GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT (1947)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by Elia Kazan

This film is about a journalist (Gregory Peck) who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America. He discovers just how this affects him, and the other people in his life. Demonstrates how racism affects a person, especially the subtle forms which may go unnoticed by many in today's world. It also shows how otherwise well meaning people can and do contribute to racism in small, everyday, ways.

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress(twice), Best Writing (Screenplay) and Best Film Editing

Won 3, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress

DVD Special Features:

None

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958)

Directed by Roy Ward Baker

TITANIC... The greatest sea drama in living memory told as it really happened!

Based on the best selling book by Walter Lord, this is the true story of the R.M.S. Titanic which hit disaster on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic.
The British liner Titanic with 2200 people on board is gashed along 300 feet of its hull by an iceberg. As it starts to sink, the new invention of radio is used to try and summon help, although this is disastrously ignored by the closest vessel.
With lifeboat places for only 1200 people, it is not only women and children first, but also first class before steerage.

No Academy Award Nominations

DVD Special Features:

The Making of A Night To Remember

MRS MINIVER (1942)

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Directed by William Wyler

The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family are the centre of this heartbreaking tale of an English town during the early stages of World War II

Nominated for 12 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress x 2, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Cinematography (Black and White), Best Special Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Recording

Won 6, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing (Screenplay) and Best Cinematography

DVD Special Features:

Documentary Shorts

Greer Garson's Academy Award Acceptance Speech Footage

MORNING GLORIA (1933)

Directed by Lowell Sherman

Eva Lovelace (Katharine Hepburn), would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, rather than her talent, attract interest, but is she destined for stardom or will she fade after the brief blooming of a "morning glory"?

In an illustrious career spanning over half a Century, this was Miss Hepburn's third film, for which she won her first Academy Award as the year's Best Actress.

She would later be awarded a record 12 Academy Award nominations in the same category and won the Oscar, 4 times.

DVD Special Features:

Documentary: Hollywood Remembers Katharine Hepburn