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1706 The Corporation 2003 Abbott, Jennifer / Achbar, Mark Canada D
2285 An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee 1930 Adolfi, John G. USA
2226 Abuna Messias 1939 Alessandrini, Goffredo Italy
NR The Story of Mankind 1957 Allen, Irwin USA
2190 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 Andersen, Thom USA
2017 The Sword and the Rose 1953 Annakin, Ken USA
2300 Mughal-E-Azam 1960 Asif, K. India
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
2097 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Attenborough, Richard USA / UK DBS
2145 Hagbard and Signe 1967 Axel, Gabriel Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
1749 A Great Day in Harlem 1994 Bach, Jean USA DU
2235 Henry VIII 1911 Barker, William G.B. UK
1889 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2002 Bartley, Kim / O'Briain, Donnacha Ireland / Netherlands / USA / Germany / Finland / UK
2235 Pearl Harbor 2001 Bay, Michael USA DBS
2250 The Finest Hours 1964 Baylis, Peter UK
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
2190 Salomé 1972 Bene, Carmelo Italy
2233 Nostra signora dei turchi 1968 Bene, Carmelo Italy
1338 Black Robe 1991 Beresford, Bruce Canada / Australia YUPS
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
1912 Anne Frank Remembered 1995 Blair, Jon UK / USA / Netherlands D
2202 La Corona di ferro 1941 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy
2235 1860 1934 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy V
2159 Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan 2007 Bodrov, Sergei Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia DBUPS
2047 Rasputin and the Empress 1932 Boleslawski, Richard / Brabin, Charles USA
629 War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
1253 Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
2235 The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1929 Brabin, Charles USA
695 Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK Y
2246 The Trial of Joan of Arc 1962 Bresson, Robert France
2235 The Beggar's Opera 1953 Brook, Peter UK V
2233 Something of Value 1957 Brooks, Richard USA Y
2017 The Good Fight 1983 Buckner, Noel / Dore, Mary / Sills, Sam USA D
1747 Simón del desierto 1965 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
2006 Huey Long 1985 Burns, Ken USA Y
2214 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 2000 Butler, George Sweden / UK / Germany / USA D
2235 Ulysses 1955 Camerini, Mario / Bava, Mario Italy D
2220 Ghosts of the Abyss 2003 Cameron, James USA D
2224 The Battle of Britain 1943 Capra, Frank / Veiller, Anthony USA Y
2224 The Battle of China 1944 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2224 The Battle of Russia 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2224 Divide and Conquer 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2224 The Nazis Strike 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2224 Prelude to War 1943 Capra, Frank USA Y
2224 War Comes to America 1945 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2285 The Silent Enemy 1930 Carver, H.P. USA D
2270 Scandal 1989 Caton-Jones, Michael UK / USA
2285 The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 Chadwick, Justin UK / USA DBUPS
2190 Destiny 1997 Chahine, Youssef France / Egypt Y
1881 The Emperor and the Assassin 1999 Chen, Kaige France / Japan / China YU
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
2235 Padeniye Berlina 1950 Chiaureli, Mikheil Soviet Union
2034 Pearls of the Crown 1937 Christian-Jaque / Guitry, Sacha France Y
2017 Prisoner of Paradise 2002 Clarke, Malcolm / Sender, Stuart USA / Canada / Germany / UK D
2235 Is Paris Burning? 1966 Clément, René France / USA D
518 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
1148 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Conway, Jack / Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
2017 Chang 1927 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA D
2005 Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DU
1695 Hollywoodland 2006 Coulter, Allen USA DU
2265 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1987 Couturié, Bill USA Y
1949 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940 Cromwell, John USA
2017 The Beloved Rogue 1927 Crosland, Alan USA D
2235 Glorious Betsy 1928 Crosland, Alan USA
2235 Old Ironsides 1926 Cruze, James USA V
2235 Hollywood Cavalcade 1939 Cummings, Irving / St. Clair, Malcolm / Keaton, Buster USA D
2296 Lillian Russell 1940 Cummings, Irving USA D
1944 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
2017 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
2235 The Egyptian 1954 Curtiz, Michael USA VS
2235 Santa Fe Trail 1940 Curtiz, Michael USA D
2250 Catherine the Great 1934 Czinner, Paul UK Y
2233 I Giardini dell'Eden 1998 D'Alatri, Alessandro Italy
2235 Destination Tokyo 1943 Daves, Delmer USA DU
