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Best of Warner Bros 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures (DVD)

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20 Best Picture Winners on 23 Discs. Broken out into 3 chapters:
  • 1929-1942 (A New Era)
    • The Broadway Melody (1929)
    • Grand Hotel (1932)
    • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    • The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
    • Gone with The Wind (1939)
    • Casablanca (1942) - 1943 Academy Award Winner
    • Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  • 1946-1959 (The Golden Years)
    • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
    • An American in Paris (1951)
    • Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
    • Gigi (1958)
    • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • 1975-2006 (The New Classics)
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
    • Chariots of Fire (1981)
    • Amadeus: Director's Cut (1984)
    • Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
    • Unforgiven (1992)
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingTM (2003)
    • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
    • The Departed (2006)
    • Also includes a 24-Page Booklet.

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Amazon has Best of Warner Bros 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures (DVD) on sale for $19.96. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on orders $25+. Thanks In4One1

20 Best Picture Winners on 23 Discs. Broken out into 3 chapters:
  • 1929-1942 (A New Era)
    • The Broadway Melody (1929)
    • Grand Hotel (1932)
    • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    • The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
    • Gone with The Wind (1939)
    • Casablanca (1942) - 1943 Academy Award Winner
    • Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  • 1946-1959 (The Golden Years)
    • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
    • An American in Paris (1951)
    • Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
    • Gigi (1958)
    • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • 1975-2006 (The New Classics)
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
    • Chariots of Fire (1981)
    • Amadeus: Director's Cut (1984)
    • Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
    • Unforgiven (1992)
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingTM (2003)
    • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
    • The Departed (2006)
    • Also includes a 24-Page Booklet.

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Two-thirds of these movies would be out of copyright and free to download if the content industry hadn't hijacked copyright law. The fact that companies are still selling a movie from 1929 should be viewed as disgraceful.
Wish this was in VHS format.

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Nice compilation OP! Peace
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Wow, pretty slick. Thanks for sharing!
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Found this in the Amazon review with a lot of details if anyone was interested.

THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929): 100 minutes - Director: Harry Beaumont - Starring: Bessie Love, Anita Page - Genre: Musical, romance - Plot: A film about Broadway, the people who play on it, and the lovers behind the scenes. G

GRAND HOTEL (1932): 112 minutes - Director: Edmund Goulding - Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore - Genre: Drama, romance - Plot: A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. G

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935): 132 minutes - Director: Frank Lloyd - Starring: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton - Genre: History, adventure - Plot: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors. PG

THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937): 116 minutes - Director: William Dieterle - Starring: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard - Genre: Biography, drama - Plot: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. G

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939): 238 minutes - Director: Victor Fleming - Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable - Genre: Romance, drama - Plot: A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War. PG

CASABLANCA (1942): 102 minutes - Director: Michael Curtiz - Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman - Genre: Romance, drama - Plot: A world-weary American bar owner in WWII-era Casablanca meets a woman out of his past, in Hollywood's greatest tale of love and loss. PG

MRS. MINIVER (1942): 134 minutes - Director: William Wyler - Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon - Genre: Drama, romance - Plot: A British family struggles to survive the early days of World War II. G

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946): 172 minutes - Director: William Wyler - Starring: Frederic March, Dana Andrews - Genre: Drama, romance - Plot: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. G

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951): 113 minutes - Director - Vincente Minelli - Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron - Genre: Musical, romance - Plot: Things get complicated for three friends in Paris when two of them fall in love with the same woman. PG

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956): 175 minutes - Director: Michael Anderson - Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas - Genre: Adventure - Plot: An extremely punctual Victorian gentleman who makes a high stakes bet that he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Needless to say, complications ensue. G

GIGI (1958): 115 minutes - Director: Vincente Minelli - Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chavalier - Genre: Comedy, musical - Plot: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. G

BEN-HUR (1959): 212 minutes - Director: William Wyler - Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins - Genre: History, adventure - Plot: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. PG

ONCE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975): 133 minutes - Director: Milos Forman - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher - Genre: Drama - Plot: A brash rebel leads a revolt against the oppressive nurse who rules a mental institution with an iron fist. R

CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981): 124 minutes - Director: Hugh Hudson- Starring: Ian Charleson, Ben Cross - Genre: Sports, drama - Plot: The true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Olympics; one a Jew determined to win, the other a devout Christian who runs like no one has ever seen. PG

AMADEUS (1984): 160 minutes - Director: Milos Forman - Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce - Genre: Drama, biography - Plot: The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. R

DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989): 99 minutes - Director: Bruce Beresford - Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy - Genre: Drama - Plot: A film about the relationship between an old Jewish woman and her colored driver in the American South. PG

UNFORGIVEN (1992): 131 minutes - Director: Clint Eastwood - Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman - Genre: Western, drama - Plot: A retired gunslinger reluctantly takes on one last job against a dangerous mayor, with the help of his old partner and a young man. R

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003): 201 minutes - Director: Peter Jackson - Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen - Genre: Fantasy, adventure - Plot: The epic conclusion to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which the forces of light must face down the forces of Sauron, the Dark Lord. PG-13

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004): 132 minutes - Director: Clint Eastwood - Starring: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood - Genre: Sports, drama - Plot: A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional. PG-13

THE DEPARTED (2006):151 minutes - Director: Martin Scorsese - Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson - Genre: Crime, drama - Plot: Two moles who have infiltrated a mob and the police force race to identify each other before they are discovered. R
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What would make this really b@tchin' is if digital copies were available. Oh yeah!
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Wish this was in VHS format.
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I know Fellowship and Towers didn't receive best picture, but weird to only include Return when they could have just included another film instead (unless they only have 20 best picture films?)
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Quote from Eragorn :
I know Fellowship and Towers didn't receive best picture, but weird to only include Return when they could have just included another film instead (unless they only have 20 best picture films?)
This collection is specifically for Warner Bros best pictures. Why wouldn't they include one of their highest grossing?
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BTW years ago, I watched most of the best pictures throughout each decade. Some where fantastic--Mrs. Minivar and Grand Hotel among them. This is a set well worth the money for some epic movies from yesteryear, especially if you can discover a little off their historical context, e.g. that Mrs. Minivar was shot completely during the height of the third reich.
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Great deal! That said, I'm still surprised when I read that DVDs still outsell Blu-rays...
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Thanks!
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Awesome collection. For those who have a desire to get into older films, but are turned off from what they have seen, I highly recommend using Casablanca as your entry point into classics. It's a film that completely still holds up today, but consists of plenty of the techniques of acting/storytelling synonymous with that era. I know it's the cliche "classic" film, especially to recommend to someone (as if people haven't heard of it or something), but it has that reputation for a very warranted reason and could very well open the door to the rest of the classics for you.

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Quote from chumpsky2010 :
Bull Hockey. Where's Predator? Scarface? Die Hard? Really? Chariots of Fire? Like two people saw that movie. Total BS.
Those didn't win "Best Picture" award. That is what this collection is, a compilation of movies that won the "Best Picture" award...