English Advanced Year 12 - The Crucible + related texts: Related films

Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. Click here

A group of American military schoolboys become marooned on a remote island after a plane crash. While initially cooperative, after the discovery of a "beast," the boys split into two warring camps, and the boys soon learn there's a thin line between society and savagery. Click here for the 1990 version. For the original 1963 version, click here.

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s. Click here.

Details the life of Michael Collins who led the IRA against the British and founded the Republic of Eire in 1921. He was a Political martyr slain for the great cause he lived and breathed. Click here.

Based on a true story, three Aboriginal girls escape after being taken from their family as part of the 'White Australia' policy, and set off on a treacherous journey to find their way home. Click here.

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. Click here.

Raymond Shaw becomes a hero after saving his unit during the Gulf War and uses his reputation to rise up the ranks of politics. However, soldier Bennett Marco doubts that the incident even took place. Click here.

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. Click here.

The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father takes justice into his own outraged hands. Click here.

Denzel Washington in his Academy Award nominated role as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man who became a top contender for the middleweight boxing title, only to be accused of murder. Click here.

In 1952, Irish teenager Philomena became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent to a convent. When her baby was a toddler, the nuns took Philomena's child away from her and put him up for adoption in the United States. For the next 50 years, she searched tirelessly for her son. Click here.

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Richard Nixon to resign from his post. Click here.

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Click here.

A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. Click here.

Joseph Cinque leads a revolution aboard a slave ship sailing from Cuba to the USA in 1839 and tries to lead his crew back home. However, things go horribly wrong due to misdirection. Click here.

Based on the true story of one man's fight for freedom. Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted & sold into slavery. Click here.

A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student. Click here.

After seeking the expertise of former "Big Tobacco" executive Jeffrey Wigand, seasoned TV producer Lowell Bergman suspects a story lies behind Wigand's reluctance to speak, and must contend with the courts and the corporations that prevent him from exposing the truth. Click here.

In the dead of night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is startled when he is woken by local mixed-race outcast Jasper Jones outside his window - and Charlie's life changes forever. Click here.

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. Click here.

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them. Click here.

A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. Click here.

Red, serving a life sentence, and Andy, a mild-mannered banker wrongly convicted of murder, forge an unlikely bond in prison that will span more than twenty years. Click here.

This searing examination of the Enron accounting scandal reveals the psychology of greed and corporate corruption that facilitated the company's rise to power and also its fall. When Enron went bankrupt in 2001, the principals walked away millionaires, while many employees and investors were left with nothing. Click here.