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni. Summary: Four episodes about four taxi drivers in four different places (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki) at the same time with different passengers. [FRANCE, ITALY, FINLAND]
• 1992 - The Patriot Games. (118 minutes) Director: Phillip Noyce. Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, James Fox. Summary: Suspense-thriller showing how CIA analyst Jack Ryan must save his wife and daughter from renegade Irish terrorists. [IRELAND]
• 1993 - Schindler's List. (185 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davidtz. Summary: During World War II, one thousand Polish Jews work for Oskar Schindler and survive Hitler's "final solution." [POLAND]
• 1993 - Shadowlands. (130 minutes) Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, John Wood, Michael Denison, Peter Firth. Summary: Love affair between English author and lecturer C. S. Lewis and an American writer and fan, Joy Gresham. [ENGLAND]
• 1993 - The War Lover. (105 minutes) Director: Philip Leacock. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field. Summary: A brave air force pilot stationed in England during World War II achieves many heroic missions but his rebellious attitude alienates people. [based on a John Hersey novel] [ENGLAND]
• 1994 - Forrest Gump. (142 minutes) Director: Robert Zemeckis. Cast: Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise. Summary: A simple man unwittingly becomes a hero in the 20th century. [FRANCE; EUROPE]
• 1994 - Princess Caraboo. (97 minutes) Director: Michael Austin. Cast: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea. Summary: A mysterious young woman speaking no English and dressed in strange clothes appears in the English countryside and passes herself off as a foreign princess. [ENGLAND]
• 1994 - Secret of Roan Inish. (103 minutes) Director: John Sayles. Cast: Jeni Courtney, Mick Lallay, Eileen Colgan, Richard Sheridan. Summary: A 10-year-old girls is ent to live with her grandparents on Ireland's rugged west coast, hears local legends of selkies (half-human, half-seal Celtic beings - - and becomes convinced that these strange creatures may have saved her infant brother believed to be lost years earlier. [IRELAND]
• 1994 - Widow's Peak. (105 minutes) Director: John Irvin. Cast: Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar. Summary: The village oddball is taken care of by the upper-crust ladies of an Irish village. [IRELAND]
• 1995 - Before Sunrise. (100 minutes) Director: Richard Linklater. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Poschi, Erni Mangold. Summary: An American male tourist meets a French female student on a train between Budapest and Vienna and convinces her to spend the day with him. [AUSTRIA]
• 1995 - A Month By the Lake. (97 minutes) Director: John Irvin. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alessandro Gassman. Summary: Set at an Italian resort prior to World War II. [ITALY]
• 1995 - Rob Roy. (139 minutes) Director: Michael Caton-Jones. Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir, Brian Cox. Summary: The 1713 fight for justice in the Scottish Highlands by Rob Roy. [SCOTLAND]
• 1996 - Jack and Sarah. (110 minutes) Director: Tim Sullivan. Cast: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench. Summary: A young American girl trying to make a living in London becomes the nanny for a London lawyer whose wife died in childbirth. [ENGLAND]
• 1996 - Mary Reilly. (118 minutes) Director: Stephen Frears. Cast: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michael Gambon, George Cole, Kathy Staff. Summary: A 19th English housemaid supports her master, Dr. Henry Jekyll being taken over by his assistant, Mr. Hyde. [ENGLAND]
• 1996 - Michael Collins. (135 minutes) Director: Neil Jordan. Cast: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, Stephen Rea. Summmary: Epic glorifying the life of IRA militant, Michael Collins. [IRELAND]
• 1996 - Some Mother's Son. (112 minutes) Director: Terry George. Cast: Helen Mirren. Summary: Mothers reveal the incident of IRA hunger strikes in 1981 Ireland. [IRELAND]
• 1997 - The English Patient. (162 minutes) Director: Anthony Minghella. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas. Summary: A mysterious stranger is rescued from a fiery plane crash during World War II and cared for by American allies.
• 1997 - For Roseanna. (95 minutes) Director: Paul Weiland. Cast: Jean Reno, Mercedes Ruehl, Polly Walker, Mark Frankel. Summary: In a small Italian village, the husband of a dying woman tries to fulfill the wish of his soon-to-die wife to be buried next to their dead young daughter but there are only three spaces left in the cemetary which poses problems for him. [ITALY]
• 1997 - The Governess. (114 minutes) Director: Sandra Goldbacher. Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Florence Hoath. Summary: In 19th century England, a Jewish woman poses as a Gentile to work as a governess for a wealthy family. [ENGLAND]
• 1997 - Mrs. Brown. (103 minutes) Director: John Madden. Cast: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Antony Sher, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Pasco, David Westhead. Summary: The true story of a bond between the recently widowed Queen Victoria and her Scottish stableman, John Brown. [ENGLAND]
• 1997 - The Winter Guest. (110 minutes) Director: Alan Rickman. Cast: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood, Arlene Cockburn, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe. Summary: A day in the life of a recently widowed photgrapher, her strong-willed mother, son, and his new girlfriend in a Scottish oceanfront village. [SCOTLAND]
• 1998 - Dancing at Lughnasa. (92 minutes) Director: Pat O'Connor. Cast: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Kathy Burke, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Thompson. Summary: Five sisters and the out-of-wedlock son of one of them struggle to exist in rural 1930s Ireland. [IRELAND]
• 1998 - The Red Violin. (132 minutes) Director: Francois Girard. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Don McKellar. Summary: Flashbacks from a Montreal auction in 1997 of violins from the Chinese revolution. Authentication by a 20th century musicologist/father, who also is taken under its spell. The story includes the travels of the red violin made in Italy by a master craftsman in the 1600s for his yet-to-be-born son, in Austria in the 1700s, to England in the 1800s, to China during the 1900s and the people whose lives it touched. Also used is a tarot card reader in the 1600s with the wife of the violin craftsman. [ITALY; AUSTRIA; FRANCE; ENGLAND; CHINA]
• 1998 - Saving Private Ryan. (170 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Matt Damon. Summary: Eight men are sent into German-occupied France to rescue a soldier whose brothers have been killed in combat. [FRANCE]
• 1998 - Shakespeare in Love. (122 minutes) Director: John Madden. Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Ben Affleck. Summary: An ambitious young William Shakespeare, experiencing writer's block, meets a woman who is his muse, inspiring him to write "Romeo and Juliet. [ENGLAND]
• 1999 - Angela's Ashes. (146 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Michael Legge, Ciaran Owens, Joe Breen. Summary: Period drama showing the poverty during the early life of Frank McCourt growing up in Ireland. [IRELAND]
• 1999 - All the King's Men. (120 minutes) Director: Julian Jarrold. Cast: David Jason, Maggie Smith, Stuart Bunce, David Troughton. Summary: The 1915 amateur soldiers composed of servants, grooms, and gardeners from the King's Norfolk Estate who disappeared after a battle against the Turks in Gallipoli during World War I. [TURKEY]
• 1999 - The End of the Affair. (101 minutes) Director: Neil Jordan. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea. Summary: During World War II, in England, an American writer and the wife of a British civil servant fall in love. [based on a Graham Greene novel] [ENGLAND] (1939 - 1945) [ENGLAND]
• 1999 - Last September. (103 minutes) Director: Deborah Warner. Cast: Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Keeley Hawes, Fiona Shaw, Tom Hickey, Jane Birkin. Summary: Aristocratic owners of an Irish house in the late 1920s host national and international characters during the end of British rule over that country. [IRELAND]
• 1999 - Life Is Beautiful. (116 minutes) Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durango, Sergio Bustric, Horst Buchholz. Summary: A charming waiter wins the heart of the woman he loves, begins a family, and has this life threatened by World War II. [ITALY]
• 1999 - The Talented Mr. Ripley. (139 minutes) Director: Anthony Minghella. Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Summary: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back he playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
