Tuesday, August 12, 2025
The Color Purple (1985) | Sister Song | Warner Bros. Entertainment
Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple.
From 1909 to 1949, Celie, a Southern Black woman, gradually gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love--despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.
The Emperor is on high...
Scene from The Last Emperor, with Lisa Lu as Empress Dowager and Richard Vuu as Puyi
Ben-Hur | Chariot Race | FULL SCENE | Warner Classics
Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) takes on Messala (Stephen Boyd) in an ancient roman chariot race. This scene is one of the greatest stunt feats in film history, choreographed by Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt and shot at Cinecittá Studios, outside of Rome. The scene took nearly a year to film and over 70 horses were bought and imported for the scene.
Cleopatra’s Procession (Clip) | Cleopatra (1963) | TCM
After lots of buildup the first shot of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra arriving in Rome, her young son in tow, presenting him to his father Caesar (Rex Harrison), commenting on the event with his aide Antony (Richard Burton), in a true “money scene,” from Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s CLEOPATRA (’63).
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