A 1960s-era Mississippi debutante sends her community into an uproar by conducting a series of probing interviews with the...
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2011
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2010
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A former professional football player abandons his family after a series of disheartening career setbacks, only to discover...
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2009
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2007
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2006
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Actor and playwright Tyler Perry returns as Madea, a brash but loving African-American grandmother with her own way of doing...
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2006
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A woman has to learn how to love and trust men all over again in this comedy drama. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) would...
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2005
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It's not finishing school or a traditional upbringing that causes ten-year-old Opal to learn about the world outside of her...
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Gloria Dump
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2005
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Angela Bassett plays the title role in this meticulously detailed biography of pioneering civil rights activist Rosa McCauley...
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Leona McCauley
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2002
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Based on fact, the made-for-TV drama Jewel begins in 1945, a time when children afflicted with Down Syndrome were casually...
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2001
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Cicely Tyson guest stars as frail but feisty septugenarian Abigail Jackson, who is urged by Monica (Roma Downey) and the...
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2000
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A major earthquake brings the City That Never Sleeps to a screeching halt in this made-for-TV suspense drama. New York City...
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Emily Lincoln
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1999
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Tante Lou
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1999
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Director Peter Werner teams with screenwriters David Stevens and Carol Schreder to adapt author Alex Haley's sprawling novel...
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Flora
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1998
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1998
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This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles...
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Maggie
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1997
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The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller....
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(Queen) Stephanie St. Clair
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1997
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1997
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In this heartwarming drama, a dying widow "abducts" a trio of women suffering from Alzheimer's disease and embarks upon a...
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1996
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Filmed on location in South Carolina, The Price of Heaven represents one of the forays into the realm of made-for-TV movies...
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Vesta
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1995
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Best known for their historical epics that examine class and social issues in British life through a thick lens of tasteful...
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1995
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Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual...
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1995
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Originally a television mini-series, this drama chronicles the painful and lively reminiscences of a 100 year old woman....
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Castalia
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1994
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Mimi Leder, director of several 1990s action-adventure flicks directed this made-for-television drama. Melissa...
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Evangeline
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1993
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A woman loses her son and brother in a mysterious accident which yielded no bodies. Understandably distraught, she is hardly...
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Dr. Randolph
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1992
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Based on a true story, once again we have a tale of a battered homemaker who seeks help from the deaf ear of bureaucracy...
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1992
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in...
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Sipsey
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1991
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1990
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1990
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Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter...
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Ruthana Richardson
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1990
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Mrs. Browne
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1989
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The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this...
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1986
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Considering his later well-publicized involvement in "l'affaire Heidi Fleiss," Ivan Nagy was ideally suited to direct...
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Dr. Claire Dalton
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1986
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Based on a true story, the made-for-television Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story is the tale of a Washington, DC-based...
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1986
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In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming...
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1985
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Relying more on acting and attitude than makeup, Louis Gossett Jr. plays a cantankerous, fiercely independent old man in...
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1982
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When the story of the real-life Marva Collins was nationally telecast on 60 Minutes in 1979, residents of Chicago had been...
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Marva Collins
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1981
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Vivian Perry
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1981
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The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon....
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1979
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Host
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1979
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The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture,...
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1978
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King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978....
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1978
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Adapted from Alice Childress' inspirational novel of the same name, director Ralph Nelson's sentimental addiction drama tells...
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Sweets
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1977
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This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the...
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1977
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1977
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Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of...
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1976
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The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen...
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Cat
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1976
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River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who...
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Mattie Williams
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1976
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Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery...
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Jane Pittman
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1974
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Marlo Thomas served as both producer and star for this landmark 1974 television special, which, through songs, stories, and...
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1974
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Rebecca Morgan
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1972
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The emergency staff of Rampart Hospital is kept extra-busy this evening as a plane crashes into a tree, a child overdoses on...
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1972
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Sally Field and Robert Pratt star as newlyweds Jane and L.T. in this feature-length pilot for an unsold weekly series. Born...
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1971
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With no pressing assignments at hand, Phelps and Barney head to the Caribbean for a long-overdue vacation. Falling in love...
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1970
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The FBI suspects a case of jury tampering when, after the acquittal of notorious mob figure, juror Steven Harber (Robert...
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1969
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Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer...
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1968
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Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) issues an A.P.B. for Ralph Stuart (Jeffrey Hunter), a Red agent wanted for murder and...
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1968
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The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story...
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1967
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A star-studded cast invigorates this film of a jazz trumpeter (Sammy Davis Jr.) who experiences both the prejudices of the...
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Claudia Ferguson
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1966
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Outspoken American Olympic star Elroy Browne (Ivan Dixon) has defected to China. Although the U.S. government would sooner...
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1965
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In danger of losing his job, TV-producer David Wayne hopes to cook up a real ratings winner by building a network special...
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1959
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Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop...
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1959
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