• 1999 - The True Story of Private Ryan. (50 minutes) Director: Stephen Day, Joe Ward. Host: James Ryan. Summary: James Ryan tells of his days as a young private, from his landing on the shores of Normandy, France through combat to liberate France. (World War II, 1939 - 1945) [FRANCE]
• 2000 - Billy Elliot. (111 minutes) Director: Stephen Daldry. Cast: Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven, Adam Cooper. Summary: An eleven-year-old boy from a working-class mining family, on his way to boxing lessons, comes across a ballet class and develops a passion for dance. [SCOTLAND]
• 2000 - Chocolat. (minutes) Director: Cast: Juliette Binoche. Summary: In a small 1950s French village, a mysterious woman opens a sweets shop and causes an impact of the villagers. [FRANCE]
• 2000 - In the Closet. (85 minutes) Director: Francis Veber. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michele Laroque. Summary: A bland, dull, divorced father of one, accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. With the suggestion of a gay neighbor, he creates a ruse suggesting that he is gay. He grows as a man. [FRANCE]
• 2000 - Jakob the Liar. (120 minutes) Director: Peter Kassovitz. Cast: Robin Williams. Summary: A poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi-occupied Poland invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advance against the Nazis, attempting to keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants. [POLAND]
• 2000 - Last of the Blonde Bombshells. (84 minutes) Cast: Dudi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Kudakis, Sir Leslie Caron, Dame Cleo Laine. Summary: After the death of her husband, a sax-player of the Blonde Bombshells of World War II fame attempts to reunite the band for a performance at her granddaughter's school dance. [UNITED STATES]
• 2000 - U-571. (117 minutes) Director: Jonathan Mostow. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber, Kavid Keith, Matthew Settle. Summary: A group of Navy men during World War II are sent to steal the Nazi's top-secret decoding device, Enigma, but when their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat carrying the device.
• 2001 - Behind Enemy Lines. (105 minutes) Director: John Moore. Cast: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith. Summary: A flight navigator and his crew are shot down over Bosnis during a routine reconaissance mission when they see something they should not have seen. They are tracked by the enemy as their forces plan to rescue them. [BOSNIA]
• 2001 - Captain Corelli's Mandolin. (123 minutes) Director: John Madden. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey, Irene Papas. Summary: During World War II, an Italian officer who is part of the occupying forces on a Greek island falls in love with a local girl. [GREECE]
• 2001 - Enemy at the Gates. (131 minutes) Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Marshall-Thomson. Summary: World War II Russian hero, Vassili Zaitsev, faces the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.
• 2001 - Kiss of the Dragon. (97 minutes) Director: Chris Nahon. Cast: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tcheky Karyo, Ric Young, Burt Kwouk. Summary: China's top secret agent must team up with an American call girl in Paris to solve a case after he is falsely accused of murder. [CHINA; FRANCE]
• 2001 - The Lost Battalion. (100 minutes) Director: Russell Mulcahy. Cast: Rick Schroder, Phil McKee, Jaimie Harris, Jay Rodan, Adam James. Summary: In the closing days of World War I, an army division was surrounded by German troops in the Argonne Forest of France without food, water, reserve ammunition, communication lines holding off the enemy until they wer rescued after five days of action. [based on a true story of World War I, 1914 - 1918] [FRANCE]
• 2001 - Moulin Rouge. (160 minutes) Director: Baz Luhrmann. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh. Summary: A musical romance set in 19th-century France.
• 2001 - Shrek. (191 minutes) Director: Andrew Adamson. Voices: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow. Summary: Based on the William Steig book, tells the story of Shrek, an ogre living on a swamp, who is overwhelmed by fairy tale characters who have been rounded-up by the local Lord Farquaad and deposited there. To get back his deed, he is to rescue Princess Fiona with the help of Donkey. [EUROPE]
• 2001 - Uprising. (177 minutes) Director: Jon Avnet. Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Donald Sutherland, Jon Voight, Cary Elwes, Stephen Moyer. Summary: In 1939 Poland, after the Germans invaded, the Germans forcibly detained 350,000 Warsaw Jews in an area known as the "Warsaw Ghetto." Forming the Jewish Fighting Organization, they resist the Nazis until the Nazis promise to eradicate the ghetto as a birthday present for Hitler. [POLAND]
• 2002 - Borstal Boy. (91 minutes) Director: Peter Sheridan. Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dye, Lee Ingleby, Robin Laing, Eva Birthistle. Summary: During World War II, a sixteen year-old Irish activist goes on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool, is apprehended, charged, and placed in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders. Here he lives face-to-face with those he hates and changes his view of life. [IRELAND/ENGLAND]
• 2002 - Daniel Deronda. (210 minutes) Director: Tom Hooper. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May, Edward Fox, Greta Scacchi, Barbara Hershey. Summary: George Eliot's 19th century English novel of Daniel Deronda, a sensitive, intelligent, young man, haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth, seeking a position of wealth in life, considers marrying Henleigh Grancourt but longs for Daniel, who has become involved in helping a young Jewish singer, Mirah Lapidoth. [ENGLAND; GERMANY]
• 2002 - Hart's War. (125 minutes) Director: Gregory Hoblit. Cast: Bruce Willia, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Cole Hauser, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache. Summary: In a Nazi POW camp in December, 1944, a ranking U. S. prisoner is joined by a law-student lieutenant who had been captured. Lt. Hart tries the case of a black, Tuskeegee airmen pilot falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner. [GERMANY] Director: Catherine Morshead. Cast: Robson Green, Caroline Goodall. Summary: A Fleet Street tabloid writer writing under the pseudonym Mrs. Jones, secretly infiltrates 10 Downing Street to reveal the Prime Minister's intimate personal details and derail her re-election campaign, but finds true love. [ENGLAND]
• 2002 - Me and Mrs. Jones. (120 minutes) Director:
• 2003 - Brush With Fate. (98 minutes) Director: Brent Shields. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Thomas Gibston, Phyllida Law, Kelly Macdonald,, Patrick Bergin. Summary: Based on the Susan Vreeland novel "Girl In Hyacinth Blue," this movie tells of how the impoverished Dutch artist, Vermeer, picture the image of his daughter seated at an open window. Painted in love, sold in desperation, bought in passion, and stolen in greed, the painting's history and the role it played in the lives of those who owned it is revealed in flashback by Cornelia Engelbrecht, a reclusive historian, to an art educator at her college in Massachusetts. [HOLLAND; MASSACHUSETTS]
• 2003 - Girl With a Pearl Earring. (100 minutes) Director: Peter Webber. Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson. Summary: Based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier, relates the story of how Johannes Vermeer, in 1665 Delft, Holland, painted 17-year-old maid, Griet, wearing his wife's pearl earring. [HOLLAND]
• 2003 - Le Divorce. (117 minutes) Director: James Ivory. Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Romain Duris, Stephen Fry, Samuel Labarthe, Thomas Lennon, Thierry Lhermitte. Summary: Californian Isabel Walker travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support to her pregnant sister Roxy who has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand. Sexual complications arise when Isabel becomes the mistress of her sister's uncle-by-marriage, when Isabel really does not want to file for divorce, when the distraught husband of Roxy's lover stalks them, and when the ownership of the American family's heirloom painting becomes questioned. [PARIS, FRANCE; CALIFORNIA]
• 2003 - Under the Tuscan Sun. (113 minutes) Director: Audrey Wells. Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta, Mario Monicelli. Summary: Frances Mayes, a San Francisco just-divorced writer, on a whim, buys and restores a villa in Tuscany, Italy while on a trip hoping to give her life a second chance. [ITALY]