2017 Hearts and Minds 1974 Davis, Peter USA D
1964 In the Year of the Pig 1968 de Antonio, Emile USA DU
1966 Point of Order! 1964 de Antonio, Emile USA Y
2190 No, or the Vain Glory of Command 1990 de Oliveira, Manoel Portugal / Spain / France
2233 Palavra e Utopia 2000 de Oliveira, Manoel Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
2235 Khartoum 1966 Dearden, Basil / Elisofon, Eliot UK DUPS
1100 Cleopatra 1934 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2004 The Sign of the Cross 1932 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2235 Joan the Woman 1917 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
2235 The King of Kings 1927 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DS
2235 Unconquered 1947 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2296 The Crusades 1935 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2235 La Reine Élisabeth 1912 Desfontaines, Henri / Mercanton, Louis France
2047 Quilombo 1984 Diegues, Carlos Brazil / France D
2235 Juarez 1939 Dieterle, William USA D
2270 The Bounty 1984 Donaldson, Roger UK / USA DU
2277 Thirteen Days 2000 Donaldson, Roger USA S
2190 How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman 1971 dos Santos, Nelson Pereira Brazil D
1957 Comrades 1987 Douglas, Bill UK
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
2235 The Iron Mask 1929 Dwan, Allan USA DU
2235 Suez 1938 Dwan, Allan USA U
2250 We Are from Kronstadt 1936 Dzigan, Efim Soviet Union
915 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Eastwood, Clint USA DBU
1387 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Eastwood, Clint Iceland / USA DBU
168 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
537 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
642 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
913 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union YU
954 October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union YU
1500 Zulu 1964 Endfield, Cy UK YS
1889 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 Epstein, Rob USA DU
2205 The Celluloid Closet 1995 Epstein, Rob / Friedman, Jeffrey France / UK / Germany / USA Y
2292 Paragraph 175 2000 Epstein, Rob / Friedman, Jeffrey UK / Germany / USA D
2190 How to Live in the German Federal Republic 1990 Farocki, Harun West Germany Y
2190 Images of the World and the Inscription of War 1989 Farocki, Harun West Germany
730 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Italy / West Germany D
2235 La Isla de la pasión 1942 Fernández, Emilio Mexico / Argentina / Spain
2047 Knight Without Armor 1937 Feyder, Jacques UK
2224 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1980 Field, Connie USA
2273 Freedom on My Mind 1994 Field, Connie / Mulford, Marilyn USA D
1974 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Fleischer, Richard / Fukasaku, Kinji / Masuda, Toshio USA / Japan DS
2129 The Vikings 1958 Fleischer, Richard USA DUP
2235 The Boston Strangler 1968 Fleischer, Richard USA DUP
2098 Joan of Arc 1948 Fleming, Victor USA Y
2166 Waltz With Bashir 2008 Folman, Ari Israel / Germany / France S
2279 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story 2008 Forbes, Stefan USA
423 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 Ford, John USA D
1732 Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Ford, John USA D
2017 Mary of Scotland 1936 Ford, John / Goodwins, Leslie USA D
2235 The Plough and the Stars 1936 Ford, John USA
2285 The Battle of Midway 1942 Ford, John USA D
2285 December 7th 1943 Ford, John / Toland, Gregg USA D
2285 Torpedo Squadron 1942 Ford, John USA D
2151 Above and Beyond 1952 Frank, Melvin / Panama, Norman USA V
679 The Queen 2006 Frears, Stephen UK DB
2233 Scott of the Antarctic 1948 Frend, Charles UK Y
2293 Pocahontas 1995 Gabriel, Mike / Goldberg, Eric USA DS
2059 Scipione l'africano 1937 Gallone, Carmine Italy Y
145 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
2235 Seven Wonders of the World 1956 Garnett, Tay / Mantz, Paul / Marton, Andrew / Tetzlaff, Ted / Thompson, Walter USA
2017 When We Were Kings 1996 Gast, Leon USA DS
1844 Pathfinder 1987 Gaup, Nils Norway Y
2279 Blame it on Fidel 2006 Gavras, Julie Italy / France DUP
2279 Waco: The Rules of Engagement 1997 Gazecki, William USA D
2017 Ballets russes 2005 Geller, Daniel / Goldfine, Dayna USA D
863 Hotel Rwanda 2004 George, Terry UK / Italy / South Africa Y
522 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
2285 A Century of Sound 2007 Gitt, Robert USA
865 Becket 1964 Glenville, Peter UK / USA D
2279 The Weather Underground 2002 Green, Sam / Siegel, Bill USA DUP
2233 Nightwatching 2007 Greenaway, Peter Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Netherlands / UK
1138 United 93 2006 Greengrass, Paul France / UK / USA DU
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
2235 Abraham Lincoln 1930 Griffith, D.W. USA D
2235 Judith of Bethulia 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA V
