Ed Koch
Also Known As: Mayor Edward Koch
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 12, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 01, 2013
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Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park
Overview: The Concert in Central Park is a live album by Simon & Garfunkel. On September 19, 1981 the folk-rock duo reunited for a free concert on the Great Lawn of New York's Central Park attended by more than 500,000 people. They released a live album from the concert the following March (Warner Brothers LP 2BSK 3654; CD 3654). It was arranged by Paul Simon and Dave Grusin, and produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Phil Ramone and Roy Halee. The concert was also shot on videotape, televised by HBO in 1982, and subsequently released on various home video formats. The VHS and DVD contain two songs that were omitted from the live album: "The Late Great Johnny Ace" and "Late in the Evening (Reprise)". "Johnny Ace" was disrupted by a fan rushing the stage who came very close to attacking Paul. This incident was both frightening and coincidental, as the song is an elegy upon the murder of John Lennon just one year earlier.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-21
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Married to It
Overview: While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Overview: The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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A Christmas Dream
Overview: In this NBC Christmas Special from 1984, Mr. T plays a street Santa Claus who meets a young boy, played by Emmanuel Lewis of TV's Webster, who doesn't share the spirit of Christmas. Mr. T sets out to change Billy's mind, taking him around the city to FAO Schwartz, where he gets a magic lesson from David Copperfield, and then to Radio City Music Hall, where he listens to Christmas songs sung by Maureen McGovern, imagines himself as one of the toy soldiers in the Rockettes' Christmas Show, meets Willie Tyler and his dummy Lester, and finally is moved to realize the true meaning of Christmas, before being reunited with his parents.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-16
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New York Stories
Overview: Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Overview: Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and collaborators like Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs, Mayor Ed Koch to reminisce. Includes unique archival footage and folk music from the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
Overview: New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a city wide blackout with major looting, a serial killer on the loose, and the Bronx was burning. And yet out of the chaos emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-09
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Eddie
Overview: Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Overview: Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-16
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Fahrenhype 9/11
Overview: A documentary which refutes and debunks facts made by Michael Moore in his film "Fahrenheit 9/11".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
Overview: When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-27
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Taxi Driver Stories
Overview: Interviews taking a look at New Your City of the 1970's through the eyes and experiences of actual taxi drivers of the era
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-14
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Uncovering Wolfen
Overview: After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood writing scripts that were never produced. However, WOLFEN (1981), his only other major motion picture, was. After that he would never complete another feature film again. This is the story of that film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Overview: Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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American Swing
Overview: Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-17
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Terrible Joe Moran
Overview: A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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An Empire of Reason
Overview: Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use familiar language to help today's audience understand firsthand the forces that shaped this country two hundred years ago. The argument, characters, passions and debating points are historically accurate, but the language and the medium of the debate is modern in form. Present day newscasters and commentators play themselves, reporting on the events of the 1780s as though they were occurring now.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-03
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The Making of Trump
Overview: As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing candidate's past. Included is rarely seen footage from Trump's interviews with Phil Donahue and his comments about politics from the floor of the 1988 Republican convention. Additionally, celebrities, politicians, and people described as "close to The Donald" weigh in, including former US Senator Al D'Amato (R-N.Y.), former Atlantic City mayor Jim Whelen, boxer Mike Tyson, and notorious "Apprentice" contestant Omarosa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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AIDS: The Judgment of God
Overview: Small town pastor Steven starts a journey of discovery when he meets sultry country boy Michael. Soon, Steven begins to question it all as he and Michael careen toward ecstasy and danger.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-22
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Style Wars
Overview: Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-23
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The Central Park Five
Overview: In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-24
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365 Day Project
Overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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We Own the Night
Overview: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Jerry Before Seinfeld
Overview: Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-19
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Such Good Friends
Overview: Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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The Hebrew Hammer
Overview: When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copies of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," it's up to the Hebrew Hammer to save the day. Together with Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, the Hammer takes no prisoners in his quest to hunt down the renegade Santa and make the holiday season safe for all.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-05
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The Undefeated
Overview: A documentary that chronicles Sarah Palin's pre-political life; her tenure as Governor of Alaska, and her time spent as John McCain's running mate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-15
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Run For Cover
Overview: Former KGB plot a terrorist attack on New York City.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Central Park
Overview: CENTRAL PARK is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking, skating, music, theatre, sports, picnics, parades and concerts. The film also illustrates the complex problems the New York City Parks Department deals with in order to maintain and preserve the park and keep it open and accessible to the public.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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Positive
Overview: This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Empire City
Overview: A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-01
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Key Exchange
Overview: A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-14
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Siempre, Luis
Overview: A story that embodies the tenacity and passion of the American Dream, this documentary is a portrait of the pioneering activist Luis A. Miranda Jr. Luis is a decades-long fighter for Latino communities, a key player in the New York and national political arena, and a loving father of three – including the award-winning composer, lyricist and actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-25
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The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Overview: A look into what has shaped President Donald Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden, where they came from and how they lead.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-22
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Koch
Overview: A documentary on the former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Overview: From Casey Stengel to Doc Gooden, An Amazin' Era captures all the magic and mystique surrounding 25 years of New York Mets baseball.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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An Amazin' Era
Overview: From Casey Stengel to Dwight Gooden, An Amazin' Era captures all the magic and mystique surrounding 25 years of New York Mets baseball. Relive the team's first quarter century in a collection of interviews and rare footage that follows the Mets from their humble beginnings through their championship years of 1969 and 1973, right up to the present day powerhouse team. An Amazin' Era is a complete history of the team that has captured the spirit and imagination of New York since 1962
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-01
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