Asia

China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Arabian Peninsula (Sinai Peninsula [Egypt]), Southwest coast of Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Persian Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, South Asia [India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Iran], The Middle East (Turkey and Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan), Siberia, CENTRAL ASIA (Afghanistan), SOUTHEAST ASIA (Burma, Thailand, Laos), MALAYSIA (Singapore), Cambodia, Vietnam, INDONESIA (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Celebes, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Isles, Philippines,

• 1932 - The Bitter Tea of General Yen. (77 minutes) Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther. Summary: A Chinese warlord's love for an American missionary, during China's Civil War, goes unrequited. [based on a novel by Grace Zaring Stone] [CHINA]
• 1932 - Red Dust. (83 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Gene Raymond, Tully Marshall. Summary: A rubber plantation boss in Indochina romances two women. [INDOCHINA]
• 1932 - Shanghai Express. (80 minutes) Director: Josef von SternbergCast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Louise Closser Hale. Summary: A woman causes the downfall of a Chinese warlord during the Chinese Civil War to save the life and reputation of the man she loves. [CHINA]
• 1935 - Lives of a Bengal Lancer. (109 minutes) Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone. Summary: Friends in the British regiment mentor the commander's son. [INDIA]
• 1938 - Too Hot to Handle. (105 minutes) Director: Jack Conway. Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Weidler, Marjorie Main. Summary: A daredevil newsreel photographer and his competitors working for competitive New York companies set up their own news footage when there is none to shoot. He meets a female pilot who believes her lost brother, a pilot, is still alive in Borneo. [CHINA; BORNEO; NEW YORK]
• 1939 - Gunga Din. (117 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine. Summary: 19th century Indian native uprising put down by three soldiers. [INDIA]
• 1939 - The Rains Came. (104 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Joseph Schildkraut, Jane Darwell, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, H. B. Warner. Summary: Based on the Louis Bromfield novel set in 1938 Ranchipur, India, as an earthquake and tidal wave influence the romance between an English woman and an Indian doctor. [INDIA]
• 1940 - The Letter. (95 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard. Summary: Based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel revealing through flashback how a Singapore rubber plantation manager's wife is trapped in a loveless marriage, seeks a lover, and murders him to preserve her honor only to be placed on trial and acquitted. Will the native woman who holds a letter and sells it let injustice survive over justice? (Music: Max Steiner) [SINGAPORE, MALAYASIA]
• 1941 - They Met in Bombay. (93 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Jessie Ralph, Reginald Owen, Alan Ladd. Summary: Two thieves fall in love while going after the same diamond, but when the Japanese invade China, being disguised as a British officer gets them into trouble. [CHINA]
• 1943 - China. (79 minutes) Director: John Farrow. Cast: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Sen Yung, Iris Wong. Summary: Story of a tough-minded American gasoline salesman in 1941 wartime China, who sells supplies to the highest bidder, in this case, the Japanese, but whose attitude changes when, on the way to Shanghai, he meets an American schoolteacher and her Chinese students. He changes his mind about becoming involved with the people when he becomes part of a small band of Chinese guerrilas on a dynamite-stealing mission. [CHINA]
• 1944 - The Purple Heart. (99 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger. Summary: A group of American fliers are captured after bombing Tokyo and are put on trial for war crimes. [JAPAN]
• 1945 - Objective, Burma. (142 minutes) Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Errol Flynn, William Prince, James Brown, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson, Richard Erdman, Anthony Caruso, Hugh Beaumont. Summary: Allied paratroopers are dropped into Burma to destroy a radar station and kill Japanese soldiers during World War II. [BURMA]
• 1947 - Black Narcissus. (99 minutes) Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Sabu. Summary: What is there about that Indian village high in the Himalayas with its constantly blowing wind and its high altitude climate where a group of nuns open a school and hospital that sensitizes the physicality of each of those nuns and causes each of them to face their former worldly temptations, demons, and passions causing them to question their vows? (based on a Rumer Godden novel) [INDIA]
• 1951 - The Steel Helmet. (84 minutes) Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards. Summary: Korean War depicted with irony, action, and lightning pace fighting in South Korea. [KOREA]
• 1954 - Bridges at Toko-Ri. (103 minutes) Director: Mark Robson. Cast: William Holden. Fredric March, Grace Kelly, Mickey Rooney, Earl Holliman, Charles McGraw, Robert Strauss, Willis Bouchey, Gene Reynolds. Summary: Adaptation of the James Michener story of Korean War centering on a bomber pilot and his crew as part of a 1950 aircraft-carrier force assigned to destroy strategic bridges in North Korea. [KOREA]
• 1955 - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. (102 minutes) Director: Henry King. Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson. Summary: Forbidden love between a Caucasian, married American war correspondent and a Eurasian, widowed doctor who fall in love in 1950s Hong Kong. [HONG KONG]
• 1956 - The King and I. (133 minutes) Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno. Summary: A widowed English teacher comes to Siam to teach the king's children. [SIAM/THAILAND]
• 1957 - Bridge on the River Kwai. (161 minutes) Director: David Lean. Cast: Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, William Holden, James Donald. Summary: Based on the real-life character of Lieutenant Coloniel Philip Toosey, an Allied POW from 1942-1943, ordered to build two Kwai River bridges in Burma (one wood, one steel) to move Japanese supplies from Bangkok to Rangoon. [BURMA]
• 1957 - * Men in War. (104 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Vic Morrow. Summary: American forces fighting the Chinese in South Korea during the Korean War. [KOREA]
• 1957 - Sayonara. (147 minutes) Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki, Ricardo Montalban, James Garner. Summary: American military men romance Japanese women while stationed in World War II Japan. [based on the James Michener novel] [JAPAN]
• 1958 - The Barbarian and the Geisha. (105 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Elko Ando. Summary: The 1856 American ambassador to Japan, Townsend Harris, attempts to improve relations with Japan and finds romance with a geisha. [JAPAN]
• 1958 - Inn of the Sixth Happiness. (158 minutes) Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat. Summary: The life of China missionary Gladys Aylward and her cross-country adventurous walk leading a group of orphans away from the war zone. [CHINA]
• 1959 - * Pork Chop Hill. (97 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Woody Strode, George Peppard, Bob Steele, James Edwards. Summary: An American force is ordered to hold an insignificant mound of earth in 1953 Korea against the attack of hordes of communist Chinese forces. [KOREA]
• 1960 - All the Young Men. (87 minutes) Director: Cast: Anna Maria Clair, Glenn Corbett, James Darren, Richard Davalos, Joseph Gallison, Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier. Summary: A black marine sergeant in the Korean War faces racial integration problems when he is placed in charge of an all white battalion. [KOREA]
• 1961 - A Majority of One. (156 minutes) Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel. Summary: Romance between a middle-aged Jewish Brooklyn widow whose sone was killed by the Japanese during World War II and a Japanese man whose family perished in the war on a boat trip to Japan as a major trade agreement is being negotiated. [NEW YORK CITY; JAPAN]
• 1962 - All the Young Men. (87 minutes) Director: Hall Bartlett. Cast: Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Glen Corbett, Mort Sahl, Ana St. Clair, Ingemar Johansson. Summary: Marines survive an enemy ambush in Korea [KOREA]
• 1962 - The Manchurian Candidate. (129 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory. Summary: A U. S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is brought to Manchuria in 1951 for three days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. [based on the Richard Condon novel] [MANCHURIA]
• 1962 - Merrill's Mauraders. (99 minutes) Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Will Hutchins. Summary: Merrill's Maurauders, an outfit of war-hardened veterans, battle the enemy in Burma. [BURMA]
• 1963 - Cleopatra. (248 minutes) Director: Joseph Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Hume Cronyn, Martin Landau. Summary: Egypt's queen. [EGYPT]
• 1965 - John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna. Summary: An American U-2 pilot lands in an Arab country ruled by a king who wants a football team that will beat Notre Dame.
• 1966 - Gambit. (108 minutes) Director: Ronald Neame. Cast: Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Herbert Lom. Summary: A couple attempt to steal a valuable art treasure in Hong Kong. [HONG KONG]
• 1966 - The Sand Pebbles. (179 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Mako, Gavin MacLeod, Simon Oakland. Summary: Efforts of a U. S. gunboat to stay neutral during China's 1926 upheaval.
• 1970 - M*A*S*H. (116 minutes) Director: Robert Altman. Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Jo Ann Pflug, Gary Burghoff. Summary: War comedy of the 1970s Korea. [KOREA]
