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1776
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): William Daniels, Howard Da Silva
Director(s): Peter H. Hunt
Length of Trailer: 3:10
Subject: American Revolution
Synopsis: A musical about the Continental Congress and the nation's declaration of independence from Britain.

 
1984
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling
Director(s): Michael Anderson
Length of Trailer: 2:17
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

 
2001: A Space Odyssey
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Keir Dullea
Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
Length of Trailer: 3:17
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: The discovery of a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest to locate the aliens responsible.

 
39 Steps
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Robert Donat
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 1:54
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A Canadian tourist becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a spy is murdered in his rented London flat.

 
42nd Street
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon
Length of Trailer: 2:19
Subject: Great Depression Musical
Synopsis: As a director puts on his last show, a chorus girl must replace the star.

 
48 Hrs.
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte
Director(s): Walter Hill
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

 
A Day at the Races
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Great Depression Comedy
Synopsis: Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian, is hired to save a sanatorium from a banker who wants to turn it into a casino.

 
A Few Good Men
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Length of Trailer: 2:47
Subject: Military
Synopsis: A neophyte military attorney defends marines accused of murder, who contend they were acting under the orders of their commanding officer.

 
A Night at the Opera
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: Great Depression Comedy
Synopsis: To bring a young couple together, an opera performance must be sabotaged.

 
Adam's Rib
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 2:28
Subject: Women
Synopsis: Two lawyers, husband and wife, clash in the courtroom.

 
Adventures of Robin Hood
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Director(s): Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Length of Trailer: 1:27
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

 
African Queen
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.

 
Age of Innocence
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Phieffer
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Length of Trailer: 2:22
Subject: Gilded Age
Synopsis: A diffident young man, engaged to marry a respectable young woman, is distracted by a married woman seeking a divorce.

 
Air Force One
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1997
Actor(s): Harrison Ford
Director(s): Wolfgang Petersen
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Presidency
Synopsis: Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President and his family, but he struggles to defeat them.

 
Alamo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): John Wayne
Director(s): John Wayne
Length of Trailer: 2:30
Subject: Texas
Synopsis: The film's tagline was "the mission that became a fortress, the fortress that became a shrine."

 
Alamo Bay
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Amy Madigan, Ed Harris
Director(s): Louis Malle
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Ethnicity
Synopsis: A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing is livelihood after Vietnamese fishermen arrive in Texas.

 
Alfie
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Michael Caine
Director(s): Lewis Gilbert
Length of Trailer: 2:15
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A ladykiller who refuses to get emotionally involved with women faces rejection.

 
Alice Adams
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A lonely misfit tries to fit in with the debutantes in her class-conscious small town.

 
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

 
Alice's Restaurant
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Length of Trailer: 0:19
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1930
Actor(s): Louis Wollheim, Lew Ayres
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting by a jingoist teacher, experience the horrors and disillusionments of World War I.

 
All the King's Men
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
Director(s): Robert Rossen
Length of Trailer: 2:35
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the film tells the story of a populist Louisana politician modeled on Huey Long who belies his "man of the people" roots as he ruthlessly maneuvers, lies, and deals his way into the halls of power.

 
All the President's Men
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman
Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: Watergate
Synopsis: Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.

 
American Grafitti
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard
Director(s): George Lucas
Length of Trailer: 0:21
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: The misadventures of four Californian high school graduates one late summer night in 1962.

 
American President
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Michael Douglas, Annette Bening
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Length of Trailer: 1:33
Subject: Presidency
Synopsis: Comedy-drama about a widowed US president and a lobbyist who fall in love.

 
Amores Perros
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2000
Actor(s): Emilio Echevarria
Director(s): Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Mexican Film
Synopsis: A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.

 
An Affair to Remember
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building.

 
An American in Paris
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Lelie Caron
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 0:45
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: A struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than his art.

 
Anatomy of a Murder
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): James Stewart
Director(s): Otto Preminger
Length of Trailer: 4:47
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife.

 
Anchor's Away
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Two sailors, one innocent, one experienced, on leave in Los Angeles sing and dance in this movie musical.

 
Angels with Dirty Faces
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): James Cagney, Pat O'Brien
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 3:19
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A mobster and a priest conspire to discourage a gang of young ruffians from embarking on a life of crime.

