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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.

 
Last of the Mohicans
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1920
Actor(s): Wallace Beery
Director(s): Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: French and Indian War
Synopsis: Frontiersman Natty Bumppo, Chingachgook, and his son Uncas fight to rescue Alice and Cora Munro during the French and Indian War

 
Gold Rush
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1925
Actor(s): Charlie Chaplin
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Length of Trailer: 0:49
Subject: Slapstick
Synopsis: The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold.

 
General
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Buster Keaton
Director(s): Clyde Bruckman
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

 
Napoleon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Albert Dieudonne
Director(s): Abel Gance
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: Napoleon's youth and early military career.

 
Metropolis
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Alfred Abel
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Length of Trailer: 2:36
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: The Workers, led by the beautiful Maria, plan a revolt against the aloof Thinkers that dominate them in this future dystopia.

 
It
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Clara Bow
Director(s): Clarence G. Gadger
Length of Trailer: 1:14
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A salesgirl with plenty of "it" (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy.

 
Sadie Thompson
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1928
Actor(s): Gloria Swanson
Director(s): Raoul Walsh
Length of Trailer: 1:26
Subject: Drama
Synopsis: Based on a Somerset Maugham story, a missionary tries to deport a woman from a south Pacific island.

 
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.

 
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!"

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Mata Hari
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Greta Garbo
Director(s): George Fitzmaurice
Length of Trailer: 0:45
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: The story of a German spy working in Paris.

 
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.

 
Frankenstein
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Boris Karloff
Director(s): James Whale
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Dr. Frankenstein creates a creature from dead human parts.

 
Monkey Business
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: The Marx Brothers play stowaways on a transatlantic ship.

 
Horse Feathers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: College
Synopsis: Groucho becomes president of Huxley College.

 
Freaks
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Wallace Ford
Director(s): Tod Browning
Length of Trailer: 1:18
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Treachery is discovered amongst a traveling circus sideshow.

 
Mummy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Boris Karloff
Director(s): Karl Freund
Length of Trailer: 0:58
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: In 1921 an expedition discovers the mummy of Im-Ho_Tep, who was buried alive for sacrilege.

 
Grand Hotel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.".

 
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.

 
I'm No Angel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Mae West, Cary Grant
Director(s): Wesley Ruggles
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Tira, a dancing beauty and lion tamer, flirts with rich men.

 
King Kong
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
Director(s): Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: An expedition team go to a tropical island and discover a colossal giant gorilla.

 
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.

 
Invisible Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Claude Rains
Director(s): James Whale
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

 
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.

 
She Done Him Wrong
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Mae West
Director(s): Lowell Sherman
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou is pursued by a vicious criminal.

 
Gold Diggers of 1933
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Millionaire turned composer rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.

 
Tarzan and His Mate
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1934
Actor(s): Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Director(s): Cedric Gibbons
Length of Trailer: 0:55
Subject: Africa
Synopsis: The sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man.

 
Thin Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1934
Actor(s): William Powell, Myrna Loy
Director(s): W.S. VanDyke
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A former detective and his rich, playful wife solve a murder.

 
It Happened One Night
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1934
Actor(s): Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story.

 
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.

 
Littlest Rebel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Shirley Temple
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Shirley Temple and "Bojangles" Robinson beg President Lincoln to spare a rebel officer.

 
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Length of Trailer: 1:22
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against invaders...and themselves. Tagline: "Always outnumbered! Never outfought! These are the Bengal LancersÂ…heroes allÂ…guarding each other's lives, sharing each other's tortures, fighting each other's battles."

 
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.

 
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.

 
Informer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Victor McLaglen
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 0:59
Subject: Irish Rebellion
Synopsis: In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on a friend.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Gold Diggers of 1935
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Dick Powell
Director(s): Busby Berkeley
Length of Trailer: 3:34
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Director stages a show to get the money to pay his bills.

 
Mutiny on the Bounty
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
Director(s): Frank Lloyd
Length of Trailer: 3:11
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: Fletcher Christan leads a mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

 
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.

 
Little Colonel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 1:58
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Shirley Temple charms her crusty grandfather after the Civil War.

 
General Died at Dawn
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Gary Cooper
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: China
Synopsis: In revolution-torn China, an American mercenary tangles with a ruthless warlord.

 
Great Ziegfeld
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): William Powell
Director(s): Robert Z. Leonard
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.

 
Last of the Mohicans
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Randolph Scott
Director(s): George B. Seitz
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: French and Indian War
Synopsis: Frontiersman Natty Bumppo, Chingachgook, and his son Uncas fight to rescue Alice and Cora Munro during the French and Indian War

 
Modern Times
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Charlie Chaplin
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: The Tramp confronts modern industrial society.

 
My Man Godfrey
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Carole Lombard, William Powell
Director(s): Gregory LaCava
Length of Trailer: 0:27
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: A "forgotten man" becomes a butler for a society family.

 
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 2:38
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.

 
Heidi
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Shirley Temple
Director(s): Allan Dwan
Length of Trailer: 1:15
Subject: Childhood
Synopsis: When little Heidi is stolen by her cruel aunt (who sells her) her grouchy grandfather searches for her.

 
Topper
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Constance Bennett
Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.

 
King Solomon's Mines
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Paul Robeson, Anna Lee
Director(s): Robert Stevenson
Length of Trailer: 1:03
Subject: Adventure
Synopsis: Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert.

 
Kid Galahad
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: Boxing
Synopsis: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

 
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.

 
Lost Horizon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:48
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La.

 
Life of Emile Zola
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Paul Muni
Director(s): William Dieterle
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: The story of the famous French muckracking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

 
Zorro Rides Again
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): John Carroll
Director(s): John English, William Witney
Length of Trailer: 3:57
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: A descendant of Zorro must protect the California-Yucatan Railroad from a gang of terrorists.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Jezebel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 0:25
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: A coquette fond of stirring up rivalries among the men, goes too far and loses her fiancé, but she finds atonement when she cares for him during illness.

 
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.

 
Old Maid
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: Motherhood
Synopsis: An unwed mother turns her child over to a married cousin.

 
The Women
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A group of catty, competitive friends destroy reputations and fight over husbands and lovers.

 
Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Director(s): H.C. Potter
Length of Trailer: 0:19
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: The story of Vernon and Irene Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Stagecoach
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): John Wayne, Claire Trevor
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 3:26
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A diverse and troubled group of passengers travels by stagecoach.

 
Rules of the Game
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost
Director(s): Jean Renoir
Length of Trailer: 0:17
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: The life of France's rich on the eve of World War II.

 
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.

 
Little Princess
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Shirley Temple
Director(s): Walter Lang
Length of Trailer: 1:20
Subject: Childhood
Synopsis: The daughter of a soldier in the Boer War is made into a servant by the evil headmistress of a boarding school

 
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): James Stewart, Jean Arthur
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate and promptly collide with political corruption, and doesn't back down.

 
Wizard of Oz
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Judy Garland
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Dorothy Gale is swept away from Kansas to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

 
Ninotchka
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Greta Garbo
Director(s): Ernst Lubitsch
Length of Trailer: 2:22
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

 
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.

 
Gone with the Wind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Length of Trailer: 1:42
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Epic story of a southern woman who can cope with everything in the Civil War except losing the love of the man she wants to another.

 
Gunga Din
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

 
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Robert Donat
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 0:48
Subject: Education
Synopsis: An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

 
Hound of the Baskervilles
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Basil Rathbone
Director(s): Sidney Lanfield
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes ,aided by Dr Watson, investigates mysterious deaths apparently caused by a family curse.

 
Shop Around the Corner
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): James Stewart, Margaret Sulavan
Director(s): Ernst Lutitsch
Length of Trailer: 4:03
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Co-workers correspond and fall in love, not realizing that they are writing to each other.

 
Thief of Bagdad
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Conrad Veidt, Sabu
Director(s): Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell
Length of Trailer: 0:27
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Prince Achmad, the rightful King of Bagdad, and Abu, undertake a series of adventures that involve a Djinni in a bottle, a mechanical flying horse, an all-seeing magic jewel, a flying carpet and a beautiful princess.

 
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.

 
Knute Rockne: All American
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Pat O'Brien
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon
Length of Trailer: 2:04
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

 
Santa Fe Trail
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:35
Subject: Antebellum Era
Synopsis: The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles with John Brown.

 
Go West
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Edward Buzzell
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Confidence man heads west to find his fortune.

 
Philadelphia Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage.

 
Knute Rockne
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

 
Sea Hawk
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Errol Flynn
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: A pirate attacks Spanish ships for the good of England. Tagline: "The Robin Hood of the Sea."

 
His Girl Friday
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 2:48
Subject: Journalism
Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

 
My Little Chickadee
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): W.C. Fields, Mae West
Director(s): Edward F. Cline
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: Flower Belle Lee meets a con man and pretends to marry him for "respectability."

 
Rebecca
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:52
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A a naive young woman marries a rich widower, and finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

 
Lady Eve
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: The rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship.

 
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.

 
Maltese Falcon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Mystery
Synopsis: Sam Spade, a private detective, gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable statuette.

 
How Green Was My Valley
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Drama
Synopsis: Life in a turn of the century Welsh mining village.

 
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.

 
Sullivan's Travels
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about life.

 
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.

 
Sergeant York
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Gary Cooper
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 0:26
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A backwoods pacifist drafted in World War I becomes a war hero.

 
Magnificent Ambersons
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Orson Welles
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 1:37
Subject: Turn of the Century
Synopsis: The haunting story of a wealthy Midwestern familyÂ’s struggle to adapt to the rapidly changing world at the turn of the twentieth century.

 
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi
Director(s): Roy William Neill
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: The Wolf Man seeks to rid himself of the werewolf curse.

 
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.

 
King's Row
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 2:42
Subject: Small Town America
Synopsis: Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900.

 
In Which We Serve
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Noel Coward, John Mills
Director(s): Noel Coward, David Lean
Length of Trailer: 1:12
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The story of a destroyer, told in flashbacks as survivors cling to a dingy.

 
Mrs. Miniver
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An English family's life during the first months of World War II.

 
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.

 
Woman of the Year
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A brash sports reporter and a brilliant political commentator seek to keep their marriage from falling apart.

 
Reap the Wild Wind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard
Director(s): Cecil B. DeMille
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: Salvagers and pirates in the Florida Keys in the 1840s.

 
Holiday Inn
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Bing Crosby
Director(s): Mark Sandrich
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Entertainers and rivals run an inn that is only open on holidays.

 
Now Voyager
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Irving Rapper
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Women
Synopsis: Boston spinster blossoms under therapy.

 
Palm Beach Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrae
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: An inventor's wife decides to divorce her husband and marry a millionaire to get him money to develop his big idea.

 
Saboteur
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: An aircraft factory worker is falsely accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

 
I Married a Witch
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Veronica Lake, Fredric March
Director(s): Rene Clair
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

 
Road to Morocco
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for Princess Shalmar.

 
Wake Island
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Brian Donlevy
Director(s): John Farrow
Length of Trailer: 1:40
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines try to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base in December 1941.

 
For Me and My Gal
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Judy Garland, George Murphy
Director(s): Busby Berkeley
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A vaudeville artist avoids the World War I draft and then makes up for this.

 
Madame Curie
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 2:07
Subject: Women
Synopsis: The life of the Polish physicist.

 
Lassie Come Home
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Roddy McDowall
Director(s): Fred M. Wilcox
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Animals
Synopsis: After the Carraclough family is forced to sell their dog, the animal sets out on a perilous journey to rejoin them.

 
Heaven Can Wait
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Gene Tierney, Don Ameche
Director(s): Ernest Lubitsch
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A recently deceased man tries to persuade Satan that he has sinned enough to enter Hades.

 
Guy Named Joe
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A dead World War II pilot serves as the guardian angel for another pilot and helps him romance his old girlfriend.

 
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 2:13
Subject: Spanish Civil War
Synopsis: An idealistic American fighting in the Spanish Civil war, falls in love with a young peasant woman, causing resentment among the leader of the Spanish guerrillas.

 
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.

 
Song of Bernadette
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Jennifer Jones
Director(s): Henry King
Length of Trailer: 2:25
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: In 1858 in a grotto near Lourdes, a 14 year old has a vision, and government officials and clergy seek to suppress the girl.

 
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.

 
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 2:01
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Producers stage a wartime charity show.

 
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 2:00
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Producers, putting together a benefit show, promote an unknown singer and songwriter.

 
Stormy Weather
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
Director(s): Andrew L. Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:06
Subject: African American
Synopsis: This all black-musical focuses on the intersecting careers of a dancer and a singer, who met after World War I.

 
Thousands Cheer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An acrobat, how soldier, tries to befriend the colonel's daughter.

 
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.

 
Phantom of the Opera
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Nelson Eddy
Director(s): Arthur Lubin
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: A disfigured violist haunts the Paris opera house.

 
Rear Gunner
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Burgess Meredith
Director(s): Ray Enright
Length of Trailer: 13:50
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Training of aerial rear gunners in World War II.

 
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.

 
To Have and Have Not
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A boat captain reluctantly agrees to help the French Resistance.

 
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.

 
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.

 
National Velvet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor
Director(s): Clarence Brown
Length of Trailer: 0:55
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Young Velvet Brown trains a horse she has won in a town lotter for the Grand National, England's greatest horse race.

 
Follow the Boys
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): George Raft
Director(s): A. Edward Sutherland
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A vaudevillian organizes entertainment for the troops fighting overseas.

 
Meet Me in St. Louis
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 0:40
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: At the turn of the twentieth century, a St. Louis family is thrown into upheaval by the prospect of moving to New York.

 
Gaslight
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 1:53
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An ostensibly loving husband attempts to drive his wife insane in order to recover valuable jewels.

 
Going My Way
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Bing Crosby
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 1:09
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: A young Catholic priest helps a troubled parish struggle back to its feet.

 
Hail the Conquering Hero
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Eddie Bracken
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:46
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A young Marine, discharged due to hay fever, returns home where he is greeted as a "conquering hero."

 
Henry V
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Laurence Olivier
Director(s): Laurence Olivier
Length of Trailer: 1:56
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: A courageous monarch leads his people ot victory over the strong French army.

 
Mr. Skeffington
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Bette Davis, Claude Rains
Director(s): Vincent Sherman
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A wealthy, selfish woman marries a man for his money before abandoning him and their child.

 
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A small-town young woman attends a party only to discovery that she has married a soldier she can't recall and is pregnant.

 
Laura
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Director(s): Otto Preminger
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

 
Lifeboat
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Survivors of a sunken ship rescue a sailor from the U-boat that torpedoed their ship.

 
Ministry of Fear
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Ray Milland
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A man wrongfully accused of murder must prove his innocence.

 
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The story of the "Doolittle Raid," an attack on Tokyo designed to boost American morale after the attack on Pearl Harbor and a string of military defeats.

 
Lost Weekend
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Alcoholism
Synopsis: An unsuccessful writer's four-day drinking bout.

 
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.

 
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.

 
They Were Expendable
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Robert Montgomery, John Wayne
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A PT-boat squadron in the Philippines battles with Navy brass and the Japanese between December 1941 and April 1942.

 
Spellbound
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A psychologist tries to solve a murder by deciphering clues hidden in the mind of a paranoid amnesiac.

 
Mildred Pierce
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Joan Crawford
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 0:18
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A single mother's battles with a cut-throat business partner and a spoiled daughter.

 
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.

 
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).

 
State Fair
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews
Director(s): Walter Lang
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: At the Iowa State Fair a girl falls in love with a journalist and her brother woos a footloose singer.

 
Yearling
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman
Director(s): Clarence Brown
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Family
Synopsis: A pioneer boy's love for a fawn in post-Civil War Florida.

 
Till the Clouds Roll By
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): June Allyson, Robert Walker
Director(s): Richard Whorf
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: Music
Synopsis: The life of Boradway composer Jerome Kern.

 
Ziegfeld Follies
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball
Director(s): Lemuel Ayers
Length of Trailer: 2:38
Subject: Music
Synopsis: The late showman Florenz Ziegfeld imagines what kind of revue he could put on in 1946.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Gilda
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Director(s): Charles Vidor
Length of Trailer: 2:09
Subject: Women
Synopsis: The boss of a South American casino becomes jealous over the relationship between his sensuous new wife and his right-hand man.

 
It's a Wonderful Life
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): James Stewart, Donna Reed
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

 
Jolson Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Larry Parks
Director(s): Alfred E. Green
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: The life story of singer Al Jolson, the son of a Jewish cantor.

 
Postman Always Rings Twice
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Lana Turner, John Garfield
Director(s): Tay Garnett
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A handyman and his employer's wife have an affair that leads to murder.

 
Notorious
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A woman is asked to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in South America and expose it.

 
Night and Day
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Alexis Smith
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:18
Subject: Music
Synopsis: Fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

 
Lady from Shanghai
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1947
Actor(s): Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: An Irish sailor who accompanies a beautiful woman and her handicapped husband on a cruise and becomes involved in a murder plot.

 
Gentleman's Agreement
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1947
Actor(s): Gregory Peck
Director(s): Elia Kazan
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: Anti-Semitism
Synopsis: A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

 
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.

 
Key Largo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A gangster holds a group of people hostage in a rundown hotel in the Florida Keys during a hurricane.

 
Red River
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): John Wayne, Montgomery Cilft
Director(s): Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A Texas cattle baron clashes with his devoted ward.

 
Mr. Blanding Builds his Dream House
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Myrna Loy
Director(s): H.C. Potter
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: New Yorkers attempt to build a new home in the country.

 
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.

 
Fort Apache
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): John Wayne, Henry Fonda
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 2:19
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Resentful of his loss in rank after serving gallantly in the Civil War, the vainglorious Lt. Col. Owen Thursday insists upon imposing rigid authority on Fort Apache and is anxious to do battle with the local Indians, despite being told that tensions are caused by corrupt white Indian agents.

 
Samson and Delilah
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature
Director(s): Cecil B. DeMille
Length of Trailer: 2:01
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: The Biblical story of the strongman and the woman who destroys his strength by cutting his hair.

 
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): John Wayne, Joanne Dru
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Western
Synopsis: An aging cavalry officer's difficulties preparing for his impending retirement.

 
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.

 
Third Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 1:12
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: A writer's attempt to learn the truth about an old friend in Vienna, a revealing glimpse of postwar intrigue, paranoia, and corruption.

 
Sands of Iwo Jima
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): John Wayne
Director(s): Allan Dwan
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A tough Marine sergeant, embittered after his wife and son leave him, trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943.

 
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.

 
On the Town
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin
Director(s): Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Length of Trailer: 0:40
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Three sailors receive a 24-hour leave in New York City.

 
Little Women
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Eizabeth Taylor
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Four New England sisters mature during the Civil War.

 
Ma and Pa Kettle
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride
Director(s): Charles Lamont
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Family
Synopsis: The humorous exploits of a impoverished family with fifteen children.

 
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: Three prospectors discover a vein of gold, then grow increasingly paranoid and violent.

 
Twelve O'Clock High
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe
Director(s): Henry King
Length of Trailer: 1:10
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A callous general and his bomber grew develop mutual respect and admiration.

 
Father of the Bride
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Family
Synopsis: A father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, and the financial and organizational pain of arranging her wedding.

 
Harvey
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): James Stewart
Director(s): Harvey Koster
Length of Trailer: 1:45
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Mild-mannered man has an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit.

 
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.

 
Sunset Blvd
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: Recently deceased hack writer Joe Gillis tells of his excursions with delusional silent movie star Norma Desmond.

 
Kim
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell
Director(s): Victor Saville
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: A colonial boy raised is a native Indian.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Place in the Sun
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 2:47
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A poor young man is drawn to a rich young woman and contemplates killing his lower-class fiance.

 
Jim Thorpe: All-American
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:20
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The life and career of the Native American athlete.

 
Streetcar Named Desire
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Kim Hunter
Director(s): Elia Kazan
Length of Trailer: 1:53
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: The relationship between Blanche DuBois, and Stanley and Stell Kowalski.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Streetcar Named Desire
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Kim Hunter
Director(s): Elia Kazan
Length of Trailer: 1:26
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: The relationship between Blanche DuBois, and Stanley and Stell Kowalski.

 
Pat and Mike
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1952
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 0:26
Subject: Sex Roles
Synopsis: The relationship between a brilliant athlete and her overbearing fiancé.

 
High Noon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1952
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly
Director(s): Fred Zinnemann
Length of Trailer: 0:38
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A sheriff must fight a gang alone when the town refuses to help him.

 
Singin' in the Rain
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1952
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Director(s): Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

 
Umberto D
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1952
Actor(s): Carl Battisti
Director(s): Vittorio De Sica
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: Italian Neo-Realism
Synopsis: A retired civil servant struggles to survive in a city plagued by passive disregard for the post-World War II plight of the elderly.

 
Glen or Glenda?
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Length of Trailer: 2:37
Subject: Sex Roles
Synopsis: Upon discovering the suicide of a known transvestite, the police inspector seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist familiar with the phenomenom,

 
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise.

 
From Here to Eternity
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift
Director(s): Fred Zinnemann
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: Pearl Harbor
Synopsis: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

 
Houdini
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
Director(s): George Marshall
Length of Trailer: 2:14
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini.

 
How to Marry a Millionaire
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): Jean Negulesco
Length of Trailer: 2:23
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

 
Shane
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 1:54
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.

 
Lili
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Leslie Caron
Director(s): Charles Walters
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town.

 
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Marilyn Monroe
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise.

 
Wild One
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s): Laszlo Benedek
Length of Trailer: 1:40
Subject: Youth Culture
Synopsis: Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town.

 
War of the Worlds
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Gene Barry, Ann Robinson
Director(s): Byron Haskin
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story of the invasion of Earth by Martians.

 
Stalag 17
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): William Holden, Otto Preminger
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Intrigue among Allied prisoners at a World War II prison camp.

 
Kiss Me Kate
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1953
Actor(s): Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: A divorced pair of actors who are brought together in Cole Porter's musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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."

 
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.

 
Executive Suite
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): William Holden, June Allyson
Director(s): Robert Wise
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: Business
Synopsis: Corporate board must choose a president.

 
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.

 
Seven Samurai
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Takashi Shimura, Toshio Mifune
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
Length of Trailer: 1:33
Subject: Japanese Film
Synopsis: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

 
Godzilla
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Akira Takarada
Director(s): Ishiro Honda
Length of Trailer: 1:54
Subject: Atomic Bomb
Synopsis: American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

 
Rear Window
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): James Stewart, Grace Kelly
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

 
On the Waterfront
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1954
Actor(s): Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint
Director(s): Elia Kazan
Length of Trailer: 2:37
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

 
Picnic
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell
Director(s): Joshua Logan
Length of Trailer: 3:20
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: A handsome drifter visits a fraternity buddy on the weekend of a small town picnic.

 
Oklahoma!
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones
Director(s): Fred Zinnemann
Length of Trailer: 0:58
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: An Oklahoma farm girl must choose between the cowboy Curley and the obsessive farm hand Jud Frye.

 
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Susan Hayward
Director(s): Daniel Mann
Length of Trailer: 0:23
Subject: Alcoholism
Synopsis: Actress Lillian Roth's struggles with alcohol.

 
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

 
It's Always Fair Weather
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse
Director(s): Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Length of Trailer: 1:51
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: Three soldiers meet 10 years after their last meeting in New York again, and find out that they have little in common now.

 
Mister Roberts
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Henry Fonda, James Cagney
Director(s): John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An ill-educated captain and a well-educated executive officer on a run-down and nearly forgotten WWII navy supply ship stationed somewhere in the backwaters of the Pacific in the waning days of the war.

 
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.

 
Marty
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair
Director(s): Delbert Mann
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: A lonely 35-year-old butcher meets a plain looking 29 year old teacher.

 
Rebel Without a Cause
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1955
Actor(s): James Dean, Natalie Wood
Director(s): Nicholas Ray
Length of Trailer: 2:20
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: An alienated and rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town.

 
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.

 
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."

 
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
Director(s): Don Siegel
Length of Trailer: 1:38
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A small town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by alien duplicates.

 
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.

 
Moby Dick
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: Pre-Civil War
Synopsis: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

 
Somebody Up There Like's Me
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Paul Newman
Director(s): Robert Wise
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Boxing
Synopsis: the life of Rocky Graziano, a one-time juvenile delinquent from New York's back streets who became World Middleweight Champion.

 
King and I
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner
Director(s): Walter Lang
Length of Trailer: 2:17
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Musical about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in governess of the King of Siam's children.

 
Giant
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: Texas
Synopsis: Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

 
Forbidden Planet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis
Director(s): Fred M. Wilcox
Length of Trailer: 2:28
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret.

 
Tea and Sympathy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Deborah Kerr
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 2:43
Subject: Alcoholism
Synopsis: The lonely wife of a prep school master who feels a bond with John Kerr, a likewise lonely teenager, who is bullied and tortured because he isn't into the expected he-man things like girls and sports.

 
Ten Comandments
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner
Director(s): Cecil B. DeMille
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.

 
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.

 
Lust for Life
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Art
Synopsis: Vincent Van Gogh as a tortured artistic genius.

 
Written on the Wind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack
Director(s): Douglas Sirk
Length of Trailer: 0:20
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A melodrama involving a Texas oil playboy and his "bad girl" sister, his best friend, an oil geologist, and an advertising executive, revolving around impotence, alcoholism, and nymphomania.

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

 
High Society
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
Director(s): Charles Walters
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: The plot of the Philadelphia Story, involving a wealthy ex-husband trying to win back his ex-wife, with a score by Cole Porter.

 
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!"

 
Man Who Knew Too Much
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1956
Actor(s): James Stewart, Doris Day
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A family vacationing in Morocco accidently stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering.

 
Throne of Blood
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Toshiro Mifune
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
Length of Trailer: 0:37
Subject: Japanese Film
Synopsis: A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophesy that he would become Emperor.

 
Hellcats of the Navy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis
Director(s): Nathan Juran
Length of Trailer: 1:33
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Reagan plays a submarine commander in the Pacific.

 
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.

 
Paths of Glory
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker
Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

 
Man With a Thousand Faces
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): James Cagney, Dorothy Malone
Director(s): Joseph Pevney
Length of Trailer: 2:05
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: Biography of actor Lon Chaney, Sr.

 
Raintree County
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift
Director(s): Edward Dmytryk
Length of Trailer: 1:06
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: A spoiled southern belle falls in love with a staunch abolitionist and descends into depression.

 
Jailhouse Rock
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Elvis Presley
Director(s): Richard Thorpe
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: Rock and Roll
Synopsis: After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

 
Pal Joey
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 4:52
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: A heel has a relationship with a wealthy older woman in order to acquire a nightclub.

 
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.

 
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Director(s): John Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:05
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Marshall Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday take on the Clanton brothers.

 
Incredible Shrinking Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Grant Williams
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Length of Trailer: 1:12
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A strange mist causes a man to shrink in size.

 
Sweet Smell of Success
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1957
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
Director(s): Alexander Mackendrick
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: A powerful newspaper columnist, determined to prevent his sister from marrying a jazz musician, employs an unscrupulous press agent to break up the affair.

 
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.

 
Touch of Evil
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 2:06
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A Mexican narcotics officer clashes with a corrupt American cop after a car explodes on the border.

 
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.

 
Look Back in Anger
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Richard Burton, Claire Bloom
Director(s): Tony Richardson
Length of Trailer: 3:16
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: An educated lower class British man is burdened by his own ego and unfulfilled potential.

 
Marjorie Morningstar
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly
Director(s): Irving Rapper
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: Ethnicity
Synopsis: A starry-eyed Jewish college girl who falls in love with summer resort small-timer.

