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The bridge on the River Kwai

The bridge on the River Kwai [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Sam Spiegel production; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman; produced by Sam Spiegel; directed by David Lean.

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

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Canadian bacon

Canadian bacon [videorecording] / Polygram Filmed Entertainment presents in association with Propaganda Films.

Beset by falling approval ratings, a desperate U.S. president and his closest advisors launch a rally-round-the-flag campaign against the country's newest enemy--Canada.

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A Canterbury tale

A Canterbury tale [videorecording] / Janus Films; a production of the Archers; written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.

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Catch-22

Catch-22 [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures Corporation in association with Filmways, Inc. presents a Mike Nichols film; screenplay by Buck Henry; produced by John Calley and Martin Ransohoff; directed by Mike Nichols.

The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.

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Caught in the draft

Caught in the draft [videorecording]; Give me a sailor.

Caught in the draft: Hope plays a gun-shy movie star who gets drafted. He pulls through and ends up a hero and wins the heart of the colonel's daughter. Give me a sailor: A comedy about mixed-up relationships. Sailors Jim and Walter Brewster are brothers in love with the same girl, Nancy, who has an ugly duckling sister, Letty. Letty agrees to help Jim win Nancy if he will help her win Walter. Jim tries, but nothing seems to work, that is until a photo of Letty's legs wins first prize in a national contest. Suddenly Walter notices her, but Letty changes her mind, causing things to get even more mixed up.

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Children of men

Children of men [videorecording] / Universal Pictures presents a Strike Entertainment production in association with Hit and Run Productions, a film by Alfonso Cuar

London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with Julian, his revolutionary ex-wife, in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. These three set out on a desperate struggle to deliver the world's only pregnant woman to the Human Project with hope that they can discover the cure for global infertility. As they carefully navigate between the battling forces of military police and a pro-immigration insurgency this small group must endure a death-defying ordeal of urban warfare.

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Clear skies

Chistoe nebo

Chistoe nebo [videorecording] = Clear skies / Mosfilm; stsenarii D. Khrabrovitskogo; postanovka Grigoriia Chukhrai.

Sasha Lvova meets a pilot, Aleksei, at her sister's New Year's Eve party, and a complex relationship begins that endures through World War II and beyond. During the war Aleksei first becomes a hero, and then a suspected anti-Communist, as Stalin takes control of the Soviet Union.

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Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents a Mirage Enterprises/Bona Fide Productions, an Anthony Minghella film; produced by Sydney Pollack, William Horberg, Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa; screenplay by Anthony Minghella; directed by Anthony Minghella.

Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.

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Coming home

Coming home [videorecording] / United Artists; produced by Jerome Hellman; directed by Hal Ashby; screenplay, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones; story, Nancy Dowd.

A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.

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