 
Angry Red Planet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Gerald Mohr
Director(s): Ib Melchior
Length of Trailer: 1:05
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A rocket ship returns from Mars.

 
Animal Crackers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1930
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Victor Heerman
Length of Trailer: 0:21
Subject: Great Depression Comedy
Synopsis: A valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

 
Animal House
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1978
Actor(s): John Belushi, Tim Matheson
Director(s): John Landis
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: College
Synopsis: In 1962, a college dean is determined to expel Delta House fraternity.

 
Annie Hall
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1977
Actor(s): Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Director(s): Woody Allen
Length of Trailer: 1:05
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

 
Apartment
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:20
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

 
Ape Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): William Beaudine
Length of Trailer: 0:12
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientists transforms himself into an ape-man.

 
Ape Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): William Beaudine
Length of Trailer: 0:19
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientists transforms himself into an ape-man.

 
Apocalypse Now
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1979
Actor(s): Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Transposes Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Vietnam. A battleweary captain is sent on a secret upriver mission to execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz, who has reverted to murderous insanity.

 
Apollo 13
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Tom Hanks
Director(s): Ron Howard
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Space
Synopsis: True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication.

 
Around the World in 80 Days
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): David Niven
Director(s): Michael Anderson
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Adventure
Synopsis: Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can go around the world in 80 days.

 
Arsenic and Old Lace
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Cary Grant
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:55
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: Two elderly women poison men with elderberry wine; their nephew tries to stop them.

 
At the Circus
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Edward Buzzell
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: A crackpot lawyer, a circus hand, a strongman's assistant, and a gorilla try to save a financially troubled circus.

 
Awful Truth
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: Before their divorce is finalized, a couple do their best to thwart each other's remarriage plans.

 
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1947
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
Director(s): Irving Reis
Length of Trailer: 2:14
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A high school girl falls for a playboy artist.

 
Back to Bataan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): John Wayne, Anthony Quinn
Director(s): Edward Dmytryk
Length of Trailer: 2:31
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An American officer and the grandson of a legendary Filipino revolutionary organize resistance against the Japanese following General MacArthur's withdrawal in 1942.

 
Back to School
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Rodney Dangerfield
Director(s): Alan Metter
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: College
Synopsis: To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.

 
Back to the Future
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Eccentric Doc Brown invents time travel; young Marty McFly goes back in time, stops his parents from meeting; they must, or he won't be born.

 
Bad Day at Black Rock
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy
Director(s): John Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: Ethnicity
Synopsis: A one handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.

 
Ball of Fire
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 0:26
Subject: Rolmance
Synopsis: A lexicographer researching an article on slang meets nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea.

 
Bank Dick
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): W.C. Fields
Director(s): Edward F. Cline
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: A henpecked husband and father replaces a drunken film director, foils a bank robbery, and becomes involved in embezzlement.

 
Barbarella
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Jane Fonda
Director(s): Roger Vadim
Length of Trailer: 3:15
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: In the distant future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand.

 
Barnum!
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Michael Crawford
Director(s): Peter Coe, Terry Hughes
Length of Trailer: 1:38
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: Musical that traces showman Phineas Taylor Barnums career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the circus which was called The Greatest Show on Earth.

 
Basketball Diaries
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Leonardo DiCaprio
Director(s): Scott Kalvert
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Film adaptation of poet Jim Carroll's memoir of his fall into the world of drug addiction.

 
Bataan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Robert Taylor, George Murphy
Director(s): Tay Garnett
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A group of American veterans and raw recruits and stalwart Filipino fight a rear-guard actionin the Philippines, covering Douglas MacArthur's retreat, and are gradually wittled down by disease and combat deaths.

 
Beatles: The First U.S. Tour
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1994
Actor(s): Beatles
Director(s): Kathy Dougherty, Susan Fromke
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: The Beatles' first U.S. tour.

 
Beau Geste
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Director(s): William A. Wellman
Length of Trailer: 0:25
Subject: Action
Synopsis: Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion and confront a sadistic sergeant.

