The 1957 romantic drama film An Affair to Remember involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is averted by an automobile accident.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

* Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, a 1975 drama film

* The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary, a 2008 drama film

In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

* The Cardinal ( 1936 film ), a British historical drama

* Cleopatra ( 1963 film ), a British-American-Swiss drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Films featuring the Cheka include Ostern's Miles of Fire, Nikita Mikhalkov's At Home among Strangers, the miniseries The Adjutant of His Excellency, and also Dead Season ( starring Donatas Banionis ), and the 1992 Russian drama film The Chekist.

* The Conspirator, a historical drama film from 2010, directed by Robert Redford

* Romantic drama film

Opened in 1962, the Hop houses the College's drama, music, film, and studio arts departments, as well as a woodshop, pottery studio, and jewelry studio which are open for use by students and faculty.

Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.

An ensemble courtroom drama, the film was well received by critics, earning an 88 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars, praising the film for being " boldly operatic, involving family drama, secrets, generations at war, melodrama, romance and violence ".

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

a criterion of muscle `` drama '' that is unforgettable to judges and audiences alike ; ;

This is the real protagonist of the drama ; ;

The drama in the theater and the concert in the hall both have a fixed time, but the time is fixed by the director and the players, the conductor and the instrumentalists, subject, therefore, to much variation, as record collectors well know.

This is drama enough.

Make no mistake, this Gorky Studio drama is a respectable import -- aptly grave, carefully written, performed and directed.

Only rarely is the reader drawn directly into the emotions of the characters or the drama of the scene.

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

" Alarums and excursions " is a stage direction for the moving of soldiers across a stage, used in Elizabethan drama.

Universities will offer three-to four-year programs, where a student is often able to choose to focus on drama, while still learning about other aspects of theatre.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

Abhinavagupta offers for the first time a technical definition of rasa which is the universal bliss of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of a drama.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

* In the classic 70s period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, a major character in the second season, which is circa 1909-10, is Thomas Watkins, the devious Bellamy family chauffeur.

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Audiences were expecting another giant robot show, and instead found MS Gundam, the first work of anime in an entirely new genre, the mecha drama or the ' real robot ' genre as opposed to the ' super robot ' genre.

ITV produced youth-oriented genre programmes during the 1970s, such as Timeslip ( 1970 – 71 ), The Tomorrow People ( 1973 – 79 ), and Children of the Stones ( 1977 ), as well as shows aimed at a wider audience such as the time-travel drama Sapphire & Steel ( 1979 – 82 ).

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

* Space Quest: Incinerations-another original hi-res installment, with a more action-oriented approach in the traditional adventure genre and with a modern sensibility, which " completely re-imagines the whole Space Quest series as a sci-fi action thriller, focusing hard on character and drama while still managing to be just as tongue-in-cheek and funny as anything else that bears its name.

Cited as " one of the great set-ups of genre drama ", the opening sequence establishes the Orwellian and postmodern themes of the series ; its high production values have led the opening sequence to be described as more like film than television.

In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics ( 335 BCE ), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general ( where the tragic divides against epic and lyric ) or at the scale of the drama ( where tragedy is opposed to comedy ).

The genre of Arcadia is, at the surface, a drama in the specialized, modern sense of being somewhere between a tragedy and a comedy.

Future entries in the genre would incorporate elements from other genera such as crime drama and mystery whodunit elements.

Through whatever means, Wise's approach brought him critical success as a director in many different traditional film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical, and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre.

By broad consent, Carmen represents the fulfilment of Bizet's development as a master of music drama, and the culmination of the genre of opéra comique.

The film falls into the genre of comedy drama.

* In Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon ( 1991 ), Steve Martin's character, an action movie producer who experiences a revelation after being mugged, temporarily decides to make high-quality " life drama " movies, but soon returns to the action genre when he decides that violence is life and should be welcomed and watched.

Temperance drama continued to grow as a genre of theatre, fostered by the advent of the railroad as a form of transportation.

12 Angry Men was acknowledged as the second best film in the courtroom drama genre.

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Judgment at Nuremberg was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the courtroom drama genre.

" Elizabeth Howe has argued that it was Barry's success in the role of Monimia that " clinched the movement away from heroic drama and started the establishment of ' she-tragedy ' as a popular genre.

Although the original series ran for only five years, its scheduling as a daily daytime drama allowed it to amass more single episodes during its run ( 1, 225 ) than most other science-fiction / fantasy genre series produced for English-language television, including Doctor Who and the entire Star Trek television franchise.

In novels such as The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d ' Urbervilles Hardy attempts to create modern works in the genre of tragedy, that are modelled on the Greek drama, especially Aeschylus and Sophocles, though in prose, not poetry, a novel not drama, and with characters of low social standing, not nobility.

It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.