Jason Robards
Also Known As: Jason Robards Jr., Джейсон Робардс, Jason Nelson Robards Jr.
Biography: Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: July 26, 1922
Deathday: December 26, 2000
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Magnolia
Overview: On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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All the President's Men
Overview: During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Genres: Drama History Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-12
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Parenthood
Overview: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-31
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Max Dugan Returns
Overview: An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Arthur Miller: Writer
Overview: One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which continue to move audiences around the world today. He also made headlines for being targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee at the height of the McCarthy Era and entering into a tumultuous marriage with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Told from the unique perspective of his daughter, filmmaker Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller: Writer is an illuminating portrait that combines interviews spanning decades and a wealth of personal archival material, and provides new insights into Miller’s life as an artist and exploring his character in all its complexity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-08
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Quick Change
Overview: With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-13
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A Boy and His Dog
Overview: Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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The Great American West
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Overview: Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Cabo Blanco
Overview: Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Overview: Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
Genres: Comedy Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Overview: A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Day After
Overview: In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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Hour of the Gun
Overview: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Overview: In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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My Best Fiend
Overview: A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-17
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Raise the Titanic
Overview: To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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The Paper
Overview: Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-18
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Overview: Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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Burden of Dreams
Overview: The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Comes a Horseman
Overview: Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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Julia
Overview: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Overview: This is a collection of Metallica's videos ending with those shot for St. Anger.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-04
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Julius Caesar
Overview: All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-04
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Isadora
Overview: A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-14
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The Night They Raided Minsky's
Overview: Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-22
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Overview: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Any Wednesday
Overview: Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-13
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A Thousand Clowns
Overview: Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-13
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Overview: Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife, debauchery of his older son, and sickness of the youngest son as past guilts, repressed anger, and deep-seated regrets slowly come boiling out, threatening to destroy the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-09
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Overview: A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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Dream a Little Dream
Overview: Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Overview: In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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Johnny Got His Gun
Overview: A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Overview: When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-06
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Melvin and Howard
Overview: The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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A Thousand Acres
Overview: The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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The Trial
Overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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Black Rainbow
Overview: Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. But Tom isn't dead... yet. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who killed him. And the murderer knows she knows...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-05
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The House Without a Christmas Tree
Overview: A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-03
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Overview: Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-27
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The Real Macaw
Overview: An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking bird knows the whereabouts of a buried treasure from its days with a pirate. His grandson decides to go off on the hunt only to discover that a resort now exists where the treasure is buried.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-24
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Reunion
Overview: Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-17
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The Journey
Overview: A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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The Enemy Within
Overview: A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-24
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Square Dance
Overview: An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Overview: This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs had a telling effect on the cinema of the 1970s and 80s. Those who knew and worked with him, including actor James Coburn, actress Ali MacGraw, his associate Katherine Haber, his cousin Bob Peckinpah, and several screenwriters and producers, examine his life in an attempt to separate the man from the persona. Clips from key films reinforce this detailed discussion of Peckinpah's art and a fixation on violence that still permeates Hollywood today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-29
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Divorce American Style
Overview: After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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You Can't Take it With You
Overview: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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Mark Twain and Me
Overview: During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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The Good Mother
Overview: After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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The Christmas Wife
Overview: An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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Truman
Overview: He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held the highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared, but would prove to be a surprise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
Overview: A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-27
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By Love Possessed
Overview: An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Empire City
Overview: A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-01
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Storyville
Overview: While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Overview: For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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The War Between Men and Women
Overview: A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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America and Lewis Hine
Overview: Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines, especially the abuse and exploitation of children by their employers. Later, he became the official photographer for the construction of the Empire State Building.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-29
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Act One
Overview: This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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The Belle of 14th Street
Overview: Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways both comedic and heartfelt, "The Golden Age of Song". A marvelous showcase for such evergreens as Sophie Tucker's "Some Of These Days", "How About Me" (written by "a young new talent" Irving Berlin), the poignant "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", and the sublime "My Buddy" - all classics of the vaudeville era, reinvented by "the greatest star" of our time.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-11
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-20
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Fools
Overview: A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-23
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My Antonia
Overview: After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Overview: Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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Haywire
Overview: Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of her parents.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-14
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Thomas Hart Benton
Overview: Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-31
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Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Overview: An intimate portrait of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-04
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Deceptions
Overview: A beautiful widow is determined to uncover the facts behind her husband's death.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Operation Snafu
Overview: World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-03
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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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Heartwood
Overview: When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan Reeser is the only one who can stand in their way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-19
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Journey
Overview: Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-10
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Mr. Sycamore
Overview: Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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The Easter Promise
Overview: Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a short time following the death of her mother. She brings the woman home for the family Easter celebration, and the little girl's concern and kindness help the woman see the promise of better days ahead.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-26
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Lincoln
Overview: Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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Noon Wine
Overview: A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Katherine Anne Porter novel for ABC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for ABC Stage 67, premiering on Nov. 23, 1966.
