Of Mice and Men. Poster of the 1939 movie and cover of the 1937 book
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, 1937
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Lewis Milestone, 1939

Two migrant field workers in California on their plantation during the Great Depression—George Milton, an intelligent but uneducated man, and Lennie Small, a bulky, strong man but mentally disabled—are in Soledad on their way to another part of California. They hope to one day attain the dream of settling down on their own piece of land.


Command Decision. Poster of the 1948 movie and cover of the 1947 book
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Command Decision
William Wister Haines, 1947
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Sam Wood, 1948

Army generals grapple with the dilemma of whether to prioritize the bombing of German factories manufacturing new jet fighters, despite the anticipated significant casualties that the mission would incur.


Jim Thorpe - All-American. Poster of the 1951 movie and cover of the 1949 book, This Is My Story
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This Is My Story
Jim Thorpe, Maxwell Stiles, 1949
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Michael Curtiz, 1951

Burt Lancaster stars as the legendary athlete who rises from poverty on a Native American reservation to graduate from college and win more gold medals than any other athlete in the 1912 Olympics. Thorpe’s life is a constant struggle against racial prejudice: Despite his talent and his desire to coach, no one will hire an American Indian; and his Olympic medals are taken from him because he had accepted money to play basketball to help pay for college.