Hugh Hefner
Also Known As: Hef, Hugh Marston Hefner, Hugh M. Hefner
Biography: Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: April 09, 1926
Deathday: September 27, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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History of the World: Part I
Overview: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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3000 Miles
Overview: A group of professional skateboarders and their friends take part in the Gumball 3000 rally, an 8 day race around the world from London to Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-24
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Playboy: The Story of X
Overview: The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the 60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris. In the 70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind The Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The House Bunny
Overview: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
Overview: A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the mirror dimension, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil doppelganger, the Noxious Offender.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Overview: A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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The Aristocrats
Overview: One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Playboy: Girls of World Soccer
Overview: For the hottest soccer action outside the World Cup, Hef assembled his own team of world-class stunners for a uniform-optional photo shoot at the Playboy mansion. Hailing from such pillars of the soccer world as Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands as well as Japan, Russia and yes, the USA, these toned and tackle-worthy all-star beauties bare it all, share their tips for a group warm-up and happily take a time out for playing dirty. The game of soccer has never seen such high scores.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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Sam Kinison: Breaking the Rules
Overview: This is a great performance. Through yelling and energetic story-telling, he talks about marriage, drugs, being arrested (thanks to his ex-wife), pleasing women, religion, and much, much more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-21
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Love in Hollywood
Overview: Various Hollywood people talk about love.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-12-08
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Freedom to Love
Overview: It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-08-29
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Playboy: Jenny McCarthy - The Playboy Years
Overview: Jennifer McCarthy is featured in this special Playboy tape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion
Overview: A look inside the Playboy mansion around the year 2000. Features Hugh Hefner and his 7 girlfriends pre-Girls Next Door.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Janes
Overview: Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-03
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Overview: King: Man of Peace in a Time of War documents the work Martin Luther King did in attempting to bring peace to people during the turmoil of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The film includes interviews with contemporaries such as Jesse Jackson, and military experts like Colin Powell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-16
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Overview: Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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Bettie Page Reveals All
Overview: The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Overview: A salute to Playboy Magazine on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, hosted by founding publisher Hugh Hefner and an all-male guest list.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-07
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Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
Overview: See inside the exclusive Playboy Mansion, with parties attended by all the A-List celebrities
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-31
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Hop
Overview: E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In L.A., he's taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-30
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Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager
Overview: Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic...till now.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-12
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This Is Farrah Fawcett
Overview: Friends and loved ones of Farrah Fawcett recall the actress' personal struggles and final days.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
Overview: Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller. The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others. Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U.S. These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nation¹s history.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-03
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Let's Play, Boy
Overview: The history of Playboy magazine as told by Hugh Hefner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-25
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Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates
Overview: Every Playmate in Playboy's 50-Year history all in one collectors edition.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-14
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The Chevy Chase National Humor Test
Overview: 1979 comedy special starring Chevy Chase in the vein of Saturday Night Live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-10
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How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Overview: Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to The Catskills, Boston, New York, Miami and Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Miss March
Overview: A young man awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart has since become a centerfold in one of the world's most famous men's magazines. He and his sex-crazed best friend decide to take a cross-country road trip in order to crash a party at the magazine's legendary mansion headquarters and win back the girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Beverly Hills Cop II
Overview: Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-18
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Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Overview: A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer Andrew Braunsberg, assistant executive producer Victor Lownes, and actors Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-23
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Sunset Strip
Overview: A documentary on the famous Los Angeles street.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
Overview: Hugh Hefner invites you to Playboy’s Roller Disco and Pajama Party! With your host, Richard Dawson!
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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The Bunny Years
Overview: A documentary based on former Playboy Bunny Kathryn Leigh Scott's book of the same name. The book and the documentary feature many interviews with former Bunnies on their experiences of working as cottontails in the Playboy Clubs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-07
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The Most
Overview: A look at the life of Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-20
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The World of Hugh Hefner
Overview: This 1973 documentary by the award-winning director Tony Palmer shone a light on the multi-millionaire Hugh Hefner and his Playboy empire. It gave Hefner the opportunity to tell his story and, of course, it offended the usual suspects - Mary Whitehouse, the Daily Express and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Overview: Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-05
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Why Do They Do It?
