Lorne Greene
Also Known As: Lyon Himan 'Chaim' Greene, Lorne Green
Biography: Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987), was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor. His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness, and in television commercials as a dog food spokesman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Greene, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: February 12, 1915
Deathday: September 11, 1987
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Gender: Male
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A Way Out of the Wilderness
Overview: A Way Out of the Wilderness is a 1968 American short documentary film produced by Dan E. Weisburd. It describes and illustrates steps being taken by the Plymouth State Home and Training School, Northville, Michigan, to bring mentally impaired children out of the wilderness into the mainstream of life. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Death Follows a Psycho
Overview: Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is holding four people hostage and will kill them all unless Griffin delivers the person that the bomber really wants dead.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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The Buccaneer
Overview: During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-11
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Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack
Overview: A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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A Place in History
Overview: A documentary on Dwight Eisenhower shown at the Eisenhower library.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Autumn Leaves
Overview: A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Peyton Place
Overview: In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Overview: A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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The Silver Chalice
Overview: A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Conquest of the Earth
Overview: A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1–3 and 7–9, with alternate footage. The Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive on Earth, only to discover that the planet is not prepared for the inevitable Cylon invasion.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-31
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Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
Overview: Celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hanna-Barbera partnership.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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The Trap
Overview: Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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Heidi's Song
Overview: Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt takes her to the city to live as a servant girl to a cold rich strict family and their nice but sad handicapped daughter.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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Tight Spot
Overview: A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-19
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Eye Witness No. 33
Overview: Vignettes covering S.S. Lurcher, a celebration in Windsor, Ontario and the Sullivan Mine in British Columbia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-07
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Global Air Routes
Overview: Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-10
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Look to the North
Overview: A look at the development of the Canadian northwest for World War II as well as post-war purposes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-10
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Our Northern Neighbour
Overview: A look at Soviet foreign policy and the value of the Soviet Union as an ally.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-10
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Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence
Overview: An educational film from 1953 to encourage parents talk to their children about adolescence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-31
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White Fortress
Overview: This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not had been able to obtain medical help.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-12
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Overview: A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Battlestar Galactica
Overview: A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1 and 5, with alternate footage. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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The Gift of Love
Overview: Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-11
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The Hard Man
Overview: A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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The Nutcracker: A Fantasy on Ice
Overview: After her mechanical nutcracker is broken by her brother, Clara falls asleep under the Christmas tree with the broken nutcracker in her arms and enters a dream world where the toys come alive.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Overview: Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-23
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Warclouds in the Pacific
Overview: This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took careful stock of this new Japan and its strength, and erected a vast system of defence across the world's greatest ocean.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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The Gifts
Overview: The Gifts is a 1970 American short documentary film about water pollution in the United States. The film was produced by Robert McBride for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Overview: The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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Klondike Fever
Overview: This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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SST: Death Flight
Overview: On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Destiny of a Spy
Overview: A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-27
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The Harness
Overview: A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with her eight-year-old son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-12
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The Cliff Hangers
Overview: Over a gleaming ice field and up steep cliffs of bare rock, the camera follows members of the Alpine Club of Canada. Before they set out we are introduced to the climbers' basic equipment and learn the uses of rope and ice axe. Excitement mounts as the alpinists leap gaping chasms, inch their way along icy ledges, and drag themselves up what looks like a sheer wall of rock. Arriving breathless at the top, they pause in triumph for a view of the magnificent mountains lying around their vanquished peak.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-20
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Man on the Outside
Overview: A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-29
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The Bastard
Overview: Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Overview: A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-06
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Wings in the Wilderness
Overview: The first man to train or imprint Canada geese goslings using a radio-controlled model airplane is documented in this award-winning film that thrills audiences with the first shots of the geese taken from a camera mounted on that airplane.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-17
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The Special London Bridge Special
Overview: In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Christmas with Lorne Greene
Overview: The Bonanza star hosts this yuletide half-hour with the UNICEF Children's Choir on their imaginary trip to the Charles Dickens-era of England.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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Johnny at the Fair
Overview: At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Wings of Youth
Overview: This Canadian produced film spotlights the young flyers of the Canadian Air Force in the early days of World War II. Quite well done and rarely seen. Narrated by Lorne Greene later the star of Bonanza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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The Hangman
Overview: A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-17
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A Man for Loving
Overview: James Beal is an advertising executive in his fifties who still lives his itfe at a pace that leaves his friends exhausted. But the moment of truth oomes to every man sooner or later—even to James.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-12
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Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
Overview: Gino, a bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his wife insists that he have a vasectomy, something he doesn't even want to think about. On top of that, he discovers that other family members are stealing money from his bank.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Farewell Oak Street
Overview: This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-15
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Fighting Norway
Overview: During World War II Norwegian patriots struck at Germany from the rear, linking Canada, the United States and Britain with Soviet Russia. Norwegian resources around the world were mobilized, and at Canadian training stations Norwegian airmen forged a lasting friendship between the two countries. Includes footage from the British film All for Norway.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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A Time for Miracles
Overview: Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-21
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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Overview: This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out that trumpet player Herb Alpert is the only other performer listed in the credits who is actually there in person. The others appear in clips, some from their own U.S. Savings Bonds spots, others from unidentified movie or TV appearances. Singer Barbara McNair is shown entertaining U.S. troops in Viet Nam, and the youth group The Young Americans also sings.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Date of Birth
Overview: Canadian documentary on age and aging.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-12
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Front of Steel
Overview: This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing in modern warfare. A short sequence demonstrating the depravity of the Nazis is followed by a detailed explanation of the manufacture of Bren guns, ambulances, transport trucks and submarine chasers in Canada during World War II.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Noah's Ark
Overview: The story of the Prophet Noah. Violence and corruption fill the earth. To punish this wickedness, God vows to send a cleansing flood. Only one man - Noah - and his family will be spared because they alone honor God's law. God commands him to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal. Once building is under way, Noah and his sons face scorn and sabotage from their sinful neighbors - but they persevere. Noah's faith is vindicated when the heavens erupt with a rainy torrent for 40 days. But God's test of Noah's courage and commitment is just beginning.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Home Front
Overview: This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda films. In Home Front, the various WWII-era social contributions of women are highlighted. From medicine to industrial labour to hospitality, education and domesticity, the service these women provided to their country is lauded.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Battle of Brains
Overview: This film illustrates the difference between World War II and the war of 1914, emphasizing the importance of mechanization, and contrasting the mobile tactics with the immobility of trench warfare. The scientific approach, both to problems of military strategy and to new weapons, is all-important. The film shows some of the work done by Canadian scientists to make these weapons as effective as possible.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-14
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Churchill's Island
Overview: The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library and Archives Canada in 2005.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Atlantic Patrol
Overview: This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The film depicts the work of the Royal Canadian marines who accompanied convoys of military supplies to the Allied Forces and those who remained on the eastern coast to defend against the Germans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Children from Overseas
Overview: A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begins in England with children seeking shelter as anti-aircraft guns roar outside. On their arrival in Canada, they are thrilled by the brightly lit cities, powerful Canadian trains, hot dogs and ice cream. They find, too, that instead of becoming Mounties or cowboys, they have to go to school. The closing sequence shows them learning to ski and skate and preparing for Christmas in their new homes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-15
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Age of Turmoil
Overview: An afternoon and evening in the complicated lives of six teenagers.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Heroes of the Atlantic
Overview: A view from Canada of the North Atlantic convoy route during the Battle of the Atlantic, presented in the framework of the turnaround of a single convoy at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-23
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The Canadian Conspiracy
Overview: A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing Canadians in the U.S. entertainment industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-08
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The Little Brown Burro
Overview: A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn't belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport Mary on their travel to Jerusalem for the birth of Jesus.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Ordeal by Ice
Overview: This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. The secret winter manoeuvres of the British Army's Lovat Scouts took place in the Canadian Rockies during the winters of 1944 and 1945. In combined operations with the Canadian Army, these elite mountain commandos tested themselves and their equipment in temperatures of -50°F.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Bonanza: Ride the Wind
Overview: The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe signing up as a rider. Adding to his concerns, the Paiute Indians don't want the Pony Express riding across their land, and the manager's assistant, Curtis Wade, is itching to make a name for himself as an Indian fighter. The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series "Bonanza", entitled "Ride the Wind"
Genres: Western Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Mask of Nippon
Overview: An anti-Japanese propaganda film produced during World War II.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-18
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Overview: Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Edge of Innocence
Overview: An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Break-through
Overview: On June 6, 1944, supported by an immense naval armada, Allied troops, including the First Canadian Army, led by General Harry Crerar, launch an amphibious invasion of Normandy, France. Facing a fierce resistance by Nazi forces, the Allied armies establish a beachhead on the Normandy coast. Seeking redemption after their earlier rout at the Dieppe raid in 1942, the Canadians are able to gain control of Juno Beach. Before regrouping for an advance into France, Allied troops are replenished by transport of war materiél and reinforcements. The Canadian contingent is tasked with an attack on Caen, France, held by the German 7th Army.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Fighting Sea-Fleas
Overview: First half of film portrays life in port, including rum issue, distribution of letters, and taking on ammunition, the remainder tells the story of an action against German S-boats, in a stock-shot compilation including some captured film. Officers briefed; boats leave harbour, put to sea, "action", a Nazi naval flag is reclaimed from wreckage in the sea, and the motor torpedo boat (MTB) returns to port flying it below the British White Ensign. Film ends with a sequence showing the funeral of a Canadian seaman.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Train Busters