2235 Quo Vadis? 1913 Guazzoni, Enrico Italy
2279 The Alamo 2004 Hancock, John Lee USA DS
2017 Northern Lights 1978 Hanson, John / Nilsson, Rob / Lavut, Martin USA
2300 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987 Hara, Kazuo Japan
2226 Der Große König 1942 Harlan, Veit Germany
1908 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport 2000 Harris, Mark Jonathan UK / USA DS
2017 The Long Way Home 1997 Harris, Mark Jonathan USA D
727 The Lion in Winter 1968 Harvey, Anthony UK DS
2047 The Black Rose 1950 Hathaway, Henry UK D
2296 The Real Glory 1939 Hathaway, Henry USA D
2190 Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Hawks, Howard USA YS
2279 The War Room 1993 Hegedus, Chris / Hughes, Christopher / Pennebaker, D.A. USA D
2017 Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary 2002 Heller, André / Schmiderer, Othmar Austria D
2250 John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums 1966 Herschensohn, Bruce USA
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
2279 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 Herzog, Werner France / UK / Germany D
2297 Lessons of Darkness 1992 Herzog, Werner France / UK / Germany D
2250 Albert Schweitzer 1957 Hill, Jerome USA Y
2279 Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 Hill, Walter USA DUS
1115 Downfall 2004 Hirschbiegel, Oliver Germany / Italy / Austria D
2248 The Deluge 1974 Hoffman, Jerzy Poland / Soviet Union Y
2190 Good Men, Good Women 1995 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Japan / Taiwan Y
584 Apollo 13 1995 Howard, Ron USA DUPS
2270 Apollo 13: The Imax Experience 2002 Howard, Ron USA S
2282 Frost/Nixon 2008 Howard, Ron USA / UK / France S
1578 Fire Over England 1937 Howard, William K. UK D
2017 Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972 Hussein, Waris UK UP
848 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 Huston, John USA Y
1741 The Battle of San Pietro 1945 Huston, John USA DUP
1072 The Madness of King George 1994 Hytner, Nicholas UK YUP
2097 The Crucible 1996 Hytner, Nicholas USA DUS
1503 Tokyo orimpikku 1965 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
1411 Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1801 Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1993 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1993 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
2190 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War 1968 Ivens, Joris / Ivens, Marceline Loridan France / Vietnam
2285 Toots 2006 Jacobson, Kristi USA D
2101 Why We Fight 2005 Jarecki, Eugene USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark DU
2233 Edward II 1991 Jarman, Derek UK DUP
1532 Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Jarrott, Charles UK Y
2264 Mary, Queen of Scots 1971 Jarrott, Charles UK YS
1952 Fires Were Started 1943 Jennings, Humphrey UK Y
1493 Platform 2000 Jia, Zhang Ke Hong Kong / China / Japan / France D
1608 The Mission 1986 Joffé, Roland UK YS
2135 Michael Collins 1996 Jordan, Neil UK / Ireland / USA Y
1742 I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union / Cuba Y
2239 The True Glory 1945 Kanin, Garson / Reed, Carol UK / USA UP
1826 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 1965 Kaplan, Richard USA Y
1137 Elizabeth 1998 Kapur, Shekhar UK Y
2292 Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 Kapur, Shekhar UK / France DU
2248 Pharaoh 1966 Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Poland
1947 Richard III 1912 Keane, James / Calmettes, André France / USA D
2190 The Mongols 1973 Kimiavi, Parviz Iran
1254 Wilson 1944 King, Henry USA YS
1558 Stanley and Livingstone 1939 King, Henry / Brower, Otto USA V
1820 Lloyd's of London 1936 King, Henry USA V
1854 Captain from Castile 1947 King, Henry USA D
2047 Prince of Foxes 1949 King, Henry USA D
2129 David and Bathsheba 1951 King, Henry USA D
2235 Romola 1924 King, Henry USA V
1952 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
2235 Human Condition III - A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
1122 Harlan County, USA 1976 Kopple, Barbara USA D
640 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Korda, Alexander UK Y
2047 The Dreyfus Case 1931 Kraemer, F.W. / Rosmer, Milton UK
2274 The Pride and the Passion 1957 Kramer, Stanley USA D
293 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
488 Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
2227 Chronicle of the Burning Years 1975 Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed Algeria
1927 Western Union 1941 Lang, Fritz USA VU
110 Shoah 1985 Lanzmann, Claude France Y
2047 Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. 2001 Lanzmann, Claude France
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
1690 4 Little Girls 1997 Lee, Spike USA D
2270 Get on the Bus 1996 Lee, Spike USA DS
2017 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China 1981 Lerner, Murray USA D
