Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Katharine Hepburn, Alcoholism, Drama, Tony Richardson; Edward Albee A Delicate Balance 133 min 1973 Paul Scofield, Loss, Play Edward Albee Lee Remick Family Georgian, Eighteenth Century, Simon Langton; Jane Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice Drama, Romance, Jane Austen 53 min 1995 Austen, Andrew Crispin Bonham-Carter, Vol. I Romance Classic, Davies Jennifer Ehle Strong Female Lead, Inheritance Georgian, Eighteenth Century, Simon Langton; Jane Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice Drama, Romance, Jane Austen 54 min 1995 Austen, Andrew Crispin Bonham-Carter, Vol. II Romance Classic, Davies Jennifer Ehle Strong Female Lead, Inheritance Georgian, Eighteenth Century, Simon Langton; Jane Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice Drama, Romance, Jane Austen 53 min 1995 Austen, Andrew Crispin Bonham-Carter, Vol. III Romance Classic, Davies Jennifer Ehle Strong Female Lead, Inheritance Georgian, Eighteenth Century, Simon Langton; Jane Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice Drama, Romance, Jane Austen 53 min 1995 Austen, Andrew Crispin Bonham-Carter, Vol. IV Romance Classic, Davies Jennifer Ehle Strong Female Lead, Inheritance Georgian, Eighteenth Century, Simon Langton; Jane Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice Drama, Romance, Jane Austen 50 min 1995 Austen, Andrew Crispin Bonham-Carter, Vol. V Romance Classic, Davies Jennifer Ehle Strong Female Lead, Inheritance Georgian, Eighteenth Century, Simon Langton; Jane Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice Drama, Romance, Jane Austen 52 min 1995 Austen, Andrew Crispin Bonham-Carter, Vol. VI Romance Classic, Davies Jennifer Ehle Strong Female Lead, Inheritance Strong Female Lead, Emma Thompson, Ang Lee; Nineteenth Century, Drama, Kate Winslet, Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 137 min 1995 Jane Austen, Emma Love, Marriage, Romance Hugh Grant, Thompson Georgian Era, James Fleet Classic Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Mike Barker; Toby Stephens, Victorian Era, Ann Bronte's The Anne Brontë, Ann Brontë Drama 145 min 1996 Tara Fitzgerald, Marital Betrayal, Tenant of Wildfell Hall Janet Barron, David Rupert Graves Strong Female Lead Noakes Gothic, Drama, David Skynner; Emily Robert Cavanah, Romance, Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Romance, 113 min 1998 Brontë, Peter Davison, Revenge, Classic, TV Movie Neil McKay Orla Brady Victorian Era, Class Paul's Case (The Larmont Johnson; Eric Roberts, Pittsburgh, Willa Cather American Short Drama 55 min 1980 Willa Cather, Michael Higgins, Suicide, Story) Ron Cowen Gus Kaikkonen Discontent Chaucer: The General Geoffrey Poetry Reading, Classroom Resource, Prologue to the 16 min Chaucer Dramatization Literature Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Six Centuries of Classroom Resource, Poetry Reading 30 min 1984 Richard Mervyn John Gielgud Chaucer Verse: Chaucer Literature, Literary Figure Love, Mystery, Tim Fywell; Tara Fitzgerald, Murder, Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Thriller, 120 min 1997 Wilkile Collins, David Justine Waddell, Marriage, TV Movie Prie Andrew Lincoln Mental Illness, Victorian Era, Gothic Samuel Writing the Rime of Intructional, Classroom Resource, Taylor 15 min Andrew Normington the Ancient Mariner Dramatization Literature Coleridge Julian Farino; Sandy Paul McGann, Victorian England, Charles Out Mutual Friend, Drama, 115 min 1998 Welch, Charles Keeley Hawes, Inheritance, Dickens Part I Miniseries Dickens David Schofield Marriage Julian Farino; Sandy Paul McGann, Victorian England, Charles Out Mutual Friend, Drama, 115 min 1998 Welch, Charles David Morrissey, Inheritance, Dickens Part II Miniseries Dickens Paul Bailey Marriage Julian Farino; Sandy Paul McGann, Victorian England, Charles Out