Blue Extra

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Otto Preminger

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Stephen Herek

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas

Lucky Jackson arrives in Las Vegas with his car literally in tow ready for the first Grand Prix — once he has the money for an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he'll lose both race and girl, problems complicated by rivalry from womanizing fellow ra...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

George Sidney

Cast

Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova

Runtime

1h 5m

Director

Helmuth Rüßmann

Cast

Wolfgang Petry

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of...

Runtime

3h 44m

Director

Michael Wadleigh

Cast

Richie Havens, The Who, Joe Cocker