Films with: Brooks, Richard

Abolitionists

"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.

DVD 9778

Blackboard jungle

Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.

DVD 3656

Cat on a hot tin roof

A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South. Members of the family gather to face the impending death of their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate.

DVD 949

Crossfire

A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews.

DVD 6284

Dollars

A call girl teams up with a security expert to steal money from the safety deposit boxes of three crooks.

DVD 5972

In cold blood

A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.

DVD 2749

Key Largo

A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.

DVD 267

Last time I saw Paris

It's post-World War II Paris filled with divorce, domestic quarrels, jaded lives, ruined marriages and disillusioned people.

DVD 418

Last time I saw Paris Father's little dividend.

The last time i saw Paris: It's post-world war II Paris filled with divorce, domestic quarrels, jaded lives, ruined marriages and disillusioned people. Father's little dividend: This time Taylor is expecting a baby and Tracy is not exactly overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a grandfather.

DVD 1438

Something of value

In the British East Africa country of Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie and Kimani have maintained their deep friendship, even though they have a difference in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau spread violence and terror in an effort to sweep the British from the land, the uprising destroys their magnificent homeland. The men discover that even the strongest bond may be stronger than the beat of the drums or the crack of rifles and the cry for freedom.

DVD 6333

To sleep with anger

Harry, a devilish charmer from the Deep South, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience.

DVD 13010