Roscoe Lee Browne
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1925 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Lee Browne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: May 02, 1925
Deathday: April 11, 2007
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Topaz
1969-12-17
Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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The Miracle Healers
1976-08-19
The Miracle Healers
Overview: Actor Roscoe Lee Browne is host for this documentary that delves into the mystery behind spontaneous healing and other psychic phenomena that could be applied to medicine. This includes an examination of Jim Jones and the People's Temple.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-19
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Logan's Run
1976-06-23
Logan's Run
Overview: In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986-10-09
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Overview: Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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Naked in New York
1993-11-10
Naked in New York
Overview: Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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Oliver & Company
1988-11-18
Oliver & Company
Overview: This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street savoir faire. But when Oliver meets wealthy Jenny on one of the gang's thieving missions, his life changes forever.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-18
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Treasure Planet
2002-11-26
Treasure Planet
Overview: When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-26
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Babe: Pig in the City
1998-11-25
Babe: Pig in the City
Overview: Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-25
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The World's Greatest Athlete
1973-02-14
The World's Greatest Athlete
Overview: Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Babe
1995-07-18
Babe
Overview: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-18
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Smiley Face
2007-11-16
Smiley Face
Overview: Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes and embarks on a series of misadventures all over Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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The Cowboys
1972-01-13
The Cowboys
Overview: When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Hard Time: The Premonition
1999-02-27
Hard Time: The Premonition
Overview: Logan McQueen is an ex-cop serving a prison term for a bust that had gone awry. During his stint, he learns of a death row inmate that claims he can predict the details of the next violent act of a serial bomber. Once released from prison, Logan tries to find the identity of the bomber and stop him. His best course of action is agreeing to the inmate's request of a reunion with his estranged daughter before he is executed.
Genres: Crime Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-27
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Forest Warrior
1996-11-05
Forest Warrior
Overview: John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.
Genres: Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-05
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Moon 44
1990-02-15
Moon 44
Overview: Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003-02-10
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Overview: When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-10
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Cisco Pike
1972-01-14
Cisco Pike
Overview: A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-14
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Black Like Me
1964-01-01
Black Like Me
Overview: Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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July '64
2004-07-19
July '64
Overview: A historic three-day race riot erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-sized city of Rochester, New York. On the night of July 24, 1964, frustration and resentment brought on by institutional racism, overcrowding, lack of job opportunity and police dog attacks exploded in racial violence that brought Rochester to its knees. Combines historic archival footage, news reports, and interviews with witnesses and participants to dig deeply into the causes and effects of the historic disturbance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-19
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977-02-09
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Overview: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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The Connection
1961-05-03
The Connection
Overview: A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970-03-18
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Overview: A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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Uptight
1968-12-28
Uptight
Overview: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Hamlet
2000-12-10
Hamlet
Overview: A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-10
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The Nativity
1987-01-01
The Nativity
Overview: The Nativity is seen through the eyes of three young visitors from the 20th century who are transported back through time to the Holy City
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Super Fly T.N.T.
1973-06-15
Super Fly T.N.T.
Overview: A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995-11-22
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Overview: Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Swing Out, Sweet Land
1970-01-01
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Overview: John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Nothing Personal
1980-03-28
Nothing Personal
Overview: Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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The Haunting of Harrington House
1981-09-08
The Haunting of Harrington House
Overview: A young woman who lives in a supposedly haunted house finds that her camera is picking up images of ghosts, and soon strange spirits begin to appear to her.
Genres: Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-08
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983-03-22
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Overview: This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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Stuck with Each Other
1989-10-17
Stuck with Each Other
Overview: When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the criminal owners of the money.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-17
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The Comedians
1967-10-31
The Comedians
Overview: American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X
1995-03-01
Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X
Overview: Brother Minister reveals the mystery surrounding the assassination of Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965. It probes the innocence of two of the ...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-01
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Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
1984-02-07
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
Overview: A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-07
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Dear God
1996-11-01
Dear God
Overview: A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
1980-11-21
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Overview: When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Morgan's Ferry
2001-11-27
Morgan's Ferry
Overview: Three escaped convicts hide out in the home a reclusive woman as they wait to catch a ferry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-27
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Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
2003-02-11
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
Overview: Spider-Man and Daredevil team up to fight Kingpin.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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Legal Eagles
1986-06-18
Legal Eagles
Overview: District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-18
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Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005-06-07
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
Overview: A space-shuttle crash-landing puts the famous web-slinger Spider-Man in contact with a living alien substance that bonds to his suit and enhances his super-powers. Unfortunately, the alien substance begins to change him and he feels the pull of evil, so discards the suit. The evil attaches itself to another host leading to an epic confrontation between good and evil.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-07
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Night Angel
1990-06-02
Night Angel
Overview: A legendary she-demon, in the updated guise of a beautiful model, infiltrates the offices of a successful fashion magazine with the aim of corrupting the world via mass media.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-02
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Noël
1992-12-03
Noël
Overview: The story of Noel, a cheerful Christmas ornament with a certain "happiness" that rubs off on the families he lives with.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-03
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Lady in a Corner
1989-12-11
Lady in a Corner
Overview: Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, she must also deal with a mole.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-11
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Judas Kiss
1998-09-16
Judas Kiss
Overview: The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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The Ra Expeditions
1972-02-23
The Ra Expeditions
Overview: Ra [also known as The Ra Expeditions] is a 1972 documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl about the expeditions organised by Thor Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970 in attempt to cross the Atlantic on papyrus boats. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-23
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Christmas
1986-12-01
Christmas
Overview: An adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol " with Robert Guillaume as John Grin, the Scrooge character. His son Kevin has a role as the Bob Cratchit character, with Geoffrey Holder and Ted Lange as two of the Ghosts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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Pie in the Sky
1964-01-01
Pie in the Sky
Overview: Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Unknown Powers
1978-01-01
Unknown Powers
Overview: A documentary –actually three episodes of a canceled TV series edited together– examining various phenomena, including ESP, psychic surgery and past-life hypnosis.
Genres: Mystery Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1978-05-23
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A modern-day scientist gets teleported to Medieval England in King Arthur's Court! He has to adapt to the current times and tries to make improvements as they come.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-23
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Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs
1988-10-04
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs
Overview: It's the happiest time of the year! And the season of Santa, reindeer and gift-wrapped surprises will be even jollier with this joyful volume of Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs. Gather up the family and enjoy a fun-filled collection of the most beloved Christmas songs and carols, accompanied by a wonderland of wintry holiday scenes! It's a kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that is sure to make everyone's holiday very, very merry! Voices ready? Let's all sing!
Genres: Music Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-04
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
1974-05-01
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Overview: Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000-05-31
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Overview: Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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Uptown Saturday Night
1974-07-26
Uptown Saturday Night
Overview: Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-26
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The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men in 'The Cowboys'
1972-01-13
The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men in 'The Cowboys'
Overview: Featurette on the "The Cowboys" (1972)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2006-06-15
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Overview: Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Galapagos: Beyond Darwin
1996-08-18
Galapagos: Beyond Darwin
Overview: Galapagos: Beyond Darwin is a 1996 documentary narrated by actor Roscoe Lee Browne. It premiered on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, August 18, 1996.[1] It was directed by Al Giddings.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-18
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Epic Movie
2007-01-25
Epic Movie
Overview: When the Pevensie siblings each follow their own path, they find themselves at Willy's Chocolate Factory. Walking through a wardrobe, they discover the world of Gnarnia, ruled by the White Bitch. Meeting up with characters such as Harry Potter and Captain Jack Swallows, the newly reunited family must team up with Aslo, a wise-but-horny lion to stop the White Bitch's army.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-25
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Dr. Scorpion
1978-02-24
Dr. Scorpion
Overview: A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Moments Without Proper Names
1987-01-01
Moments Without Proper Names
Overview: Moments Without Proper Names makes Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through an hourlong, non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines Parks’s photographs with his musical compositions and scenes from his films. It also features footage of Parks, plus interpretations of his personal reminiscences performed by actors Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Eddie Presley
1993-05-20
Eddie Presley
Overview: Eddie Presley is a down on his luck ex-Elvis impersonator. With his days of fromer glory performing in small to medium-sized clubs behind him, he's stuck in a dead-end security job, making barely enough to live out of his van. But Eddie's luck is about to change when he's offered a comeback gig at a seedy Hollywood nightclub... until he has a breakdown on stage and gives the audience a powerful, improvised performance they'll not soon forget.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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