This program documents the efforts of the Long Island town of Patchogue to address the underlying causes for a fatal 2008...
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Narrator
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2011
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Lt. Tanya Rice
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2010
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Halle Berry hosts this eye-opening account of the African-American contribution to the United States military, beginning...
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2010
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2009
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Alice Pratt
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2008
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Discover how some remarkable soldiers found the strength to face almost certain death to save the lives of others in this...
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2008
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The division between a suburban father and his superspy alter ego breaks down after an implant in his brain begins to...
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Mavis Heller
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2008
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Writer/director Caran Hartsfield's black comedy Bury Me Standing (2008) observes four family members in the wake of a...
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2008
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LeVar Burton helms this drama set in a hospice, and following two patients who realize how to live and love as they begin...
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2008
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Edna Reilly
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2007
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The heightened racial tensions of post-9/11 America are at the center of this 2007 drama, the feature debut from director...
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2007
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For millennia, the strange and inexplicable disappearance of Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, reigned as one of history's most...
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2007
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Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees explore the reprehensible legacy of Belgium's King Leopold II in this documentary...
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2006
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A teacher and his students open up new worlds for one another in this urban drama inspired by a true story. Pierre Dulaine...
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2006
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A woman discovers that when it comes to love, sometimes opposites really do attract in this romantic comedy-drama. Kenya...
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2006
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This made-for-TV movie is a remake of the theatrical feature Conrack, using the original title of the source novel by...
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Mrs. Brown
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2006
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While the men of Barbershop and Barbershop 2 have plenty to mouth off about, they may have met their match in the female...
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2005
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Using her unwanted pregnancy as a bargaining chip, Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) sets up several conditions before agreeing to...
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2005
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2005
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Bree's a widow. Edie and Susan are fighting again. Lynette returns to work. Gaby's pregnant (and Carlos is in jail). And...
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2005
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A grieving woman must make a journey into her past in this psychological thriller. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a mother...
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Anne Pope
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2004
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2003
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Hollywood filmmaker Michael Tollin directs the sports drama Radio, based on a true story and adapted for the screen by...
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Principal Reynolds
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2003
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An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As...
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2003
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A pair of misfit siblings travel across time and space to save their father from enslavement in this made-for-TV adaptation...
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Mrs. Whatsit
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2003
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The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film, directed by show creator...
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2002
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2002
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Among the tasks undertaken by the WPA's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s was to transcribe the memories of those former...
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2002
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Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only about the iconoclastic and somewhat reclusive film...
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2002
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The 1995 novel by Dr. Gene Brewer becomes this drama from director Iain Softley. After a mugging incident at New York's Grand...
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Claudia Villars
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2001
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In this video, viewers consider the work and life of Gordon Parks. Perhaps best known as a photojournalist, Parks was also a...
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2001
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Narrator
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2001
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Audrey Williams
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2000
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Walt Disney Pictures redefined computer animation with this technically accomplished fantasy of prehistoric life, combining...
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Plio
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2000
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A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps)...
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Camille Wright
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2000
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In this family drama, Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) is a lawyer who pays a visit to her hometown in the Georgia farm country...
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2000
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In this drama with comic touches directed by Robert Townsend, a middle-aged drag queen (Ving Rhames) still dealing with the...
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2000
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Intended primarily for African-American audiences, this animated retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears uses modern...
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2000
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Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed this comedy about a young psychologist named Mumford (Loren Dean), who arrives in a small...
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Lily
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1999
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This video is part of a PBS series that chronicles some of the important political movements of the 20th century. The subject...
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1999
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After returning to her hometown to contemplate her troubled marriage, a woman finds renewed hope as she and the cousin with...
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1999
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This video is part of a series that examines sociopolitical movements of the 20th century. This episode focuses on the...
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1999
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This video is part of a series that examines some of the influential sociopolitical movements that shaped the 20th century....
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1999
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Narrator Alfre Woodard takes viewers on a journey through mass uprisings against social injustices from around the globe in...
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1999
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Perhaps the most dramatic protest movement against slavery, The Underground Railroad was a massive organized movement to free...
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Host
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1999
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Part of the People's Century series, Fast Forward documents how technology and economics have combined to make the business...
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1999
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Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but...
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Co-producer, Loretta
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1998
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The terrible statistics of World War I are discussed in People's Century: Killing Fields -- Death on an Industrial Scale, as...
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1998
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1998
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1998
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Part of the People's Century series, Fallout -- Nuclear Energy and Destruction documents how nuclear energy has impacted the...
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1998
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The true story of the revolt and subsequent trial of escaped African slaves is documented in The Voyage of La Amistad: A...
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1998
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1998
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Follow the rise of the Nazi movement and how Adolf Hitler came to power. Listen to interviews and eyewitness accounts from...
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1997
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This made-for-TV adaptation of Carson McCullers story features Anna Paquin as Frankie Addams, a 12-year-old tomboy growing up...
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Bernice Brown
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1997
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Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart of the infamous...