Mutual Friend, Drama, 115 min 1998 Welch, Charles David Bradley, Inheritance, Dickens Part III Miniseries Dickens Linda Bassett Marriage Dramatization, An Evening With Emily Instructional, Emily Dickinson (A 30 min Dickinson Classroom Certain Slant of Light) Resource An Evening With Dramatization, Emily Emily Dickinson (The Instructional, 30 min Dickinson World of Emily Classroom Dickinson) Resource Emily The Authors: Emily Short Film, Journal Films, Fred 23 min Susan Kay Monts Dickinson Dickinson Biography Sharpe Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Murder, Patrick Dempsey, Fyodor Crime and Crime, Drama, TV Movie 90 min 1998 Joseph Sargent Ben Kingsley, Dostoyevsky Punishment Retribution, Julie Delpy Addiction Sidney Lanfield; Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Hound of the Mystery, 80 min 1939 Ernest Pascal, Arthur Nigel Bruce, Crime, Doyle Baskervilles Thriller Conan Doyle Richard Greene Detective Richard Lester; Michael York, Action, Seventeenth Century, Alexandre Return of the George MacDonald Oliver Reed, Aventure, 102 min 1989 Swashbuckler, Dumas Musketeers Fraser, Frank Finlay, Comedy Historical Fiction Alexandre Dumas Geraldine Chaplin Graham Theakston; Emily Watson, Drama, Forbidden Love, George Eliot The Mill on the Floss 90 min 1997 Hugh Stoddart, Cheryl Campbell, TV Movie Land Dispute George Eliot James Frain Bernice Bobs Her Hair Shelley Duvall, Flapper, F. Scott Short film, Joan Micklin Silver; F. (American Short 47 min 1976 Veronica Cartwright, Coming of Age, Fitzgerald Drama Scott Fitzgerald Story) Lane Binkley 1920s 1920s, Adventure, Judy Davis, Indian British Rule, Drama, David Lean; E.M. Forster A Passage to India 165 min 1984 Victor Banerjee, Racism, History, E.M. Forster Peggy Ashcroft Corruption, Adaptation Justice 1930's London, Comedy, Eileen Atkins, Stella Strong Female Lead, Cold Comfort Farm Romance, 105 min 1995 John Schlesinger Kate Beckinsale, Gibbons Woman Writer, Adaptation Sheila Burrell Farm William Drama, Anne Bancroft, Arthur Penn; William Gibson; Helen The Miracle Worker Biography, 106 min 1962 Patty Duke, Helen Keller Gibson Keller Adaptation Victor Jory Adaptation, Starletta DuPois, Dysfunctional Family, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun Bill Duke; Lorraine TV Movie, 172 min 1989 Lou Ferguson, Racial Tension, Hansberry (American Playhouse) Hansberry Drama John Fiedler African American Drama, Julie Christie, Nineteenth Century, Thomas Far From the Madding History, John Schlesinger, 110 min 1967 Peter Finch, Victorian England, Hardy Crowd Part I Romance, Thomas Hardy Alan Bates Unrequited Love Adaptation Drama, Julie Christie, Nineteenth Century, Thomas Far From the Madding History, John Schlesinger, 65 min 1967 Peter Finch, Victorian England, Hardy Crowd Part II Romance, Thomas Hardy Alan Bates Unrequited Love Adaptation Drama, Christopher Eccleston, Nineteenth Century, Thomas Jude Romance, 150 min 1996 Michael Winterbottom Kate Winslet, Dysfunctional Marriage, Hardy Adaptation Liam Cunningham Love Affair Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Seventeenth Century, Franklin J. Schaffner; Mary Sinclair, Nathaniel Drama, Illegitimate Children, The Scarlet Letter 53 min 1950 Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Baragrey, Hawthorne Adaptation Puritan, Joseph Liss Richard Purdy Witchcraft Monckton Comedy, Preston Sturges; Barbara Stanwyck, Henry The Lady Eve 94 min 1941 Wealth, Gold Digger, Love Hoffe Romance Monckton Hoffe Fonda, Charles Coburn Homer, Aventure, Armand Assante, Epic, Homer The Odyssey Fantasy, 176 min 1997 Andrey Konchalovskiy Greta Scacchi, Voyage, Drama, TV Isabella Rossellini Fall of Troy The Jolly Corner George Backman, Arthur Barron; Henry Alter Ego, Henry James (American Short Drama 45 min 1975 Sudie Bond, James Unlived Life Story) James Greene Turn-of-the-Century Ireland, John Huston; Anjelica Huston, James Joyce's The Feast of the Epiphany, James Joyce 85 min 1987 Tony Huston, James Donal McCann, Dead Drama Revelation, Joyce Dan O'Herlihy Unlived Life Vincente Minnelli, Poet, Adventure, Howard Keel, Edward Stanley Donen; Caliph, Kismet Musical, 115 min 1955 Ann Blyth, Knoblock Charles Lederer, Harem, Fantasy Dolores Gray Luther Davis Baghdad 150 min (Act I: 90 Bernadette Peters, James Lapine, James Lapine Into the Woods Musical min / Act 1991 Joanna Gleason, Stephen Sondheim II: 60 Chip Zien min) Play, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dublin; William Luce The Belle of Amherst History, 90 min 1984 Julie Harris One-Woman Play, William Luce Biography Literary Figure Simon Callow; Comedy, Vanessa Redgrave, Carson The Ballad of the Sad Carson McCullers, Southern Gothic, Drama, 101 min 1991 Keith Carradine, McCullers Café Edward Albee, American South Mystery, Cork Hubbert Michael Hirst Fred Zinnemann; Ethel Waters, Coming-of-Age, Carson The Member of the Edna Anhalt, Edward Drama 93 min 1952 Julie Harris, Family, McCullers Wedding Anhalt, Carson Brandon De Wilde Race Relations McCullers Journal Films, Herman Short Film, Herman Melville 23 min Lee W. Guckman, Jr.; Richard Kuss Literary Figure Melville* Biography Fred Sharpe Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Alan Skog; Kelli O'Hara, World War II, James A. South Pacific: Live Musical, Oscar Hammerstein 155 min 2010 Paulo Szot, Prejudice, Michener from Lincoln Center Romance II, Danny Burstein Love Joshua Logan 17th Century, Drama, Nicholas Hytner; Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Arthur Miller The Crucible 124 min 1996 Salem, History Arthur Miller Ryder, Paul Scofield Witch Trials Milton and Stephen Mantell; Literary Figure, John Milton Seventeenth-Century Documentary 30 min Carroll Moulton Poetry Poetry (FFH) Edward Petherbridge, Molière: The Sharon Duce, Play, Satire, Molière Misanthrope (The 51 min 1975 Harold Mantell Neil Stacy, Comedy French Aristocracy Comedy of Manners) Sheila Reid, Helen Cotterill. Bill Alexander; Molière, Comedy, Nigel Hawthorne, Alison Molière Tartuffe 112 min 1983 Christopher Seventeenth Century, TV Movie Steadman, Anthony Sher Hampton, Molière Fraud Connie Booth, Rocket to the Moon Comedy, John Hacobs; Marriage, Clifford Odets 111 min 1986 Judy Davis, (American Playhouse) Drama Clifford Odets Affair William Hootkins Drama, Ralph Fiennes, World War II, Michael Anthony Minghella; The English Patient Romance, 162 min 1996 Juliette Binoche, Love Affair, Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje War Willem Dafoe Italy Eugene Hughie (American Terry Hughes; Jason Robards, Monologue, Drama 65 min 1984 O'Neill Playhouse) Eugene O'Neill Jack Dodson Death The Iceman Cometh, Alcoholism, Eugene Sidney Lumet; Jason Robards, Jr., Part I (The Play of the Drama 102 min 1960 Pipe Dreams vs. Reality, O'Neill Eugene O'Neill Myron McCormick Week) Suicide The Iceman Cometh, Alcoholism, Eugene Sidney Lumet; Jason Robards, Jr., Part II (The Play of Drama 106 min 1960 Pipe Dreams vs. Reality, O'Neill Eugene O'Neill Myron McCormick the Week) Suicide World War I, Strange Interlude, Comedy, Herbert Wise; Kenneth Branagh, Eugene Loss, Part I (American Drama, 94 min 1988 Rober Ender, David Dukes, O'Neill Mental Illness, Playhouse) Sci-fi Eugene O'Neill Julie Eccles Illegitimate Children World War I, Strange Interlude, Comedy, Herbert Wise; Kenneth Branagh, Eugene Loss, Part II (American Drama, 95 min 1988 Rober Ender, David Dukes, O'Neill Mental Illness, Playhouse) Sci-fi Eugene O'Neill Julie Eccles Illegitimate Children Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Pirandello: Six Absurdism, Niki Flacks, Absurdist, Luigi Characters in Search Ken Frankel; Luigi Metatheatre, 55 min 1976 Ben Kapen, Metatheatre, Pirandello of an Author (Theatre Pirandello Play Gwendolyn Brown Experimental of the Absurd) Short Story, Edgar Allen The Cask of Bruce Nalepinski; Dramatization 19 min 1991 Conrad Pomerleau Literary Figure, Poe Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe Classroom Resource Roger Corman; Edgar Vincent Price, Curse, Edgar Allen The Fall of the House Horror 79 min 1960 Allen Poe, Richard Mark Damon, Death, Poe of Usher Matheson Myrna Fahey Madness Nineteenth Century, Edgar Allen Bruce Nalepinski; The Tell-Tale Heart Dramatization 19 min 1991 Conrad Pomerleau Horror, Poe Edgar Allen Poe Short Story Randa Haines; The Jilting of Granny Geraldine Fitzgerald, Aging, Katherine Corinne Jacker, Weatherall (American Drama 57 min 1980 Lois Smith, Unrequited Love, Anne Porter Katherine Anne Short Story) William Swetland Loss Porter Swashbuckler, Edmond Drama, José Ferrer, Mala Powers, Deception, Cyrano de Bergerac 120 min 1950 Michael Gordon Rostand Romance William Prince Love, France Jesus Dramatization, Juan José Otegui, Spanish, Articules de Jesus Fernandez Fernandez Documentary, 60 min 1980 José Yepes Cardo, Madrid, Costumbre Santos Santos Foreign Language Maribel Hidalgo Verbal Portraits Drama, Lynn Redgrave, Ancient Rome, William Antony & Cleopatra Lawrence Carra; History, 90 min 1984 Timothy Dalton, Tragedy, Shakespeare Part I William Shakespeare Romance John Carradine Betrayal Drama, Lynn Redgrave, Ancient Rome, William Antony & Cleopatra Lawrence Carra; History, 96 min 1984 Timothy Dalton, Tragedy, Shakespeare Part II William Shakespeare Romance John Carradine Betrayal Paul Czinner; Drama, J.M. Barrie Elisabeth Bergner, William As You Like It Comedy, 96 min 1936 (treatment), Laurence Olivier, Shakespeare Romance Robert Cullen, Sophie Stewart William Shakespeare Dramatization, William Noel Hardy; David New Shakespeare Shakespeare, The Comic Spirit Classroom 59 min Shakespeare Whitworth Company Comedy Resource Drama, Stuart Burge; Charlton Heston, Assassination, William Julius Caesar History, 120 min 1970 Robert Furnival, Jason Robards, Betrayal, Shakespeare War Shakespeare John Gielgud Ancient Rome Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Laurence Olivier, William Drama, Michael Elliott; Tragedy, King Lear 158 min 1983 Colin Blakely, Shakespeare Play William Shakespeare Classic Anna Calder-Marshall Paul Rhys, William Drama, Richard Eyre, William Tragedy, King Lear 150 min 1998 Finbar Lynch, Shakespeare Play Shakespeare Classic Timothy West Paul Shenar, Monarch, William Drama, William Woodman; King Richard II, Part I 90 min 1982 Peter MacLean, Historical Figure, Shakespeare History William Shakespeare John Devlin 14th Century Paul Shenar, Monarch, William King Richard II, Part Drama, William Woodman; 80 min 1982 Peter MacLean, Historical Figure, Shakespeare II History William Shakespeare John Devlin 14th Century Scotland, Drama, Orson Welles, Nobility, William Orson Welles; William Macbeth History, 92 min 1948 Jeanette Nolan, War, Shakespeare Shakespeare War Dan O'Herlihy Betrayal, Treason Laurence Olivier, William The Merchant of John Sichel; Judaism Drama 120 min 1973 Joan Plowright, Shakespeare Venice William Shakespeare Antisemitism Jeremy Brett Nineteenth Century, Comedy, Kevin Kline, William A Midsummer Night's Michael Hoffman; Bicycle, Fantasy, 116 min 1999 Michelle Pfeiffer, Shakespeare Dream William Shakespeare Trickster, Romance Rupert Everett Play Court Politics, Comedy, Kenneth Branagh, Honor, William Much Ado About Kenneth Branagh; Drama, 111 min 1993 Emma Thompson, Shame, Shakespeare Nothing Shakespeare Romance Keanu Reeves Infidelity, Deception Love, John Arranges, Betrayal, William Drama, Janet Suzman; Othello, Part I 100 min 1989 Saul Bamberger, Revenge, Shakespeare Romance Shakespeare Stuart Brown Repentance, Racism Love, John Arranges, Betrayal, William Drama, Janet Suzman; Othello, Part II 90 min 1989 Saul Bamberger, Revenge, Shakespeare Romance Shakespeare Stuart