Classic Cinema Zone

Freed from captivity after his fanatical followers attack the vehicle transporting him and a ragtag trio of offenders to prison, an Arab nationalist leader leads his fellow escapees across the desert in this 1962 action adventure directed by Ronald Neame and co-starring Sal Mineo & Jack Warden.

It may not be America’s favorite sport, but football is more popular than ever, and has been a factor in more than one Hollywood film, dating back to the silent era. Here are some of the best.

This is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who redefined American sports — arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen; he’s also the subject of the 1951 biopic Jim Thorpe – All-American starring Burt Lancaster as Thorpe. GET THE DETAILS.

Movie: The Bad News Bears (1976) “First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no [...]

A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology. Part travelogue, part Greyhound advertisement.