El mundo en sus manos (1952)
¡Un nuevo mundo de aventuras invade la pantalla!
Género : Aventura, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 44M
Director : Raoul Walsh
Escritor : Borden Chase
Sinopsis
1850. Jonathan Clark, el capitán de la goleta La peregrina de Salem, se enamora en San Francisco de la condesa rusa Marina Selanova, mientras recoge un valioso cargamento de pieles. Sin embargo, ella ha llegado a la ciudad para contraer un matrimonio concertado con el pérfido príncipe Semyon.
Entre 1990 y 2003, Timothy Treadwell, camarero, actor ocasional y ex-alcohólico, pasó catorce veranos conviviendo con los osos grizzly. Él mismo grabó con su cámara de vídeo sus estancias en Alaska y su obsesiva relación con los plantígrados (unas cien horas). Werner Herzog usó parte de este material. El último verano, uno de los osos atacó a Timothy y a su novia Annie.
In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Remake de una película de aventuras de 1938, titulada "Spawn of the North"; en español "Lobos del norte". Tras salir de la cárcel, Matt vuelve a su ciudad natal y, gracias a un amigo, encuentra trabajo como pescador de salmón. El problema es que una banda de criminales se dedica a robar las trampas de pesca.
This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.
Martin Eden quiere ser escritor pero para ganarse el pan opta por embarcarse como marino en un barco mercante. Una dura tormenta azota al navío que acaba naufragando. Martin consigue salvarse y decide poner por escrito la horrible experiencia que acaba de vivir. Algo que le traerá problemas con muchas personas.
Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.
Jim y Tanya viven con su hijo Eric en Umnak, un desolado paraje de las Islas Aleutianas, cerca del Círculo Polar Ártico. Una leyenda cuenta que cuando los hombres llegaron a las islas después de cruzar la lengua de tierra del mar de Bering, la foca dorada vino para enseñarles y protegerlos. Sin embargo, la codicia hizo que el hombre empezará a cazar las focas y la foca dorada tuvo que ocultarse bajo el círculo polar ártico. También dice que su regreso traerá consigo una gran tormenta de rayos dorados. Un día la leyenda se convierte en realidad y con ella también reaparecen los peores instintos del ser humano. (FILMAFFINITY)
Willie is a young man who has everything that he wants. He lives on a mountain, goes skiing whenever he wants and has a simple job working for an old man. But when the old man’s business is threatened, Willie signs up for the first Kamikaze run, a downhill skiing race where only the very best and craziest person will win. And Willie is a little bit crazy, only he doesn’t know it or care. In the competition, he meets a young woman named Annie, whom he falls a little bit in love with, but Willie also needs to fend off the schemes of Spider Bolton, a man who will do whatever it takes to win.
La acción transcurre en el año 1897, donde cazadores de fortuna que vienen de todo el país se dirigen hacia la zona de Klondike en el Yukón para buscar oro, en un largo y peligroso viaje que pone a prueba a los aventureros.
Jack Thornton, un buscador de oro, compra un magnífico San Bernardo al que llama Buck. Los problemas surgen cuando Buck muerde a Smith, otro buscador de oro, que quiere matarlo para vengarse. Jack y Smith llegan a un acuerdo que consiste en hacer una carrera de trineos, cuyo vencedor se quedará con Buck.
Leni, a daring young girl, is visiting for the second time a ski-resort. The local ski-teachers agree to organize a "fox-hunt" for her. Leni and Hannes are "the foxes", and about 40 other skiers will have to catch them, starting with a 15 minutes delay. It's not the story that makes this film, but the extremely spectacular, thrilling shots about skiing.
After failing to sell the skins he has achieved, Grey Beaver Hunter accepts some gold in exchange for his faithful dog White Fang. The new owner holds and mistreats the dog to infuriate and use in illegal dog fighting. In one of the White Fang fights suffer serious injuries. An animal advocate stopped the fight and White Fang takes to heal the wounds.
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.
Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.
A father gives his daughter an unorthodox upbringing on the fringes of the Alaskan underworld in the 1960's and 70's.
A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
John Moore, a young sea captain has a romance with Kay Wheeler, daughter of a trusted trader, "Pop" Wheeler, on a Pacific island. He also acquire the enmity of "Shanghai" Morgan, a notorious sea captain who shanghais his crew and his women.
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.