What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018), Marshall (2017), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), Suzi Q (2019), On the Basis of Sex (2018), Alferd Packer: The Musical (1993), Rachel and the Stranger (1948), The Homesman (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pioneer movies.
Storyline: The life and work of the controversial film critic.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, film criticism, journalism, hollywood, film history, influence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Thurgood Marshall faces one of his greatest challenges while working as a lawyer for the NAACP. Marshall travels to conservative Connecticut when wealthy socialite Eleanor Strubing accuses Black chauffeur Joseph Spell of sexual assault and attempted murder. He soon teams up with Sam Friedman, a local Jewish lawyer who's never handled a criminal case. Together, the two men build a defense while contending with racist and anti-Semitic views from those who deem Spell to be guilty.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, legal, courtroom, race, civil rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood movie star who was hailed as the most beautiful and glamorous in the world. However, that was only the surface that tragically obscured her astounding true talents. Foremost of them was her inventive genius that a world blinded by her beauty could not recognize as far back as her youth in Austria with her homemade gadgets. This film explores Lamarr's life which included escaping a loveless marriage on the eve of Nazi Germany's conquest of her nation to a new career in Hollywood. However, her intellectual contributions were denied their due even when she offered them in the service of her new home during World War II. Only after years of career and personal decline in her troubled life would Lamarr learn that her staggering aptitude created brilliant engineering concepts that revolutionized telecommunications, which forced the world to realize the hidden abilities of a woman it had so unfairly underestimated.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, history, women, scientist, hollywood, actress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: SUZI Q is the definitive, unexpurgated story of American rock singer-songwriter -bass player- author- actor Suzi Quatro, who helped redefine the role of women in rock 'n' roll when she broke out into the mainstream 1973; has sold more than 50 million records worldwide; is still on the road and recording 55 years after she first started playing professionally. The film includes testimony from a host of rock luminaries, including Alice Cooper, Joan Jett, Deborah Harry, Cherie Currie, KT Tunstall, Tina Weymouth and Suzi's musical family; and follows Quatro as she returns to her hometown, Detroit.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, rock music, biography, influence, career, music history, interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, legal, historical, feminism, social justice, gender equality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions, he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial, where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story, which is then related to the viewers in the form of flashbacks. As Packer and his gold-prospecting clients make their way through the forests and mountains, they encounter bemused Japanese Indians, an unimpressed group of mountain men and the brutal Rocky Mountain winter, all of which inspire the travellers to break out into song and dance.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, dark comedy, horror, cannibalism, historical, biographical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Harvey is a widower with a young son, Davey. They live on an isolated Ohio farm during the pioneer days. He wants his son to be raised in the manner his wife would have wanted - with proper schooling, Bible study and proper manners. Rachel, an indentured servant, is sold to David. David then marries her in order that little Davey would have a mother to properly raise him. David shows no real affection towards Rachel since this is a marriage of convenience. This all changes when Jim, a friend of the family comes for a visit. During his stay, David sees that there is more to Rachel than just being a "bonds woman", especially when Jim takes a liking to her. This awakens new feelings in David for Rachel.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: western, drama, romance, historical, adventure, family, melodrama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
Plot Keywords: western, drama, historical, female protagonist, journey, mental illness, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: sports, biography, history, race, discrimination, america, african american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Banker William Sharon becomes desperate that his gold and silver shipments from Carson City to Virginia City are the helpless targets of a band of outlaws called "The Champagne Bandits." In true Robin Hood-fashion, after robbing the stage of its bullion, they treat its passengers to a fried chicken picnic replete with champagne. Sharon becomes convinced that the only way to foil the gang is to build a railroad to carry the ore, but that will take an extraordinary engineer in such mountainous territory. Sharon finds his man in brawling adventurer Jeff Kincaid, an experienced hand at difficult jobs and former resident of Carson City who knows the difficult terrain very well. It becomes a reunion of sorts as Kincaid's half brother works for the local newspaper, but they soon become rivals for the affections of Susan Mitchell, the publisher's daughter. Kincaid also has to fight the town's hostility to his boisterous railhands and ongoing efforts by the outlaws to sabotage the project.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: western, classic, nevada, outlaw, sheriff, gold rush, black-and-white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A penitent bounty hunter goes to work with at Risk Kids and realizes he needs their help as much as they need his.
Plot Keywords: documentary, wildlife, conservation, nature, biography, africa, research ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A delicious love story centered around a single father attempting raise his son despite the temptations of liquor and women. Lancaster shines as the stable and regal frontiersman fending off the seductions of Walter Matthau and lewd desires.
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, family, american film, 1950s, wilderness survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small farmer and rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerfull neighbour. When the neighbour even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: western, 1950s, revenge, gunfight, outlaw, rivalry, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inspired by Lindbergh's flight, Dave Logan sets out with a Washington-Philadelphia airline but suffers financial problems. With flying ace Hap Stuart he tries clipper ships on the Caribbean, then aims for the trans-Pacific route. His relentless ambition forces those closest to him to abandon him.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, drama, historical, aviation, biographical, flying ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story involves an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory to rescue two white women captured by the Cheyenne. One has turned renegade and is not anxious to be rescued as she is about to be married to Chief Thunder Hawk. Vera Miles dies and the cavalry comes to the rescue in the nick of time by a stream called Feather River. Knives, arrows, spears and tomahawks all come flying at the audience. Frank Lovejoy discourages a rattlesnake with tobacco juice and even gets off a shot into the audience.—Tom Kresin <tomk@meaddata.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, action, war, battle, rescue, 1950s ...
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