Genres: Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-23
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Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
Overview: Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital, narrated by 2-time Academy Award-winning actor Jason Robards and previously seen on public television, beautifully captures the U.S. capital's grandeur, history and vitality in a way no other film does.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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A Christmas to Remember
Overview: A city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough under their tough care to help his grandfather deliver a surprise gift on Christmas Eve to their community church with the help of a phantom stranger.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Addie and the King of Hearts
Overview: Addie becomes jealous when her widowed father starts to woo a beautician.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-25
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Unfinished version of the immortal story with Jason Robards in the lead role, who was replaced by Jack Palance and the resultant film was released one year later as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1967).
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Iceman Cometh
Overview: Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-14
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Hurricane
Overview: The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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The Spy Who Never Was
Overview: A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Little Big League
Overview: When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-29
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The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
Overview: Retrospective of TIME's reporting of the personalities and events of the past six decades. Made in collaboration with TIME editors and representatives of the publisher's office, and checked for accuracy by reporter-researchers in the manner of TIME stories. Includes March of Time archival film and quotes from TIME's contemporaneous judgments. Provides behind-the-scenes insights into the publication's history, like the origin of Man of the Year, TIME's early writing style of backward-running sentences and neologisms like "tycoon" and "socialite" that are now English vernacular, and canceled cover stories.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-10
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The Thanksgiving Treasure
Overview: Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-18
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Going Home
Overview: A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or return home to care for her aging father whose mental state is deteriorating.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-12
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Portrait: Werner Herzog
Overview: An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-03-27
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The Perfect Tribute
Overview: A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit his wounded brother in a field hospital on the other side of the country. His accidental meeting with Abraham Lincoln helps the disheartened president understand just how important the Gettysburg Address really is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-21
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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Overview: Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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The Bat
Overview: A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities supposedly hidden in the rambling mansion owned by spinster Cornelia Van Gorde.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Overview: True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-22
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That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Overview: A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999), containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Laguna Heat
Overview: Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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A Doll's House
Overview: A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-15
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Breaking Home Ties
Overview: Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-26
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Beloved
Overview: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Old Faithful
Overview: A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park. Various celebrities are enlisted to help.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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La Classe américaine
Overview: George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Overview: A champion of the strenuous life, Teddy Roosevelt embodied the notion of an expanded presidency. Stamping the presidency with his own colorful personality, Roosevelt's enormous popularity gave him political clout that matched his celebrity status. "Get action, do things," sums up his attitude toward all endeavors, political and otherwise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-06
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Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Overview: As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Enemy of the State
Overview: The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday shopping. Unbeknownst to Dean, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the trail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious NSA official named Reynolds. Using satellite surveillance, bugs, and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves while also framing him for murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, he attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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Crimson Tide
Overview: After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsay insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Overview: An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-25
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The Country Girl
Overview: Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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Johnny Bull
Overview: An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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The World of Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fair and clips from the promotional film "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" (1939).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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The Face of Genius
Overview: The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the first time that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-21
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The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
Overview: A documentary about the New York Public Library, including the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and the Schomberg Center in Harlem.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
Overview: Summoned by God to preach his Word to the people of Nineveh, Jonah attempts to flee and is swallowed by a whale. After being spit out, Jonah does what he has been asked and learns a valuable lesson about obedience and forgiveness. Your whole family will appreciate the powerful message delivered in this masterful adaptation of one of the world's most compelling tales.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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When It Was a Game
Overview: As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the story of America's favorite pastime from the Depression to the 1950s, using footage shot from the movie cameras of fans and players. From the first color filming of a baseball game to the 1938 World Series and through the careers of legends such as Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, the film thoroughly explores the history of baseball in America.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-08
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Heidi
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-18
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When It Was a Game 2
Overview: Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8mm and 16mm footage filmed between 1925 and 1961 by baseball players, their families and their fans, this second chapter in the HBO series "When It Was a Game" brings many lost moments to life. Narrated by Peter Kessler, the documentary features clips of Joe DiMaggio, Ty Cobb, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, Tommy Lasorda and Babe Ruth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-13
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