Gene Hackman
Also Known As: Eugene Allen Hackman, Eugene Alder, Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman, Τζιν Χάκμαν, جین هکمن
Biography: Eugene Allen 'Gene' Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. He was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, he has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include I Never Sang for My Father (1970); his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1975); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); A Bridge Too Far (1977); his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); Under Fire (1983); Twice in a Lifetime (1985); Hoosiers (1986); No Way Out (1987); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and his final film role before retirement, in Welcome to Mooseport (2004). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, USA
Birthday: January 30, 1930
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Gender: Male
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Unforgiven
Overview: William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Absolute Power
Overview: A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Bonnie and Clyde
Overview: In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-13
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The French Connection
Overview: Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-09
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The Poseidon Adventure
Overview: When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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The Conversation
Overview: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-07
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Mississippi Burning
Overview: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-08
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Young Frankenstein
Overview: A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-15
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Under Suspicion
Overview: A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-24
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No Way Out
Overview: Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush: Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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The Replacements
Overview: Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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French Connection II
Overview: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-18
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Heartbreakers
Overview: Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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The Birdcage
Overview: Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val's request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara's father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Heist
Overview: Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and his partner, Bobby Blane, and their utility man, Pinky Pincus, find themselves broke, betrayed, and blackmailed. Moore is forced to commit his crew to do one last big job.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Hoosiers
Overview: Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Extreme Measures
Overview: Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Overview: With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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The Mexican
Overview: Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Runaway Jury
Overview: After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-16
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Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Another Woman
Overview: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Scarecrow
Overview: Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Behind Enemy Lines
Overview: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Target
Overview: A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-08
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Narrow Margin
Overview: An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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The Chamber
Overview: Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Get Shorty
Overview: Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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The Package
Overview: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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The Split
Overview: A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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Superman II
Overview: Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who made himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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Loose Cannons
Overview: Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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The Domino Principle
Overview: Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-23
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Night Moves
Overview: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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The Quick and the Dead
Overview: A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
Genres: Western Action Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-09
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Company Business
Overview: An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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Wyatt Earp
Overview: From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
Genres: Western Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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March or Die
Overview: Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Crimson Tide
Overview: After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsay insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Antz
Overview: A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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The Royal Tenenbaums
Overview: Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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Twilight
Overview: A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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Downhill Racer
Overview: An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-06
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Bite the Bullet
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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Enemy of the State
Overview: The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday shopping. Unbeknownst to Dean, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the trail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious NSA official named Reynolds. Using satellite surveillance, bugs, and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves while also framing him for murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, he attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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Uncommon Valor
Overview: A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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Under Fire
Overview: Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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Prime Cut
Overview: A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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Marooned
Overview: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-11
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Geronimo: An American Legend
Overview: The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Western History Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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Full Moon in Blue Water
Overview: Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-23
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Hawaii
Overview: Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-10
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Lilith
Overview: Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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Bat★21
Overview: Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-21
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The Firm
Overview: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-30
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Class Action
Overview: A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Eureka
Overview: An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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The Hunting Party
Overview: A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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The Gypsy Moths
Overview: Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-29
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Welcome to Mooseport
Overview: A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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Power
Overview: Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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Reds
Overview: An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Overview: A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-06
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Misunderstood
Overview: A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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Cisco Pike
Overview: A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-14
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I Never Sang for My Father
Overview: Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-18
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Split Decisions
Overview: When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Riot
Overview: A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Overview: TV documentary about American film director Wes Anderson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-17
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Lucky Lady
Overview: When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Zandy's Bride
Overview: Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-19
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Overview: Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Twice in a Lifetime
Overview: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-23
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All Night Long
Overview: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Overview: The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Shurtleff on Acting
Overview: A feature length documentary on legendary acting guru, casting agent and author, Michael Shurtleff. Interviews with actors such as Gene Hackman, Elliot Gould and Don Murray who learned under this master.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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Doctors' Wives
Overview: The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Overview: The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human beings with superhuman powers colonized the funny papers, radio dramas, television and films, to become a truly national industry in the United States: they gave expression to the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century and bolstered American ideals.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-23
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A Covenant with Death
Overview: An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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Sports on the Silver Screen
Overview: HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-16
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Heroes of Iwo Jima
Overview: This heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-17
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Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Overview: Revisiting the achievements of Sacheen Littlefeather, the first woman of color to utilize the Academy Awards to make a political statement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Pattern Recognition
Overview: To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wondering... What's that sound? And why won't it stop?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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The Sky Divers
Overview: A behind-the-scenes, promotional short about the making of the feature film The Gypsy Moths (1969), which extensively features free fall skydiving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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First to Fight
Overview: Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-25
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Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Overview: The exciting story of the making of William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971), hosted by former NYPD detective Sony Grosso, who inspired the character of Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo, played in the film by actor Roy Scheider.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-25
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Overview: With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with whom he has worked, as well as comments from Clint Eastwood himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Overview: Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing debut. That story and others comprise this portrait of the famed Hollywood icon. His career is explored via an array of film clips, interviews and more.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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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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Banning
Overview: A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Shadow on the Land
Overview: Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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How Fast?