• 1971 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. (105 minutes) Director: Casper Wrede. Cast: Tom Courtenay, James Maxwell, Alfred Burke, Espen Skjonberg. Summary: A prisoner in a Siberian work camp. [SIBERIA]
• 1978 - The Deer Hunter. (183 minutes) Director: Michael Cimino. Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken. Summary: Three friends in stell mill town, Clairton, Pennsylvania, leave for Vietnam and the horrors of death. [PENNSYLVANIA; VIETNAM]
• 1978 - Death on the Nile. (135 minutes) Director: John Guillermin. Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Jack Warden. Summary: Agatha Christie's Belgium detective, Hercule Poirot, is called upon to discover who killed an heiress aboard a steamer cruising down the Nile. [EGYPT]
• 1978 - Go Tell the Spartans. (114 minutes) Director: Ted Post. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Marc Singer. Summary: An American commander begins to wonder "what are we doing here" in the early days of the Vietnam conflict. [VIETNAM]
• 1979 - Apocalypse Now. (202 minutes) Director: Francis Coppols. Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Rubert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper. Summary: A U. S. Army officer, trained as an assassin, is sent into the southeast Asian jungle to terminate the command of a renegade colonel during the Vietnamese Conflict (1061-1975). [VIETNAM]
• 1979 - Breaker Morant. (107 minutes) Director: Bruce Beresford. Cast: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell. Summary: The factual account of three colonial officers being railroaded in a kangaroo court-martial during the Boer War. [AFRICA]
• 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark. (115 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Wolf Kahler, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey. Summary: Indiana Jones, archaeologist and adventurer, seeks the Lost Ark with a stop off in Nepal and then on to Egypt.
• 1982 - Gandhi. (188 minutes) Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, John Mills, Trevor Howard. Summary: Life of the Indian leader. [INDIA]
• 1983 - Missing in Action 2: The Beginning. (95 minutes) Director: Lance Hool. Cast: Chuck Norris, Soon-Teck Oh, Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta. Summary: Prequel to "Missing in Action" tells of escape from a Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp after 10 years of imprisonment. [VIETNAM]
• 1983 - Uncommon Valor. (105 minutes) Director: Ted Kotcheff. Cast: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward. Summary: A retired U. S. marine returns to VIETNAM with his own mission members to search for and return his POW marine son after learning ten years after he was listed as missing in action that he might still be alive. [VIETNAM]
• 1984 - The Killing Fields. (142 minutes) Director: Roland Joffe. Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson. Summary: The experiences of New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the war in Cambodia and his friendship with Dith Pran, a Cambodian guide and self-proclaimed journalist. [CAMBODIA]
• 1984 - Missing in Action. (101 minutes) Director: Joseph Zito. Cast: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Leonore Kasdorf, James Hong, David Tress. Summary: Colonel James Braddock, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, attempts to free other Americans he believes are still there. [VIETNAM]
• 1985 - Volunteers. (105 minutes) Director: Nicholas Meyer. Cast: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson. Peace Corps in 1962s Thailand. [THAILAND]
• 1986 - * Platoon. (120 minutes) Director: Oliver Stone. Cast: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, John C. McGinley. Summary: Vietnam diary of a green GI and his good guy/bad guy sergeants. [VIETNAM]
• 1987 - Full Metal Jacket. (120 minutes) Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofria, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Ed O'Ross. Summary: Action in Vietnam. [VIETNAM]
• 1987 - Good Morning, Vietnam. (120 minutes) Director: Barry Levinson. Cast: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, J. T. Walsh. Summary: A 1965 radio disc jockey on Saigon's Armed Forces Radio brings support to the military in Vietnam. [VIETNAM]
• 1987 - Hamburger Hill. (112 minutes) Director: John Irvin. Cast: Anthony Barrile, Michael Patrick Boatman, Don Cheadie, Michael Dolan, Don James, Dylan McDermott, M. A. Nickles, Harry O'Reilly, Tim Quill, Courtney B. Vance, Steven Weber, Daniel O'Shea. Summary: Shocking portrayal of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. [VIETNAM]
• 1987 - Hanoi Hilton. (130 minutes) Director: Lionel Chetwynd. Cast: Michael Moriarty, Paul LeMat, David Soul, Jeffrey Jones, Lawrence Pressman. Summary: Story of a prisoner-of-war camp during the Vietnam War. [VIETNAM]
• 1987 - Tampopo. (95 minutes) Director: Juzo Itami. Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto. Cast: A Japanese noodle western spoofs food with a passion as a female diner owner learns to create the perfect noodle soup with the aid of her truckdriver mentor. [JAPAN]
• 1988 - Bat 21. (105 minutes). Director: Peter Markle. Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant. Summary: Based on a true story of an American military mastermind shot down during a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam and trapped behind enemy lines where he is kept safe by an American helicopter pilot until he is rescued. [VIETNAM]
• 1988 - A Town Like Alice. (301 minutes) Director: David Stevens. Cast: Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson. Summary: Female British POWs in Malaysia. [MALAYSIA]
• 1991 - The Finest Hour. (105 minutes) Director: Shimon Dotan. Cast: Rob Lowe, Gale Hansen, Tracy Griffith, Eb Lottimer. Summary: After competing against each other, two navy SEAL recruits work together during the Persian Gulf War. [PERSIAN GULF]
• 1991 - Flight of the Intruder. (115 minutes) Director: John Milius. Cast: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette. Summary: American Navy pilots ignore orders and bomb a restricted area in Hanoi during the Vietnam War of the 1960s. [VIETNAM]
• 1992 - Indochine. (155 minutes) Director: Regis Wargnier. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Dan Pham Linh, Jean Yanne. Summary: In French Indochina of 1932, the country readies for the change from colonialism to the creation of a current Vietnam. [FRENCH INDOCHINA]
• 1992 - Mr. Baseball. (110 minutes) Director: Fred Schepsisi. Cast: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Dennis Haysbert. Summary: An American league baseball player plays in Japan. [JAPAN]
• 1993 - Indochine. (155 minutes) Director: Regis Wargnier. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Dan Pham Linh, Jean Yanne. Summary: The violent changes leading to the creation of Vietnam in 1930 French Indochina set in the context of the life of Eliane, a rubber plantation owner in French Indochina, who hides her torrid love affairs with upper-class society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, the scandal may destroy their family. [INDOCHINA]
• 1995 - Operation Dumbo Drop. (102 minutes) Director: Simon Wincer. Cast: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Corin Nemec, Doug E. Doug. Summary: During the Vietnam War, two American officers are assigned to obtain and deliver an elephant for a friendly native village. [VIETNAM]
• 1998 - The Red Violin. (132 minutes) Director: Francois Girard. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Don McKellar. Summary: Flashbacks from a Montreal auction in 1997 of violins from the Chinese revolution. Authentication by a 20th century musicologist/father, who also is taken under its spell. The story includes the travels of the red violin made in Italy by a master craftsman in the 1600s for his yet-to-be-born son, in Austria in the 1700s, to England in the 1800s, to China during the 1900s and the people whose lives it touched. Also used is a tarot card reader in the 1600s with the wife of the violin craftsman. [ITALY; AUSTRIA; FRANCE; ENGLAND; CHINA]
• 1999 - The Road Home. (89 minutes) Director: Zhang Yimou. Cast: The story of a city schoolmaster and a village woman is told by a son who returns to his Chinese village to bury his father in the traditional way. Realization of a marriage based on love rather than arranged. [CHINA]
• 2000 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (120 minutes) Director: Ang Lee. Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhan Ziyi, Chang Chen, Lung Sihung, Cheng Pei Pei. Summary: A magical sword in China. [CHINA]
• 2001 - Kiss of the Dragon. (97 minutes) Director: Chris Nahon. Cast: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tcheky Karyo, Ric Young, Burt Kwouk. Summary: China's top secret agent must team up with an American call girl in Paris to solve a case after he is falsely accused of murder. [CHINA; FRANCE]
• 2002 - We Were Soldiers. (138 minutes) Director: Randall Wallace. Cast: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell. Summary: Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry in the Pleiku Campaign of 1965, is assigned to action in the first major battle of the war as his men are trapped by 2,000 North Vietnamese troops. [based on novel by Lt. General Harold G. Moore (retired) and Joseph L. Galloway] [VIETNAM]
• 2003 - Lost in Translation. (102 minutes). Ditector: Sofia Coppola. Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumhiro Hayashi. Summary: A male movie star shooting a whiskey commercial in Japan by chance meets a married woman tagging along with her workaholic husband, one night in their luxury hotel bar. [JAPAN]
• 2005 - Nobody Knows (Daremo Shiranai). (139 min.) Director: Kore-Eda Hirokazu. Cast: Yagira Yuya, Kitaura Ayu, Kimura Hiei, Shimizu Momoko, Kan Hanae. Summary: A young Japanese mother abandons her four children, forcing them to provide for each other. [JAPAN]