 
Beauty and the Beast
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Jean Marais, Josette Day
Director(s): Jean Cocteau
Length of Trailer: 3:09
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: A gentle beauty discover the sensitive soul hidden beneath the beast's monstrous exterior.

 
Becket
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole
Director(s): Peter Glenville
Length of Trailer: 0:52
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: Conflcit between Henry II of England and the church.

 
Bedtime for Bonzo
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Jane Linden
Director(s): Frederick De Cordova
Length of Trailer: 2:30
Subject: Postwar
Synopsis: Professor Peter Boyd tries to teach human morals to a chimpanzee.

 
Being John Malkovich
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): John Cusack, Cameron Diaz
Director(s): Spike Jonze
Length of Trailer: 1:46
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.

 
Bells of St. Mary's
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: A happy-go-lucky priest helps out a financially strapped parochial school in a sequel to Going My Way (1944).

 
Ben-Hur
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Charlton Heston
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

 
Benny Goodman Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Steve Allen, Donna Reed
Director(s): Valentine Davies
Length of Trailer: 0:40
Subject: Music
Synopsis: Biography of wing band leader Benny Goodman from age ten in 1919 to his Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938.

 
Berkeley in the '60s
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1990
Actor(s):
Director(s): Mark Kitchell
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkely in the 1960's.

 
Best Years of Our Lives
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 1:47
Subject: Postwar
Synopsis: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have irreparably changed.

 
Beverley Hills Cop 2
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
Director(s): Tony Scott
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis: Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to solve more crimes.

 
Big
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Tom Hanks
Director(s): Penny Marshall
Length of Trailer: 2:17
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis: When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight.

 
Big Chill
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum
Director(s): Lawrence Kasdan
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis: A group of college friends reunite at the funeral of one of their friends.

 
Big Sleep
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: Cynical private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer who is shaking down a wealthy man's daughter.

 
Big Store
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Charles Reisner
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: Private eye Wolf J. Flywheel investigates an attempted murder of a department store owner.

 
Big Trail
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1930
Actor(s): John Wayne
Director(s): Raoul Walsh
Length of Trailer: 1:33
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A wagon train headed to Oregon encounters Indians, bad weather, and other challenges.

 
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter
Director(s): Stephen Herek
Length of Trailer: 1:56
Subject: Education
Synopsis: Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.

 
Bingo Long's Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Billy Dee William, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
Director(s): John Badham
Length of Trailer: 2:40
Subject: African American
Synopsis: A barnstorming baseball team of African American players in 1939.

 
Birdcage
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Length of Trailer: 2:15
Subject: Sexual Identity
Synopsis: A gay cabaret owner and his transvestite companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiance's right-wing moralistic parents.

 
Birdman of Alcatraz
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster
Director(s): John Frankenheimer
Length of Trailer: 1:08
Subject: Prisoners
Synopsis: A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

 
Black Hawk Down
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2001
Actor(s): Josh Harnett, Ewan McGregor
Director(s): Ridley Scott
Length of Trailer: 2:27
Subject: Military
Synopsis: 123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

 
Black Orpheus
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn
Director(s): Marcel Camus
Length of Trailer: 1:18
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

 
Black Robe
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Lothaire Bluteau
Director(s): Bruce Beresford
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Huron Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter.

 
Blackboard Jungle
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier
Director(s): Richard Brooks
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Education
Synopsis: Tagline: "A shock story of today's high school hoodlums."

 
Blade Runner
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Harrison Ford
Director(s): Ridley Scott
Length of Trailer: 1:44
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A police officer must hunt down and terminate replicants who have hijacked a space ship and returned to earth.

 
Blazing Saddles
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
Director(s): Mel Brooks
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

 
Blonde Venus
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant
Director(s): Josef von Sternberg
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: Women
Synopsis: When her husband needs a life-saving operation, a woman becomes a nightclub singer, to raise funds, and, as a result, is thrown out of her home.

 
Blow Up
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Director(s): Michelangelo Antonioni
Length of Trailer: 1:08
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A photographer who is talented but aimless has photographed violence and pain without feeling any involvement.

 
Blue Velvet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini
Director(s): David Lynch
Length of Trailer: 1:38
Subject: Mystery
Synopsis: An innocent young man discovers that a dark underworld exists beneath the surface of his seemingly quiet hometown.

