Judgment at Nuremberg. Poster of the 1961 movie and cover of the 2002 book
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Abby Mann, 2002
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Stanley Kramer, 1961

Judgment at Nuremberg centers on a military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany, in which four German judges and prosecutors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. Judge Dan Haywood is the chief judge of a three-judge panel of Allied jurists who will hear and decide the case against the defendants.


Murder on the Orient Express. Poster of the 1974 movie and cover of the 1934 book
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie, 1934
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Sidney Lumet, 1974

In December 1935, Hercule Poirot is travelling aboard the Orient Express, encountering his friend Signor Bianchi, a director of the company which owns the line. During the trip, American businessman Samuel Ratchett is found stabbed to death in his cabin. Bianchi entreats Poirot to solve the case.


Lincoln. Poster of the 1992 movie and cover of the 1992 book, Lincoln: A Biography
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Lincoln: A Biography
Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, 1992
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Peter W. Kunhardt, James A. Edgar, 1992

Renowned actors and actresses lend their voices to recount the personal accounts of people who were intimately connected to Abraham Lincoln, shedding light on his character and actions during the Civil War.


Slattery's Hurricane. Poster of the 1949 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Slattery's Hurricane
Herman Wouk, 1956
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André De Toth, 1949

A former World War II naval pilot working for a civilian company in Miami reflects on his past and current wrongdoings as he pilots an aircraft into an approaching hurricane.


Run for the Sun. Poster of the 1956 movie and cover of the 1924 book, The Most Dangerous Game
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The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell, 1924
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Roy Boulting, 1956

A war criminal on the run and a British traitor are playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with a novelist and a magazine reporter when their car crashes in the Mexican forest.


The Secret Ways. Poster of the 1961 movie and cover of the 1959 book, The Last Frontier
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The Last Frontier
Alistair MacLean, 1959
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Phil Karlson, Richard Widmark, 1961

In 1960 Vienna, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, American adventurer Michael Reynolds is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci, out of Communist-ruled Hungary. Reynolds, Julia, and Jansci are quickly rounded up and taken to Szarhaza Prison, where they are tortured by the sadistic Colonel Hidas.


Bear Island. Poster of the 1979 movie and cover of the 1971 book
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Bear Island
Alistair MacLean, 1971
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Don Sharp, 1979

A UN expedition of scientists from different countries come to barren arctic Bear Island to study climate change. American scientist Frank Lansing has come because his father was a U-boat commander who died there, and as accidents start to decimate the expedition he begins to realise that some of his colleagues are after a shipment of gold aboard the U-boat that his father commanded.


The Moonshine War. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1969 book
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The Moonshine War
Elmore Leonard, 1969
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Richard Quine, 1970

John Son Martin owns and operates a profitable still, making moonshine whiskey in Prohibition-era Kentucky. One day, he gets a visit from an old Army acquaintance, Frank Long, who is now an Internal Revenue agent. When Frank is unable to persuade Son to cut him in on the profits, he calls in the dangerous Dr. Emmett Taulbee, who uses more violent methods in getting what he wants.