Van Heflin

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Documentário que traça um panorama dos musicais no cinema desde a década de 20 até os anos 50, e traz entrevistas com algumas das estrelas do gênero.

In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.

Durante uma forte nevasca que ameaça fechar o funcionamento de um aeroporto, Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), o gerente encarregado, deve se virar para lidar com uma ameaça de um psicopata em explodir um avião.

A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?

The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.

This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in gold from a remote Southwestern mine without falling prey to each other's bullets.

Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded a Russian defector. The embittered ex-agent combines forces with another operative to deliver a top Russian secret police official for a price. Before he can deliver the Russian, a trail of corpses and double crosses changes his plans. When his partner who concocted the scheme is murdered, MacLean returns the check to the CIA. They offer him his old job back, but the proud man refuses.

Um grupo de viajantes é forçado a se unir ao cruzar um traiçoeiro território indígena americano em uma diligência. Ao longo do caminho, um médico bêbado encontra seu momento de redenção, a esposa de um capitão grávida descobre a bondade de estranhos, um banqueiro pomposo recebe o seu merecido castigo e uma mulher doce com má reputação encontra o amor em "Ringo Kid", um cowboy em busca de vingança.

The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.

Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer David Wolper. It concerned the world of pro football.

Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.

Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.

A vida de Jesus de Nazaré (Max von Sydow). Seu nascimento, as pregações, milagres, julgamento, crucificação e ressurreição.

During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.

"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

Depois de uma carga de cavalaria durante a "guerra contra Pancho Villa" dos EUA em 1916, o pouco heroico oficial Tom Thorn (que está obcecado pela natureza da coragem) recomenda quatro homens para receberem a Medalha da Honra. Ele recebe a missão de voltar para Cordura com os quatro... e a prisioneira Adelaide Geary que dava abrigo a inimigos. Na árdua jornada, os heróis de Thorn mostram uma face diferente, e Thorn pode ter uma última chance de provar que ele não é covarde. Contundente História de um Guerreiro do Deserto que lutou seu caminho do inferno para a gloria.

A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.

Lee Hackett (Van Heflin) é um honrado fazendeiro que criou seus dois filhos à sua imagem, para torna-los homens de bem e sensatos. Mas o mais velho é arrogante, trapaceiro e encrenqueiro, enquanto que o mais jovem é o oposto, tomando atitudes de um homem que condizem com o que seu pai ensinou. Nesse ambiente de conflito, Lee terá que enfrentar situações provocadas por ambos, que afetará até mesmo os habitantes da cidade.

A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.

Quando o charmoso bandido Ben Wade é capturado após o assalto de uma diligência, o proprietário da linha Sr. Butterfield oferece 200 Dólares para o homem que escoltar o bandido até a cidade de Contention para apanhar o trem das 15:10 para Yuma e lá ser julgado. O rancheiro Dan Evans que está quebrado e precisa de dinheiro para salvar seu gado e sustentar sua família aceita o trabalho. Durante sua jornada, Dan salva a vida de Ben quando um vigilante tenta executar o criminoso. Enquanto isso, a gangue de Ben se separa e sai em busca de onde Ben está e, em seguida, resgatar seu chefe. Quando eles descobrem que Ben está preso em um quarto de hotel, eles colocaram o lugar sob cerco e Dan não consegue encontrar nenhum homem para ajudá-lo.

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat. Based on the novel by Leon Uris.

A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.

Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there's a price on his head; he becomes romantically involved with her in the course of a series of rescues and ambushes, leading up to Orozco's march on Ciudad Juarez.

Shane entra no meio de um conflito entre o criador de gado Ryker e um grupo de colonos, dentre eles os Starretts, cuja terra Ryker quer. Quando Shane espanca Chris, um capanga de Ryker, Ryker tenta comtratá-lo. Em seguida, Shane e Joe Starrett enfrentam toda a gang de Ryker. Então Ryker envia para Cheyenne o pistoleiro profissional Wilson. Ficamos sabendo da relação de Shane com Marian, a esposa de Joe. Shane deverá eliminar todas as armas do vale antes que possa montar seu cavalo e ir embora, com o pequeno Joey gritando "Shane... Shane... Volte!"

Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.

In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

Los Angeles, Califórnia. Um policial que, descontente com seu trabalho, culpa outros por seus problemas de trabalho, é designado para investigar o caso de alguém que persegue a casa de uma mulher casada.

In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Rob Dancy are all too likely to provide this. Meanwhile, Bridger's chance of preventing catastrophe is dimmed by equally wrenching personal conflicts. Unusually accurate historically.

O casal Jessie (Barbara Stanwyck) e Brandon (James Mason) vive confortavelmente em um dos bairros mais luxuosos de Manhattan. No entanto, a vida amorosa não vai bem. Tudo piora com a volta de Isabel Lorrison (Ava Gardner), que já fora amante de Brandon no passado.

Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump. The expedition was under the overall command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, no stranger to the Antarctic. This was a large undertaking involving 13 ships and over 4000 thousand men. The fleet departed from Norfolk, Virginia traveling through the Panama canal and then southward to their final destination. The trip through the ice pack was fraught with danger and forced the submarine that was part of the fleet to withdraw. The trip was a success meeting all of its scientific goals.

D'Artagnan, um jovem provinciano, chega à Paris com o intuito de se tornar um mosqueteiro. Ele encontrará muitos obstáculos, ação, amor, ódio, o rei e a rainha. E ainda Richelieu e sua impetuosidade, que deixará D'Artagnan envolvido em tramas políticas. Mas contra tudo e todos ele se junta a Athos, Porthos e Aramis. D'Artagnan terá, além do mais, que se desdobrar para manter seguro o seu amor pela encantadora Constance Bonacieux sem com isso indispor a apaixonada Milady De Winter, uma agente secreta do Cardeal.

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

Um homem se reencontra com sua amiga de infância e seu marido, que acreditam conhecer a verdade sobre a morte de sua rica tia anos antes. Em 1928, a jovem herdeira Martha Ivers, envolvida em eventos fatais, não fugiu com seu amigo Sam Masterson. Anos mais tarde, Sam retorna para reencontrar Martha, o verdadeiro poder por trás da cidade de Iverstown, e ela se casou com o 'bom menino' Walter O'Neil, agora procurador do distrito. No início, Sam está mais interessado na deslocada loira Toni Marachek do que em seus amigos de infância, mas eles o atraem para uma teia complicada de tramas e objetivos cruzados.

Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.

In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until they can meet up and be rescued. The pilot does almost everything wrong, and the rest of his crew does almost everything right. We learn, by both bad and good example, how to survive in the jungle.

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.

Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.

Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.