 
Body Heat
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): William Hurt, Kathleen Turner
Director(s): Lawrence Kasdan
Length of Trailer: 2:13
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

 
Bonnie and Clyde
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Length of Trailer: 2:56
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Tagline: "They're young, they're in love, they kill people."

 
Born Free
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Virginia McKenna
Director(s): James Hill
Length of Trailer: 3:20
Subject: Nature
Synopsis: Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub.

 
Born in East L.A.
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Cheech Marin
Director(s): Cheech Marin
Length of Trailer: 2:02
Subject: Latino
Synopsis: An American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory, and is deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.

 
Born on the Fourth of July
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Tom Cruise
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 2:44
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: The biography of Ron Kovic, who was aralyzed in the Vietnam war, and becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

 
Bound for Glory
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): David Carradine
Director(s): Hal Ashby
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: The biography of the legendary folk singer and composer, Woody Gutherie.

 
Bowling for Columbine
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2002
Actor(s): Michael Moore
Director(s): Michael Moore
Length of Trailer: 2:02
Subject: Documentary
Synopsis: Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

 
Boys Town
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney
Director(s): Norman Taurog
Length of Trailer: 1:47
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Father Flanagan opens Boys Town to help juvenile delinquents go straight.

 
Boyz n the Hood
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Director(s): John Singleton
Length of Trailer: 2:33
Subject: African American
Synopsis: Childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto.

 
Brando: BBC
Type: News
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 6:36
Subject: Marlon Brando
Synopsis:

 
Brando: CBS
Type: News
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 5:22
Subject: Marlon Brando
Synopsis:

 
Brando: CBS
Type: News
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 8:53
Subject: Marlon Brando
Synopsis:

 
Braveheart
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Mel Gibson
Director(s): Mel Gibson
Length of Trailer: 1:46
Subject: 13th Century Scotland
Synopsis: William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.

 
Bread and Roses
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2000
Actor(s): Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody
Director(s): Ken Loach
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

 
Breaker Morant
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1980
Actor(s): Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson
Director(s): Bruce Beresford
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Military
Synopsis: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

 
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Audrey Hepburn
Director(s): Blake Edwards
Length of Trailer: 2:39
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.

 
Breathless
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director(s): Jean-Luc Goddard
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: A young car thief kills a policeman and goes on the run with his American girlfriend.

 
Bride of Frankenstein
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Boris Karloff
Director(s): James Whale
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Dr. Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster.

 
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): William Holden, Alec Guinness
Director(s): David Lean
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge.

 
Bright Lights, Big City
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates
Director(s): James Bridges
Length of Trailer: 1:09
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis: A young man from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine and gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs

 
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Warren Oates, Isela Vega
Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Western
Synopsis: An American expatriate is hired by two hitmen to retrieve the head of a two-timing gigolo.

 
Bringing Up Baby
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: stuffy paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress and attempts to recover it.

 
Broadway Melody of 1929
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1929
Actor(s): Anita Page, Bessie Love
Director(s): Harry Beaumont
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: 1920s
Synopsis: Two sisters try to make it on the Broadway stage. Taglines: "100% All Talking! 100% All Singing! 100% All Dancing!" and "The pulsating drama of Broadway's bared heart speaks and sings with a voice to stir your soul!"

 
Broken Arrow
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): James Stewart, Jeff Chandler
Director(s): Delmer Davies
Length of Trailer: 0:38
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: Attempt to make peace between settlers and Apaches.

 
Broken Blossoms
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1919
Actor(s): Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
Director(s): D.W. Griffith
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: Ethnic Relations
Synopsis: A poetic Chinese man cares for an adolescent girl, abused by her father.

 
Bubba Ho-Tep
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2002
Actor(s): Bruce Campbell, Ozzie Davis
Director(s): Don Coscarelli
Length of Trailer: 2:05
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Elvis Presley, an elderly resident of an East Texas nursing home, battles an evil Egyptian entity.

 
Buck Rogers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore
Director(s): Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Length of Trailer: 1:45
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A pilot and his passenger, kept in suspended animation for 500 years, lead resistance to a despot who rules the Earth.