Africa

• 1935 - Sanders of the River. (98 minutes) Director: Zoltan Korda. Cast: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney, Robert Cochran. Summary: Reveals the law and rule of British colonialism in West Africa (Liberia) amongst the chiefs and kings under the protection of Commissioner Sanders with Bosambo as a local chief who supports law and peace. [based on the work of Edgar Wallace] [LIBERIA]
• 1937 - Jericho. (77 minutes) Director: Thornton Freeland. Cast: Paul Robeson, Henry Wilcoxon, Wallace Ford. Summary: A black soldier convicted of manslaughter for the accidental murder of his sergeant attempts to escape across the African desert. [AFRICA]
• 1937 - King Solomon's Mines. (79 minutes) Director: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee. Summary: In 1881, a white hunter, leads a group through Africa in search of a woman's father who was searching for King Solomon's mines in Zulu country. [ZULULAND]
• 1939 - Beau Geste. (114 minutes) Director: William Wellman. Cast: Gary Cooper, Robert Preston, Ray Milland, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford, Donald O'Connor. Summary: Foreign Legion adventure. [based on a P. C. Wren novel]
• 1942 - Casablanca. (102 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Sydney Longstreet. Summary: Political intrigue and nationality emotions meet in Morocco at Rick's Cafe during World War II as expatriots gather to tensely awaiting the prospective travel papers which will bring them home to the United States. [FRENCH MOROCCO]
• 1942 - White Cargo. (90 minutes) Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Reginald Owen, Henry O'Neill. Summary: An African native girl attempts to seduce a group of British plantation managers.
• 1943 - Sahara (98 minutes) Director: Zoltan Korda. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges. Summary: After the fall of Tobruk during World War II, a ragtag battalion is stranded in the African desert. [TOBRUK]
• 1943 - Song of Freedom. (77 minutes) Director: J. Elder Wills. Cast: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy, Robert Adams, James Solomon. Summary: A black laborer newly famous as a singer returns to his roots on an African island when he realizes the medallion he has worn since babyhood entitle him to be the ruler of that African island. Cultures clash. AFRICA]
• 1951 - The African Queen. (106 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel. Summary: A drunkard boat-owner and the spinster sister of a murdered missionary fall in love as they pilot the African Queen over falls and down an African river, outwitting the Germans during World War I. [AFRICA]
• 1951 - Cry the Beloved Country. (100 minutes) Director: Zoltan Korda. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Canada Lee, Charles Carson. Summary: Two fathers, one white and one black, view the daily events in South Africa from differing perspectives. [based on an Alan Paton work] [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1952 - Cry, the Beloved Country. (105 minutes) Director: Zoltan Korda. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Canada Lee, Joyce Carey, Charles Carson, Geoffrey Keen. Summary: Through the murder of one their sons by the other, a bigoted white farmer and a black minister come face-to-face with the problems of apartheid in South Africa. [based on an Alan Paton novel] [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1952 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro. (117 minutes) Director: Henry King. Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Leo G. Carroll. Summary: From Africa to Spain to the Riviera and back to Africa's famous mountain. [based on an Ernest Hemingway novel] [SPAIN; FRANCE; AFRICA]
• 1953 - Desert Rats. (88 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Richard Burton, Robert Newton, James Mason. Summary: World War II story focusing on the British campaign in North Africa against the Germany's Field Marshal Rommel. [GERMANY; AFRICA]
• 1953 - Mogambo. (115 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner. Summary: Variation of "Red Dust" where a hunter romances two women. [AFRICA]
• 1957 - Something of Value. (113 minutes) Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter. Summary: A black man in Kenya must decide between his feelings for a white boyhood friend and his loyalty to his own people. [based on a Robert Ruark work] [KENYA]
• 1959 - Nun's Story. (152 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Edith Evans, Peter Finch, Dean Jagger, Beatrice Straight. Colleen Dewhurst, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock.
• 1960 - The Sheltering Sky. (139 minutes) Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott.
• 1962 - Hatari. (159 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Hardy Kruger. Summary: Hunters in Africa supply animals for zoos mixing action, romance, and comedy. [AFRICA]
• 1963 - Cleopatra. (243 minutes) Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Jume Cronyn, Roddy McDowall. Summary: Egypt's queen
• 1965 - Flight of the Phoenix. (143 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Hardy Kruger, George Kennedy, Dan Duryea. Summary: Story of a plane crash in the Sahara desert and how the survivors attempted to stay alive with a lack of food and water, rebuild the plane, and get out of there. [SAHARA DESERT]
• 1966 - Khartoum. (134 minutes) Director: Basil Dearden. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson, Alexander Knox. Summary: British defeat in northern Africa by Arab tribesman around 1833. [KHARTOUM, AFRICA]
• 1967 - Tobruk. (110 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell, Nigel Green. Summary: During World War II, an expedition of Allied troops are deployed into the Sahara desert to destroy a Nazi fuel depot. [TOBRUK]
• 1973 - Papillon. (150 minutes) Director: Franklin Schaffner. Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman. Summary: Biography of the man who escaped from Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana. [AFRICA]
• 1974 - The Little Prince. (88 minutes) Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder. Summary: An aviator teaches an alien boy about life and love. [based on an Antoine de Saint-Exupery classic] [FRANCE]
• 1975 - The Wilby Conspiracy. (101 minutes) Director: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Michael Caine, Prunella Gee, Saeed Jaffrey, Persis Khambatta, Sidney Poitier, Nicol Williamson. Summary: A black Bantu political activist runs from Cape Town to Johannesburg. [based on a Peter Driscll novel] [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1976 - Victory at Entebbe. (150 minutes) Director: Marvin J. Chomsky. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Helen Hayes, Helmut Berger, Theodore Bikel, Elizabeth Taylor, Linda Blair, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Walter. Summary: Raid by Israeli commandos to free Jewish hostages held by Arab terrorists in Uganda. [UGANDA]