 
Gigi
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Reliaqtonship between a rich playboy and a coutesan-in-training.

 
Vertigo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): James Stewart, Kim Novak
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:37
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: San Francisco detective's fear of heights and obsession with a woman.

 
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.

 
Last Hurrah
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Spency Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 3:08
Subject: Urban Politics
Synopsis: Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor for the last time.

 
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1958
Actor(s): Kerwih Mathews
Director(s): Nathan Juran
Length of Trailer: 1:42
Subject: Mythology
Synopsis: When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

 
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.

 
Some Like it Hot
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:03
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women.

 
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.

 
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.

 
North by Northwest
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 2:07
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

 
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.

 
Suddenly Last Summer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Director(s): Joseph L. Makiewicz
Length of Trailer: 2:41
Subject: Mental Illness
Synopsis: A playboy dies under mysterious circumstances, causing his cousin to go into shock; she is to undergo a lobotomy to relieve her distress.

 
Pork Chop Hill
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1959
Actor(s): Gregory Peck
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Length of Trailer: 0:23
Subject: Korean War
Synopsis: American GI's must retake a baren hill in Korea that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops.

 
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.

 
Inherit the Wind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Fredric March
Director(s): Stanley Kramer
Length of Trailer: 4:06
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: Based on a real-life Scopes Trial of 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

 
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.

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

 
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.

 
Elmer Gantry
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons
Director(s): Richard Brooks
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: Elmer Gantry, salesman, teams up with Sister Sharon Falconer, evangelist, to sell religion to America in the 1920's.

 
Magnificent Seven
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
Director(s): John Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:52
Subject: Western
Synopsis: An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

 
Psycho
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:49
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: An embezzler attempts to hide out at a roadside inn, run by a mama's boy.

 
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."

 
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.

 
Time Machine
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux
Director(s): George Pal
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humamity has divided into two hostile species.

 
Spartacus
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1960
Actor(s): Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
Length of Trailer: 1:10
Subject: Slavery
Synopsis: The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire.

 
Flower Drum Song
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Nancy Kwan
Director(s): Henry Koster
Length of Trailer: 1:33
Subject: Ethnicity
Synopsis: A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance.

 
Raisin in the Sun
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee
Director(s): Daniel Petrie
Length of Trailer: 2:45
Subject: African American
Synopsis: An African American family struggles over what to do with a $10,000 insurance payment.

 
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.

 
Hustler
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason
Director(s): Robert Rossen
Length of Trailer: 0:40
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

 
West Side Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno
Director(s): Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Length of Trailer: 2:13
Subject: Ethnicity
Synopsis: Two young people from rival New York City gangs who fall in love in this musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

 
Guns of Navarrone
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Director(s): J. Lee Thompson
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

 
King of Kings
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Jeffrey Hunter
Director(s): Nicholas Ray
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: The life of Jesus Christ.

 
Pocketful of Miracles
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1961
Actor(s): Glenn Ford, Bette Davis
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 1:06
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: An alcoholic street woman discovers that her convent-raised daughter is planning to visit her; her friends transform her into an elegant dowager.

 
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.

 
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): James Stewart, John Wayne
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Psychological western told in retrospect about a young idealistic lawyer, a two-fisted Westerner, and a notorious outlaw.

 
Manchurian Candidate
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury
Director(s): John Frankenheimer
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: An American soldier is captured and brainwashed into becoming a sleeper agent.

 
To Kill a Mockingbird
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Gregory Peck
Director(s): Robert Mulligan
Length of Trailer: 2:52
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge and his kids against prejudice.

 
Miracle Worker
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Length of Trailer: 1:17
Subject: Disability
Synopsis: The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

 
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.

 
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:

 
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Jim Backus
Director(s): Abe Levitow
Length of Trailer: 1:32
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: A retelling of Dickens's Christmas Carol with Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge.

 
Ride the Wild Country
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott
Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: Western
Synopsis: An aging ex-marshal is hired to transport a gold shipment through dangerous territory.

 
Music Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Robert Preston, Shirley Jones
Director(s): Morton DaCosta
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: A con man comes to a Midwestern town with a scam using a boy's marching band program.

 
Sweet Bird of Youth
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Paul Newman, Geraldine Pagae
Director(s): Richard Brooks
Length of Trailer: 1:09
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: A slick young opportunist who returns to his home town with an ageing movie queen, but runs head-on into trouble with the town's corrupt boss.

 
Lawrence of Arabia
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif
Director(s): David Lean
Length of Trailer: 2:33
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: British lieutenant T.E. Lawrence rewrites the political history of Saudi Arabia.

 
How the West was Won
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
Director(s): John Ford, Henry Hathaway
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: Western
Synopsis: The history of Western expansion in the United States as told by the story of one pioneer family.

 
Longest Day
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Eddie Albert, Paul Anka
Director(s): Ken Annakin
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

 
Gypsy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 2:30
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise.

 
Long Day's Journey into Night
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Playwright Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother.

 
Lawrence of Arabia
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1962
Actor(s): Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif
Director(s): David Lean
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: British lieutenant T.E. Lawrence rewrites the political history of Saudi Arabia.

 
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.

 
Pink Panther
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Peter Sellers, David Niven
Director(s): Blake Edwards
Length of Trailer: 3:48
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: The bumbling Inspector Clouseau tries to catch a jewl thief.

 
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.

 
Outer Limits
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Vic Perrin
Director(s): Laszlo Benedek, Leon Benson
Length of Trailer: 0:27
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: Science fiction television program. Tagline: "There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture."

 
Nutty Professor
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Jerry Lewis
Director(s): Jerry Lewis
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.

 
From Russia with Love
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Sean Connery, Robert Shaw
Director(s): Terrence Young
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: Agent 007 is sent into Turkey to confiscate an encryption device which is actually a trap for him contrived by SPECTRE.

 
Ugly American
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s): George Englund
Length of Trailer: 0:46
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: An American ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan tries to keep the Communists in the north from overrunning the weakened democracy in the south by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through. But, from his very arrival, "The Ugly American" is met with suspicion and hate even by an influential freedom fighter now suspected of being a Communist agent.

 
Lillies of the Field
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): Sidney Poitier
Director(s): Ralph Nelson
Length of Trailer: 2:20
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: An unemployed construction worker stops at a farm worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns.

 
Lord of the Flies
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1963
Actor(s): James Aubrey, Tom Chapin
Director(s): Peter Brook
Length of Trailer: 1:40
Subject: Childhood
Synopsis: Shipwrecked on an island, the castaway boys eventually revert to savagery.

 
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.

 
Goldfinger
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Sean Connery, Gert Frobe
Director(s): Guy Hamilton
Length of Trailer: 3:06
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: Investigating a gold magnate's gold smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

 
Pawnbroker
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Rod Steiger
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Length of Trailer: 1:30
Subject: Holocaust
Synopsis: A concentration camp survivor whose family was killed responds by suppressing all emotion and taking the position that nothing matters except money.

 
Fistful of Dollars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood
Director(s): Sergio Leone
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

 
Hard Day's Night
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Beatles
Director(s): Richard Lester
Length of Trailer: 0:47
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A day in the life of the Beatles.

 
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.

 
Speech for Goldwater
Type: Speech
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 54:53
Subject: Politics
Synopsis:

 
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.

 
Fail-Safe
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1964
Actor(s): Walter Matthau, Henry Fonda
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Length of Trailer: 2:52
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction.

 
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.

 
For a Few Dollars More
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1965
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood
Director(s): Sergio Leone
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Two bounty hunters team up to track down a Western outlaw.

 
Help
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1965
Actor(s): Beatles
Director(s): Richard Lester
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: Ringo is the target of a cult and the band must protect him.

 
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.

 
Man for All Seasons
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw
Director(s): Fred Zinnemann
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

 
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Length of Trailer: 2:06
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: A night of fun and drinks for two college professors and their wives turns into an emotional and psychological nightmare.

 
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.

 
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood
Director(s): Sergio Leone
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune.

 
Wild Angels
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra
Director(s): Roger Corman
Length of Trailer: 2:55
Subject: Youth
Synopsis: A brooding Hells Angels chieftain tries to bury a friend in a small town, but the locals resist.

 
Russians Are Coming
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Carl Reiner, Alan Arkin
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Length of Trailer: 4:28
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: A Soviet submarine beaches on the New England coast, sending the locals into a paranoid frenzy.

 
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.

 
Fahrenheit 451
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Oskar Werner, Julie Christie
Director(s): Francois Truffaut
Length of Trailer: 2:08
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

 
Wolfman
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1966
Actor(s): Lon Chaney, Jr.
Director(s): George Waggner
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Horror
Synopsis:

 
Graduate
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Length of Trailer: 3:12
Subject: Youth
Synopsis: A young man, just out of college and worried about his future, becomes involved with a young woman and her mother.

 
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.

 
Persona
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson
Director(s): Ingmar Bergman
Length of Trailer: 2:21
Subject: Foreign Film
Synopsis: An actress, struck numb by an unknown cause, is placed in the care of an inexerienced nurse.

 
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."

 
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn
Director(s): Stanley Kramer
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: Race
Synopsis: A couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiance who is black.

 
To Sir with Love
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson
Director(s): James Clavell
Length of Trailer: 3:14
Subject: Education
Synopsis: A rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school.