 
Buddy Holly Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1978
Actor(s): Gary Busey
Director(s): Steve Rash
Length of Trailer: 2:28
Subject: Rock and Roll
Synopsis: A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.

 
Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Paul Newman
Director(s): Robert Altman
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: Buffalo Bill plans to put on his Wild West show and Chief Sitting Bull agrees to appear in it.

 
Buffalo Soldiers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1997
Actor(s): Danny Glover
Director(s): Charles Haid
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: Military
Synopsis: The all-black US Cavalry Troop H which protected the Western territories in post Civil War era.

 
Bugsy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Warren Beatty, Annette Bening
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: The story of how organized crime figure Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.

 
Bullitt
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Steve McQueen
Director(s): Peter Yates
Length of Trailer: 2:53
Subject: Police
Synopsis: San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

 
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Robert Redford, Paul Newman
Director(s): George Roy Hill
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Two Western bank and train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

 
Butterfield 8
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor
Director(s): Daniel Mann
Length of Trailer: 0:23
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Relationship between Gloria Wandrous, a call girl with a disturbing past, and Weston Liggett, a philandering lawyer unhappily married into a wealthy family.

 
Bye Bye Birdie
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 4:35
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A rock and roll singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.

 
Cabaret
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey
Director(s): Bob Fosse
Length of Trailer: 2:50
Subject: Weimar Germany
Synopsis: A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

 
Cabeza de Vaca
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Juan Diego
Director(s): Nicolas Echevarria
Length of Trailer: 1:57
Subject: Spanish Colonialism
Synopsis: In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost and a survivor roams across the continent.

 
Caine Mutiny
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer
Director(s): Edward Dmytryk
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: Military
Synopsis: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

 
Camelot
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
Director(s): Joshua Logan
Length of Trailer: 2:59
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere.

 
Candidate
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Robert Redford, Peter Boyle
Director(s): Michael Ritchie
Length of Trailer: 1:20
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: A candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, who has no chance of winning, tweaks the establishment.

 
Capone
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1975
Actor(s): en Gazzara
Director(s): Steve Carver
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.

 
Carnal Knowledge
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkle
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Length of Trailer: 0:54
Subject: Sexuality
Synopsis: The sexual attitudes and activities of two male friends from their college days to middle age.

 
Carousel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones
Director(s): Henry King
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Ill-starred love story.

 
Carrie
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie
Director(s): Brian De Palma
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on prom night.

 
Casablanca
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:17
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A nightclub owner finds his world turned upside down, when his lost love, accompanied by her Resistance-leading husband, arrives in wartime Casablanca.

 
Casualties of War
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn
Director(s): Brian De Palma
Length of Trailer: 1:53
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

 
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman
Director(s): Richard Brooks
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie.

 
Celluloid Closet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Lily Tomlin
Director(s): Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Length of Trailer: 1:48
Subject: Sexual Identity
Synopsis: A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them.

 
Chariots of Fire
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Director(s): Hugh Hudson
Length of Trailer: 3:15
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics.

 
Charlie Chan in Paris
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Warner Oland
Director(s): Lewis Seiler
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Mystery
Synopsis: Charlie Chan investigates a bond forgery racket in Paris.

 
Children of Paradise
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault
Director(s): Marcel Carne
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: The ill-fated love between a theater mime and an actress in nineteenth century France.

 
Children's Hour
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 1:46
Subject: Education
Synopsis: A spiteful student at a girl's school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

 
Chinatown
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director(s): Roman Polanski
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has to do with supply water to Los Angeles.

 
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface
Director(s): John Glen
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Spanish Colonialism
Synopsis: Navigator Columbus dreams of finding an alternate route to the Indies.

 
Cimarron
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Richard Dix, Irene Dunne
Director(s): Wesley Ruggles
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

 
Citizen Kane
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Journalism
Synopsis: Powerful newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane was many things to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death.

 
City Lights
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Charlie Chaplin
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Length of Trailer: 0:21
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with.

 
City Slickers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby
Director(s): Ron Underwood
Length of Trailer: 2:50
Subject: Masulinity
Synopsis: A mid-life crisis plagued man and his friends find renewal and purpose on a cattle driving vacation.