• 1977 - Raid on Entebbe. (150 minutes) Director: Irvin Kershner. Cast: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden, Yaphet Kotto. Summary: Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe airport in Uganda as Israel confronted the regime of Idi Amin. [UGANDA]
• 1978 - The Wild Geese. (134 minutes) Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Cast: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Stewart Granger, Hardy Kruger, Jack Watson. Summary: Three mercenaries hired by a rich British industrialist enter Rhodesia and free a captured humanist leader. [RHODESIA]
• 1983 - Black Stallion Returns. (93 minutes) Director: Robert Dalva. Cast: Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Teri Garr, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode. Summary: A boy must journey to Africa to find the stallion stolen by an Arab chieftain. [based on a Walter Farley novel] [AFRICA]
• 1984 - Master Harold and the Boys. (90 minutes) Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Zakes Mokae, John Kani. [based on the work of Athol Fugard] Summary: A white English boy in a small family-owned tea room in 1950s Port Elizabeth, South Africa is led to manhood by a black servant after his crippled, alcoholic father is released from a hospital. [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1985 - Out of Africa. (160 minutes) Director: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Michael Gough, Suzanna Hamilton. Summary: Based on the life of Isak Dinesen focusing on two individualists in love with each other and the land in which they live.
• 1987 - Cry Freedom. (130 minutes) Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington, Ian Richardson. Summary: South African apartheid addressed through the friendship of Steve Biko and newspaperman Donal Woods. [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1988 - Born Free. (96 minutes) Director: James Hill. Cast: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen. Summary: Elsa the lioness and her relationship with an African game warden and his wife. [AFRICA]
• 1988 - Gorillas in the Mist. (129 minutes) Director: Michael Apted. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris. Summary: Diane Fossey's dedication to the mountain gorillas of central Africa and her mysterious murder. [AFRICA]
• 1988 - Mapantsula.
• 1988 - A World Apart. (135 minutes) Director: Chris Menges. Cast: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May. Summary: Seen through the eyes of the daughter of an anti-apartheid South African journalist who becomes the first white woman to be held under that country's 90-day detention law. [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1988 - Zulu. Summary: 1879 Battle of Rorke Drift
• 1989 - A Dry White Season. (106 minutes) Director: Euzhan Palcy. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Jurgen Prochnow, Zakes Mokae, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brandon. Summary: A white schoolteacher in South Africa begins to see the effects of apartheid on black people. [based on an Andre Brink novel] [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1990 - The Gods Must Be Crazy II. (97 minutes) Director: Jamie Uys. Cast: N!Xau, Lena Farugia, Hans Strydom. Summary: A Bushman tries to find his two children after they have been carried away in a poacher's truck.
• 1990 - Mountains of the Moon. (130 minutes) Director: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Patrick Bergin, Iaian Glen, Fiona Shaw. Summary: Two British officers, Captain Richard Burton and Lt. John Speke set up an expedition to Africa in the 1850s Victorian period seeking the source of the Nile River. [ENGLAND; AFRICA]
• 1990 - Songhai Princess.
• 1990 - White Hunter, Black Heart. (112 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Marisa Berenson. Summary: Fictionalized account of John Huston's filming of "The African Queen."
• 1992 - Sarafina!. (101 minutes) Director: Darrell Roodt. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba. Summary: Antiapartheid musical highlighting life in a South African military state. [SOWETO]
• 1993 - Bopha!. [Zulu - Arrest or Detain](120 minutes) Director: Morgan Freeman. Cast: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Marius Weyers, Maynard Eziashi. Summary: A black sergeant in 1980's Bophal, Moroka Township, South Africa police force supports the white establishment but comes to face the fact that his teenage son sees the evils of apartheid and is actively fighting against it. [based on a Percy Mtwa play] [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1994 - A Good Man in Africa. (95 minutes) Director: Bruce Beresford. Cast: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Lou Gossett Jr., John Lithgow, Diana Rigg, Sarah Jane Fenton. Summary: A diplomat becomes involved in political corruption in a West African nation. [AFRICA]
• 1995 - Cry, the Beloved Country. (108 minutes) Director: Darrell Roodt. Cast: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris. Summary: 1940s South Africa finds a black minister and a bigoted white farmer forced to find common ground after facing a similar tragedy. [SOUTH AFRICA]
• 1995 - The Lion King. (87 minutes) Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Voices: Jeremy Irons. Summary: Animated story of a young cub sent into exile when his father is betrayed and killed. [AFRICA]
• 1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. (91 minutes) Director: Steve Oedekerk. Cast: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton. Summary: Ace Ventura goes to Africa to locate a rare bat. [AFRICA]
• 1997 - Paradise. (96 minutes) Director: Stuart Gillard. Cast: Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates.
• 2000 - Boesman & Lena. (84 minutes) Director: John Berry. Cast: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett. Summary: Flashbacks tell the emotional story of a couple's life together under the dispiriting influences of Apartheid. [based on Athol Fugard's play about the devastating effects of racism on the human spirit] [Cape Town, South Africa]
• 2000 - Three Kings. (115 minutes) Director: David O. Russell. Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn. Summary: In March, 1991, as the Gulf War ends, four American soldiers in the desert decide to take home millions in Kuwaiti bullion stolen by the Iraqis. [IRAQ]
• 2001 - Black Hawk Down. (143 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Sam Shepard. Summary: Retelling of the doomed 1993 American mission ot capture top aides of a Somali warlord.
• 2001 - Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia. (100 minutes) Director: Tom Clegg. Cast: David Suchet. Summary: Poirot visits an ancient site while vacationin in Iraq only to stumble into the murder of the head archaeologist's wife. [based on an Agatha Christie novel] [IRAQ]

