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This animated time-travel adventure features a stellar cast and is a delight for kids and adults alike. When Matt, a black teenager, has to go on a class field trip to the museum of Martin Luther King Jr., he thinks that he'd rather play baseball. But the trip turns into an exciting adventure when he and his best friend, Randy, who's white, are sent back in time to meet Dr. King. The story is ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Edward Asner, Angela Bassett, Lucas Black, Theodore Borders, LeVar Burton
Directed By: Rob Smiley, Vincenzo Trippetti

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Raymond Bailey, Robert Burton, James Cagney, Richard Carlyle (II), Ward Costello

From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: LeVar Burton, Tina Andrews, Grand L. Bush, Henry Butts, Brooks Clift
Directed By: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky

Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret. Aside from criminalizing sex and interpersonal relationships, the ruling party in their country Oceania both fabricates reality and reconstructs history for the sake of oppressing the masses. They brainwash their citizens via large, ...

Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher
Directed By: Michael Radford

Manufacturer: Vestron Video
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder, Cornelia Sharpe, Paul Hecht
Directed By: J. Lee Thompson

This lush, perfectly cast 1969 drama concerns both a doomed, royal love affair and a pivotal moment in British history. Based on Maxwell Anderson's 1948 play, Anne of the Thousand Days concerns the mess that surrounded King Henry VIII's decision to rid himself of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (Irene Papas), and marry the young Anne Boleyn (Geneviève Bujold). Anglophiles know ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos
Directed By: Charles Jarrott

A word of advice: If George (Richard Burton) and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) ever ask you over for late-night cocktails--pass. On the other hand, if you have the opportunity to see Mike Nichols's scorching film version of Edward Albee's sensational play, don't miss it! Elegantly photographed in crisp black and white by the great Haskell Wexler, the play has been "opened up" for the screen by ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Agnes Flanagan
Directed By: Mike Nichols

Film adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel involving the friendship and eventual rivalry of two men whose lives parallel the development of Alaska.

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus, Carolyn Jones
Directed By: Vincent Sherman

Scorned by reviewers when it came out, this concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder has acquired a cult over the years. In 1968 Clint Eastwood was just getting used to the notion that he might be a world-class movie star; Richard Burton, whose image had been shaped equally by classical theater training and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern
Directed By: Brian G. Hutton

An adaptation of the Christopher Marlowe masterpiece, Doctor Faustus allows Richard Burton (who also co-directed) to sink his teeth into one of the great theater roles, with loyal wife Elizabeth Taylor along for the ride. Now, there were a few good movies and many follies born of the epic marriage of Burton and Taylor; Faustus is one of their most curious progeny. Alas, Burton's ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Patrick Barwise, Adrian Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Carwardine, Jeremy Chandler
Directed By: Richard Burton