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A user friendly reference guide to 100 of the most socially significant films, exploring twenty important issues that recur in these films.

Table of Contents

Introduction America, America (1963) American History X (1998) And the Band Played On (1993) As Good As It Gets (1997) Betrayed (1998) Black Legion (1936) Black Like Me (1964) Blue Denim (1959) Border Incident (1949) The Burning Bed (1984) Cell 2455 Death Row (1955) Chicago Calling (1951) The Choice (1981) A Civil Action (1998) Colors (1988) Compulsion (1959) Conrack Cradle Will Rock (1999) Cruising (1980) Dangerous Child (2002) Dead Man Walking (1995) Divorce His/Divorce Hers (1973) The Divorcee (1930) Dolores Claiborne (1995) Domestic Disturbance (2001) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) An Early Frost (1985) Environment (1971) Focus (2001) Fourteen Hours The Glass Wall (1953) Gods and Monsters Good Morning Vietnam (1987) Good Will Hunting (1997) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Green Card (1990) Green Dragon (2002) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) I Want to Live (1958) If These Walls Could Talk (1996) In Cold Blood (1967) Indictment (1995) The Intruder (1962) Iris (2001) Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976) Kate's Secret (1986) Key Witness (1960) Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) The Lady Gambles (1949) Lean On Me (1989) Lenny (1974) The Lost Weekend (1945) Mad at the World (1955) The Man Who Played God (1932) The Man With the Golden Arm (1956) Mask (1985) The Men (1950) Modern Times (1936) Monkey On My Back (1957) My Name Is Bill W. (1989) Night Unto Night No Blade of Grass (1970) No Way Out (1950) Patty (1962) The Perez Family (1995) Philadelphia (1993) The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981) Prophecy (1979) Pump Up the Volume (1990) Reversal of Fortune (1990) Right of Way (1983) Rock Hudson (1990) Roe vs Wade (1989) Separate But Equal (1991) Sign of the Ram (1948) Sixth and Main (1977) Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) Slender Thread (1965) A Small Killing (1981) Soylent Green (1973) Stand and Deliver (1987) Stone Pillow (1985) Storm Center (1956) Storm Warning (1950) The Straight Story (1999) The Suicide's Wife (1979) Suspect (1987) Sybil (1976) Ten Rillington Place (1971) Trial (1955) Ultimate Betrayal (1993) The Unfaithful (1947) The Unspoken Truth (1995) Walking On Water (2002) War of the Roses (1989) West Side Story (1961) The Whales of August (1987) When Innocence Is Lost (1997) Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) Woman On the Beach (1947)

About the Author

Charles P. Mitchell has served as director of many Maine libraries and also as the Chairman of the Southern Maine Library District.