Calvin Skaggs

Most Popular Calvin Skaggs Trailers

Total trailers found: 15

Lincoln and the War Within Trailer (1992)

01 December 1992

First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North and the jaded South and William H.

Barn Burning Trailer (1980)

17 March 1980

Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning.

The Displaced Person Trailer (1977)

12 April 1977

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.

On Valentine's Day Trailer (1986)

11 April 1986

In 1917, Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying Horace Robedaux, a young man of humble prospects.

Rappaccini's Daughter Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden.

The Sunset Gang Trailer (1991)

04 April 1991

Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in "Yiddish," a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in "The Detective," a married couple who have grown apart come together again as they pursue a thief in the neighborhood; and in "The Home," a woman struggles against her grown children, who want to place her in a nursing facility.

To Tell the Truth: A History of Documentary Film (1928-1946) Trailer (2012)

10 November 2012

A detailed history of documentary filmmaking in the US and the UK from 1929 to 1945. The first part, Working for Change, focuses on 1929-1941 and the social movements of the times, The Great Depression, The New Deal, and the awakening of the Leftwing in the UK.

Advise & Dissent Trailer (2012)

17 January 2012

Behind the lines in the Supreme Court confirmation wars... where justice and politics collide.

Go Tell It on the Mountain Trailer (1984)

31 August 1984

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.

A Road to Home Trailer (2016)

01 April 2016

A Road to Home tracks the lives of six homeless LGBTQ young people over 18 months. Their lives typify the experience of the 500,000 homeless youth on American streets every night, 40% of them LGBTQ.

The Fig Tree Trailer (1987)

10 October 1987

The plot centers around Miranda, a young girl who lost her mother at a very young age. She is troubled and withdrawn, pretend plays alone for hours and is obsessed with death.

Bernice Bobs Her Hair Trailer (1976)

06 October 1976

Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.

With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America Trailer (2004)

02 January 2004

With God on Our Side… is an excessive title about Christian church fundamentalism and how, like the Taliban, religious groups feel a God given right to institute a society of specific religious beliefs that not everyone shares.

Soldier's Home Trailer (1977)

26 April 1977

Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more.

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Trailer (1980)

03 March 1980

Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children.