Kenny Rogers
Also Known As: Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Kenneth Donald Rogers, Kenneth Ray Rogers, Kenneth Rogers
Biography: Kenny Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American country music singer and actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Deathday: March 20, 2020
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I Love Liberty
Overview: An all-star variety special saluting America.
Genres: Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-21
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Overview: A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Real Love
Overview: In February 1985, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers kicked off a nine-city U.S. concert tour. Footage from the tour was used for the HBO special "Real Love," which was released the same year. The special has been subsequently released on Betamax, VHS and DVD. The special features hit songs by each of the artists, as well as the popular duet "Real Love" and the Gibb brothers' "Islands in the Stream."
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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The Gambler
Overview: This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-08
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Voices That Care
Overview: Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Kenny Rogers: The Journey
Overview: I liked Kenny when he was with the First Edition. So when I heard that the First Edition appeared on this DVD I decided to check it out. I absolutely love it. There are clips from his earlier career right up to the present. There are people like Lionel Ritchie and Mickey Jones giving commentary. There are a few First Edition Clips and his duets with the ladies like Dolly Parton and Sheena Easton.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Six Pack
Overview: Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Gambler V: Playing for Keeps
Overview: Brady Hawkes has to run to his son's rescue once again in this continuation of the Gambler stories. Jeremiah is now a young man who has become involved with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Brady pursues the gang in order to get Jeremiah out of the gang before he gets in too much trouble with the law.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-02
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ACM Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends in Concert
Overview: ACM Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends – In Concert, a special tribute featuring performances by Jason Aldean, The Band Perry, Big & Rich, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, Marc Anthony, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Jennifer Nettles, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Rogers, Darius Rucker, and Blake Shelton – plus a special appearance by Nicole Richie.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
Overview: Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Coward of the County
Overview: A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of The Draw
Overview: Hawkes, Jones and Cassidy are on their way to the biggest poker game in history. But a few folks want to see them fold before they even get there.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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Tribute to Harry Chapin
Overview: Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his humanitarian efforts. Featuring songs and speeches by Harry's friends, family and peers.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Rio Diablo
Overview: Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. If you're an outlaw with a price on your head, Leach is the last man you'll want to meet. Travis Tritt, in an impressive acting debut, stars as Benjamin Tabor, a man out for blood after a gang of murderous bank robbers flee with his beautiful young bride. Together, Tabor and Leach take to the Trail with guns blazing in search of the same outlaws. And they're not going to stop until they find them - dead or alive.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-28
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The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues
Overview: Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and get the supplies they need. They also uncover corruption within a government outpost and find themselves in a dangerous position.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-22
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The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Overview: The story of the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fame in the 1960s, went on to write over 1,000 songs and have 20 No. 1 hits throughout their career, transcending more than five decades of changing tastes and styles.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember
Overview: A holiday musical special with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers based around their best-selling album "Once Upon a Christmas."
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-02
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Kenny Rogers: All in for the Gambler
Overview: The life and legacy of country music legend Kenny Rogers is honored in a new star-studded concert special, Kenny Rogers: All In For The Gambler, to be broadcast Thursday, September 23rd from 9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT on CBS and available to stream live and on demand with Paramount+. Filmed at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville before Rogers’ untimely passing, the live concert features on-stage tributes, artists’ anecdotes and inspiring songs performed in front of the music icon himself, as he bid farewell to performing and announced his retirement.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Longshot
Overview: Teen Alex Taylor and his older brother Jack live in L.A. where Jack is a personal fitness trainer. Jack had an affair with Mitzi Price, a very powerful business man's wife. Her husband, Laszlo Price, then blackmails Jack into going to New York City to get information from Rachel Montgomery, about who she is selling her company to. Jack brings Alex with him to make sure that he will be safe. Jack and Rachel fall in love while Alex falls in love Rachel's daughter Kelly. Eventually Jack tells Rachel why he was sent to New York, and the two work together to bring Laszlo Price down. Rachel needs to have two million dollars in order to not sell her company. Alex wins the money in a halftime contest at a basketball game. They provide information about Laszlo Price to the police, and he is arrested.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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The Greatest Night in Pop
Overview: On a January night in 1985, music's biggest stars gathered to record "We Are the World." This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic event.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Kenny Rogers All in for the Gambler
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Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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We the People
Overview: This powerful giant screen historical documentary is the story of America’s founding documents and the people who wrote, shaped and tested them.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-06
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Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Overview: The Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special was a 2001 New York City revue show by Michael Jackson. It took place on September 7, 2001 and September 10, 2001. In late November 2001, the CBS television network aired the concerts as a two-hour special in honour of Michael Jackson's thirtieth year as a solo entertainer (his first solo single, "Got to Be There", was recorded in 1971). The show was edited from footage of two separate concerts Michael had orchestrated in New York City's Madison Square Garden on September 7 and September 10 of 2001. The shows sold out in five hours. Ticket prices were pop's most expensive ever; the best seats cost $5,000 and included a dinner with Michael Jackson and a signed poster.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You
Overview: The first two decades of Dolly Parton's career sees her cross over from her rural Tennessee country roots to become one of the world's most popular and celebrated artists on stage, television and film; narrator Pam Tillis.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-28
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2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Overview: The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Performer Inductees are Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon. Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis will receive the Musical Excellence Award, Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotten the Early Influence Award, and Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine, and Sylvia Robinson the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-19
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Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story
Overview: Dottie West fought a difficult childhood to rise as one of country music's icons winning the first ever Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965. She pushed the boundaries of country music and befriended some of their greatest musical artistes. Poor management besieged her with financial problems and she was on her way to fighting them through when she was tragically killed.