 
Cleopatra
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director(s): Joseph L. Makiewicz
Length of Trailer: 0:25
Subject: Ancient World
Synopsis: Cleopatra of Egypt seeks to stabilize her power by exploiting tensions in the Roman empire.

 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1977
Actor(s): Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A man contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming.

 
Clueless
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Alicia Silverstone
Director(s): Amy Heckerling
Length of Trailer: 2:12
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Jane Austen's Emma meets Beverley Hills 90210 in West Coast teen lifestyle parody.

 
Cocoanuts
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1929
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: During the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, and thwart a jewel robbery.

 
Coming Home
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1978
Actor(s): Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
Director(s): Hal Ashby
Length of Trailer: 0:27
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.

 
Commando
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Arnold Schwartzenegger
Director(s): Mark L. Lester
Length of Trailer: 0:20
Subject: Action
Synopsis: A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator.

 
Conversation
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Gene Hackman
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Length of Trailer: 2:30
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

 
Cotton Club
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Richard Gere, Diane Lane
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: The people who visit the famous night club in Harlem and those who ran it.

 
Country Girl
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly
Director(s): George Seaton
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: Alcoholism
Synopsis: Tagline: "How far should a woman go to redeem the man she loves."

 
Courtmartial of Jackie Robinson
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1990
Actor(s): Andre Braugher
Director(s): Larry Peerce
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: African American
Synopsis: The baseball star's experiences in the army, including his court-martial for insubordination regarding segregation.

 
Cover Girl
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Eve Arden
Director(s): Charles Vidor
Length of Trailer: 0:20
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: When a dancer wins a "cover girl" contest, her romance with her choreography and boyfriend.

 
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Richard Carlson, Julie Adams
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Length of Trailer: 0:50
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounter a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature.

 
Cries and Whispers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann
Director(s): Ingmar Bergman
Length of Trailer: 1:58
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Three sisters--one of whom is dying of tuberculosis--and a maid who is the only one capable of caring for the ill woman.

 
Crying Game
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea
Director(s): Neil Jordan
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: Terrorism
Synopsis: A British soldier is kidnaped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.

 
Damn Yankees
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter
Director(s): George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: A Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

 
Dangerous
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Alfred E. Green
Length of Trailer: 0:38
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Bette Davis plays a once respected theatre actress who's drifted into the seedy life of alcholism and self-pity.

 
Dark Victory
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A brain tumor transforms a socialite's wild life.

 
Das Boot
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Jurgen Prochnow
Director(s): Wolfgang Petersen
Length of Trailer: 2:09
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat.

 
Dave
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Kevin Kline, Signourney Weaver
Director(s): Ivan Reitman
Length of Trailer: 2:05
Subject: Presidency
Synopsis: A lookalike is hired to impersonate the president who has suffered a stroke rendering him a vegetable while having sex with a co-worker.

 
Day After Tomorrow
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director(s): Roland Emmerich
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Global warming triggers an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the Earth's climate.

 
Day After Tomorrow: Storm Surge
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director(s): Roland Emmerich
Length of Trailer: 0:53
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Global warming triggers an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the Earth's climate.

 
Day the Earth Stood Still
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Director(s): Robert Wise
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that we must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

 
Dazed and Confused
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Jason London, Rory Cochran
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Length of Trailer: 1:57
Subject: Education
Synopsis: The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.

 
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn
Director(s): Bill Couturie
Length of Trailer: 1:58
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Letters by Americans who were serving in Vietnam.

 
Death Valley Days
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 4:59
Subject: Politics
Synopsis:

 
Death Wish
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Charles Bronson
Director(s): Michael Winner
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A New York architect's world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and the rape of his daughter.

 
Declaration of Independence
Type: Speech
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): John F. Kennedy
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 27:46
Subject: Declaration of Independence
Synopsis:

 
Deer Hunter
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1978
Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Director(s): Michael Cimino
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: The way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town.

 
Defiant Ones
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis
Director(s): Stanley Kramer
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Prisoners
Synopsis: Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

 
De-Loveley
Type: Clips
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Kevin Kline
Director(s): Irwin Winkler
Length of Trailer:
Subject: Music
Synopsis: Musical portrait of composer Cole Porter.

