Alan Alda
Also Known As: Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo , Альфонсо Джозеф Д’Абруццо, Алан Алда
Biography: Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series MAS*H. He is currently a visiting professor at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 28, 1936
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Gender: Male
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Flirting with Disaster
Overview: Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy, and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina, he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Overview: William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of movie and TV bloopers.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Canadian Bacon
Overview: The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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The Aviator
Overview: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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What Women Want
Overview: Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
Overview: A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-02
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And the Band Played On
Overview: The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Overview: A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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The Four Seasons
Overview: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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Murder at 1600
Overview: A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-18
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Everyone Says I Love You
Overview: A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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Mad City
Overview: A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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California Suite
Overview: The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Resurrecting the Champ
Overview: Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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The Mephisto Waltz
Overview: A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Diminished Capacity
Overview: A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-04
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Juke and Opal
Overview: “WINTER, 1973. Late afternoon: the entr'acte between dusk and darkness, when the people who conduct their business in the street -- numbers runners in gray chesterfields, out-of-work barmaids playing the dozens, adolescents cultivating their cigarette jones and lust, small-time hustlers selling ‘authentic’ gold wristwatches that are platinum bright---look for a place to roost and to drink in the day's sin. Young black guy, looks like the comedian Richard Pryor, walks into one of his hangouts, Opal's Silver Spoon Café. A greasy dive with a R & B jukebox, it could be in Detroit or in New York, could be anywhere. Opal's has a proprietor -- Opal, a young and wise black woman, who looks like the comedian Lily Tomlin -- and a little bell over the door that goes tink-a-link, announcing all the handouts and gimmes who come to sit at Opal's counter and talk about how needy their respective asses are.” — Hilton Als
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Nothing But the Truth
Overview: When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-19
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Flash of Genius
Overview: In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventing intermittent windshield wipers. Kearns doggedly pursues recognition for his invention, as well as the much-deserved financial rewards for the sake of his wife and six kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-07
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Same Time, Next Year
Overview: A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-23
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The Object of My Affection
Overview: A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Overview: Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Sweet Liberty
Overview: Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Ray Donovan: The Movie
Overview: A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each of them struggles to overcome their violent upbringing, but destiny dies hard, and only their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Betsy's Wedding
Overview: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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Wanderlust
Overview: Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-23
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Tower Heist
Overview: A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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Whispers in the Dark
Overview: Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Overview: Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
Genres: Adventure War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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A New Life
Overview: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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White Mile
Overview: An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-21
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50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
Overview: In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-04
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To Kill a Clown
Overview: A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Making 'M*A*S*H'
Overview: An in-depth look at the highly successful TV series, including a study of the philosophical approach of the program.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-21
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Playmates
Overview: Two divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-03
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Isn't It Shocking?
Overview: A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-02
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The Glass House
Overview: Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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6 RMS RIV VU
Overview: Two strangers meet when they respond to an ad in The New York Times for a river view apartment. Paul Friedman is a married advertising copywriter; Ann Miller a discontented housewife. They view the apartment, but before they can leave discover that the door has accidentally been locked and they are now trapped inside together. A connection quickly forms between them as they begin sharing things about their lives, and they find themselves attracted to one another.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-17
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Kill Me If You Can
Overview: The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-25
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Gone Are the Days!
Overview: A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-09
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Club Land
Overview: A father and son work together as agents.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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Jenny
Overview: An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Bridge of Spies
Overview: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Overview: Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television
Overview: Join the individuals who made M*A*S*H as they celebrate one of the most beloved, enduringly popular, often quoted and influential comedies ever created.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-01
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Free to Be… You and Me
Overview: Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring songs and stories from many current celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") such as Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. An ABC Afterschool Special using poetry, songs, and sketches, followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept is to encourage a post-60's gender neutrality, while saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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Jake's Women
Overview: Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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Behind the Burly Q
Overview: Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth. Vintage photos, film clips and ads illustrate burlesque's resilient history and how the public's sexual appetite kept it alive amid moral and legal ado.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-23
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The Longest Ride
Overview: The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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She's Nobody's Baby: American Women in the 20th Century
Overview: This documentary goes back to the turn of the century to show how women shaped the nation’s history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Killing Yard
Overview: Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-23
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Remembering Gene Wilder
Overview: This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in 'The Producers', to the enigmatic title role in the original 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like 'Silver Streak'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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Paper Lion
Overview: Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Where's Everett?
Overview: Arnold Barker starts every day by going out on his porch to pick up the milk and the newspaper but on this day he brings in something different — an invisible alien baby who's been left on his doorstep!
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-24
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The Moonshine War
Overview: A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-30
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M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Overview: The M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion Special is a retrospective documentary on the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H that aired on the FOX TV network on May 17, 2002. The progam features interviews with past cast members, producers, and writers who contributed to the series, which originally aired on CBS-TV from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Marriage Story
Overview: A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-28
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This Changes Everything
Overview: An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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The Emperor's Newest Clothes
Overview: Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale gets a colorful, music-filled makeover in the whimsical special. Filled with bold animation, catchy musical numbers and valuable lessons, this enchanting twist on a beloved tale chronicles the story of an Emperor whose blinding vanity makes him an easy target for two phony tailors.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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Itzhak
Overview: From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life. Director Alison Chernick’s (The Jeff Koons Show, Matthew Barney: No Restraint) new documentary provides an intimate, cinéma vérité look at the remarkable life and career of this musician, widely considered the world’s greatest violinist. Features new interviews with the world-renowned violinist, his family, friends and colleagues including Billy Joel, Alan Alda, pianist Martha Argerich and cellist Mischa Maisky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-05
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Memories of M*A*S*H
Overview: Hosted by one-time M*A*S*H guest star Shelley Long, “Memories of M*A*S*H” included brand-new interviews with the cast as well as producers, creators and guest-stars. The 90-minute retrospective aired on November 25th, 1991 on CBS as part of its “Classic Weekend II,” which also included “The Bob Newhart 19th Anniversary Special” and “The Best of Ed Sullivan II.” Dozens of clips from over over sixty different episodes were shown. It was the brain-child of Michael Hirsh (also responsible for “Making M*A*S*H”) and coincided with the 20th anniversary of M*A*S*H.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-25
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Keepers of the Frame
Overview: An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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Lily
Overview: TV special starring Lily Tomlin
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-02
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Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Overview: In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-22
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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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The Making of "Marriage Story"
Overview: This video journal of the film's production features unseen on-set footage of the cast and crew. A part of the Criterion Collection release of Marriage Story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-21
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Just a Man: Sam the Hotel
Overview: The rise and fall of an American film icon. Premiered at ScannerDance 2025.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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