GOOD & GREAT WORKS

FILMS

 Amazing Grace

(2006) Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Youssou N’Dour, Toby Jones; Director: Michael Apted; Writers: Steven Knight (118 minutes)

Belle

(2013) Starrying: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon, Sam Reid; Director: Amma Asante; Writers: Misan Sagay (104 minutes)

Call Northside 777 

(1948) Starring: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb; Director: Henry Hathaway;  Writers: Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, Quentin Reynolds, James P. McGuire, Jack McPhaul (112 minutes)

Captain America

(2011) Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson; Director: Joe Johnston; Writers: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby (124 minutes)

The Enemy Below

(1957) (1 Academy Award); Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jurgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel; Director: Dick Powell;  Writers: Wendell Mayes, D. A. Rayner (98 minutes)

42: The True Story of an American Legend

(2013) Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Merriman, Lucas Black, Andre Holland, Alan Tudyk, Hamish Linklater, T. R. Knight, John C. McGinley, Toby Huss, Max Gail, Brad Beyer, James Pickens Jr., Gino Anthony Pesi, Brett Cullen, Jesse Luken; Director: Brian Helgeland; Writer: Brian Helgeland (128 minutes)

The Greatest Game Ever Played

(2005) Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Elias Koteas, Marnie McPhail, Peyton List, Josh Flitter, Stephen Marcus; Director: Bill Paxton; Writer: Mark Frost (120 minutes)

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

(1957) Starring: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr; Director: John Huston;  Writers: John Lee Mahin, John Huston (108 minutes)

A Man for All Seasons

(1966) (6 Academy Awards including Best Picture); Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Nigel Davenport, John Hurt, Corin Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave; Director: Fred Zinnemann; Writer: Robert Bolt (120 minutes)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

(1962) Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O’Brien, Woody Strode, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Lee Van Cleef; Director: John Ford; Written by James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck based on short story by Dorothy M. Johnson (123 minutes)

Mister Smith Goes to Washington

(1939) (1 Academy Award); Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains; Director: Frank Capra; Writers: Sydney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster, Myles Connolly (129 minutes)

Nicholas Nickelby

(2002) Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Anne Hathaway, Romola Garai, Jamie Bell, Tom Courtenay,  Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Kevin McKidd, Nathan Lane; Director: Douglas McGrath; Writers: Charles Dickens, Douglas McGrath (132 minutes)

No Highway in the Sky

(1951) Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins; Director: Henry Koster; Writers: Nevil Shute, R. C. Sheriff, Oscar Millard, Alec Coppel (98 minutes)

October Baby

(2011) Starring: Rachel Hendrix, Jason Burkey, John Schneider; Directors: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin; Writers: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin, Theresa Preston, Cecil Stokes  (107 minutes)

Pride and Prejudice

(1995) Starring: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Benjamin Whitrow, Alison Steadman; Director: Simon Langton; Writers: Jane Austen, Andrew Davies (six-episode miniseries)

Sergeant York

(1941) (2 Academy Awards); Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Margaret Wycherly, Joan Leslie; Director: Howard Hawks; Writers: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston, Alvin C. York, Tom Skeyhill, Sam Cowan (134 minutes)

Shane

(1953) (1 Academy Award); Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance; Director: George Stevens, Fred Guiol; Screenplay by Jack Sher, Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., based on book by Jack Schaefer (118 minutes)

Shenandoah

(1965) Starring: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glen Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Katharine Ross; Director: Andrew McLaglen; Writer: James Lee Barrett (106 minutes)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

(2005) Starring: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander; Director: Marc Rothemund; Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer (120 minutes)

The Sound of Music

(1965) (5 Academy Awards); Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn; Director: Robert Wise; Writers: George Hurdalek, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Ernest Lehman, Maria von Trapp (174 minutes)

Up

(2009) (2 Academy Awards); Starring: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson; Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson; Writers: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy (96 minutes)

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle

(1983) Starring: Cloris Leachman, M. Emmet Walsh, Leif Green; Director: Sharon Miller; Writer: Arthur Heinemann (45 minutes)

The Wrong Man

(1956) Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writers: Maxwell Anderson, Angus MacPhail (105 minutes)

BOOKS

Fiction

A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens

Les Miserables. Victor Hugo

A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens

Nonfiction

Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman. J. Evetts Haley

Liberal Fascism. Jonah Goldberg

My Bondage and My Freedom. Frederick Douglass

On the Genesis of Species. St. George Jackson Mivart

A Patriot’s History of the United States. Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Doris Kearns Goodwin

Undaunted Courage: Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Stephen E. Ambrose