Genres: Music TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-22
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Sheena Easton: Act One
Overview: A variety special starring Sheena Easton.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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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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MacShayne: Winner Takes All
Overview: MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. Now two of the guys he recruited has agreed to it but the third is uncertain, so he sets up a poker game wherein MacShayne is suppose to clean him out thus giving Leggett some leverage on him. After doing that he discovers that Leggett is duplicitous and is going stab everybody in the back. So he decides to turn the tables on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Every 40 Years
Overview: An exploration of Gunhill Road's return to music 40 years after breaking into the Billboard Top 40 charts in 1973. Every 40 Years is about second chances and the power of chasing your dream down one more time.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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The Dream Makers
Overview: A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story
Overview: Biography of country music star Barbara Mandrell.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-28
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All In For The Gambler: Kenny Rogers Farewell Concert Celebration
Overview: This one-night-only concert event taping brings together fans, friends and music icons to celebrate Kenny Rogers’ final farewell to Nashville. Featuring performances by Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Chris Stapleton, Elle King, Idina Menzel, Jamey Johnson, Lady Antebellum, Lionel Richie, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, The Flaming Lips, The Judds, Wynonna and Kenny Rogers along with many other special guests.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-25
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Kenny Rogers: Keep Christmas With You
Overview: Enjoy this special time of year and relive the fond memories of Christmas with your favorite carols and songs of yesteryear. Join country crooner Kenny Rogers and special guests Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks, and Boyz II Men for a heartwarming holiday special that combines live concert footage, filmed at the Grand Palace Theater in Branson, Missouri.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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The Return of Spinal Tap
Overview: Spinal Tap is back in a whole new feature-length rockumentary. Go behind the scenes and find out where the somewhat-less-than-fab three are now -- and where it all began in Squatney, England. Also, catch up with director Marty DiBergi, ex-Polymer marketing whiz Artie Fufkin, and Jeanine, who now owns a shop specializing in itchy Irish clothing.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Overview: Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other cast members. The film not only shows Donald's life, but also depicts an extensive international tour that Donald went on in 1984 as well as showing various celebrities of the day wishing Donald happy birthday. The tour culminates in a parade in Donald's honor at Disneyland.
Genres: Documentary Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-13
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Wild Horses
Overview: An over-the-hill rodeo champion gets fired from his assembly line job in Texas. He and a buddy then decide to head to Wyoming to get a job herding mustangs. His wife gives him her his blessing, knowing he needs to find something which satisfies his spirit. They sign up for a roundup headed by a veteran cowboy. With the job, he finds himself cross-wise of a corrupt government official, who is making big profits on the illegal sale of wild horses.
Genres: Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-12
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MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice
Overview: Reformed con man Jack MacShayne is back, this time as the head of security at the Las Vegas hotel he stayed at in MacShayne: Winner Takes All. As part of his new job, he's charged with protecting a variety of distinguished guests, from the kleptomaniac grandson of the hotel's CEO to the lounge singer whose ex-husband shows up dead. Meanwhile, a senatorial candidate is relying on MacShayne to keep him safe from a deadly hit man.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1977
Overview: These are live performances from a television music show that aired late night on the NBC-TV network the U.S., from 1973-1981.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-23
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Saga of Sonora
Overview: A musical TV special with Vince Edwards as a hero who must stop gold-greedy villains, Jill St. John and Zero Mostel, and prove his love to his girl, Lesley Ann Warren.