 
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.

 
In the Heat of the Night
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1967
Actor(s): Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.

 
Funny Girl
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Barbra Streisand
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.

 
Finian's Rainbow
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Petula Clark
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Length of Trailer: 2:36
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: A mysterious Irishman, Finian, and his beautiful daughter Sharon arrive one day in a small Southern town of sharecroppers.

 
Wild in the Streets
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones
Director(s): Barry Shear
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A rock star joins forces with a California politician to lower the voting age and enact a youth-oriented agenda.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Rosemary's Baby
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes
Director(s): Roman Polanski
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: Supernatural
Synopsis: A husband arranges to have his wife impregnated by Satan in exchange for success in a Broadway play.

 
Yellow Submarine
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Beatles
Director(s): George Dunning
Length of Trailer: 3:39
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.

 
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.

 
Oliver!
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Mark Lester, Ron Moody
Director(s): Carol Reed
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: Musical adaptation of Dickens's Oliver Twist, the story of an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

 
Night of the Living Dead
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea
Director(s): George A. Romero
Length of Trailer: 1:03
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.

 
Producers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder
Director(s): Mel Brooks
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A producer and an accountant attempt to make money by producing a sure-fire Broadway flop.

 
Ice Station Zebra
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine
Director(s): John Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: A Russan satellite, containing films of western defense installations, crashes near a British civilian weather research station and an American submarine is sent on a rescue mission.

 
Planet of the Apes
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1968
Actor(s): Charlton Heston, Riddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: An astronaut lands on a planet where intelligent apes are the dominant species.

 
Z
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Yves Montand, Irene Papas
Director(s): Costa-Gavras
Length of Trailer: 1:20
Subject: Greek Film
Synopsis: Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.

 
Medium Cool
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Harold Blankenship, Christine Berstrom
Director(s): Haskell Wexler
Length of Trailer: 3:29
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: TV news camera find himself becoming personally involved in the violence which erupts around the 1968 Democratic Convention.

 
Midnight Cowboy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, John Voight
Director(s): John Schlesinger
Length of Trailer: 2:05
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.

 
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Jane Fonda
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Length of Trailer: 3:02
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanly grueling dance marathon.

 
Wild Bunch
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): William Holden, Ernest Borgnine
Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
Length of Trailer: 2:53
Subject: Western
Synopsis: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

 
Take the Money and Run
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Woody Allen
Director(s): Woody Allen
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: The life of an incompetent, petty criminal Virgil Starkwell.

 
True Grit
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): John Wayne, Glen Campbell
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Tagline: "The strangest trio ever to track a killer. A fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life... a Texas ranger thirsty for bounty money... and a girl still wet behind the ears who didn't care what they were or who they were as long as they had true grit."

 
Sweet Charity
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Shirley MacLaine
Director(s): Bob Fosse
Length of Trailer: 1:14
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: A taxi dancer continues to have faith in humanity despite endless disappointments.

 
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.

 
Putney Swope
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1969
Actor(s): Arnold Johnson
Director(s): Robert Downey, Sr.
Length of Trailer: 2:32
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: A token African American on the board of an advertising firm is placed in charge.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Little Big Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

 
Wild Child
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut
Director(s): Francois Truffaut
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: A child who cannot walk, speak, or read. is found in 1798 and a scientist attempts to civilize him.

 
Woodstock
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Country Joe and the Fish
Director(s): Michael Wadleigh
Length of Trailer: 4:33
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.

 
Garden of the Finzi Continis
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda
Director(s): Vittorio De Sica
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Holocaust
Synopsis: An aristocratic Jewish family in Ferrara, Italy in the late 1930s.

 
MASH
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland
Director(s): Robert Altman
Length of Trailer: 2:27
Subject: Korean War
Synopsis: The staff of a field hospital use humour and hijinks to keep their sanity amidst the horror of the Korean war.

 
Molly Maguires
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Sean Connery, Richard Harris
Director(s): Martin Ritt
Length of Trailer: 1:03
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fight against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder.

 
Patton
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): George C. Scott, Karl Malden
Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner
Length of Trailer: 2:45
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: George Patton's controversial World War II career.

 
Gimme Shelter
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Rolling Stones
Director(s): Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Length of Trailer: 2:47
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: A harrowing documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont.

 
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1970
Actor(s): Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, So Yamamura
Director(s): Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Length of Trailer: 0:53
Subject: Pearl Harbor
Synopsis: The attack on Pearl Harbor as told from both the American and Japanese sides.

 
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.

 
Last Picture Show
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges
Director(s): Peter Bogdanovich
Length of Trailer: 2:49
Subject: Post WWII Texas
Synopsis: In the dying town of Anarene, Texas, where the main-street movie house is about to close for good, a pair of high-school football players are coming of age and struggling to define their uncertain futures.

 
Shaft
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn
Director(s): Gordon Parks
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: African American
Synopsis: African American private eye John Shaft tracks down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster.

 
French Connection
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Gene Hackman
Director(s): William Friedkin
Length of Trailer: 0:19
Subject: Drugs
Synopsis: A pair of New York City cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

 
Klute
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland
Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A call girl is stalked by a killer.

 
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.

 
Harold and Maud
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort
Director(s): Hal Ashby
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: Cult
Synopsis: A death obsessed 20-year-old befriends a 79 year old with a zest for life.

 
Johnny Got His Gun
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1971
Actor(s): Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields
Director(s): Dalton Trumbo
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A World War I soldier, wounded by a landmine, loses his arms, legs,a nd eyes, and his ability to hear, speak, or smell.

 
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.

 
Last Tango in Paris
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider
Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: Sexuality
Synopsis: While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall
Director(s): Philip Kaufman
Length of Trailer: 1:09
Subject: Western
Synopsis: The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.

 
Play It Again Sam
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Woody Allen
Director(s): Herbert Ross
Length of Trailer: 2:46
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: After his wife dumps him, a mild mannered film critic tries to brave the choppy waters of born-again bachelorhood and struggles to reconcile his celluloid obsessions with the hazards of real-world dating.

 
Lady Sings the Blues
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Diana Ross
Director(s): Sidney J. Furie
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: African American
Synopsis: The troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

 
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.

 
Jeremiah Johnson
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Robert Redford
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: An American soldier goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man.

 
Godfather
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1972
Actor(s): Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Length of Trailer: 3:38
Subject: Organized Crime
Synopsis: A Mafia boss' innocent son gets involved in the bloody family business when his father is critically wounded in a mob hit.

 
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.

 
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Western
Synopsis: The events leading up to the death of Billy the Kid, who was killed by Pat Garrett, a former friend turned lawman.

 
Serpico
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): Al Pacino
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: Police
Synopsis: The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

 
Magnum Force
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood
Director(s): Ted Post
Length of Trailer: 2:19
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who go beyond the law to kill undesirables.

 
Last Detail
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid
Director(s): Hal Ashby
Length of Trailer: 2:52
Subject: 1970s
Synopsis: Two sailors, escorting a thief to a brig in Massachusetts, decide to expose him to all the sins he will miss in prison.

 
Exorcist
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow
Director(s): William Friedkin
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: A 12-year-old girl is possessed by the devil and her only hope is an exorcism.

 
Way We Were
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1973
Actor(s): Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Length of Trailer: 2:35
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A novelist and an activist who are social and political opposites strike up a romance in the 1930s, and have a rocky relationship through the next two decades that reflects much of America's history.

 
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.

 
Warriors
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Michael Beck
Director(s): Walter Hill
Length of Trailer: 1:53
Subject: City
Synopsis: A New York City gang is accused of murdering a gang leader, and the other gangs in the city seek revenge.

 
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.

 
Godfather Part II
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Al Pacino, Robert Duvall
Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
Length of Trailer: 3:10
Subject: Organized Crime
Synopsis: The early life and career of Vito Corleone is portrayed while his son expands his grip on his crime syndicate during the 1950s.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Lenny
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine
Director(s): Bob Fosse
Length of Trailer: 2:48
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: Interview style biography of constroversial comedian Lenny Bruce.

 
Great Gatsby
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1974
Actor(s): Robert Redford, Mia Farrow
Director(s): Jack Clayton
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Literary Adaptation
Synopsis: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby, and becomes witness to Gatsby's obsession and tragedy.

 
Tommy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1975
Actor(s): Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey
Director(s): Ken Russell
Length of Trailer: 3:14
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of worship by a religious cult.

 
Wind and the Lion
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1975
Actor(s): Sean Connery, Candice Bergen
Director(s): John Milius
Length of Trailer: 2:03
Subject: Theodore Roosevelt
Synopsis: The attempts to free an American woman abducted in Morocco.

 
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.

 
Jaws
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1975
Actor(s): Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: 1970s
Synopsis: A police chief, a scientist, and a grizzled sailor set out to kill a shark that is menacing a seaside community.

 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1975
Actor(s): Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher
Director(s): Milos Forman
Length of Trailer: 0:26
Subject: Mental Illness
Synopsis: A rebellious inmate fights back against a mental institution's authorities.

 
Nashville
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1975
Actor(s): Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
Director(s): Robert Altman
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: The intersecting stories of country music stars, country music wannabees and business people, and an operative for a presidential candidate.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Rocky
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
Director(s): John G. Avildsen
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: Boxing
Synopsis: A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

 
Taxi Driver
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Length of Trailer: 3:01
Subject: City
Synopsis: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.

