John Steinbeck

Best friends Lennie and George take a job at the Tyler Ranch in Depression era California, but their simple world is ripped apart by tragedy when there is an accidental death.

Shedding light on the equipment, operations, and personnel responsible for American air power during World War II, Steinbeck's nonfiction account of his experiences with the U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews aided the efforts to establish a new military branch--the U.S. Air Force. But it was Steinbeck's ability to capture trhe personal stories of crew members that give this work timeless appeal and renders it an enduring piece of both cultural and...

Presents a dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the Great Depression.

Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police. East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother. Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South. A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...