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In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50 year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case

In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the units doctor cause frictions within ranks

At the end of WWI the US Navy camouflages a battleship as a harmless schooner and sails for the Canary Islands to confront a notoriously effective German U boat No one sees the US submarine secretly escorting the s

A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son whos a risk taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brothers family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm

Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey

The story of Dr Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincolns assassin in 1865

Anti Catholic and anti cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the states last remaining priest

A merchant ships crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression

Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia

A possessive mother pushes her son into World War I service rather than see him get married

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordleys cheating wife Linda

The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish American political boss, running for re election as mayor of a U S town for the last time

In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacifics backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty ov

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life

A light skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race

Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the c

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U S government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation

When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown up Brandon helps to realize his fathers dream of a transcontinental railway

In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in

At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe

William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the towns underclass and for democratic values

A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt He does wed Mary but their time in America is financia

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc