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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its first list, the American Film Institute (AFI) has issued its newest listing of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time. Each title below is linked to the library catalog, where you can request the movie in DVD or Videocassette format. DVDs and Videocassettes are checked out for 1 week with a $2.00 rental fee. For an additional $2.00, DVDs and Videocassettes can be renewed for one week. DVDs and Videocassettes can be renewed twice. So stock up on popcorn and enjoy!
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High Noon, 1952
The classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
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Double Indemnity, 1944
An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death-- then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime.
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Apocalypse Now, 1979
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
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The Maltese Falcon, 1941
After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
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The Godfather Part II, 1974
The saga of the Corleone family's rise to power in the criminal world continues in this sequel to The Godfather. As Michael Corleone rises to leadership of the family, flashbacks revealing the early years of Don Vito are interspersed with the continuing story of the embattled family.
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Annie Hall, 1977
Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-mining experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune, but greed and suspicion surround their venture in a terrifying way.
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Dr. Strangelove, 1964
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
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The Sound of Music, 1965
Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.
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King Kong, 1933
Adventure story of the giant ape King Kong, discovered on Skull Island, his voyage to New York and his fatal attraction to a young woman, leading to death and destruction as he pursues her.
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Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
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Midnight Cowboy, 1969
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
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The Philadelphia Story, 1940
A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
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Shane, 1953
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
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It Happened One Night, 1934
A rich young woman marries an idle playboy against her father's will. Her father holds her captive on his yacht but she escapes and, while on her way to New York, becomes entangled with an unemployed news reporter.
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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
The story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is abused and eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law.
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Rear Window, 1954
As a photographer with a broken leg, James Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden.
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Intolerance, 1916
Interweaves four stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages.
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