Overview: "Why Do They Do It ?" preached that it was decent to be a sexual creature. A panel discussion in the Student Association as a kind of frame, you watch various so-called live shows and you met actors like Effie Schou, Søren Strømberg, Dale Robinson and Keld Rex Holm. A lot of attention was given to Bodil Joensen, a very pet-friendly young lady, who would like to enjoy a bull named Sofus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Overview: A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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NBC television special: The Pursuit of Pleasure
Overview: A special documentary dealing with topics as narcotics, sex, promiscuity, fads, pop culture and morals in 1967.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-08
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Inside Deep Throat
Overview: In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self-appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film had a bold artistic potential. This film covers the story of the making of this controversial film, its stunning success, its hysterical opposition along with its dark side of mob influence and allegations of the on set mistreatment of the film's star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
Overview: The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! is a documentary special that examined the "cultural phenomenon" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-10
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The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Overview: A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner
Overview: The Comedy Central Roasts are a series of celebrity roast specials which air on the Comedy Central cable network. This one is for Hugh Hefner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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A Century of Science Fiction
Overview: American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Comeback Trail
Overview: Sketchy producers hire an ailing movie star, hoping to cash in on the insurance when he dies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
Overview: With his magazine Hugh Hefner changed the face of publishing, combining titillation with hard-edged reporting and serving up nudity with taste. His swinging bachelor ways also made him an icon for the straight males for whom his publication was tailor-made. Join Richard Kiley in this documentary about the quintessential ladies' man. Includes footage, photos and interviews with Camille Paglia, Mel Torme, Tony Curtis and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Overview: Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular Hollywood culture. With a particular focus given to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second studies the role of female sexuality in film throughout the years. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-23
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Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Overview: Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the original movie star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in America
Overview: Documentary on the sexual revolution in America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
Overview: Pamela Anderson was roasted by Courtney Love, Adam Carolla, Bea Arthur, Nick DiPaolo, Greg Giraldo, Elon Gold, Eddie Griffin, Lady Bunny, Lisa Lampanelli, Tommy Lee, Jeff Ross, Sarah Silverman, Andy Dick, roastmaster Jimmy Kimmel and pre-taped appearances by David Spade and Hugh Hefner. Dennis Rodman was amongst the crowd on the stage. This roast featured a large amount of jokes and satire regarding sex directed from roasters toward fellow roasters, complete with Andy Dick appearing as Pamela's plastic surgeon and groping her breasts as part of his skit. Many of the jokes were also directed at Courtney Love for appearing to be inebriated (but claiming to have been sober for a year), Bea Arthur's masculinity, Andy Dick's ambiguous sexuality and Lisa Lampanelli's full figured body as well as her attraction towards black people. One of the audience members was Anna Nicole Smith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-14
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Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
Overview: John Cork and his compatriots from the Ian Fleming Foundation, who have created outstanding documentaries for most of MGM's 007 DVDs, provide a fine overview of the life and times of James Bond's creator. Rather than using voice-over narrative, Cork and company tell this story entirely through the recollections of Fleming's family, friends and colleagues, combining new interviews with archival footage (including conversations with Fleming himself).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The World of James Bond
Overview: Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-29
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Gloria: In Her Own Words
Overview: Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women’s movement today. This film blends interviews of Steinem in her Manhattan apartment, archival footage, photographs from throughout her life and clips from press interviews over the years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-15
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The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect
Overview: A documentary on The Fly
Genres: Documentary Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-05
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Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1
Overview: Playboy Video Magazine was literally a video version of the publication. It included candid celebrity interviews, video editorials, the trademark playmate pictorials, interwoven with commercial parodies and short comedy sketches. The series also covered trends in media; sex, politics, culture, and pop culture.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
Overview: This documentary presents the story of Dorothy Stratten, who was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Year in 1980. Stratten was murdered by her husband, Paul Snider. The film investigates the playmate’s past, the dynamics of her relationship with her husband, and the events surrounding her violent demise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Overview: Survey Marilyn Monroe’s life through photographs, from Hollywood stills to candid pictures snapped on the streets of New York.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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Comic Book: The Movie
Overview: Hugh Hefner, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill and Kevin Smith journey into the world of comic book fandom! Documentary filmmaker Donald Swan heads to the world's largest comic book convention where he encounters a culture of craziness that he's totally unprepared for.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Drama Mystery Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-27
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Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds
Overview: What do Marilyn Monroe, Suzanne Somers, Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Carmen Electra all have in common? Their show business careers were launched or taken to new heights by appearing in Playboy Magazine. This two-hour special looks at the careers of the many beauties who started out unknown but made the move from the pages of Playboy to starring roles in TV and movies
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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