Overview: Promotional feature for Michael Ritchie's film 'Downhill Racer'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Overview: John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Overview: Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of the studio system.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Overview: Marc McClure presents a documentary on the making of 'Superman' (1978).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Overview: Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Making of 'Superman II'
Overview: Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Overview: Documentary on the making of the 1978 film 'Superman.'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Overview: Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts on Bravo Television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-28
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Mad Dog Coll
Overview: Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-12
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We, The Marines
Overview: We, The Marines takes viewers on an action-packed adventure into the unparalleled experience of becoming and serving as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. Narrated by former Marine and actor, Gene Hackman, the film honors something more than dedication and service; the film offers an unforgettable glimpse into the first-hand experiences of America's "first responders" and what it takes to become the men and women who honor and defend our country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-21
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Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Overview: In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-09
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Formula 1 - Speed fever
Overview: Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1" champions - from Lauda to Regazzoni, from Andretti to Fittipaldi, from Villeneuve to Reutemann - the film shows some moments of the races on the most famous tracks of the world, and above all, the accidents that have caused it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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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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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Overview: Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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Earth and the American Dream
Overview: A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Overview: Behind the scenes of Unforgiven (1992)
Genres: Documentary Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-24
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All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Overview: 10th Anniversary documentary looking back at Unforgiven (1992)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-24
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Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Overview: Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Two of a Kind
Overview: God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-13
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Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
Overview: The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-12
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
Overview: A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members who have worked with him over the years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-11
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Community Shelter Planning
Overview: Gene Hackman stars as a Regional Civil Defense official who attempts to convince a skeptical county commissioner to adopt a Community Shelter Planning program. The purpose of the program is to identify fallout shelter space for all of the citizens of the community.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Overview: A documentary on the production of The French Connection (1971).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-15
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Overview: Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey Keitel a fairy and how did we all almost become diehard fans of Paul Calderon? Here’s a story about Quentin Tarantino. The director who needs no introduction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-02
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Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Overview: This hour-long program, presented by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe and Santa Fe Downtown Kiwanis Foundation, features the Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe Documentary narrated by Gene Hackman and film highlights from the 76th Annual Burning of Will Shuster's Zozobra™ (September 7th, 2000). This documentary gives us the unique history behind one of America's most bizarre annual traditions and some insight into the eccentric artist who created it. "Will Shusters Zozobra" sold out its 2001 premiere at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe with hundreds turned away. This documentary was also screened at the 2001 Santa Fe Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Overview: Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-21
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Get Shorty: Look At Me
Overview: A deep dive behind the making of "Get Shorty' with interviews of many of the principals and the director
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-22
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Get Shorty: Wiseguys And Dolls
Overview: A look at how the main characters were envisioned, created, cast, and developed
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-22
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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Overview: Behind the scenes of the 1992 film Unforgiven.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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