Genres: Western Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Kenny Rogers Working America
Overview: Special in which Kenny Rogers salutes the working men and women of America. He visits ordinary working people around the country and takes photographs of them. Show also includes performances of some of his songs.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Kenny Rogers: Going Home - Live At The House Of Blues
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-05-26
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We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Overview: We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song is a documentary which examines how the song was written, how producer Quincy Jones and songwriters Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie persuaded some of the most popular performers in America to donate their services to the project, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the marathon recording session that produced the single.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-28
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Kenny, Dolly & Willie: Something Inside So Strong
Overview: This was a concert performed in Houston for employees of NASA and their families to celebrate the US space program. Archival footage of NASA space missions was shown throughout the concert.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-20
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Snowden on Ice
Overview: A musical holiday special aired on CBS.
Genres: Music Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Christmas in America
Overview: TV movie depicting a father and son's strained relationship with the mother often trying to be the bridge between the men in her life. The father, Frank Morgan (Kenny Rogers), is a photographer who is too often absent, according to his son. When his son, David Morgan (Kenneth Rogers Jr.), finally attends a display of his father's work despite still being bitter about their relationship, he finally realizes how important his family really was to him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
Overview: A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches and variety performances.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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Kenny Rogers and Friends
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-08
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Lynda Carter's Special
Overview: Lynda Carter's first musical TV special.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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Country Kings at the BBC
Overview: Classic male country singers from the BBC vaults, journeying from The Everly Brothers and Jerry Lee Lewis to Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson, and featuring classic songs and performances by Glen Campbell, Charley Pride, George Hamilton IV, Kenny Rogers, Clint Black, Johnny Cash, Eric Church and more. This 50 years-plus compilation is a chronological look at country kings as featured on BBC studio shows as varied as In Concert, Wogan, The Late Show and Later with Jools Holland, plus early variety shows presented by the likes of Lulu, Harry Secombe and Shirley Abicair.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-21
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O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Elvis The Man The Music The Legend
Overview: Witness the rise of Elvis through rare archival footage, personal photographs and revealing interviews with the King's friends and family. See Elvis through the eyes of his lovers and co-stars Ann Margret, Linda Thompson, Connie Stevens, as well as the musicians he inspired, including Kenny Rogers and Glen Campbell. Follow Elvis on his journey from super-stardom into his days of wild excess and drug addiction and finally to his tragic death in 1977.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-06
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Elvis & Pat Boone Rockin' Rivals
Overview: Elvis Presley & Pat Boone were two of the hottest forces on the early rock ‘n’ roll music scene in the 1950’s. In this toe-tapping documentary, the good-nature chart-topping rivalry between the duo is explored through rare footage and newsreels. Interviews include Dick Clark, Tom Jones, Kenny Rogers, Glen Campbell, Phyllis McGuire, Bill Medley, Arlene Dahl, Joe Esposito, Shirley Jones and others.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-18
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Mickey's 50
Overview: "Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 1978. The special was made to commemorate the 50th birthday of Mickey Mouse and highlights many moments in his career.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-19
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Hee Haw 10th Anniversary Celebration
Overview: In the summer of 1969, HEE HAW moseyed into the CBS time slot occupied by The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Conceived as a rural alternative to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the show ranked in the top 20 nationally when CBS pulled the plug in 1971. But co-hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark, along with the whole Kornfield Kountry gang, sang and joked on in syndication. In 1978, they grinned at the critics in a two-hour 10th-Anniversary shindig, which was videotaped with an audience of invited guests and fans at the Grand Ole Opry House. Mixing nostalgia with new performances by country music's biggest stars, this special edition of HEE HAW never misses the funnybone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Kenny Rogers: Live By Request
Overview: Kenny Rogers Live by Request review Adult contemporary and country music superstar Kenny Rogers delivers this rare live performance presented by Arts & Entertainment network. Kenny Rogers Live by Request DVD features classic hits such as "Islands In The Stream," "She Believes In Me," "The Gambler," and "Lady" are performed by Rogers with precise perfection.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Kenny Rogers: Golden Hits Collection
Overview: Country musician Kenny Rogers performs live with his band The First Edition and special guests. Featuring live clips from the early days of the American singer-songwriter's career, the performance includes tracks such as 'Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town', 'Ain't No Sunshine' and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Kenny Rogers: Cards on the Table
Overview: Documentary chronicling Kenny Rogers's rise to the top and the golden era of country he ushered in
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-21
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