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Queen Christina

  The wise and peace-loving Queen Christina (Greta Garbo) has ruled Sweden since the age of 6, when her heroic father died in battle. Pressured to marry her cousin Karl Read More

Missing

  In 1973, U.S. businessman Ed Horman (Jack Lemmon) arrives in Chile to look for his son, Charles (John Shea), a politically left-leaning journalist who disappeared during a military coup. Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  The final battle for Middle-earth begins.  Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring.  Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate Read More

Lying Lips

  Elsie is a popular nightclub singer, who refuses to go out with the customers. When she is framed and convicted for murdering her aunt, her friend Benjamin, a police Read More

Within Our Gates

  Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, Read More

Underworld

  Boisterous gangster kingpin ‘Bull’ Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out ‘Rolls Royce’ Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce’s intelligence aiding Weed’s Read More

Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas

  How does one take in concepts that are initially alien or offensive? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt considers why and how Lucretius’ great poem On the Nature of Things—the Read More

The Shack

  After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression that causes him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious Read More

Every Time We Say Goodbye

  An American pilot in Jerusalem during World War II falls in love with a young Sephardic Jewish woman while he is recuperating from a serious injury after his plane Read More