Brown Repentance, Racism Great Britain, Drama, Richard Loncraine; Ian McKellen, 1930s, William War, Richard III 104 min 1995 Ian McKellan, Annette Bening, Monarch, Shakespeare History, William Shakespeare Jim Broadbent Murder, Biography Facism Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Britain, Anthony Asquith, Comedy, Leslie Howard, Class, George Leslie Howard; Pygmalion Drama, 90 min 1938 Wendy Hiller, Bet, Bernard Shaw George Bernard Romance Wilfrid Lawson Comedy of Manners, Shaw Strong Female Harriet Robyn Hatcher, Slavery, Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin Drama 55 min 1988 Marvin Duckler Nathaniel Robinson, Plantation, Stowe Bryce Davis Lousiana Heir, Tim Holt, Booth The Magnificent Drama, Orson Welles; Family Fortune, 88 min 1942 Joseph Cotten, Tarkington Ambersons Romance Booth Tarkington Widower, Dolores Costello Love Ralph Rosenblum; Satire, Robert Preston, The Man that Comedy, Mark Twain, Temptation, Mark Twain 40 min 1980 Tom Aldredge, Corrupted Hadleyburg Short Film Mark Harris, Guilt, Fred Gwynne Calvin Skaggs Biblical Allegory Comedy, One-Man Play, Mark Twain* Mark Twain Tonight! 90 min 1967 Paul Bogart Hal Holbrook Play Literary Figure John Lankston, Musical, Leonard Bernstein: Harold Prince; Voltaire Musical 144 min 1982 David Eisler, Satire, Candide Lillian Hellman Erie Mills Voltaire Future, Comedy, Sean Astin, Kurt Bruce Pittman; Dystopia, Harrison Bergeron Sci-Fi, 100 min 1995 Miranda de Pencier, Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Satire, TV Movie Eugene Levy Black Comedy African American, Steven Spielberg; Danny Glover, Racial Prejudice, Alice Walker The Color Purple Drama 154 min 1985 Alice Walker, Whoopi Goldberg, Female Relationships, Menno Meyjes Oprah Winfrey Domestic Violence Bruce Schwartz, Alice Karen Ffolkes, Rachel Identity, African American, Alice Walker Everyday Use Drama 25 min 2003 Walker Luttrell, Lyne Odums Culture, Family, 1970 Gertrude Stein and a Ira Cirker, Jan Miner, Literary Figures, Win Wells TV Movie 80 min 1987 Companion Win Wells Marian Seldes Play Michael Redgrave, Mistaken Identity, The Importance of Comedy, Anthony Asquith; Oscar Wilde 95 min 1952 Richard Wattis, Marriage, Being Earnest Drama Oscar Wilde Michael Denison Comedy of Manners William Holden, Thorton Drama, Sam Wood; Love and Marriage, Our Town 90 min 1940 Martha Scott, Wilder Romance Thorton Wilder Death and Dying Fay Bainter Alcoholism, Drama, Tennessee Jessica Lange, Dysfunctional Marriage, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Play, 145 min 1984 Jack Hofsiss Williams Tommy Lee Jones Dysfunctional Family, TV Movie Homosexuality Original Running Title Genre Year Director/Writer Actor/Actress Keywords Writer Time Dysfunctional Family, Joanne Woodward, Tennessee Drama, Paul Newman; Love, The Glass Menagerie 134 mi 1987 John Malkovich, Williams Play Tennessee Williams Illness, Karen Allen Discontent Kevin Anderson, Racism, Tennessee Drama, Peter Hall; Orpheus Descending 120 min 1990 Brad Sullivan, Sexuality, Williams Romance Tennessee Williams Manning Redwood Small-Town Life Almos' A Man Short Film, Stan Lathan; LeVar Burton, Deep South, Richard (American Short Drama, 40 min 1976 Leslie Lee, Madge Sinclair, Coming of Age, Wright Story) History Richard Wright Robert DoQui African American Helmut Käutner; Carl The Captain of Comedy, Heinz Rühmann, Martin 93 min 1956 Carl Zuckmayer, Satire Zuckmayer Kopenick Drama Held, Hannelore Schroth Helmut Käutner Illicit Love, Unrequited Love, Max Ophüls; Joan Fontaine, Letter from an Drama, Illegitimate Child, Stefan Zweig 90 min 1948 Howard Koch, Louis Jourdan, Unknown Woman Romance Death, Stefan Zweig Mady Christians Duel, Music Dubious; Dramatization, The Weddynge of Sir Arthurian Legend, possibly Sir Instructional, Gawen and Dame 46 min 1999 Classroom Resource, Thomas Classroom Ragnell Literature Malory Resource