 
Delta Force
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin
Director(s): Menahem Golan
Length of Trailer: 1:51
Subject: Terrorism
Synopsis: An American jetliner is hijacked by terrorists and commandos are sent to the rescue.

 
Desperately Seeking Susan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Rosanna Arquette, Madonna
Director(s): Susan Seidelman
Length of Trailer: 1:51
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A bored New Jersey housewife becomes obsessed with the hip Susan after reading about her in the personal ads.

 
Destry Rides Again
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
Director(s): George Marshall
Length of Trailer: 1:48
Subject: Western
Synopsis: The nonviolent son of a famous lawman, who is brought into an out of control town to restore law and order.

 
Dial M for Murder
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Ray Milland, Grace Kelly
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: An ex-tennis pro plots to murder his wife.

 
Dick
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams
Director(s): Andrew Fleming
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Presidency
Synopsis: Story of two ditzy girls who wander away from a White House tour and meet President Nixon.

 
Die Hard 1
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman
Director(s): John McTiernan
Length of Trailer: 2:25
Subject: Terrorism
Synopsis: New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.

 
Diner
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Length of Trailer: 2:08
Subject: Coming of Age
Synopsis: A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

 
Dirty Harry
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood
Director(s): Don Siegel
Length of Trailer: 1:18
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A cop with little regard for rules tries to track down a serial killer.

 
Do the Right Thing
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
Director(s): Spike Lee
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: On a hot day on a New York City street, everyone's hate and bigotry smoulders and builds until it explodes into violence.

 
Doctor Zhivago
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1965
Actor(s): Omar Sharif, Julie Christie
Director(s): David Lean
Length of Trailer: 2:41
Subject: Russian Revolution
Synopsis: Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution.

 
Don't Look Back
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Bob Dylan
Director(s): D.A. Pennebaker
Length of Trailer: 2:15
Subject: Music
Synopsis: Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England.

 
Doors
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Val Kilmer
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:57
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

 
Double Indemnity
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: An insurance salesman becomes involved in murder and fraud, arousing his company's suspicions.

 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins
Director(s): Touben Mamoulian
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A potion transforms Dr. Jekyll into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

 
Dr. No
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Sean Connery
Director(s): Terrence Young
Length of Trailer: 0:38
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: In the first James Bond movie, Bond pursues the villainous Dr. No to his secret installation on a Caribbean island.

 
Dr. Strangelove
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
Length of Trailer: 3:14
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

 
Dracula
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): Tod Browning
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.

 
Dragnet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Jack Webb
Director(s): Jack Webb
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Police
Synopsis: Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.

 
Dragnet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Jack Webb
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 1:30
Subject: Police
Synopsis:

 
Driving Miss Daisy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy
Director(s): Bruce Beresford
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: The relationship between an elderly Jewish woman and her African American chauffeur.

 
DuBarry Was a Lady
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Red Skelton, Lucille Ball
Director(s): Roy Del Ruth
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A hat check boys wins a jackpot, which convinces a showgirl to marry him, even though she doesn't love him.

 
Duck Soup
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Rufus T. Firefly is named president of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania.

 
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor
Director(s): Fred F. Sears
Length of Trailer: 2:14
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Tagline: "Warning! Take Cover! Flying Saucers Invade Our Planet! Washington, London, Paris, Moscow Fight Back!"

 
East of Eden
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Julie Harris, James Dean
Director(s): Elia Kazan
Length of Trailer: 2:51
Subject: Family
Synopsis: 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

 
Easter Parade
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Judy Garland
Director(s): Charles Walters
Length of Trailer: 1:30
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: After his dancing partner sets out on her own, a dancer vows he can pick any chorus girl and make her a star.

 
Easy Rider
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper
Director(s): Dennis Hopper
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Youth
Synopsis: Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans, encountering a hippie commune, rednecks, and other aspects of America in the 1960s.

 
Eight Men Out
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Jace Alexander, John Cusack
Director(s): John Sayles
Length of Trailer: 2:12
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

 
El Mariachi
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Carlos Gallardo
Director(s): Robert Rodriguez
Length of Trailer: 1:34
Subject: Latino
Synopsis: A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.