Overview: This short film depicts the strength and resources of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 32 overseas squadrons. It includes footage that explains the Allied air strategy of hitting the German army's nerve centres and features Canadian airplanes destroying a German munitions train.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-14
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Trans-Canada Express
Overview: This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort. The film includes a sequence from Buster Keaton's 1926 silent comedy The General, as well as a re-enactment of Lord Strathcona driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-14
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Now—The Peace
Overview: Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the Second World War, leading to the formation of the United Nations are discussed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-18
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High Country Calling
Overview: Nature study of a photographer raising a pack of wolf cubs. Narrated by Lorne Greene.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Legend of Amaluk: An Arctic Journey
Overview: Nature film that takes place in the Yukon as it follows am Eskimo named Amaluk
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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Gateway to Asia
Overview: This short film highlights the province of British Columbia and its position after World War II. Located on the Pacific Coast, it is the gateway for those travelling to Asia and Russia and a vital link between the rest of Canada and its neighbours in the Far East. The film looks at British Columbia's population, natural resources and industries along with some of its social issues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-03
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Suffer Little Children
Overview: This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. At the end of World War II there were sixty million sick and starving children in Europe. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration undertook to provide food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education and sympathetic attention to these terrorized victims of war.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-03
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Headline Hunters
Overview: Headline Hunters is an 11-minute 1945 Canadian documentary film, part of the wartime Canada Carries On series, produced by Alan Field. The short film was made by the National Film Board of Canada. The film was a tribute to Canadian war correspondents who reported from the front lines in the Second World War.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-10
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Mayerling
Overview: Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Genres: TV Movie Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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The War Is Over
Overview: A short film about the end of World War II and Canada's contribution to the effort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-01
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Meaning of Adolescence
Overview: An overview of the social, emotional, mental and physical changes which occur in the adolescent with suggestions on how adults can help.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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What's on Your Mind
Overview: The treatment of mental illness and psychological disorders--including electroshock therapy--brought about by the stresses of modern life are shown in this film, which mixes staged scenes with documentary footage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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1984
Overview: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. Episode 1 of Season 6 of Studio One's anthology series.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-21
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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Overview: Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-11
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Nevada Smith
Overview: A half-breed gunslinger and a friend he hasn't seen in years join together to escort a shipment of explosives across Utah.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-03
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A Capital Plan
Overview: This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction. Street congestion, air pollution, and rail traffic were all the negative results of a city that had grown without being properly planned. French architect and urban designer Jacques Gréber stepped in to create a far-sighted plan for the future development of Ottawa. With tracks moved, factories relocated, and neighbourhoods redesigned as separate communities, Ottawa became the capital city of true beauty and dignity we know today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Tomorrow's Citizens
Overview: Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against mankind. It reiterates the question sociologists ask: is the development of social responsibility in today's children keeping pace with their technical knowledge?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Overview: Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 1979. (Muppet Wiki)
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Aldo Leopold 1: His Life and Thought
Overview: Narrated by Lorne Greene (Bonanza), this classic documentary presents the biography of Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), a renowned scientist, educator, philosopher, scholar and writer, who has been called the "father of wildlife ecology," as well as the "father of wildlife management"; the thoughts and reflections of this important naturalist have guided millions to discover what it means to live in harmony, not only with the land, but also with each other.
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Original Language: en
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Aldo Leopold 2: A Sand County Almanac
Overview: This classic program, narrated by Lorne Greene (Bonanza), is based on the ecologist's famous book and includes his personal collection of beautiful nature sketches and philosophical essays on ecology and ethics.
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Original Language: en
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The Battle for Oil
Overview: A Second World War documentary film produced for and by the National Film Board of Canada in 1942 as part of the "Canada Carries On" short documentary series. It uses stock footage, dating back to the First World War, in its theme of showing how dependent modern war vehicles are on having a fuel supply source. In the First World War, Britain's sea power was preserved through the maintenance of a series of coaling stations dotting the Seven Seas. With the change to oil, rather than coal, the necessities for European nations, without home supply, are dependent on the Near-and-Far East where the pipe-lines and oil production have to be defended against attacks by the Axis powers. Canada's role in oil production is also highlighted.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-23
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Pincers on Japan
Overview: When the Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands, the Allied forces must push them back.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-06
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Wounded in Action
Overview: 'Wounded in Action' is a 22-minute 1944 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series. The film documents the work carried out by medical services in saving the lives of those who are wounded in action during the Second World War. The French version title of Wounded in 'Action is Blessé au combat'.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-05
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Sandy in Disneyland
Overview: Sandy Duncan hosts an all-star Hollywood cast as she takes us on a tour of Disneyland. But not just any tour, Sandy Performs inside It’s a Small World, The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, and more. She finds Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Additional performers include Ernest Borgnine, Ruth Buzzi, Ted Knight, John Davidson, Lorne Green, Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina, The Jackson Five, Doc Severinsen, Marty Ingels and Alan Sues among others.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-10
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Tidal Wave
Overview: Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and has since split off into its own archipelago. Another landmass shift is about to occur...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-28
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