Independent filmmaker James Slocum directs the romantic drama The Last Place on Earth, filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountain...
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2004
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Hosted by Obba Babatunde, this documentary from Passport Productions studies the life and career of African American...
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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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In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and...
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Leon Frey
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2002
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1998
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In the small, largely African-American Southern town of New Haven, a young man finds himself caught between two rival...
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Heeseeit Turner
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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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1998
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First telecast September 29, 1997, Deep Space Nine's sixth-season opener takes place three months after the crew was forced...
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1997
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The Quest team journeys to Cameroon, there to help harvest a medically beneficial sap from trees that are being threatened...
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1997
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Picking up where the previous week's "Homefront" left off, this episode finds Sisko and Odo still in San Francisco, still...
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1996
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In Tanzania, Quest team members Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji receive a summons from "beyond" to protect a pachyderm named Ndovu...
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1996
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Deep Space Nine's first offering for the calendar year 1996 was this episode, which originally aired January 1. A crucial...
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1996
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In Secret, a Cape Cod businessman (Kirk Douglas) plans to run for political office until his grandson's battle with dyslexia...
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1993
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It's off to darkest Africa for this street-smart kid (Brock Peters) where he learns all about tribal customs and tradition. ~...
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1992
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This adaptation of playwright Oscar Wilde's memorable romantic comedy about two wealthy noblemen who begin calling themselves...
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1992
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Based on a true story, this is the tale of three women who join forces to get revenge on the handsome con man whose...
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1992
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A highly principled African-American independent filmmaker hides his early profession because his films never became...
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1992
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The plot involves a peace conference between the Federation of Planets and the troublesome Klingons. The Klingons are hoping...
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1991
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The superb, utterly convincing special effects in the two-part TV movie The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake cannot...
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1991
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Not so much a sequel to the John Sayles-scripted Alligator as a shoddy remake, this sophomoric low-budget effort plays like a...
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1990
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There were those in 1989 who bellyached that Disney Television's Polly was a far from faithful adaptation of Eleanor Porter's...
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1989
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To Heal a Nation is the true story of Jan Scruggs (Eric Roberts), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. In 1979, Scruggs,...
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1988
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1988
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1986
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is appointed foreman of the jury in an apparently "open and shut" murder trial. The accused claims...
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1986
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Magnum (Tom Selleck) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) are reunited with their high school classmate Goldie Morris (Lee Purcell),...
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1985
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This excellent documentary on the American boxing champion
Joe Louis reveals little-publicized facts about the end of his...
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1984
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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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1983
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In this version of the Mark Twain classic, Huck dodges the drudgery of an eastern boys school by faking his own drowning....
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1981
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This made-for-TV effort stars Lindsay Wagner as Meg Laurel, an orphan who graduates Harvard Medical School and returns to...
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1979
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The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his...
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1979
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Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is charged with the murder of rival Viper pilot Ortega (Frank Ashmore). With the full weight of...
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1979
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An affirmative-action program at a major metropolitan hospital is threatened when a young African American resident, who owes...
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1978
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Lincoln's early days are the focus of this historical biography as the young "Mr. Lincoln" is molded by the people and...
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1978
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Five Yankee children held hostage by Confederates, nurse a black Union Army soldier back to health and convince him to help...
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1977
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Death Flight was originally known as SST: Death Flight when it was first telecast February 25, 1977. Though fairly expensive...
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1977
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Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a...
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1976
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Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper...
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1976
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According to police records, paroled female convict Virginia Marriott (Ann Coleman) has committed suicide. Thus, when...
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1975
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When a retired cop falls off the roof of a building, his death is ruled as accidental, brought about by excessive drinking....
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1975
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Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed....
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Sgt. Sam Perry
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1975
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Stephen Kumalo
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1974
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This mystery is set at a military school where a young cadet goes on a terrifying rampage after he learns that his father, a...
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1974
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Brock Peters plays the central figure in this story, a man charged by Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) with a...
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1974
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Five on the Black Hand Side was released at a time when most black-oriented films were bloody action fests. In contrast, this...
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Producer
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1973
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A former Green Beret who set out to settle a score with the mob finds they don't give up easy in this action-packed...
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1973
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Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry...
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Hatcher
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1973
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In this melodrama a mother tries to compensate for her feelings of inadequacy and failure as a parent to her own children by...
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1972
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Brock Peters narrates and Miles Davis provides the musical score of the feature-length documentary Jack Johnson. Using...
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Jack Johnson
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1971
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In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra...
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1971
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Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must...
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Benjie
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1970
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There isn't much disagreement as to whether this spaghetti western is styled after the Director Sergio Leone's...
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Thomas
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1968
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Vic Powers (Lloyd Bridges) leads a specialized rescue unit known as the Flying Fish. When an American economics professor is...
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1968
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In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated...
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Waterpark
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1968
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In this exciting western, a condemned killer is just about to swing when a bank president hires him to find the outlaws who...
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1968
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Martin Sheen may be the Grey Eminence of movies nowadays, but back in 1967 he often as not played switchblade-wielding punks....
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1967
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African stockbroker Walter DuBruis (Brock Peters) is poised to destroy the economy of Ghalea by flooding the nation with...
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1967
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Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its...
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1965
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Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration...
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Rodriguez
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1964
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Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of...
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1963
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Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl....
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Johnny
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1962
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the...
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Tom Robinson
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1962
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Crown
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1959
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1954
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