Bill Murray stars as a second-rate motivational speaker who inherits a trained elephant from his long-lost father, a former circus clown, and embarks on a cross-country odyssey with his 8,000-pound charge. With Janeane Garofolo and Matthew McConaughey. Howard Franklin directed.

Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed star in this Western comedy as a pair of outlaws looking for revenge on a partner (Robert Culp) who swindled them. With Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin and Sylvia Miles. Don Taylor directed.

Robin Wright (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee) stars as the resilient heroine of Daniel Defoe’s classic novel. With Stockard Channing, Morgan Freeman and John Lynch. Pen Densham directed.

Produced for the PBS series American Experience, this documentary feature tells the chilling story of preacher Jim Jones and the men and women who joined his Peoples Temple cult, following him from Indiana to California and ultimately to their deaths in Guyana in November 1978.

This sensitive adaptation of Pat Barker’s acclaimed World War One novel stars Jonathan Pryce (Brazil) as Captain William Rivers, a psychiatrist treating shell-shocked officers and soldiers at a military hospital in Scotland. Rivers’ convictions about the morality of the Great War are deeply shaken by his experiences with the patients under his care – in particular the poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby), who has been hospitalized to silence his outspoken opposition to the war, and the young officer Billy Prior (Jonny Lee Miller), who has been rendered mute by the horrors of the front line. John Neville also stars. Gillies MacKinnon directed.

Kevin Costner directed and stars in this Western epic, which earned seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. He plays John Dunbar, a disillusioned Union Army officer who – longing to see the American frontier “before it’s gone” – chooses an isolated posting on the Dakota plains. There, he finds acceptance among a tribe of Lakota Sioux. But the white man is advancing relentlessly westward, and Dunbar will ultimately face a bitter test of his loyalties. Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica) and Canadian Graham Greene (New Moon) also star.

Martin Scorsese’s biography of prizefighter Jake LaMotta, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is a landmark of American filmmaking. Robert De Niro won an Oscar for his performance as LaMotta, a force of nature who rose from the slums of the Bronx to become a middleweight champion, but was brought to ruin by his uncontrollable passions. With Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci.

Johnny Cash co-wrote and narrated this big-screen retelling of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Filmed on location in Israel, it features original songs performed by The Man in Black. Director Robert Elfstrom appears as Jesus, and June Carter Cash plays Mary Magdalene.

Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) stars as a wealthy playboy who needs to masquerade as a family man to close a business deal, and Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) plays a single mom who agrees to help him for a price. Ted Kotcheff directed.

Carroll Ballard directed this acclaimed adaptation of Walter Farley’s novel about a young boy (Kelly Reno) and an Arabian stallion who bond after being shipwrecked on a deserted island. With Mickey Rooney and Teri Garr.

Paul Newman gives one of his greatest performances in director Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-nominated courtroom drama. Newman stars as Frank Galvin, an alcoholic lawyer who finds one last chance for redemption when he takes on a malpractice suit against a Catholic hospital. With Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden and Lindsay Crouse. David Mamet wrote the screenplay.

In this action-packed sequel to the family classic, young Alec (Kelly Reno) pursues thieves who have stolen his beloved black stallion and spirited him away to the Sahara for a race between rival desert tribes. Robert Dalva directed.

David Carradine stars in this warts-and-all biopic of Woody Guthrie, an impoverished sign painter from Texas who rode the rails to California, where his sympathy for the plight of migrant workers fired his social conscience and fueled his emergence as one of the 20th century’s most impassioned and influential balladeers. With Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon and Randy Quaid. Hal Ashby directed.

Anthony Hopkins directed and stars in this period drama, which transplants Anton Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya from its Russian setting to a Victorian country estate in Wales. Kate Burton, Gawn Grainger, Leslie Phillips, Rhian Morgan and Rhys Ifans also star.. 

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Kevin Costner directed and stars in this Western epic, which earned seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. He plays John Dunbar, a disillusioned Union Army officer who – longing to see the American frontier “before it’s gone” – chooses an isolated posting on the Dakota plains. There, he finds acceptance among a tribe of Lakota Sioux. But the white man is advancing relentlessly westward, and Dunbar will ultimately face a bitter test of his loyalties. Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica) and Canadian Graham Greene (New Moon) also star.

Kevin Costner directed and stars in this Western epic, which earned seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. He plays John Dunbar, a disillusioned Union Army officer who – longing to see the American frontier “before it’s gone” – chooses an isolated posting on the Dakota plains. There, he finds acceptance among a tribe of Lakota Sioux. But the white man is advancing relentlessly westward, and Dunbar will ultimately face a bitter test of his loyalties. Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica) and Canadian Graham Greene (New Moon) also star.

Director John Frankenheimer’s subversive thriller stars Laurence Harvey as a Korean War hero brainwashed by Communists to act as a sleeper agent. Frank Sinatra co-stars as a former comrade in arms racing against time to stop an assassination plot. With Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote) and Janet Leigh.

Brad Pitt stars in the true story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer who became one of the first Europeans ever to enter the sacred Tibetan city of Lhasa, and who eventually befriended the young Dalai Lama (played here by Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk). With David Thewlis and B.D. Wong. Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose) directed.