This gorgeous adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's story is well worth watching with the whole family. Produced for Canadian television, it's one of those rare productions that actually sticks to the book and even enhances it through first-rate performances and an excellent script. Set on bucolic Prince Edward Island in the late 19th century, Anne of Green Gables is the ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Patricia Hamilton, Marilyn Lightstone
Directed By: Kevin Sullivan

A tale about a fatherless boy finding dramatically different father figures throughout a remarkable adventure, Treasure Island is an entertaining coming-of-age story, with themes of family, loyalty, friendship, trust, and honesty at its core. While Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale is popular film fare, it's never been done this well. Charlton Heston stars as Long John ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Richard Johnson
Directed By: Fraser Clarke Heston

Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles of, well, kids. Seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey play the titular pair, the Bard's star-crossed lovers who defy a running feud between their families in order to be together in love. Typically played on stage and in previous ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

This is a story of children from two small towns in Ireland who form small armies and battle against each other in a never-ending quest for supremacy. The film investigates the slightly surreal and powerfully emotional world we inhabit as children.

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara, Kevin O'Malley
Directed By: John Roberts

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jared Rushton, Ned Beatty, Pamela Sue Martin, Stephen Meadows, Terence H. Winkless
Directed By: Mark Griffiths

Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron, Naveira, Salas, Too
Directed By: Sally Potter

The story of a young man?s amazing journey from a slave prison to the very inner sanctum of Egypt?s Pharaoh

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Paul Mercurio, Martin Landau, Lesley Ann Warren, Alice Krige
Directed By: Roger Young

Here's an intriguing little premise: Inside Stalin's Kremlin, as seen by... his movie projectionist! Now that's glasnost. As played by Tom Hulce, he's an optimistic little dweeb who believes that Fearless Leader has only his best interests at heart. Most of the film is about his waiting to do his job, getting occasional glimpses of Uncle Joe, not realizing that, when the ruthless dictator ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Bob Hoskins, Aleksandr Zbruyev, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Directed By: Andrei Konchalovsky

Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis
Directed By: David Greene

Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives more than 12 minutes screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted ...

Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Anne Bancroft
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli