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Against the Tide   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Screenplay by Richard Trank Based on original material written by Richard Trank & Rabbi Marvin Hier
Draft Date: no date    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 133   
 
Agony and the Ecstasy, The   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Philip Dunne Based on the novel by Irving Stone
Draft Date: 3/27/1964    Draft Stage: shooting final    # Pages: 142    Copy #: 1   
 
Alamo, The   Manuscript
Written by Leslie Bohem and Stephen Gaghan and John Lee Hancock
Draft Date: no date    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 129    Copy #: 1   
 
Amazing Grace   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Written by Steven Knight
Draft Date: 12/20/2005    Draft Stage: revised draft    # Pages: 115   
Notes: digital copy is on disk Film scripts scanned 2008
 
Amistad   Manuscript
Written by David Franzoni
Draft Date: 6/21/1996    Draft Stage: first rewrite    # Pages: 135    Copy #: 1   
 
Anarchist's Wife, The   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Written by Marie Noelle
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 122   
Notes: digital copy is on disk Humanitas Prize awards honorees 2009
 
Anne of the Thousand Days   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by John Hale & Bridget Boland Adaptation by Richard Sokolove based on the play by Maxwell Anderson
Draft Date: 3/10/1969    Draft Stage: final draft    # Pages: 144    Copy #: 1   
 
Barry Lyndon   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick Based upon the novel by William Thackeray
Draft Date: 2/18/1973    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 243    Copy #: 1   
 
Becket   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Edward Anhalt Based on the play by Jean Anouilh as translated by Lucienne Hill
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 154    Copy #: 1   
 
Ben-Hur   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Karl Tunberg Based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace
Draft Date: 6/30/58    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 207    Copy #: 1   
Notes: included on the National Film Registry, Library of Congress
 
Bobby   Manuscript
Written by Emilio Estevez
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 120    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided copy
 
Bounty, The   Manuscript
Screenplay by Robert Bolt Based upon the book Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian by Richard Hough
Draft Date: 4/26/1983    Draft Stage: revised    # Pages: 120   
Notes: this draft titled The Saga of H.M.S. Bounty
 
Casino   Manuscript
Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese Based on the book by Nicholas Pileggi
Draft Date: 2/21/1994    Draft Stage: sixth draft    # Pages: 177   
 
Catch A Fire   Manuscript
Written by Shawn Slovo
Draft Date: 6/28/2005    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 108    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Che Part One: The Argentine   Manuscript
Screenplay by Peter Buchman Based on the memoir Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War written by Ernesto Che Guevara
Draft Date: 10/15/2007    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 116   
Notes: double-sided copy
 
Che Part Two: The Guerrilla   Manuscript
Screenplay by Peter Buchman and Benjamin A. van der Veen Based on The Bolivian Diary written by Ernesto Che Guevara
Draft Date: 3/31/2008    Draft Stage: final shooting script    # Pages: 110   
Notes: double-sided copy
 
Chicago 10   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Written by Brett Morgen
Draft Date: 7/2/2007    Draft Stage: final script    # Pages: 99   
Notes: digital copy on disk Film Scripts 4-2010
 
Cleopatra   Manuscript   Digital
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman Based on ancient histories and The Life and Times of Cleopatra by C. M. Franzero
Draft Date: 9/18/61    Draft Stage: shooting script    # Pages: 327   
Notes: digital copy on disk TV/Film Scripts Scanned 2007
 
Come See the Paradise   Manuscript
Written by Alan Parker
Draft Date: 2/1989    Draft Stage: first draft    # Pages: 104    Copy #: 1   
 
Come See the Paradise   Manuscript
Written by Alan Parker
Draft Date: 5/1989    Draft Stage: second draft    # Pages: 150    Copy #: 2   
 
Da Vinci   Published
by William Goldman
Draft Stage: no draft info.   
Notes: in his book "Adventures in the Screen Trade"; unproduced
 
Dances With Wolves   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Michael Blake Based on his novel
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 132    Copy #: 1   
Notes: included on the National Film Registry, Library of Congress
 
Dances With Wolves   Manuscript
Screenplay by Michael Blake Based on his novel
Draft Date: 10/3/1987    Draft Stage: 3rd draft    # Pages: 118    Copy #: 2   
 
Dangerous Liaisons   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton Based on his play adapted from the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos De Laclos
Draft Date: 5/18/1988    Draft Stage: revised final draft    # Pages: 102    Copy #: 1   
 
Demetrius And The Gladiators   Manuscript
Written by Philip Dunne Based on character created by Lloyd C. Douglas in The Robe
Draft Date: 5/20/1953    Draft Stage: final script    # Pages: 127    Copy #: 1   
Notes: includes 3p. of retakes
 
Doctor Zhivago   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Robert Bolt Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak
Draft Date: 9/1964    Draft Stage: shooting script    # Pages: 284    Copy #: 1   
 
Duchess, The   Manuscript
Screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen and Saul Dibb Based on the book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: unpaged   
 
Egyptian, The   Manuscript
Screenplay by Philip Dunne and Casey Robinson From the novel by Mika Waltari
Draft Date: 4/29/1954    Draft Stage: revised shooting final    # Pages: 146    Copy #: 1   
Notes: includes 9p. of revisions
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age   Published
Written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst
Draft Stage: shooting script    # Pages: 103    Copy #: 2   
Notes: published in book The Script of Elizabeth. This draft titled Elizabeth
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age   Manuscript
Written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst
Draft Date: 7/25/2006    Draft Stage: revised draft    # Pages: 108    Copy #: 1   
 
Fat Man and Little Boy   Manuscript
Screenplay by Bruce Robinson and Roland Joffe Story by Bruce Robinson
Draft Date: 2/4/88    Draft Stage: 4th draft    # Pages: 113    Copy #: 1   
 
Five Fingers   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Michael Wilson Based on the book Operation Cicero by L.C. Moyzisch
Draft Date: 8/4/1951    Draft Stage: revised final draft    # Pages: 127    Copy #: 1   
Notes: aka Five Fingeres; Joseph L. Mankiewicz listed as an uncredited writer in IMDB
 
Flags Of Our Fathers   Manuscript
Screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis Based on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 117    Copy #: 2   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Flags Of Our Fathers   Manuscript
Screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis Based on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 117    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Frost/Nixon   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Peter Morgan Based on his play
Draft Date: 8/24/2007    Draft Stage: revised draft    # Pages: 111   
 
Gandhi   Manuscript   Awards
Written by John Briley
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 201    Copy #: 1   
 
Geronimo: An American Legend   Manuscript
Screenplay by John Milius and Larry Gross Story by John Milius
Draft Date: no date    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 159    Copy #: 1   
 
Gettysburg   Manuscript
Screenplay by Clifford Odets
Draft Date: 7/16/37    # Pages: 315    Copy #: 1   
Notes: unproduced screenplay
 
Ghosts of Mississippi   Manuscript
Written by Lewis Colick
Draft Date: 6/25/96    Draft Stage: revised third draft    # Pages: 150    Copy #: 1   
Notes: "Untitled Mississippi project" on cover; title page reads "revised third draft (by) Rob Reiner & Andrew Scheinman"
 
Girl With A Pearl Earring   Manuscript
Screenplay by Olivia Hetreed Based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier
Draft Date: 11/1/03    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 87    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided copy
 
Good Night, And Good Luck   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Draft Date: 2/10/2005    Draft Stage: revised shooting script    # Pages: 101    Copy #: 1   
Notes: digital copy is on disk TV/film scripts scanned 2006
 
Good Night, and Good Luck   Manuscript
Written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Draft Date: 3/2/2005    Draft Stage: production draft    # Pages: 98    Copy #: 2   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Good Night, and Good Luck.   Published
Written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Draft Date: 3/2/2005    Draft Stage: production draft    # Pages: 98    Copy #: 3   
Notes: published in book Good Night, And Good Luck; The Screenplay And History Behind The Landmark Movie
 
Guilty By Suspicion   Manuscript
Written by Irwin Winkler
Draft Date: 3/14/90    Draft Stage: revised draft    # Pages: 129    Copy #: 1   
 
Henry V   Published
Screenplay by Laurence Olivier and Reginald Beck Based on the play by William Shakespeare
Draft Stage: no draft info.    Copy #: 2   
Notes: published in book Masterworks of the British Cinema
 
Henry V   Published
Screenplay by Laurence Olivier and Reginald Beck Based on the play by William Shakespeare
Draft Stage: no draft info.    Copy #: 1   
Notes: published in book Film Scripts One
 
Jefferson In Paris   Manuscript
Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 108    Copy #: 1   
 
JFK   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar Based on the books On The Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire:The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs
Draft Date: 4/15/1991    Draft Stage: sixth draft    # Pages: 157    Copy #: 1   
 
Juarez   Published
Screenplay by John Huston & Æneas MacKenzie and Wolfgang Reinhardt Based on the play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel and the novel The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding
Draft Stage: no draft info.    Copy #: 1   
Notes: in the book Twenty Best Film Plays
 
K-19: The Widowmaker   Manuscript
Screenplay by Christopher Kyle Story by Louis Nowra
# Pages: 123    Copy #: 1   
 
King Arthur   Manuscript
Written by David Franzoni
Draft Date: 9/22/2003    Draft Stage: revised draft    # Pages: 119    Copy #: 1   
 
Kings of the Sun   Manuscript
Screenplay by Elliott Arnold and James R. Webb Story by Elliott Arnold
Draft Date: 11/26/1962    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 130   
 
Last Emperor, The   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe Based on the autobiography From Emperor to Citizen by Pu Yi
Draft Date: 2/6/1987    Draft Stage: revised draft    # Pages: 130    Copy #: 1   
 
Last King Of Scotland, The   Manuscript
Screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock Based on the novel by Giles Foden
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: unpaged   
Notes: double-sided unpaged small format
 
Last Of The Mohicans, The   Manuscript
Screenplay by Philip Dunne Adaptation by John Balderston and Paul Perez and Daniel Moore From the novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Draft Date: 6/6/1936    Draft Stage: revised final script    # Pages: 136    Copy #: 1   
 
Last Station, The   Published
Screenplay by Michael Hoffman Based on the novel by Jay Parini
Draft Date: 2/26/2008    Copy #: 2   
Notes: published in book of same title
 
Last Station, The   Manuscript   Digital
Screenplay by Michael Hoffman Based on the novel by Jay Parini
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 99    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Lawrence of Arabia   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson Based on the life and writings of Col. T. E. Lawrence and Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his collection of stories
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 267    Copy #: 1   
Notes: blacklisted writer Michael Wilson's credit restored by WGA Board of Directors 8/95; included on the National Film Registry, Library of Congress
 
Lawrence of Arabia   Manuscript
Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson Based on the life and writings of Col. T. E. Lawrence
Draft Stage: undated production draft    # Pages: 267    Copy #: 2   
Notes: blacklisted writer Michael Wilson's credit restored by WGA Board of Directors 8/95; Part I 142 pages, Part II 125 pages
 
Letters From Iwo Jima   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Iris Yamashita Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis Based on the book Picture Letters From Commander In Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi and edited by Tsuyoko Yoshido
Draft Date: 3/9/2006    Draft Stage: fourth draft    # Pages: 116    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Life of Emile Zola, The   Published   Awards
Screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Heinz Herald & Geza Herczeg Story by Herald & Herczeg Based on the book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson
Draft Stage: no draft info.    Copy #: 1   
Notes: in the book Twenty Best Film Plays; included on the National Film Registry, Library of Congress
 
Lydia Bailey   Manuscript
Screenplay by Michael Blankfort and Philip Dunne Based on a novel by Kenneth Roberts
Draft Date: 9/29/1951    Draft Stage: revised shooting final    # Pages: 110    Copy #: 1   
 
Madness of King George, The   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Alan Bennett Based on his play
Draft Date: 9/3/1994    Draft Stage: revised fourt draft    # Pages: 125    Copy #: 1   
Notes: fka The Madness of King George III
 
Malcolm X   Manuscript
Screenplay by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee Based on the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
Draft Date: 4/15/91    Draft Stage: third draft    # Pages: 188    Copy #: 1   
 
Man For All Seasons, A   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Robert Bolt Based on his play
Draft Date: 3/15/66    Draft Stage: revised final draft    # Pages: 129    Copy #: 1   
 
Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, The   Manuscript
Written by Andrew Birkin and Luc Besson
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 152   
Notes: aka Joan of Arc
 
Mighty Heart, A   Manuscript
Screenplay by John Orloff Based on the book by Mariane Pearl
Draft Date: 10/11/2006    Draft Stage: final shooting script    # Pages: 140    Copy #: 1   
Notes: Independent Spirit Award nom 2008 Best First Screenplay
 
Mission, The   Manuscript   Awards
Written by Robert Bolt
Draft Date: 9/24/84    Draft Stage: second rev. draft    # Pages: 106    Copy #: 1   
 
Other Boleyn Girl, The   Manuscript
Written by Peter Morgan Based ont he novel by Philippa Gregory
Draft Date: no date    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 115   
 
Ragtime   Published
Screenplay by Michael Weller Based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow
Copy #: 3   
Notes: published in book E. L. Doctorow; Three Screenplays
 
Ragtime   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Michael Weller Based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow
Draft Date: 10/1979    Draft Stage: first revised draft    # Pages: 173    Copy #: 1   
 
Ragtime   Manuscript
Screenplay by Michael Weller Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow
Draft Date: 6/16/80    Draft Stage: revised final draft    # Pages: 142    Copy #: 2   
 
Reader, The   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by David Hare Based on the book Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 81    Copy #: 1   
 
Reader, The   Manuscript
Screenplay by David Hare Based on the book Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 81    Copy #: 2   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
Scarlet Empress, The   Manuscript
Screenplay arrangement by Manuel Komroff Based on a diary of Catherine II
Draft Date: 8/23/1933    Draft Stage: second yellow script    # Pages: 88   
Notes: folio size
 
Soundtrack for a Revolution   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Written by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman
Draft Date: 4/4/2009    Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 40   
 
Spartacus   Manuscript   Awards
Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo From the novel by Howard Fast
Draft Stage: final screenplay    # Pages: 202    Copy #: 1   
 
Stanley And Livingstone   Manuscript
Screenplay by Philip Dunne & Julien Josephson
Draft Date: 1/31/1939    Draft Stage: revised shooting final    # Pages: 171    Copy #: 1   
 
Suez   Manuscript
Screenplay by Philip Dunne and Julien Josephson Story by Sam Duncan
Draft Date: 8/20/1938    Draft Stage: revised shooting final    # Pages: 185    Copy #: 1   
 
Swanee River   Manuscript
Screenplay by John Taintor Foote and Philip Dunne Based on the life and career of Stephen Foster
Draft Date: 9/27/1939    Draft Stage: revised final    # Pages: 149    Copy #: 1   
 
Tom Jones   Published
Written by John Osborne
Copy #: 1   
Notes: published, Grove Press, c1964
 
Valkyrie   Manuscript
Written by Christopher McQuarrie & Nathan Alexander
Draft Date: 1/8/2007    Draft Stage: no draft info    # Pages: 114   
 
Why We Fight   Manuscript   Digital   Awards
Written by Eugene Jarecki
Draft Stage: final draft    # Pages: unpaged    Copy #: 1   
Notes: digital copy on disk TV/Film Scripts Scanned 2007
 
World Trade Center   Manuscript
Written by Andrea Berloff Based on the true life events of John & Donna McLoughlin and William & Allison Jimeno
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 107    Copy #: 1   
Notes: double-sided small format
 
World Trade Center   Manuscript
Written by Andrea Berloff Based on the true life events of John & Donna McLoughlin and William & Allison Jimeno
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 116    Copy #: 3   
Notes: double-sided copy
 
World Trade Center   Manuscript
Written by Andrea Berloff Based on the true life events of John & Donna McLoughlin and William & Allison Jimeno
Draft Stage: no draft info.    # Pages: 107    Copy #: 2   
Notes: double-sided small format edition
 
Young Victoria, The   Digital
Written by Julian Fellowes
Draft Date: 8/8/2007    Draft Stage: revised shooting script    # Pages: 108