Films with: Steinbeck, John

East of Eden

In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to his estranged mother.

DVD 10000

Grapes of wrath

The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

DVD 4374

John Steinbeck's East of Eden

The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.

DVD 4414

Lifeboat

When their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.

DVD 10240

Of mice and men

Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.

DVD 338

Viva Zapata!

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.

DVD 9997