Eminent Domain & Land Takin’
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- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsFranchot ToneMarsha HuntGene KellyIn March 1942, on the island of Java, Indonesia, a Dutch major selects a pilot for a dangerous mission from the five U.S. Army airmen under his command. While waiting for word from the pilot, the others tell his life story to the major.
- DirectorRob SitchStarsMichael CatonAnne TenneyStephen CurryA working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
- DirectorRalph SenenskyStarsRichard ThomasRalph WaiteMichael LearnedGrandpa's sister in law is being forced out of their home by a government project. The Waltons go to their land to help defend the homestead. John-Boy is torn between his ideals and the family loyalty.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisOlivia de HavillandJoseph CottenAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsHope LangeEdward MulhareReta ShawCaptain Gregg helps Claymore act like a lawyer in order to protect that beauty that is Gull Cottage from power lines, towers, and eminent domain.
- DirectorCourtney BalakerStarsCallum Keith RennieCatherine KeenerJeanne TripplehornA woman fights a group trying to evict her whole neighborhood and give it to a corporation. In a close decision, the Supreme Court favors the evictions. The corporation never builds anything on the site of her demolished home.
- DirectorLeigh E. CarlsonStarsBrandi AguilarHenree AlyseChristopher BilanscukWhen Claude Mallard, an agoraphobic woman, is at risk of losing her home to eminent domain, she turns to Ray, her live-in life size mechanical human, and Norman Kim, the neighborhood grocer and her only contact with the outside world, to support her in a plan to convince the other building tenants to stay.
- DirectorOrrin LucEminent Domain explores the gritty underbelly of life in Willets Point, an industrial enclave of Queens, New York, teeming with immigrant auto repair workers fighting against their impending eviction. Defined by iron shacks and dirt-paved roads, the poor infrastructure of the area is ripe for redevelopment; the latest attempt being a $3 billion development initiative by the Bloomberg Administration to convert the area into a retail housing and hotel complex. As the new Mets Stadium looms over the blighted district, Eminent Domain captures the final moments in a losing battle as the workers of Willets Point struggle to maintain their meager lifestyle.
- 2007–20171h 29mTV-MA8.3 (364)TV EpisodeDirectorNicholas RentonStarsSteve EvetsCharlie RichmondMatt StokoeThe Newcastle police have arrested rioters as they tried to clear a slum due for demolition. The next morning, one of the protesters is discovered dead in the cells by WPC Rachel Coles.
- DirectorBob SweeneyStarsFlorence HendersonRobert ReedEve PlumbMike and Carol learn that their neighborhood lies directly in the path of a proposed freeway and that their home will be razed. Their attempt to dispute the decision with the highway commission fails, so they ponder moving to a new house. Just then, grandson Mickey talks about moving the house, which gives the Brady patriarch an idea. Also: Cindy becomes more serious with her boss, Gary, but worries whether this April-September relationship will fly.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsCarolyn JonesJohn AstinJackie CooganThe city is planning to put a freeway through the Addams' neighborhood. In fact, the Addams' house is slated for demolition. Gomez and Morticia must find a solution, or else the house will be destroyed. Arthur J. Henson, city commissioner, visits to underscore the point: the Addams must move out. Unwilling to leave their precious home, Gomez and Morticia arrive at an idea: have the house moved to another location. Gomez buys the vacant lot next to Arthur Henson's home, and he pays to have their house moved there.
- DirectorStuart OrmeStarsAndrew ScottRichard GouldingTim van EykenFoyle battles to save a young man accused of high treason from the executioner's noose in a case that will shatter his personal world to the core.
- DirectorGail MancusoStarsLauren GrahamAlexis BledelMelissa McCarthyLorelai and Rory have lunch with a Harvard alumnus. Taylor decides to open an old soda shop next to Luke's Diner. Lane seeks a new band member.
- DirectorGail MancusoStarsLauren GrahamAlexis BledelMelissa McCarthyRory plans Lorelai's birthday party.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMontgomery CliftLee RemickJo Van FleetA TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
- DirectorEmlyn WilliamsStarsEdith EvansRichard BurtonAnthony JamesRob returns to Dolwyn, a village, from which he was ousted for thievery, to buy the land so that his master can flood the village to build a dam. He faces opposition from an old woman and her son.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsCharley GrapewinGene TierneyMarjorie RambeauHillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia.