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A Tale of Two Cities

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The ultimate tale of love, honor and sacrifice during the bloodstained French Revolution is movingly brought to life in this sumptuous production. The dashing Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride) stars in dual roles as the cynical lawyer Sydney Carton and the disenchanted aristocrat Charles Darnay, both in love with the same woman (Alice Krige, Silent Hill, TV's Deadwood). Also starring Peter Cushing (Star Wars), this Golden Globe-nominated version of the Charles Dickens classic thrillingly captures all the drama and emotion of one of history's most explosive eras.

Director: 
Jim Goddard
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:36
A Tale of Two Cities

John Steinbeck's The Red Pony

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Three of John Steinbeck's short stories are combined to create a powerful family portrait in this program. Young Tom Tiflin is unable to find the love and guidance he needs from his parents so he turns to easy-going hired-hand, Billy Buck. In an attempt to become closer to his son, Tom's father gives him a pony to raise. As the horse becomes the focus of Tom's life, it ultimately drives the family further apart. Family ties and Tom and Billy's friendship are put to the test when the red pony becomes sick and disappears. Stars Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy.

Director: 
Lewis Milestone
Length: 
01:31
John Steinbeck's The Red Pony

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe (2000)

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Includes a dramatization of "A Tell-Tale Heart" (25 min.); Performances of his poetry including This program from the Master Poets Collection features "To My Mother," The Conqueror Worm," "Annabel Lee," "Eldorado," "Evening Star," "To Helen," "The Haunted Palace," "Israfel," "The City in the Sea" and "The Raven"(34 min.); Stories & Tales Audio Theater (approx.116 min.) includes "The Cask of

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:56
An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe

Learn Shakespeare Tragedies Origins & Style (2002)

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This program helps students gain an appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare. After exploring Shakespeare's life and the time of the English Renaissance, this program contains sections on understanding Shakespeare's poetry and the elements of Elizabethan drama.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
00:45
Learn Shakespeare Tragedies Origins & Style

Ethan Frome

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Frome, a lonely, poverty-stricken, nineteenth-century New England farmer, has long and faithfully cared for his bitter, invalid wife, but when his wife's distant young cousin comes to take over as housekeeper, she and Frome succumb to forbidden passion with tragic results

Director: 
John Madden
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:39
Ethan Frome

Hamlet

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Mel Gibson and Glenn Close star in Shakespeare's tale of treachery, madness and murder. Follow the prince of medieval-era Denmark as he faces the treachery behind his royal father's death. Supporting cast includes Alan Bates as Claudius and Paul Scofield as the ghost of Hamlet's father. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Director: 
Franco Zeffirelli
Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
02:15
Hamlet

Hamlet (1980)

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This richly costumed production maintains all the tension of a murder mystery as it examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt and death.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
03:42
Hamlet

Julius Caesar (1979)

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Breaking all conventional rules of drama, shakespeare creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another, and themselves.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
02:41
Julius Caesar

Macbeth (1983)

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This savage tragedy is one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular. Told by a trio of witches that he is fated to become King of Scotland, the warrior Macbeth, aided by his wife, in his quest for power murders his king and assumes the throne. The two embark on a guilt-ridden reign of terror.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
02:28
Macbeth

Othello (1981)

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Jealousy in love is one of the most common human emotions. In Othello, Shakespeare combines this universal theme with perfectly structured scenes, a storyline that lingers in the memory and a prime example of a tragic hero, Othello himself. The result is perhaps his greatest triumph as a stage play.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
03:28
Othello

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