HBO Pictures.
2) Amistad
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
3) RKO 281
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Recounts the making of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, which William Randolph Hearst tried to shut down by any means possible.
4) Volunteers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
6) The Rat Pack
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, known as "The Rat Pack", set the style and the pace for 1950s America. But when President Kennedy, newly elected with the support of the Pack, is advised that the friends who made him shouldn't be the friends he keeps, the Rat Pack discovers that lady luck has chosen another partner.
7) The Hitcher
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A deranged hitchhiker murders his drivers, and only one young man knows who he is and tries to stop him.
Pub. Date
2000
Description
It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when Black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to...
10) Sweet Dreams
Pub. Date
[1999], p1985
Description
A biographical film on the life of the late country singer Patsy Cline.
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Charlotte is a seemingly mild-mannered, middle-aged housewife--who's decided to leave her husband and skip town. Her mind is made up and all that's left to do is go to the bank and withdraw her money. But while she's waiting in line, her plans are suddenly changed when a desperate young man robs the bank--and takes Charlotte along as a hostage.
13) The Jack Bull
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A feud becomes a war between a proud rancher and a wealthy, influential landowner in the Old West.
14) Blind side
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Having killed a policeman with their car, a young couple is forced to take in the man who witnessed the accident. His bizarre activities terrorize them, and they soon perceive that murder is their only way out of the situation.
15) Truman
Pub. Date
1999
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations. This is his remarkable story.
17) Elizabeth I
Pub. Date
c2006, c2005
Description
Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.
19) Citizen Kane
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The story of an immensely weathly newspaper publisher, as he is remembered by his friends and former wife after his death.