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The many emotional scars left by South Africa's history of institutionalized racism come under the microscope in this drama. As South Africa comes to terms with the legacy of apartheid, their government has created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which the perpetrators of racial violence and injustice must come face to face with their victims if they are to be forgiven for their crimes. Langston Whitfield ( Samuel L. Jackson ) is an African-American journalist who is assigned to cover...

Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great , Josef von Sternberg 's The Scarlet Empress was the most opulent and exotic. Marlene Dietrich plays the German-born Catherine , who is required to marry Russia's mad Grand Duke Peter ( Sam Jaffe , decked out in a Harpo Marx wig). As if her joke of a marriage isn't torment enough, Catherine must endure the excesses of her new mother-in-law, Empress Elizabeth ( Louise Dresser ). Eventually, Catherine finds solace -- and romance...

In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz ) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York's media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill again. Spike Lee 's Summer of Sam deals in part with this crime spree, but it mostly looks back at the fearful impact of his crimes on New York's collective consciousness. Vinny and Dionna ( John Leguizamo...