Joanne Woodward
Also Known As: Джоэнн Вудворд, ジョアン・ウッドワード, Joanne Gignillat Trimmier Woodward, جوآن وودوارد
Biography: Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In a career spanning over six decades, she received four Oscar nominations (winning one), ten Golden Globe Award nominations (winning three), four BAFTA Film Award nominations (winning one), and nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning three). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Woodward, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thomasville, Georgia, USA
Birthday: February 27, 1930
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Gender: Female
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The Age of Innocence
Overview: In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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The Drowning Pool
Overview: Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-18
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Paris Blues
Overview: During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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They Might Be Giants
Overview: After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character. Out of concern for Justin's money more than his health, his brother Blevins puts him under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson. As Dr. Watson grows fond of Justin, she begins to play along with his theories, eventually becoming an assistant in his investigations.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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The Long, Hot Summer
Overview: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-17
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The Three Faces of Eve
Overview: A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-19
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The End
Overview: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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From the Terrace
Overview: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-15
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Winning
Overview: Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Rachel, Rachel
Overview: Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-26
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A New Kind of Love
Overview: A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Overview: A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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The Fugitive Kind
Overview: Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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WUSA
Overview: Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detachment challenged by a lady friend, Geraldine, and by Rainey, a neighbour and troubled idealist who becomes aware of WUSA's sinister, hidden purpose. And when events start spinning out of control, even Rheinhardt finds he must take a stand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-19
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A Fine Madness
Overview: A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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Count Three and Pray
Overview: A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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The Glass Menagerie
Overview: An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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A Kiss Before Dying
Overview: A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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Harry & Son
Overview: Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Overview: Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-21
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Paul Newman: The Restless
Overview: Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette of a Greek statue and his unreal blue eyes, he embodied the quintessential Hollywood star. But he never seemed satisfied. The son of a Jewish sporting goods retailer who despises him and a Catholic mother who adores him, driven by self-doubt and an inherited need for approval from his childhood, he has worked throughout his fifty-year career to break the image of the pretty boy. He made his first experiences in the famous Actors Studio. The breakthrough as a screen star came in 1958 with "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". From then on he preferred characters on the edge of the American dream. With archive images and film excerpts, the documentary paints a portrait of a socio-politically committed man with many facets and also pays tribute to the role of his wife Joanne Woodward.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-11
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Overview: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Overview: A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-05
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No Down Payment
Overview: The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Overview: Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-03
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Overview: Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-23
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Overview: Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-23
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Harper Days are Here Again
Overview: Promotional behind-the-scenes look at 'The Drowning Pool' (1975).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Signpost to Murder
Overview: An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-04
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The Sound and the Fury
Overview: Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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The Stripper
Overview: An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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Breathing Lessons
Overview: A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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Lucky Them
Overview: More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Crisis at Central High
Overview: The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huckaby, one of the teachers and girls' vice principal.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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Foreign Affairs
Overview: Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disillusioned aging American and aging English actress meats a young lively American.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Angel Death
Overview: A documentary depicting the dangers of PCP use. Shows how both animals' and humans' behavior is affected by the drug and describes its physical, psychological, and emotional aftereffects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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The Streets of L.A.
Overview: A woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after becoming incensed at their malicious tire-slashing on parked cars including hers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-13
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Do You Remember Love
Overview: Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her. It also shows how the changes impact her husband, George, and their children. The film also looks at the process by which families can be educated and supported to deal with the impact of the disease, as well as what is done for those afflicted.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-21
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Blind Spot
Overview: Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington's pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse when Harrington learns that her son-in-law was on cocaine at the time of the accident, and her daughter was using right along with him. What does this mean for Harrington's impending Senate campaign -- and the health of Phoebe's unborn child?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-02
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See How She Runs
Overview: A middle-aged housewife and mother, after spending a lifetime giving to others, decides to claim a piece for herself and enters the grueling 26-mile Boston Marathon as an obsessive means of self-expression.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Strategic Trust: The Making of a Nuclear Free Palau
Overview: Actress Joanne Woodward narrates the story of an emerging Republic (Palau Islands) in America's Pacific Trust Territory as it tries to maintain history's first nuclear-free national constitution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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Candida
Overview: Candida is the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for much of his success.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Come Back, Little Sheba
Overview: An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Overview: Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-24
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Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Overview: The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American Cinema. He was also well known for his philanthropy; Newman's Own has given more than four hundred and thirty million dollars to charities around the world. Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man's makeup. Newman’s deep-seated passion for racing was so intense it nearly sidelined his acting career. His racing career spanned thirty-five years; Newman won four national championships as a driver and eight championships as an owner. Not bad for a guy who didn't even start racing until he was forty-seven years old.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-08
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Overview: A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-26
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Overview: A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-27
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A Christmas to Remember
Overview: A city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough under their tough care to help his grandfather deliver a surprise gift on Christmas Eve to their community church with the help of a phantom stranger.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Dark Stranger
Overview: A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.
Genres: Mystery Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-08
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Bitter Storm
Overview: An embittered scientist secretly invents a receiver which picks up sounds from anytime in the past.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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All the Way Home
Overview: Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old grandmother, he begins to realize that life is passing by too quickly. He turns more and more toward alcohol to escape from reality. When Jay doesn't come home one night, Mary learns that he was in an accident and waits anxiously for his return. Screen adaptation of Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Sybil
Overview: A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed sixteen different personalities is treated by a doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-14
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Passions
Overview: A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Shadow Box
Overview: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Overview: Star-studded charity New York City premiere of the film Giant.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-09
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Overview: In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and professional life that features intimate personal accounts, interviews and clips from his most acclaimed work on the silver screen.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-09
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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All the World
Overview: Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this film affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-22
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Women - For America, For the World
Overview: Twenty-two prominent American women discuss their activism for nuclear disarmament and their motivations in seeking the end of the arms race.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Gayby
Overview: Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a promise to have a child together... the old fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? 'Gayby' is an irreverent comedy about friendship, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-17
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Keepers of Eden
Overview: A documentary presents the story of the Huarani tribe, who have inhabited the rainforests of Ecuador for thousands of years, who are now in danger of being erased the fallout caused by major oil companies. Historical Media Associates, LLC documents how such oil contamination is causing a fatal blow to both the indigenous people, their culture and the environment. As a result of these "poisoned" living conditions, the native Huarani are suffering from disease on the level of a toxic and fatal plague. All caused by oil contamination
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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The John Garfield Story
Overview: This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-03
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Overview: Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the restless heart of a risk-taker. Don't miss this engaging biography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-07
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What She's Doing Up There is Not Accidental
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the production of the 1972 film "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife, Joanne Woodward, and their daughter, Nell Potts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Mastery of Motion
Overview: Documentary showcasing the racing skills of Actor Paul Newman, NFL Legend Walter Payton, and Scott Sharp
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-01
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Driven to Excellence
Overview: Paul Newman and Mario Andretti explain why they are driven to excellence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-05
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