Jane Alexander
Also Known As: Jane Quigley, Jane Kuigley
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of charitable causes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: October 28, 1939
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Gender: Female
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All the President's Men
Overview: During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Genres: Drama History Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Terminator Salvation
Overview: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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The Ring
Overview: Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Brubaker
Overview: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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The Cider House Rules
Overview: Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Testament
Overview: It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Overview: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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The Unborn
Overview: A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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Gigantic
Overview: Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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The New Centurions
Overview: An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-03
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City Heat
Overview: Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Overview: In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-30
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Dream House
Overview: Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Playing for Time
Overview: When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
Genres: Drama Music History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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A Gunfight
Overview: Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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Deck the Halls
Overview: Detective Regan Reilly and cleaning-woman-turned-private-eye Alvirah Meegan, investigate the kidnapping of Regan's father and a young female driver just before the holidays. The race is on to rescue the pair and get them home in time for Christmas.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-20
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Night Crossing
Overview: Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Square Dance
Overview: An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Kennedy's Children
Overview: In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-11
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Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Overview: Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in one way or another with 'All the President's Men', whether being the novel or the movie, appear in this documentary to talk about the challenge of both medias and how one was successfully transformed into another.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Testament at 20
Overview: Interviews with crew and cast look back 20 years to the filming and release of "Testament" in 1983.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Building Bombs
Overview: This Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles everyday life in Aiken, S.C. -- ground zero for America's hydrogen bomb-making facility, the Savannah River Plant. Through interviews with residents, politicians, activists and factory workers, the incisive film looks at the consequences of living in the shadow of nuclear weapons and the illegal dumping of radioactive waste. Actress Jane Alexander narrates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-09
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Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Overview: A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-22
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In the Custody of Strangers
Overview: A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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A Friendship in Vienna
Overview: Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-27
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William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
Overview: The film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the same life of William of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton met at the University of Saint Andrews, besides the romance that they maintained, the break of it and commitment.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-30
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In Love and War
Overview: This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among other senior officers, led a resistance group against the North Vietnamese, facing torture, isolation, and starvation in attempts to break their wills. Back in the US, Stockdale's wife, Sybil, begins working with other POW wives to try to get information on their husbands and to inform the world on their treatment.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Malice in Wonderland
Overview: Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-14
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Jenifer
Overview: The true story of three sisters who unite in the face of adversity when one of them is diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-21
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Calamity Jane
Overview: An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bill Hickock, with whom she had an unorthodox courtship, and the flamboyant Buffalo Bill Cody, between the 1870s and the turn of the century.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-06
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The Great White Hope
Overview: A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-11
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Overview: The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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Death Be Not Proud
Overview: Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-04
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The Loving Story
Overview: This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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The Betsy
Overview: Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier when Angelo romances two women in Loren's life -- his great-granddaughter and his grandson's mistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-02
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Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
Overview: A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused; a teacher who saw these children for who they were, rather than who they seemed to be.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Open Admissions
Overview: An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get a good education in this issue-oriented drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Overview: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-30
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Stay the Night
Overview: Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule. "Stay the Night" tells the dark tale of the controversial romance of a small town teenage boy named Michael Kettman and a free-spirited older woman named Jimmie Sue Finger, who suffers from an abusive marriage. Jimmie Sue and her younger lover plot to murder her husband, which leads to either eternal bliss for the both of them or a curse on their relationship.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-26
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Blood & Orchids
Overview: Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-23
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Feast of Love
Overview: A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Overview: A short documentary on the making of "All the President's Men."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-28
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Three Christs
Overview: Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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A Question of Love
Overview: A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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When She Says No
Overview: After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them of rape, but the men say otherwise.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-30
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Sweet Country
Overview: An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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The Man in the Woods
Overview: On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and demonization that their idyllic school was built on.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-24
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The Powder & the Glory
Overview: The story of pioneering entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, who built cosmetics empires and competed against each other for more than fifty years. Starting from nothing, they became household names and business icons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-07
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Show Boat
Overview: The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsham, Norm Lewis, Jane Alexander and Fred Willard.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Christmas Around the Corner
Overview: Claire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a quaint town in Vermont for the holidays and becomes a guest of the Fortenbury Bookstore. Upon arrival, Claire finds Christmas celebrations have been canceled by the town after a flood and the bookstore is in a dire state of disrepair. She immediately takes on the challenge to revitalize the store, but clashes with the owner, Andrew (Jamie Spilchuk), who initially rejects all her proposed improvements. Eventually, sparks fly as the two begin a budding romance, and Claire’s infectious optimism inspires Andrew to join her in reviving the yuletide spirit. But everything comes to a screeching halt when Claire discovers that Andrew is planning to sell the bookstore in the New Year. Will the spirit of Christmas be enough to change Andrew’s mind and encourage him to follow his heart?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-14
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Glory
Overview: Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Overview: The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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Sunshine State
Overview: A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-21
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Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single parent after his wife walks out on him, then is forced to fight for custody of his child in court. Includes interviews with the stars of the film, including Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, giving their views of what it was like to make this picture.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-20
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Le donne non vogliono più
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Warm Springs
Overview: Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-30
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John Muir in the New World
Overview: The life and the career of John Muir come to life through this inspiring and beautiful documentary set against the magnificent landscapes of the American West. The Scottish-born naturalist was one of the first nature preservationists in American history, inspiring others through his writing and his advocacy to keep the wilderness wild. Shot in high definition in the spectacular landscapes that shaped Muir - and were, in turn, shaped by his devotion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-18
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Overview: "Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was unflinching in his commitment to bringing some of the most memorable movies of the last half of the 20th century to the big screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Overview: Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family situations involving the use of illegal drugs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-11
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Mountain View
Overview: A dance drama work that, through movement and very little spoken text, details the interaction of several people residing at or visiting a motel or motor inn named Mountain View. The work spans a period of about 24 hours, following the individuals through late afternoon, an evening spent in the motel bar, and a picnic-style social gathering the next day. Some of the characters encountered are the family who runs the motel (a mother, her young adult son, and an older man, perhaps her father); a spunky, tomboyish girl; an interracial couple lodging at the motel; a young mother; a pair of newlyweds; a barfly; three people involved in a love triangle; and the punkish friends of the motel owner's son.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-07
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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Overview: Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-09
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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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