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Slaughterhouse-Five

1990
The story of Billy Pilgrim who is ordinary in almost every respect but one: he has come unstuck in time and jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. In the end Billy learns he must concentrate on the good things and ignore the bad in life.

Othello

1993
Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall.

Enough

2002
Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married the man of her dreams. After the arrival of her daughter, Slim begins to see the hidden, abusive side of her husband. Terrified for her and her daughter's safety, Slim flees. But her husband's resources allow him to relentlessly pursue them. Finally Slim fights back, engaging her husband in a physical and psychological battle.

Spartacus

2001
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.

Little Buddha

1994
In a big American city, a boy and his family discover a story about a prince in a land of miracles. But the miracle becomes real when Tibetan monks appear, searching for their leader's reincarnation--whom they believe has been reborn in the boy. Suddenly, their worlds meet, leading the Americans on an extraordinary adventure.

Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments

Widescreen
1998
The story of the life of Moses from the Pharoah's household through his life of leading his people to freedom.

Julius Caesar

1970
Based on William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.

Midway

1995
Interweaves the dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States -- fought in June 1942, six months after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Clash of the Titans

1981
Olympian gods, mythological monsters and heroic mortals play out their entangled destinies in this imaginative spectacle.

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