For good or ill, there's no arguing that few magazines have had as great an impact on American culture as Playboy, which...
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2010
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A jaded psychiatrist takes on a pro bono case that puts his professionalism to the ultimate test in director Jonas Pate's...
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2009
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To countless avant-garde novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights, publisher Barney Rosset -- proprietor of the legendary Grove...
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2008
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Filmmakers Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento explore the damning sequence of "contradictions, gaps, and omissions" in the...
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2008
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Documentary filmmaker Patty Sharaf addresses the controversial topic of election fraud by exploring the case of an everyday...
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2008
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British actor Tom Baker narrates Oscar-winning animator Bruce Petty's thoughtful meditation on colonialism, capitalism, and...
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2007
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2007
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Filmmakers David Leaf and John Scheinfeld offer a compelling look at the efforts of the United States government to silence...
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2006
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In 1961, as Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his final address to the nation before leaving the office of President of the United...
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2006
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In the spring and summer of 1972, George McGovern, a Democratic senator from South Dakota, achieved the seemingly impossible....
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2005
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2005
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Chip away at the myth to reveal a man whose personal tragedies drove him to achieve feats many only dream about as...
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2005
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Acclaimed author Gore Vidal narrates this international exploration of blurring gender roles in a documentary that seeks to...
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2005
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2004
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2004
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A pair of pacifist-minded documentarians reach out to dozens of their generation's greatest thinkers in a bid to ensure a...
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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Always his own best audience, celebrated author, social critic, and self-described political "nag" Gore Vidal also proves the...
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Himself
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2003
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2003
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German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt tracks down many high-profile Italian movie folks for the documentary portrait Federico...
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2003
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This film presents writer and political commentator Gore Vidal at his acerbic best, offering his off-beat views of past...
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1999
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New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with this science fiction drama,...
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Director Joseph
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1997
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Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the...
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1997
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Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream...
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Interviewee
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1995
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Harvard University graduate Alek Keshishian directed this tale about a homeless man who teaches some snotty Harvard students...
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1994
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In the tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, producer/ director/ star Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts is a satire disguised as a...
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Senator Brickley Paiste
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1992
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Screenwriter
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1989
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This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches...
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Screenwriter
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1989
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Originally telecast in two parts on March 27 and 28 of 1988, Lincoln was adapted from the bestselling "factual fiction" by...
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Book Author
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1988
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Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and...
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Screenwriter
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1987
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Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to...
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Screenwriter
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1986
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A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film...
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Screenwriter
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1986
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This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza....
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Screenwriter
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1979
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Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a...
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1972
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Gore Vidal's best-selling satiric novel gets an inarguably unique screen treatment in this off-center psycho-sexual farce....
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Screenwriter
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1970
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In this depressing slice of Southern decadence, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) is a woman of questionable virtue who marries an...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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Screenwriter
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1966
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1964
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When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1960
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In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Book Author
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1958
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The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Screenwriter
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1956
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The 1958 theatrical feature The Left-Handed Gun was adapted from the 1955 Philco Television Playhouse offering The Death of...
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Teleplay By
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1955
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Telecast live from Hollywood, this hour-long version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stars Michael Rennie...
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Teleplay By
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1955
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