Middle East Films

• 1949 - Samson and Delilah. (130 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon. Summary: Philistines and the power of hair. [PALESTINE]
• 1953 - Dream Wife. (110 minutes) Director: Sidney Sheldon. Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon. Summary: East and how to make her man happy meets West and a woman working conflict as an American businessman and his diplomat fiance have differing views of marriage causing him to propose to the princess of Bukistan, a country rich in oil. [BUKISTAN, MIDDLE EAST]
• 1972 - Portnoy's Complaint. (101 minutes) Director: Ernest Lehman. Cast: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack, Jeannie Berlin. Summary: Based on Philip Roth's novel, this follows the life of an American Jewish man trying to separate his life from Judaism. [ISRAEL]
• 1980 - Masada. (131 minutes) Director: Boris Sagal. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera. Summary: In 70 A.D. the Romans sacked Jerusalem and a group of 980 fighting Jews fled to Herod's winter palace on the mountain of Masada where they remained for three years under siege by 10,000 Roman soldiers until the day when the Romans broke through the walls of the citadel only to find that the Jews had taken their lives rather than be mastered by Rome. [JERUSALEM/MIDDLE EAST]
• 1986 - Every Time We Say Goodbye. (97 minutes) Director: Moshe Mizrahi. Cast: Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor. Summary: World War II romance in Jerusalem between an American pilot and a Jewish woman. [ISRAEL]
• 1987 - Every Time We Say Goodbye. (97 minutes) Director: Moshe Mizrahi. Cast: Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor. Summary: An American World War II pilot falls in love with a young Jewish girl in Jerusalem. [ISRAEL]
• 1993 - Cast A Giant Shadow. (142 minutes) Director: Melville Shavelson. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, James Donald. Summary: Israel's heroic 1947-1948 struggle for independence with a strong, compassionate American Jew and World War II hero who "got involved" by becoming a volunteer military advisor to the new state of Israel and the country's first general in 2,000 years. [based on a novel by Ted Berkman]

Pacific Islands

• 1935 - Mutiny on the Bounty. (132 minutes) Director: Frank Lloyd. Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Eddie Quillan. Summary: Mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against the tyrannical Captain Bligh during a 1789 British naval expedition on the South Seas. [PACIFIC OCEAN]
• 1936 - Sisters of Gion. (66 minutes) Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Eitaro Shindo. Summary: Two geisha sisters with one believing in the tradition of her work and the other using her work as a stepping stone to a better life. [JAPAN]
• 1941 - Under Capricorn. (117 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Michael Wilding, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten. Summary: Story of an English family's household in 1830s Australia. [AUSTRALIA]
• 1942 - Across the Pacific. (98 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet. Summary: A tough Army officer is sent undercover to match wits with Japanese supporters on the eve of Pearl Harbor. [HAWAII; JAPAN]
• 1943 - A Guy Named Joe. (120 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, James Gleason. Summary: A WWII pilot is killed in action over the Atlantic Ocean but comes back as a ghost, assigned to supervise a novice airman who is also falls in love with his ex-girlfriend at a New Guinea Allied base from which they are bombing a Japanese munitions dump. [NEW GUINEA]
• 1944 - The Story of Dr. Wassell. (137 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Richard Loo, Dennis O'Keefe. Summary: Based on a true story, a physician from Arkansas risks his life to evacuate wounded American sailors from Java. [JAVA]
• 1945 - They Were Expendable. (135 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond. Summary: As the Japanese navy with their large cruisers pressed relentlessly into the Philippines, two American skippers are determined to prove that their small PT boats can battle the Japanese fleet. [based on a William White novel] [JAPAN; PHILIPPINES]
• 1950 - Halls of Montezuma. (113 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Jack Webb, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Reginald Gardiner, Philip Ahn. Summary: American soldiers in the Pacific at war during World War II. [PACIFIC FLEET]
• 1951 - Operation Pacific. (110 minutes) Director: George Waggner. Cast: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Philip Carey. Summary: In the Pacific during World War II, a commanding officer evacuates children from enemy-held islands, oversees torpedo research and development at Pearl Harbor, and prowls below the water level seeking the enemy fleet.
• 1953 - Miss Sadie Thompson. (91 minutes) Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins, Diosa Costello. Summary: Miss Sadie Thompson, a Waikiki-based prostitute and bawdy night club entertainer finds herself stranded on a tropical island during World War II. She loves every minute of it until she encounters the Reverend Davidson.
• 1954 - Elephant Walk. (103 minutes) Director: William Dieterle. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch, Dana Andrews, Abraham Sofaer. Summary: A Ceylon tea planter brings his bride to his plantation. [CEYLON]
• 1955 - Mister Roberts. (123 minutes) Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, William Powell, Ward Bond. Summary: A lieutenant helps the crew on a navy cargo ship well outside the active World War II battle zone fight their boredom and tolerate their tyrannical captain. [PACIFIC FLEET]
• 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai. (162 minutes) Director: David Lean. Cast: William Holden, Alec, Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne. Summary: British soldiers captured by the Japanese in World War II are forced to build a strategic railroad bridge which the British High Command intends to destroy. [based on a Pierre Boulle work] [JAPAN]
• 1957 - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison. (106 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum. Summary: During World War II, an Irish nun and a heroic Marine sergeant stranded together on a Pacific Island, hide out from invading Japanese troops attempting to take over the island for a base. The sergeant falls in love with the sister. [based on the Charles Shaw novel] [SOUTH PACIFIC]
• 1958 - Run Silent, Run Deep. (94 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Nick Cravat. Summary: During World War II in the Pacific, two submarine officers clash with each other. [based on a novel by Captain Edward L. Beach] [PACIFIC FLEET]
• 1960 - Swiss Family Robinson. (128 minutes) Director: Ken Annakin. Cast: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Sessue Hayakawa. Summary: A family is shipwrecked on a lush South Seas island. [based on a Johann Wyss novel] [PACIFIC OCEAN]
• 1960 - Wake Me When It's Over. Cast: Dick Shawn, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Warden. Summary: A mistakenly drafted man opens a hotel on a Pacific island during World War II.
• 1962 - No Man Is An Island. (114 minutes) Director: John Monks, Jr. and Richard Goldstone. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Marshall Thompson, Barbara Perez. Summary; True story of George Tweed, the only American serviceman on Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II. [GUAM; JAPAN]
• 1963 - Donovan's Reef. (109 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour. Summary: A Boston girl visits her father and meets three old drinking seafaring buddies attempting to impress her. [SOUTH PACIFIC]
• 1964 - Father Goose. (116 minutes) Director: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard. Summary: A sky observer for the Australian navy finds himself on an island in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress during World War II. [AUSTRALIA]
• 1964 - The 7th Dawn. (123 minutes) Director: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Tetsuro Tamba. Summary: An American ex-soldier and an Englishwoman try to save a Malayan woman accused of terrorism during a Communist insurrection in 1953. [based on a Michael Keon novel] [MALAYA]
• 1965 - King Rat. (134 minutes) Director: Bryan Forbes. Cast: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott. Summary: Survival in a World War II Japanese prison camp. [JAPAN]
• 1970 - Patton. (171 minutes) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden. Summary: Story of General Patton in World War II and his conflict between military brilliance and his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of the war with the War Department.
• 1970 - Tora! Tora! Tora!. (144 minutes) Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Soh Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura. Summary: A chronicle of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor from the Japanese and American points of view. [HAWAII; JAPAN]
• 1976 - Midway. (132 minutes) Director: Jack Smight. Cast: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Edward Albert, Cliff Robertson. Summary: The June 4-6, 1942 sea-air battle in the Pacific. [PACIFIC FLEET]
• 1977 - Macarthur. (150 minutes) Director: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders. Summary: The final military years of Douglas MacArthur as he assumes command of the Philippines in World War II. [PACIFIC FLEET]
• 1980 - The Blue Lagoon. (104 minutes) Director: Randal Kleiser. Cast: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Eva Josephson, Glenn Kohan. Summary: A schooner en route to San Francisco during Victorian times catches fire leaving two young children and the ship's cook adrift in a lifeboat. Reaching shore, they learn to survive against Mother Nature and the natives with the help of the cook who later dies. Years pass and the now grown children are teenagers in love, become parents, and awaiting rescue. [CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC ISLAND]
• 1980 - A Town Like Alice. (305 minutes) Director: David Stevens. Cast: Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, Dorothy Alison, Yuki Shimoda. Summary: Follows the lives of an English captive and an Australian POW, who meet in Malaya during World War II. The two are separated first by their Japanese captors and then by the distance of passing years. When they finally reunite in the rugged outback of Australia, they face a new challenge as demanding as their wartime trials. [MALAYA]
• 1982 - The Highest Honour. (143 minutes) Director: Peter Maxwell. Cast: John Howard, Atsuo Nakamura, Stuart Wilson. Summary: The friendship between World War II enemies - - an Australian army officer and a Japanese security officer. [JAPAN]
• 1982 - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. (120 minutes) Director: Nagisa Oshima. Cast: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi, Jack Thompson. Summary: Clash of cultures in a 1942 prisoner-or-war camp in Java. [JAVA]
• 1988 - A Cry in the Dark. (120 minutes) Director: Fred Schepisi. Cast: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Tingwell. Summary: In 1980 Australia, a baby, while camping with his parents, is allegedly stolen by a wild dog. [AUSTRALIA]
• 1998 - Six Days, Seven Nights. (101 minutes) Director: Ivan Reitman. Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors. Summary: A pilot and female passenger crash on an uncharted South Seas island where they are chased by pirates and fall in love. [PACIFIC OCEAN]
• 1999 - The Thin Red Line. (170 minutes) Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Sean Penn, George Clooney, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, John Cusack. Summary: A realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. [based on a novel by James Jones] [PACIFIC OCEAN]
• 2000 - Cast Away. (158 minutes) Director: Robert Zemeckis. Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. Summary: A FedEx airfreight executive is stranded on a deserted Pacific Island for more than four years after an airplane crash. [PACIFIC OCEAN]
• 2001 - Windtalkers. (minutes) Director: John Woo. Cast: Nicolas Cage. Summary: United States use of Navajo codetalkers during World War II in Asia meant that each codetalker was shadowed by a Marine whose mission was to guard the code. [PACIFIC ISLANDS]
• 2003 - Whale Rider. (101 minutes) Director: Niki Caro. Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu, Rachel House. Summary: Follows the birth of the surviving girl twin, Pai, as she is brought up by Whangara people in New Zealand. They believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale Whangara people. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But when Pai's young mother dies in childbirth, Pai is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows that she possess a natural leadership ability. [NEW ZEALAND; MAORI]

