Wayne Best
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Brunswick, Canada
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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The Little Bear Movie
Overview: Little Bear and Father Bear go camping in the wilderness where Little Bear encounters all kinds of new sights and sounds: an eagle's flight, a wolf's howl... and a wild little bear named Cub fishing in a stream. Even though they're from different worlds, Little Bear and Cub become fast friends.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-07
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Heritage Minutes: Tommy Prince
Overview: A eulogy is given for Tommy Prince, Canada’s most-decorated Indigenous war veteran.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Richard III
Overview: Charismatic, cunning, and utterly ruthless, Richard, Duke of Gloucester is the very embodiment of lethal ambition as he maneuvers and murders his way to the throne of England.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-16
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Life in a Day
Overview: A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be found.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-20
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Cougar
Overview: A flash flood sweeps a boy and his sister onto an island in the Mississippi River, where they are trapped with a cougar and her new born cubs. In an effort to escape the island, they find themselves threatened by two ruthless river-men who will stop at nothing to kidnap and hold the children for ransom.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-07
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Henry VIII
Overview: hurch and state collide when England’s king defies papal authority by seeking to divorce his wife, Katherine of Aragon. The consequences will be epochal for the country – and calamitous for the king’s adviser, Cardinal Wolsey, who has been playing a dangerous game of his own. Passion, political intrigue and personal faith drive the action as Shakespeare brings vividly to life the thrilling human drama behind a pivotal moment in history.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-20
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Summer of the Monkeys
Overview: One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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The High Price of Passion
Overview: A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-29
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Tribulation
Overview: Police detective Tom Canboro hails from a Christian family. One night, his eccentric brother-in-law Jason seemingly goes insane and tries to kill his wife, calling her a "hater". Canboro realizes this may be a conspiracy going as far as devil worship, but gets in a car crash. Waking in a strange hospital, years have passed and people all over the world are wearing the mark of 666 on their right hands, and those who don't are killed. Franco Macalusso, the believer in global peace, now controls the world, and is trying to bring the world together as it was at the Tower of Babel.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-14
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge
Overview: A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian military history. The film was made to show that Canadian character at its best, forging an identity for a country that before the First World War had been seen only as a British colony - an identity and a character that became recognized and respected throughout Europe.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-21
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The Hearst and Davies Affair
Overview: Dramatization of the scandalous, long-time love affair between the powerful but married publisher and the chorus girl he helped turn into a Ziegfeld star and 1930s film personality.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Bone Daddy
Overview: Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-19
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
Overview: They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-04
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
Overview: The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard Crenna as Ronald Reagan.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-09
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Summer's Children
Overview: SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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Sea of Love
Overview: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Gracie's Choice
Overview: For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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Driven
Overview: Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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Coriolanus
Overview: Staged at the Stratford Festival and named on many 2018 year-end critics “best of” lists, the Stratford Festival’s “riveting” and “exhilarating” (The New York Times) production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, has been called “the show of the decade… a landmark production for the Stratford Festival. Maybe for William Shakespeare, too” (The Globe and Mail), and “the greatest contemporary staging of this play that I have ever seen” (Chicago Tribune).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-23
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Short Circuit 2
Overview: Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-06
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The Tempest
Overview: In Shakespeare’s great drama of loss and reconciliation, a long-deposed ruler uses magical arts to bring within her power the enemies who robbed her of her throne and marooned her on a remote island. But what revenge does she mean to take?
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-13
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The Adventures of Pericles
Overview: A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of Tyre – and another snatches it away. Filled with music and brilliant spectacle, this magical production of Shakespeare’s epic adventure is a delight for the eye and ear as it follows a fairy-tale hero on his miraculous journey to one of drama’s most poignant reunions. A story rarely told – and one you won’t soon forget.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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Stratford Festival: King John
Overview: When the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion, and assassination all contribute to political turmoil and personal grief for a mother who has lost her son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: A long-simmering animosity between two families of Verona, the Montague's and the Capulet's, has recently boiled over, with members of the rival households brawling in the streets. One night, Romeo, a Montague, crashes a party given by the Capulet's in order to meet up with a young woman called Rosaline, with whom he is infatuated. Thoughts of her vanish from his mind, however, when he catches sight of Juliet, daughter of the head of the Capulet household. Juliet is equally smitten with Romeo, but her father already has other plans for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Heartsounds
Overview: New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-30
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Christmas Eve
Overview: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: When Helen cures the King of France of an ailment that has confounded every other doctor, he grants her lifetime wish: the marital hand of the aristocratic courtier Bertram. However, Bertram proves a reluctant husband and immediately heads off to war, leaving Helen with a seemingly impossible riddle to solve in order to seal their marriage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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Winslow Homer: An American Original
Overview: American artist Winslow Homer's illustrations for Harpers' Weekly magazine earned high praise for their honest portrayal of the Civil War. Discouraged by the horrors he witnessed, Homer abandons his post and heads to the quiet of Houghton Farm to paint. His peace is soon disturbed by two curious teenagers who are intrigued by the cantankerous artist. Unable to shake them off, he asks them to be models. As they pose, Gabe and Fee become fast friends telling white lies as they each hide how painfully the war has shattered their own families. As Homer shares his personal experiences, he urges them to say goodbye to their ghosts and to move forward with their lives. Homer realizes the value of their friendship, as he works on a new painting at the schoolhouse, "Snap the Whip."
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-06
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Ambulance Girl
Overview: The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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