 
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.

 
Outlaw Josey Wales
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
Length of Trailer: 2:11
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

 
King Kong
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin
Director(s): John Guillermin
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a giant gorilla.

 
Marathon Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Laurance Olivier
Director(s): John Schlesinger
Length of Trailer: 2:41
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A graduate student is drawn into a mysterious plot involving a Nazi war criminal in hiding.

 
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.

 
Network
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1976
Actor(s): Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Television
Synopsis: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Star Wars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1977
Actor(s): Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Director(s): George Lucas
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Rebels, led by Princess Leia, fight the Evil Empire. Luke Sywalker, aided by the mercenary Han Solo and his sidekick Chewbacca, see to resue the princess.

 
Saturday Night Fever
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1977
Actor(s): John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney
Director(s): John Badham
Length of Trailer: 0:58
Subject: City
Synopsis: A Brooklyn youth feels his only chance to get somewhere is as the king of the disco floor.

 
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.

 
Grease
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1978
Actor(s): John Travolta, Oliva Newton-John
Director(s): Randal Kleiser
Length of Trailer: 2:21
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: The friendships, romances, and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s.

 
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.

 
F.I.S.T.
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1978
Actor(s): Sylvester Stallone
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Rock and Roll High School
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1979
Actor(s): P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten
Director(s): Allan Arkush
Length of Trailer: 1:57
Subject: Education
Synopsis: A group of rock-loving students, with the help of The Ramones, combat the school's oppressive administration.

 
Hair
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1979
Actor(s): John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
Director(s): Milos Forman
Length of Trailer: 2:21
Subject: 1960s
Synopsis: Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted.

 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1979
Actor(s): Paul Benjamin, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee
Director(s): Fielder Cook
Length of Trailer:
Subject: African American
Synopsis: Based on writer Maya Angelou's childhood, this story is about a young girl in the South who is sent to live with her grandmother after her parents divorce.

 
Norma Rae
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1979
Actor(s): Sally Field, Ron Leibman
Director(s): Martin Ritt
Length of Trailer: 2:43
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.

 
Kramer vs. Kramer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1979
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
Director(s): Robert Benton
Length of Trailer: 1:40
Subject: Family
Synopsis: A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him.

 
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.

 
Stuntman
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1980
Actor(s): Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback
Director(s): Richard Rush
Length of Trailer: 1:44
Subject: Film Industry
Synopsis: A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set that needs a new stuntman.

 
Private Benjamin
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1980
Actor(s): Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan
Director(s): Howard Zieff
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: Military
Synopsis: A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim.

 
Used Cars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1980
Actor(s): Kurt Russell, Jack Warden
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
Length of Trailer: 2:12
Subject: Business
Synopsis: When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

 
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.

 
Raging Bull
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1980
Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Length of Trailer: 2:02
Subject: Boxing
Synopsis: A biographical film about the middleweight champ, the physically tough, but emotionally self-destructive Jake LaMotta.

 
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.

 
Gallipoli
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Mark Lee, Bill Kerr
Director(s): Peter Weir
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

 
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.

 
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Mel Gibson
Director(s): George Miller
Length of Trailer: 2:22
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: In the post-apocolyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter help a small colonly of pioneers resist attacks by a band of bandits

 
Reds
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Director(s): Warren Beatty
Length of Trailer: 1:14
Subject: Russian Revolution
Synopsis: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia.

 
Fort Apache: The Bronx
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Paul Newman, Ed Asner
Director(s): Daniel Petrie
Length of Trailer: 2:28
Subject: Police
Synopsis: A new precinct captain arrives in a police station in the South Bronx. Will he revive a corrupt, apathetic force or play by the book and do more harm than good?

 
Ragtime
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Howard Rollins, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern
Director(s): Milos Forman
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Turn-of-the-Century
Synopsis: Fact and fiction intertwin in this portrait of turn of the century America.

 
Mommie Dearest
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Faye Dunaway
Director(s): Frank Perry
Length of Trailer: 3:49
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Joan Crawford as viewed through the eyes of her adopted daughter.

 
Kent State
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): David Aguar, Charley Lang, Jane Fleiss
Director(s): James Goldstone
Length of Trailer: 1:10
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell protests at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970, following the U.S. incursion into Cambodia.

 
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Length of Trailer: 1:08
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Archeologist and adventurer, Indiana Jones, is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis.

 
Stripes
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1981
Actor(s): Bill Murray, Harold Ramis
Director(s): Ivan Reitman
Length of Trailer: 2:06
Subject: Military
Synopsis: Two friends, dissatisfied with their jobs, decide to join the army

 
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.

 
My Favorite Year
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Peter O'Toole
Director(s): Richard Benjamin
Length of Trailer: 0:20
Subject: Television
Synopsis: A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.

 
gandhi
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Ben Kingsley
Director(s): Richard Attenborough
Length of Trailer: 3:30
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: Biography of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.

 
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director(s): Amy Heckerling
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe.

 
Return of Martin Guerre
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Gerard Depardieu
Director(s): Daniel Vigne
Length of Trailer: 0:59
Subject: Medieval France
Synopsis: In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he returns home from the army.

 
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.

 
Rambo First Blood
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
Director(s): Ted Kotcheff
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Abused by a small town's police force, a mentally unstable Vietnam war vet strikes back.

 
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.

 
Tootsie
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Length of Trailer: 1:23
Subject: Sex Roles
Synopsis: An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.

 
Sophie's Choice
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline
Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
Length of Trailer: 1:04
Subject: Holocaust
Synopsis: A writer meets a Polish Holocaust survivor and a medical research obsessed with the Holocaust, and learns about the tragic choice that the survivor had to make.

 
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.

 
Zoot Suit
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Edward James Olmos
Director(s): Luis Valdez
Length of Trailer: 1:56
Subject: Latino
Synopsis: Based on the Sleep Lagoon case and the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles during World War II, it examines members of a Mexican American gang who are unjustly convicted of murder.

 
Missing
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1982
Actor(s): Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek
Director(s): Costa-Gavras
Length of Trailer: 0:46
Subject: Chile
Synopsis: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman, this is the story of an American father of conservative background who comes to Chile to search for his missing son, a journalist.

 
Trading Places
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd
Director(s): John Landis
Length of Trailer: 1:04
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

 
Local Hero
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert
Director(s): Bill Forsyth
Length of Trailer: 2:02
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery.

 
Uncommon Valor
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Gene Hackman, Robert Stack
Director(s): Ted Kotcheff
Length of Trailer: 1:06
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: A group of Vietnam vets reunite to rescue a comrad who was taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

 
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.

 
Right Stuff
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
Director(s): Philip Kaufman
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Space
Synopsis: The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

 
Risky Business
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
Director(s): Paul Brickman
Length of Trailer: 1:20
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A crafty high schooler goes into business with a beguiling prostitute while his parents asre out of town.

 
Terms of Endearment
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Director(s): James L. Brooks
Length of Trailer: 4:41
Subject: Family
Synopsis: The ups and downs in the relationship between a mother and her daughter.

 
Sugar Cane Alley
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Garry Cadenat
Director(s): Euzhan Palcy
Length of Trailer: 1:08
Subject: Caribbean
Synopsis: A self-sacrificing grandmother tries to keep her orphaned grandson in school in 1930s Martinique.

 
Sadat
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Louis Gossett, Jr.
Director(s): Richard Michaels
Length of Trailer: 1:17
Subject: Middle East
Synopsis: Tagline: "He made his name as a warrior. He made history as a peacemaker."

 
Zelig
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
Director(s): Woody Allen
Length of Trailer: 0:37
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: A mock documentary about a man who can look and act like those around him.

 
Sudden Impact
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: Dirty Harry searches for a vengeful rape victim.

 
WarGames
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy
Director(s): John Badham
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

 
Valley Girl
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1983
Actor(s): Nicholas Cage, Deborah Foreman
Director(s): Martha Coolidge
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Julie, from the San Fernando Valley, must choose between her jock boyfriend and Nic, a bad boy punk.

 
Sixteen Candles
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Molly Ringwald
Director(s): John Hughes
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A teenage girl's sixteenth birthday becomes the source of humiliation and embarrassment.

 
Red Dawn
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen
Director(s): John Milius
Length of Trailer: 1:17
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: A group of teenagers bands together to defend their midwestern town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

 
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.

 
Karate Kid
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Pat Morita
Director(s): John G. Avildsen
Length of Trailer: 2:02
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: A handyman agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.

 
Ghostbusters
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Bill Murray
Director(s): Ivan Reitman
Length of Trailer: 2:12
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

 
Moscow on the Hudson
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Robin Williams
Director(s): Paul Mazursky
Length of Trailer: 2:06
Subject: Immigration
Synopsis: When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.

 
Killing Fields
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor
Director(s): Roland Joffe
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: A New York Times reporter and his Cambodian photographer cover the civil war in Cambodia.

 
Terminator
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Arnold Schwartenegger
Director(s): James Cameron
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A computer system called Skynet sends a cyborg, a human looking robot, is sent to kill the mother of the leader of human resistance.

 
Missing in Action
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1984
Actor(s): Chuck Norris
Director(s): Joseph Zito
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Tagline: "The war's not over until the last man comes home." Colonel James Braddock, who escaped from a POW camp, returns to Vietnam to prove Americans are still being held captive.

