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	DANCES WITH WOLVES
	Orion, 1990
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
	DIRECTOR	Kevin Costner
	PRODUCERS	Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson
	SCREENWRITER	Michael Blake
	Costner directs and stars in this epic vision of the old West, where a disillusioned soldier leaves the Civil War and strikes out to the prairie on his own. After a difficult start, he learns to live, love and respect the land when the Sioux Indians welcome him into their tribe.

	DANGEROUS LIAISONS
	Warner Bros., 1988
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
	DIRECTOR	Stephen Frears
	PRODUCERS	Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean
	SCREENWRITER	Christopher Hampton
	This costume drama set in 18th-century France stars Close as a noblewoman and Malkovich as her poisonous cohort. Once former lovers, they share a passion for cruel, erotic games that manipulate those around them until they turn on each other.

	DAVID COPPERFIELD
	M-G-M, 1935
	PRINCIPAL CAST	W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Edna May Oliver
	DIRECTOR	George Cukor
	PRODUCER	David O. Selznick
	SCREENWRITERS	Howard Estabrook, Hugh Walpole
	A fairly literal adaptation of the Dickens novel, the film takes its strength from a gallery of engaging and villainous characters who come into contact with the title character, played by Bartholomew, including Fields as Macawber and Oliver as Aunt Betsey.

	THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
	DIRECTOR	Robert Wise
	PRODUCER	Julian Blaustein
	SCREENWRITER	Edmund H. North
	Rennie, a handsome, peace-loving alien, comes to earth and tries to warn Washington about the dangers of nuclear power. Neal, as a widow with a young son, is one of the few to heed his warnings in this landmark science-fiction film.

	DAYS OF HEAVEN
	Paramount, 1978
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
	DIRECTOR	Terrence Malick
	PRODUCERS	Bert Schneider, Harold Schneider
	SCREENWRITER	Terrence Malick
	Gere and Adams are lovers who have escaped the big city at the turn-of-the-century and begun a new life as workers in a Texas wheat field. When a love triangle with the farm's owner, Shepard, is revealed, apocalyptic events bring tragedy to their formerly idyllic world. The film is often noted for its achievement in cinematography.

	DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
	Warner Bros., 1962
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick
	DIRECTOR	Blake Edwards
	PRODUCER	Martin Manulis
	SCREENWRITER	J.P. Miller
	Lemmon drags his new wife, Remick, with him into the pit of alcoholism. Originally a television drama, the film's dark story was memorable for its unblinking look behind the closed doors of an everyman and everywoman.

	DEAD POETS SOCIETY
	Touchstone, 1989
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke
	DIRECTOR	Peter Weir
	PRODUCERS	Steven Haft, Tony Thomas, Paul Junger Witt
	SCREENWRITER	Tom Schulman
	Williams is a passionate 1950s prep school teacher who inspires his students to "seize the day." When one of his students commits suicide, his unorthodox teaching methods are blamed.

	THE DEER HUNTER
	Universal, 1978
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
	DIRECTOR	Michael Cimino
	PRODUCERS	Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, Barry Spikings
	SCREENWRITERS	Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker, Deric Washburn
	Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.

	THE DEFIANT ONES
	United Artists, 1958
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams
	DIRECTOR	Stanley Kramer
	PRODUCER	Stanley Kramer
	SCREENWRITERS	Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
	Kramer's ground-breaking film centered on two embittered, escaped convicts, one white, the other black, who are shackled together. Each learns that their survival depends on trust and working together.

	DELIVERANCE
	Warner Bros., 1972
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds
	DIRECTOR	John Boorman
	PRODUCER	John Boorman
	SCREENWRITER	James Dickey
	Four Atlanta men discover hidden perils in the backwoods when they go for a weekend canoe ride down a river that will soon be flooded by a dam. "Dueling Banjos" sets an ironic tone for the sinister happenings during the remainder of the film.

	DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
	Universal, 1939
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
	DIRECTOR	George Marshall
	PRODUCERS	Joe Pasternak, Islin Auster
	SCREENWRITERS	Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell, Henry Myers
	In a western town, peace-loving sheriff Stewart combats lawlessness with homilies and the help of saloon singer Dietrich, who rallies the town's womenfolk to take up their rolling pins in his support. The film's "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" became Dietrich's signature song.

	THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn
	DIRECTOR	George Stevens
	PRODUCER	George Stevens
	SCREENWRITERS	Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
	Based on the diary of a young Jewish girl, the film recounts the lives of a small group of Dutch Jews who hide in an attic to avoid capture by the Nazis. Despite the inevitable doom, the story is a touching and hopeful look at life through the eyes of an adolescent.

	DIE HARD
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
	DIRECTOR	John McTiernan
	PRODUCERS	Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon
	SCREENWRITERS	Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza
	Willis, a New York City cop who is hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife, is an uninvited guest at a Los Angeles high-rise office party when terrorists take over. Rickman's intellectual madman matches wits with Willis' scrappy cop in this stunt spectacular.

	DIRTY HARRY
	Warner Bros., 1971
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Clint Eastwood
	DIRECTOR	Don Siegel
	PRODUCER	Don Siegel
	SCREENWRITERS	Dean Riesner, Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink
	Eastwood is Harry Callahan, a policeman willing to go against the code and invent his own form of justice to capture a brutal killer. "You've got to ask yourself one question. 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

	DO THE RIGHT THING
	Universal, 1989
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, John Turturro
	DIRECTOR	Spike Lee
	PRODUCERS	Spike Lee, Monty Ross
	SCREENWRITER	Spike Lee
	It's a sweltering summer day in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and Sal's Famous Pizzeria becomes a lightning rod for racial tensions. The much-discussed close to the film presents different views on the conflict with quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.

	DR. STRANGELOVE
	Columbia, 1964
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
	DIRECTOR	Stanley Kubrick
	PRODUCER	Stanley Kubrick
	SCREENWRITERS	Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
	Kubrick's black comedy focuses on an American president, played by Sellers in one of his three roles, who must contend with a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States and his own maniacal staff, including Scott's memorable General Turgidson.

	DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
	M-G-M, 1965
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger
	DIRECTOR	David Lean
	PRODUCER	Carlo Ponti
	SCREENWRITER	Robert Bolt
	Lean's adaptation of Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel stars Sharif as the married Dr. Zhivago, whose feelings for Lara, played by Christie, inspire him to write beautiful love poems that contrast with the stark realities of life in Russia after the 1917 Communist Revolution.

	DODSWORTH
	United Artists, 1936
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor
	DIRECTOR	William Wyler
	PRODUCER	Samuel Goldwyn
	SCREENWRITER	Sidney Howard
	Sinclair Lewis' novel was the basis for this story of a retired automobile tycoon whose much younger, social-climbing wife drags him on an extended European vacation. While she cavorts with younger men, he eventually finds happiness with a down-to-earth American expatriate.

	DOG DAY AFTERNOON
	Warner Bros., 1975
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Al Pacino, Chris Sarandon
	DIRECTOR	Sidney Lumet
	PRODUCERS	Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
	SCREENWRITER	Frank Pierson
	Pacino holds bank customers hostage in what he thinks will be a simple heist to get money for his lover's sex change operation, but it turns into a major police and media incident.

	DOUBLE INDEMNITY
	Paramount, 1944
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson
	DIRECTOR	Billy Wilder
	PRODUCER	Joseph Sistrom
	SCREENWRITERS	Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
	This crackling adaptation of James Cain's shady tale of an insurance man lured into murder was brilliantly cast with the usually "nice guy" MacMurray as the slick agent in love with calculating Stanwyck.

	DRIVING MISS DAISY
	Warner Bros., 1989
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
	DIRECTOR	Bruce Beresford
	PRODUCERS	Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck
	SCREENWRITER	Alfred Uhry
	Tandy is a stubborn old Southern woman, and Freeman is her resilient chauffeur. The film chronicles their twenty-five years together as differences dissolve, friendship grows and respect blossoms. Uhry adapted the film from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

	DUCK SOUP
	Paramount, 1933
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
	DIRECTOR	Leo McCarey
	PRODUCER	Herman J. Mankiewicz
	SCREENWRITERS	Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
	Released at the height of the Depression, this Marx Brothers comedy is a satirical attack on politics and the absurdity of war. In one memorable scene, Groucho, dictator of the mythical country of Freedonia, mistakes Harpo for his mirror image.