1661 Quo Vadis 1951 LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
2190 The Newton Boys 1998 Linklater, Richard USA YU
1078 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
2235 The Divine Lady 1929 Lloyd, Frank USA
2224 The Plow That Broke the Plains 1936 Lorentz, Pare USA Y
2235 The Assassination of Trotsky 1972 Losey, Joseph Italy / France / UK D
2017 Riding the Rails 1997 Lovell, Lexy / Uys, Michael USA D
2279 Titanica 1995 Low, Stephen Canada / USA D
1834 Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK Y
2235 Anna Boleyn 1920 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany D
2235 Madame DuBarry 1919 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
2248 The Patriot 1928 Lubitsch, Ernst USA
1792 King: A Filmed Record...
Montgomery to Memphis
1970 Lumet, Sidney / Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA
1923 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Macdonald, Kevin UK DU
1546 Mrs. Brown 1997 Madden, John UK / Ireland / USA DS
2158 The New World 2005 Malick, Terrence USA DU
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
946 Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DUS
1618 Cleopatra 1963 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / Mamoulian, Rouben / Zanuck, Darryl F. UK / USA / Switzerland YUS
1641 El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
1820 The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 Mann, Anthony USA D
2017 An Unreasonable Man 2006 Mantel, Henriette / Skrovan, Steve USA DUP
2190 The Last Bolshevik 1992 Marker, Chris France D
2120 Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 Marshall, Rob USA DBUS
1596 Gettysburg 1993 Maxwell, Ronald F. USA Y
2256 Hunger 2008 McQueen, Steve UK / Ireland
2279 Let Him Have It 1991 Medak, Peter France / UK / Netherlands D
2249 Rang De Basanti 2006 Mehra, Rakesh Omprakash India DUP
2235 Le Couronnement du roi Édouard VII 1902 Méliès, Georges France D
1564 Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
1749 The 47 Ronin 1941 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
2190 Shin heike monogatari 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
2248 The House on Chelouche Street 1973 Mizrahi, Moshé Israel Y
2250 Beaumarchais 1996 Molinaro, Edouard France Y
1779 The Last Days 1998 Moll, James USA D
2279 Sacco and Vanzetti 1971 Montaldo, Giuliano Italy / France S
2279 Chicago 10 2007 Morgen, Brett USA DS
2196 Standard Operating Procedure 2008 Morris, Errol USA DBUS
2198 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 1999 Morris, Errol UK / USA DS
2279 The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl 1993 Müller, Ray France / UK / Germany / Belgium D
1438 utu 1983 Murphy, Geoff New Zealand V
2274 Titanic 1953 Negulesco, Jean USA DS
1794 The Grey Zone 2001 Nelson, Tim Blake USA D
1289 Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
2235 My Four Years in Germany 1918 Nigh, William USA
1930 Newsfront 1978 Noyce, Phillip Australia D
2296 Catch a Fire 2006 Noyce, Phillip France / UK / South Africa / USA DU
2256 Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance 1993 Obomsawin, Alanis Canada
2235 Ben Hur 1907 Olcott, Sidney USA
1969 The Fencing Master 1992 Olea, Pedro Spain
299 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
754 Richard III 1955 Olivier, Laurence UK D
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
1120 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
1481 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
1964 Taboo 1999 Oshima, Nagisa France / UK / Japan DS
2293 Deep Water 2006 Osmond, Louise / Rothwell, Jerry UK D
2276 The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005 Paxton, Bill USA D
2279 The Long Walk Home 1990 Pearce, Richard USA DS
1729 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Peckinpah, Sam USA DU
2235 Madame Sans-Gêne 1925 Perret, Léonce USA
2296 The Fall of Fujimori 2005 Perry, Ellen USA D
1908 Troy 2004 Petersen, Wolfgang USA / Malta / UK DBUPS
2098 Peter the First, Part One 1937 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2235 Peter the First, Part Two 1938 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2250 Martin Luther 1953 Pichel, Irving USA / West Germany Y
2224 The Buffalo Creek Flood:
An Act of Man
1975 Pickering, Mimi USA
2235 The Elusive Pimpernel 1950 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK
1854 Exodus 1960 Preminger, Otto USA D
2232 Forever Amber 1947 Preminger, Otto / Stahl, John M. USA Y
2235 The End of St. Petersburg 1927 Pudovkin, Vsevolod / Doller, Mikhail Soviet Union DU
2017 East Side Story 1997 Ranga, Dana France / Germany D
2235 55 Days at Peking