Australia

• 1960 - The Sundowners. (113 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Chips Rafferty. Summary: Australian sheepherders in the 1920s. [AUSTRALIA]
• 1982 - Man from Snowy River. (115 minutes) Director: George Miller. Cast: Tom Burlinson, Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Bruce Kerr. Summary: This Australian western develops the growth of a mountain man (Tom Burlinson) as he gets involved with a rancher's family. [AUSTRALIA]
• 1985 - Wacky World of Wills and Burke. (97 minutes) Director: Bob Weis. Cast: Garry McDonald, Kim Gyngell, Nicole Kidman, Colin Hay. Summary: Parody of the 1860s true story of explorers crossing Australia by camel.
• 1986 - Crocodile Dundee. (98 minutes) Director: Peter Faiman. Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski. Summary: Adventures of an Aussie and an American in the outback and in New York.
• 1990 - Quigley Down Under. (106 minutes) Director: Simon Wincer. Cast: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman. Summary: In the 1860s, a sharp-shooting American cowboy travels to Autralia to work for a British rancher.
• 2001 - Finding Nemo. (100 minutes) Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich. Voices: Albert Brooks, Ellen Degeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis, Geoffrey Rush, Elizabeth Perkins. Summary: In the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, clownfish Marlin is a widower who is overprotective in raising his son, Nemo, causing Nemo to swim away, get caught by a Sydney dentist, and end up in his fish tank. Marlin follows. Nemo and tank friends escape into the ocean. [AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN]
• 2002 - Rabbit-Proof Fence. (94 minutes) Director: Phillip Noyce. Cast: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Ningali Lawford, Myarn Lawford, Deborah Mailman, Jason Clarke, Kenneth Branagh. Summary: In 1931 Australia, three half-caste children from Western Australia, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution where they would be taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by following the fence that has been build across the nation to stem an over-population of rabbits.

Antarctica and Arctic Regions

• 1931 - Pardon Us. (56 minutes) Director: James Parrott. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Walter Long. Summary: prison for selling home brewed beer. [ordeal in the ARCTIC]
• 2002 - Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance. (120 minutes) Narrator: David Ogden Stiers. Summary: Follows the British polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton with his twenty-eight crew aboard his ship "Endurance" into the Antarctic.
• 2002 - Shackleton. (190 minutes) Director: Charles Sturridge. Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Lorcan Cranitch, Matt Day, Ken Drury. Summary: Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic adventures when his ship, "Endurance", was trapped in the ice of Weddell Sea for ten months.
  
  
• 2002 - Ice Age. (81 minutes) Director: Chris Wedge. Voice cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. Summary: A group of migrating misfit creatures head south to avoid frostbite with a mission to reunite a human baby with his tribe.

Outer Space

• 1995 - Apollo 13. (140 minutes) Director: Ron Howard. Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, David Andrews, Clint Howard, Joe Spano. Summary: Real-life adventures of the Apollo 13 astronauts during their mission.

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Crowther, Bruce. Captured on Film: The Prison Movie. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1989.
Martin, Mick and Porter, Marsha. Video Movie Guide 2001 Ballantine Publishing, 2000.
Roquemore, Joseph. History Goes to the Movies: A Viewer's Guide to the Best (And Some of the Worst) Historical Films Ever Made. NY: Doubleday, 1999.



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