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Olympic Films

Without Limits (1998) Rated PG-13 The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve PrefontaineĀ from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendaryĀ coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and … Continue reading

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Oscar Films Worth a Watch 2011

Ā Cimarron (1931) Rated NR Director Wesley Ruggles’ sweeping adaptation of Edna Ferber’s classic American novel was the first Western to win the Best Picture Oscar. Richard Dix stars as Yancey Cravat, a larger-than-life pioneer and newspaperman who moves his family … Continue reading

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Documentary Films

Beyond the Gates of Splendor (2005) Rated PG-13 This documentary tells the extraordinary story of five American missionaries who, in 1956, traveled to the Amazon basin of Ecuador, where they were killed by the Waodani, an intensely violent tribe of … Continue reading

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