 
Witness
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis
Director(s): Peter Weir
Length of Trailer: 1:44
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A police officer goes into hiding in Amish country to protect a young Amish boy who is the sole witness to a murder.

 
Rambo Part II
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
Director(s): George P. Cosmatos
Length of Trailer: 2:27
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Tagline: "They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail. But they made one mistake. They forgot they were dealing with Rambo." Rambo is sent on a top secret mission to bring back POWs still held in Vietnam.

 
My Beautiful Laundrette
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth
Director(s): Stephen Frears
Length of Trailer: 1:38
Subject: Multiculturalism
Synopsis: An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Falcon and the Snowman
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn
Director(s): John Schlesinger
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: Espionage
Synopsis: The true story of a disillusioned CIA employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

 
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.

 
Revolution
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1985
Actor(s): Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski
Director(s): Hugh Hudson
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: American Revolution
Synopsis: New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the army.

 
Speech on Challenger Accident
Type: Speech
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 4:56
Subject: 1980s
Synopsis:

 
Salvador
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): James Woods
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:56
Subject: Latin America
Synopsis: A journalist drives to El Salvador to chronicle life under the country's military dictatorship.

 
Sweet Liberty
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Alan Alda
Director(s): Alan Alda
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: American Revolution
Synopsis: Hollywood transforms a scholarly book on the American Revolution into a movie loaded with sex and violence.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Raw Deal
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Arnold Schwartenegger
Director(s): John Irvin
Length of Trailer: 1:34
Subject: Action
Synopsis: A disgraced former FBI agent is offered reinstatement if he'll go undercover to capture a mob boss.

 
River's Edge
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves
Director(s): Tim Hunter
Length of Trailer: 0:54
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: The reactions of a group of teens when a high school friends murders his girlfriend.

 
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Matthew Broderick
Director(s): John Hughes
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks.

 
Hoosiers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey
Director(s): David Anspaugh
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship.

 
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.

 
Platoon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Charlie Sheen
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: Tagline: "The first casualty of war is innocence." A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war.

 
Pretty in Pink
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy
Director(s): Howard Deutch
Length of Trailer: 1:48
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Complications ensue when a girl from the wrong side of the tracks meets a wealthy high school hunk.

 
Top Gun
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1986
Actor(s): Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis
Director(s): Tony Scott
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: Military
Synopsis: Macho students at an elite military flight school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be the best; one romances the teacher.

 
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.

 
Lethal Weapon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
Director(s): Richard Donner
Length of Trailer: 0:18
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A veteran detective is partnered with a young detective with a suicidal death wish.

 
Last Emperor
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci
Length of Trailer: 1:55
Subject: Imperial China
Synopsis: The story of the final Emperor of China.

 
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.

 
Pelle the Conqueror
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Pelle Hvenegaard
Director(s): Bille August
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Swedish Immigrants
Synopsis: At the end of the 19th century, a boat full of Swedish emigrants migrates to a Danish island.

 
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.

 
Wall Street
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Business
Synopsis: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top.

 
Hamburger Hill
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman
Director(s): John Irvin
Length of Trailer: 1:22
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: A highly realistic account of fourteen soldiers during the ten day 1969 battle for a highly fortified hill in the A Shau Valley held by the North Vietnamese.

 
Matewan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1987
Actor(s): Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones
Director(s): John Sayles
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated by the mining company.

 
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.

 
Stand and Deliver
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Edward James Olmos
Director(s): Ramon Menendez
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Latino
Synopsis: A dedicated mathematics teacher inspires his students to do so well in calculus that they are accused of cheating.

 
School Daze
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Laurence Fishburne
Director(s): Spike Lee
Length of Trailer: 1:15
Subject: African American
Synopsis: Social divisions within an all-black college are revealed when a student tries to join a popular fraternity.

 
Mississippi Burning
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe
Director(s): Alan Parker
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Civil Rights
Synopsis: Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of several civil rights activists.

 
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.

 
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

 
Talk Radio
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Eric Begosian, Ellen Greene
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Media
Synopsis: An abuse radio host receives death threats from Neo-Nazis.

 
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1988
Actor(s): Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A group of children help a stranded alien return home.

 
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.

 
Roger and Me
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Michael Moore
Director(s): Michael Moore
Length of Trailer: 2:31
Subject: City
Synopsis: Director Michael Moore pursues GM CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing.

 
Sex, Lies & Videotape
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): James Spader, Andie MacDowell
Director(s): Steven Soderbergh
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Sexuality
Synopsis: When an unfaithful lawyer husband's college roommate visits,

 
When Harry Met Sally
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Platonic friends who dance around their deeper feelings for one another.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Lean on Me
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Morgan Freeman
Director(s): John G. Avildsen
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: Education
Synopsis: The dedicated, but tyrannical, Joe Clark is appointed as principal of a decaying inner city school.

 
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.

 
Heathers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Winona Ryder, Christian Slaver, Shannen Doherty
Director(s): Michael Lehmann
Length of Trailer: 1:46
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics.

 
Lethal Weapon 2
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
Director(s): Richard Donner
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

 
Glory
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1989
Actor(s): Mathew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman
Director(s): Edward Zwick
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Robert Shaw leader the Massachusetts 54th, an all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
New Jack City
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Weley Snipes, Ice-T
Director(s): Mario Van Peebles
Length of Trailer: 1:51
Subject: African American
Synopsis: A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megamanical while a maverick police detective vows to stop him. Tagline: "They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime."

 
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.

 
Silence of the Lambs
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Jodie Foster
Director(s): Jonathan Demme
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: Clarice Starling, a young FBI agent, is assigned to help find a missing woman, and save her from a psychopathic killer with the help of another killer.

 
JFK
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Kevin Costner
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:23
Subject: Presidency
Synopsis: A New Orleans District Attorney argues that the assassination of John Kennedy was a conspiracy.

 
Mississippi Masala
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Denzel Washington, Sarita Chodhury
Director(s): Mira Nair
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Ethnicity
Synopsis: A daughter of an Indian family expelled from Uganda falls in love with a black carpet cleaner.

 
Josephine Baker Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Lynn Whitfield, Ruben Blades
Director(s): Brian Gibson
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: African American
Synopsis: Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's.

 
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.

 
Thelma and Louise
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis
Director(s): Ridley Scott
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: Women
Synopsis: An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.

 
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Rosalind Chao
Director(s): Nancy Kelly
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: Chinese
Synopsis: The true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman.

 
Madame Bovary
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Isabelle Huppert
Director(s): Claude Chabrol
Length of Trailer: 2:14
Subject: 19th Century France
Synopsis: A romantic woman, married to a dull country doctor, throws herself into love affairs and runs up ruinous debts.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Ironclads
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1991
Actor(s): Virginia Madsen, Alex Hyde-White
Director(s): Delbert Mann
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: The epic battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack

 
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.

 
Reservoir Dogs
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth
Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
Length of Trailer: 2:00
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A heist goes wrong, and a group of criminals tries to identify the traitor who tipped off the police.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Stalin
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Robert Duvall
Director(s): Ivan Passer
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Soviet Union
Synopsis: The life of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin.

 
Indochine
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Catherine Deneuve
Director(s): Regis Wargnier
Length of Trailer:
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: The relations among a French rubber plantation owner, her adopted Indochinese daughter, and a naval officer against the backdrop of the Vietnamese civil war.

 
League of Their Own
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna
Director(s): Penny Marshall
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.

 
Last of the Mohicans
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
Director(s): Michael Mann
Length of Trailer: 1:48
Subject: French and Indian War
Synopsis: Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.

 
Hoffa
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Director(s): Danny DeVito
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: A film based on the life of legendary union figure Jimmy Hoffa.

 
Malcolm X
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1992
Actor(s): Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett
Director(s): Spike Lee
Length of Trailer: 2:23
Subject: African American
Synopsis: The biography of the influential black nationalist leader.

 
Rising Sun
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes
Director(s): Philip Kaufman
Length of Trailer: 2:28
Subject: Japan
Synopsis: When a prostitute is murdered, cops run into obstruction from the Japanese and anti-Japanese sentiment.

 
Jurassic Park
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Sam Neill, Laura Dern
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Length of Trailer: 1:05
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Scientists clone dinosaurs to populate a theme park which suffers a major security breakdown.

 
Sommersby
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Jodie Foster, Richard Geer
Director(s): Jon Amiel
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: A man arrives in a poor Tennessee town, claiming to be a woman's veteran husband.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Menace II Society
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate
Director(s): Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: African American
Synopsis: A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

 
Heaven and Earth
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 2:33
Subject: Vietnam
Synopsis: the story of Le Ly Hayslip's life of suffering during and after the Vietnam war.

 
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.

 
Geronimo: An American Legend
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Jason Patric, Gene Hackman
Director(s): Walter Hill
Length of Trailer: 2:59
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: Walter Hill's revisionist take on the American cavalry's campaign to capture renegade Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo.

 
Philadelphia
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington
Director(s): Jonathan Demme
Length of Trailer: 2:52
Subject: AIDS
Synopsis: When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer who is the only one willing to argue a wrongful dismissal suit.

 
Gettysburg
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1993
Actor(s): Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen
Director(s): Ronald F. Maxwell
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

 
Natural Born Killers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1994
Actor(s): Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:44
Subject: Celebrity
Synopsis: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

 
Hoop Dreams
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1994
Actor(s): William Gates, Arthur Agee
Director(s): Steve James
Length of Trailer: 1:34
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

 
Forrest Gump
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1994
Actor(s): Tom Hanks, Gary Sinese, Robin Wright Penn
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
Length of Trailer: 1:46
Subject: Recent American History
Synopsis: Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.

