The Great Escape. Poster of the 1963 movie and cover of the 1950 book
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The Great Escape
Paul Brickhill, 1950
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John Sturges, 1963

In 1943, having expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped Allied POWs, the German armed forces move the most determined to a new, high-security prisoner-of-war camp supervised by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. The prisoners’ escape committee mount an audacious plan to tunnel out of the camp and break out 250 men.


Jurassic Park. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, 1990
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Steven Spielberg, 1993

Industrialist John Hammond has created a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, on Isla Nublar, a Costa Rican island. After a dinosaur handler is killed by a Velociraptor, the park’s investors, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro, demand that experts visit the park and certify its safety.


Jurassic Park. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Jurassic Park: the Junior Novelization
Gail Herman, 1993
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Steven Spielberg, 1993

Industrialist John Hammond has created a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, on Isla Nublar, a fictional Costa Rican island. After a dinosaur handler is killed by a Velociraptor, the park’s investors, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro, demand that experts visit the park and certify its safety.


Chaplin. Poster of the 1992 movie and cover of the 1964 book, My Autobiography
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My Autobiography
Charlie Chaplin, 1964
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Richard Attenborough, 1992

Chaplin’s recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty from which he escapes by immersing himself in the world of the London music halls. After Sydney joins him in America to become his manager, Chaplin decides to break away from Sennett to have complete creative control over his films with the goal of one day owning his own studio.


Chaplin. Poster of the 1992 movie and cover of the 1985 book, Chaplin: His Life and Art
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Chaplin: His Life and Art
David Robinson, 1985
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Richard Attenborough, 1992

Chaplin’s recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty from which he escapes by immersing himself in the world of the London music halls. After Sydney joins him in America to become his manager, Chaplin decides to break away from Sennett to have complete creative control over his films with the goal of one day owning his own studio.


The Sand Pebbles. Poster of the 1966 movie and cover of the 1962 book
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The Sand Pebbles
Richard McKenna, 1962
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Robert Wise, 1966

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the ‘rice-bowl’ system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river.


The Flight of the Phoenix. Poster of the 1965 movie and cover of the 1964 book
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The Flight of the Phoenix
Elleston Trevor, 1964
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Robert Aldrich, 1965

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to crash their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted area of the desert. Survivors work together to build a new plane.


10 Rillington Place. Poster of the 1971 movie and cover of the 1961 book, Ten Rillington Place
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Ten Rillington Place
Ludovic Kennedy, 1961
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Richard Fleischer, 1971

Unknowingly, Timothy Evans and his wife move into Christie’s cramped flat, unaware that they have become the latest pawns in his twisted plot to lure another victim to her demise and frame Evans, who is subsequently executed. Only when destiny reveals the horrors of the killing ground at 10 Rillington Place in London is Christie finally caught and tried, forcing England to reassess its stance on capital punishment. Based on the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie.


A Bridge Too Far. Poster of the 1977 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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A Bridge Too Far
Cornelius Ryan, 1974
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Richard Attenborough, 1977

Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. Although British officers note that the portable radios are not likely to work for the long distance from the drop zone to the Arnhem Bridge, they choose not to convey their concerns up a chain of command intent on silencing all doubt.


Shadowlands. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Shadowlands
Leonore Fleischer, 1993
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Richard Attenborough, 1993

The globally acclaimed author and professor C.S. Lewis, living a solitary life devoted to intellectual pursuits, undergoes a profound transformation when he embraces a romantic connection with Joy Gresham, leading to the dismantling of the walls around his world.


The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Lost World
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The Lost World
Michael Crichton, 1995
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Steven Spielberg, 1997

Four years after the events on Isla Nublar, a wealthy British family docks their yacht ashore at the nearby Isla Sorna, unaware that the island contains genetically engineered dinosaurs. Hammond asks Ian to join a team who will document the dinosaurs in their natural habitat, in order to encourage a policy of non-interference.


Doctor Dolittle. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1920 book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting, 1920
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Richard Fleischer, 1967

Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.