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1997
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1997
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Part of the People's Century series, Great Leap -- Communism in China documents how Mao Zedong was able to bring Communism to...
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1997
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From WGBH Boston and the BBC comes this detailed video series on the struggle for human rights in the last century. In this...
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1997
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After her son Georgie (Kendall Cunningham) is paralyzed in a diving accident, feisty divorcee Anna Lerner (Judith Light) vows...
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1996
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - Last Oasis is part four of a four-volume award-winning documentary...
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1996
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - The Mercy of Nature is part three of a four-volume award-winning...
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1996
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - An American Nile is part of an award-winning documentary series...
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1996
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This video, hosted by journalist Bill Moyers, is part of a series that examines some of the stories presented in Genesis, in...
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1996
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This made-for-TV movie is staged in the form of an ongoing news report, unfolding in "real time." The year is 2014, and the...
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1996
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This video is part of a series that studies the profound wisdom contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible. An...
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1996
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - Mulholland's Dream is part one of a four-volume award-winning...
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1996
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Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and...
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1996
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This video is part of a series, hosted by journalist Bill Moyers, that studies the profound wisdom contained in the book of...
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1996
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This video is part of a series that looks at the Biblical stories in the book of Genesis. A group of experts, with journalist...
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1996
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Four young artists embark upon a cross-country journey that will culminate with a mural to be painted upon the White House...
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1996
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This video is part of a series that makes a study of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. A panel of experts, moderated by...
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1996
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A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by...
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Judge Miriam Shoat
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1996
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The first "Trek" film to feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series without any of the members of the...
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1996
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Berniece
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1995
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A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in...
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1995
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Coproduced by two cable-TV servies-The Family Channel and the Black Entertainment Network--Race to Freedom: The Underground...
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1994
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1994
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Actress Alfre Woodard narrates this look at the life of Frederick Douglass, an influential 19th century civil rights...
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1994
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Blue Chips examines greed, cheating, and "winning at all costs" in the world of college basketball. Nick Nolte plays the...
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Lavada McRae
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1994
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When a gloomy listener places a call to Frasier's radio show, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) flippantly advises the woman to cheer...
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1994
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Carolyn Carmichael
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1994
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1993
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Penny Washington
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1993
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This 1993 film adaptation of Percy Mtwa's South African play Bopha was rendered anachronistic by late-breaking events, though...
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Rosie Mangena
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1993
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With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice...
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Chantelle
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1992
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Penelope Ann Miller's delightful performance as the shy, part-time librarian Betty Lou Perkins is the saving grace of this...
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Ann
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1992
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Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists....
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Jane
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1991
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Alfre Woodard plays a Los Angeles DA who moves back to her home town of New Orleans. She does this so that her teenaged son...
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1990
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A Mother's Courage is the story of Mary Thomas, the mother of Detroit Pistons star player Isaiah Thomas. As portrayed by...
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1989
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A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter)...
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Popeye Jackson
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1989
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1988
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In this thriller, a successful executive risks it all to help a street orphan get disentangled from the world of drugs. ~...
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1988
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Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson...
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Winnie Mandela
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1987
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Attacked by a masked assailant, Marjorie (Farrah Fawcett) lives in mortal fear that the unidentified man will strike again --...
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Patricia
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1986
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Based on several actual case histories, Unnatural Causes stars John Ritter as a Vietnam veteran dying of Agent Orange...
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1986
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Though the series proper debuted on Friday, October 3, 1986, L.A. Law was heralded by a two-hour TV movie, which aired...
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1986
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Don't pass up The Killing Floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot-em-up or cop drama. The title refers...
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1985
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Ben Vereen stars as the clever title character in this delightful episode of Shelley Duvall's made for cable series Faerie...
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1984
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Words by Heart is set in a northern farming town in 1910. The town's only black family, recently arrived from the south, is...
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1984
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1984
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Through probing exploration and expert commentary, this documentary takes an in-depth look at the evolution of African...
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1984
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In this poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about a few generations in the life of an Afro-American family, a young...
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1984
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Geechee
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1983
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Oz Scott directed this made-for-television performance of Ntozake Shange's musical For Colored Girls Who Have Considered...
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1982
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The fact-based TV movie The Ambush Murders was adapted from a book by Ben Bradlee Jr. Dorian Harewood plays an...
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1982
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The three-part TV miniseries The Sophisticated Gents covers 25 years in the lives of a group of close friends. Nine...
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1981
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Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the...
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1979
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Robert Altman, the director responsible for M*A*S*H, came up with another acronymic title for his 1979 comedy H.E.A.L.T.H The...
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1979
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This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman....
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1978
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From the Broadway Theatre Archive, this performance video of the play Trial of the Moke tells the real-life story of Lt....
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1978
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Part of the People's Century series, Brave New World -- The Cold War Begins documents how the United States and the Soviet...
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Part of the People's Century series, People Power charts the demise of the Soviet Union. Combining archival footage and new...
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