 
Wyatt Earp
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1994
Actor(s): Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid
Director(s): Lawrence Kasdan
Length of Trailer: 2:15
Subject: Western
Synopsis: The life story of the frontier marshal examines his personal as well as his public life.

 
Road to Wellville
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1994
Actor(s): Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda
Director(s): Alan Parker
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Turn of the Century
Synopsis: Life at a health spa run by John Harvey Kellogg.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Tuskegee Airmen
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Laurence Fishburne
Director(s): Robert Markowitz
Length of Trailer: 1:54
Subject: African American
Synopsis: The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the most successful fighter units in World War II.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Jesse Borrego
Director(s): Larry Elikann
Length of Trailer: 1:18
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: The life of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his efforts to unify Native Americans to resist American expansion.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Kids
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1995
Actor(s): Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson
Director(s): Larry Clark
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Focusing on an amoral skateboarder, the film looks at life among teenagers growing up in poverty in New York City.

 
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.

 
Ghosts of Mississippi
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Alec Baldin, James Wood
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Length of Trailer: 2:01
Subject: Race Relations
Synopsis: The widow of murdered civil rights leader Medger Evers and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the murderer to justice.

 
Independence Day
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
Director(s): Roland Emmerich
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: An American president, an Army pilot, and a software programmer resist an alien invasion.

 
Portrait of a Lady
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich
Director(s): Jane Campion
Length of Trailer: 2:21
Subject: Gilded Age
Synopsis: The strong-willed, independent minded Isabel Archer makes the fateful decision to reject the proposal of a sensible English suitor, because she wants to find her own identity first.

 
Romeo & Juliet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes
Director(s): Baz Lurhmann
Length of Trailer: 1:22
Subject: Shakespeare
Synopsis: Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

 
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.

 
Lone Star
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena
Director(s): John Sayles
Length of Trailer: 1:34
Subject: Texas
Synopsis: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

 
Michael Collins
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Liam Neeson
Director(s): Neil Jordan
Length of Trailer: 1:45
Subject: Ireland
Synopsis: The life and death of Michael Collins, who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish free republic in 1921.

 
NightJohn
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Allison Jones, Carl Lumbly
Director(s): Charles Burnett
Length of Trailer: 1:14
Subject: Slavery
Synopsis: A slave risks his life to teach a young girl to read.

 
Fargo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Director(s): Joel Coen
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.

 
Feeling Minnesota
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz
Director(s): Steven Baigelman
Length of Trailer: 2:29
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: An ex-convict and his bumbling crook brother fight for the same woman.

 
High School High
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1996
Actor(s): Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Mekhi Phifer
Director(s): Hart Bochner
Length of Trailer: 1:42
Subject: Education
Synopsis: A teacher leaves elite Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School.

 
Titanic
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1997
Actor(s): Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslett
Director(s): James Cameron
Length of Trailer: 4:03
Subject: Titanic
Synopsis: Fictional romance between a rich girl and a poor boy who meet on the ill-gated voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic.

 
Wag the Dog
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1997
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: Before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to "fabricate" a war in order to cover-up a presidential sex scandal.

 
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.

 
La Bamba
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1997
Actor(s): Lou Diamond Phillips
Director(s): Luis Valez
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: Latino
Synopsis: The life of singer Ritchie Valens whose career was cut short by a plane crash.

 
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.

 
Selena
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1997
Actor(s): Jennifer Lopez
Director(s): Gregory Nava
Length of Trailer: 2:22
Subject: Latino
Synopsis: The life and death of Tejano singer Selena.

 
Saving Private Ryan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1998
Actor(s): Tom Hanks
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Length of Trailer: 1:55
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A small band of troops goes behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action.

 
Primary Colors
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1998
Actor(s): John Travolta, Emma Thompson
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president modeled after Bill Clinton.

 
The Hurricane
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Length of Trailer: 2:27
Subject: Boxing
Synopsis: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

 
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.

 
October Sky
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper
Director(s): Joe Johnston
Length of Trailer: 2:04
Subject: Space
Synopsis: The story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

 
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.

 
Girl Interrupted
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
Director(s): James Mangold
Length of Trailer: 2:25
Subject: Mental Illness
Synopsis: Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.

 
Mr. Rock 'n' Roll
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): Jud Nelson, Paula Abdul
Director(s): Andy Wolk
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Rock and Roll
Synopsis: The story of Alan Freed, a Cleveland disc jockey who popularized rock 'n' roll.

 
Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1999
Actor(s): Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman
Director(s): Luc Besson
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Medieval France
Synopsis: A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.

 
Pollock
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2000
Actor(s): Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden
Director(s): Ed Harris
Length of Trailer: 2:18
Subject: Art
Synopsis: The life and career of the American abstract expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock.

 
Golden Bowl
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2000
Actor(s): Kate Beckinsale, James Fox
Director(s): James Ivory
Length of Trailer: 2:21
Subject: Gilded Age
Synopsis: A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend.

 
Ghost World
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2000
Actor(s): Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson
Director(s): Terry Zwigoff
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: After high school, Enid, an alienated outsider, plays a prank on a vintage-record collect, and finds herself unexpectedly attracted to him.

 
Thirteen Days
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2000
Actor(s): Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood
Director(s): Roger Donaldson
Length of Trailer: 2:37
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: How President John Kennedy and his advisors handled the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Startup.Com
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2001
Actor(s): Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Tom Herman
Director(s): Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Business
Synopsis: Traces the birth, growth, and utlimate failure of new Internet company, govworks.com.

 
Enemy at the Gates
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2001
Actor(s): Jude Law, Ed Harris
Director(s): Jean-Jacques Annaud
Length of Trailer: 2:20
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

 
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.

 
Weather Underground
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2002
Actor(s): Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd
Director(s): Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Length of Trailer: 2:12
Subject: Radicalism
Synopsis: The story of the radical activists and their efforts to overthrow the system.

 
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.

 
Windtalkers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2002
Actor(s): Nicholas Cage
Director(s): John Woo
Length of Trailer: 1:26
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Indians who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.

 
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.

 
Zero Day
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Calvin Gabriel, Andre Kriegman
Director(s): Ben Coccio
Length of Trailer:
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.

 
Fog of War: Cuban Missile Crisis
Type: Clip:
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Robert MacNamara
Director(s): Errol Morris
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Documentary
Synopsis: Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.

 
Fog of War: Vietnam
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Robert MacNamara
Director(s): Errol Morris
Length of Trailer: 0:21
Subject: Documentary
Synopsis: Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.

 
Fog of War: Scenepacking
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Robert MacNamara
Director(s): Errol Morris
Length of Trailer: 0:58
Subject: Documentary
Synopsis: Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.

 
Osama: She Will Be a Boy
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar
Director(s): Siddiq Barmak
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Afghanistan
Synopsis: Because the Taliban government did not allow Afghani women to work, a widow disguises her young daughter as a boy so they won't starve to death.

 
Thirteen: Chickens Are Cool
Type: Clip:
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Master and Commander
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Russell Crowe
Director(s): Peter Weir
Length of Trailer: 2:43
Subject: War
Synopsis: During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.

 
Tupac Resurrection
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Tupac Shakur, Rappin'4-Tay
Director(s): Lauren Lazin
Length of Trailer: 2:22
Subject: African American
Synopsis: Home movies, photographs and recited poetry illuminate the life of Tupac Shakur.

 
Thirteen:A Tongue Ring
Type: Clip:
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Fog of War
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Robert MacNamara
Director(s): Errol Morris
Length of Trailer: 2:01
Subject: Documentary
Synopsis: Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.

 
Thirteen: I Need New Clothes
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 1:08
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Thirteen: One Cute Shirt
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 1:08
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Thirteen: Take Us to Melrose
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 1:38
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Thirteen: That's Really Heavy
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 1:00
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Thirteen: We Have to Have a Real Talk
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
Osama
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar
Director(s): Siddiq Barmak
Length of Trailer: 1:53
Subject: Afghanistan
Synopsis: Because the Taliban government did not allow Afghani women to work, a widow disguises her young daughter as a boy so they won't starve to death.

 
Osama: You Are a Girl
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar
Director(s): Siddiq Barmak
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Afghanistan
Synopsis: Because the Taliban government did not allow Afghani women to work, a widow disguises her young daughter as a boy so they won't starve to death.

 
Osama: Nymph
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar
Director(s): Siddiq Barmak
Length of Trailer: 0:45
Subject: Afghanistan
Synopsis: Because the Taliban government did not allow Afghani women to work, a widow disguises her young daughter as a boy so they won't starve to death.

 
Thirteen
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2003
Actor(s): Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

 
King Arthur
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley
Director(s): Antoine Fuqua
Length of Trailer:
Subject: King Arthur
Synopsis: A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
Brando: CBS
Type: News
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 8:53
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: BBC
Type: News
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Marlon Brando
Director(s):
Length of Trailer: 6:36
Subject: Marlon Brando
Synopsis:

 
Fahrenheit 911
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 2004
Actor(s): Michael Moore
Director(s): Michael Moore
Length of Trailer: 2:11
Subject: Post-9/11
Synopsis: Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11.

 

 

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