Music bridges a gap between two cultures in this made-for-TV drama. In 1957, Derek Sanders (Peter Scolari) is hired to teach...
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1993
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A suspect, Risley Tucker (Moses Gunn), has been hauled in for the murder of 11-year-old Adena Watson. Having pursued this...
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1993
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Based on Shelby Foote's novel September, September, this made-for-cable effort focuses on the exploits of a trio of white...
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1991
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This drama was a "Wonderworks Family Movie," and tells the tale of a self-centered, rebellious African- American youth who...
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1991
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Richard Crenna returns as New York police detective Frank Janek in Murder Times Seven. This time Janek tackles the case of a...
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1990
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The Luckiest Man in the World is a rare foray into directing by Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright best...
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1989
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1989
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Even though it was his idea that he and Justine (Michelle Thomas) should start dating other people, Theo (Malcolm-Jamal...
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1989
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The prevalent situation in this episode is summed up by a dialogue exchange between Denise (Lisa Bonet) and her husband...
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1989
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This gentle comedy hearkens back to 1945, just after the war's end where a crazy small-town family awaits the return of one...
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1988
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CIA director Snyderburn (Joe Don Baker) talks former agent Leonard (Bill Cosby) into returning to the job in this failed...
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Giorgio
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1987
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This busted TV pilot film is set in the sinister family-operated motel made infamous by Hitchcock's Psycho. Former mental...
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1987
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Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the...
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Sgt. Webster
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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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This Canadian exploitational actioner offers a remake of the Defiant Ones with a contemporary twist: this time the fugitives...
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Dr. Freeman
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1985
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The full title of this made-for-TV film is Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom. But don't be put off by this...
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1985
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Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende's children's story for this charming fantasy film that spawned several sequels....
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Cairon
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1984
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Firestarter is based on a bone-chilling novel by Steven King. Drew Barrymore plays Charlie McGee the young daughter of Andrew...
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1984
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The House of Dies Drear is a spooky old mansion where several strange events have occurred of late. An out-of-town family...
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1984
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Delving into the horrific history of the infamous Long Island haunted house, this prequel to 1979's popular chiller...
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1982
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Moses Gage
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1981
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Milos Foreman's cinematic adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's sprawling pop-culture epic Ragtime follows a variety of characters...
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Booker T. Washington
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1981
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The two-hour pilot for the Father Murphy TV series first saw the light of a TV screen on November 3, 1981. Merlin Olsen plays...
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1981
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Black farmer Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn) sells his Walnut Grove property and moves to Sleepy Eye, where he gets a job at the blind...
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1981
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Originally a five-part miniseries, The Contender was also made available as a pared-down feature film. Marc Singer stars as...
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1980
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With wheat prices plummeting, the farmers of Walnut Grove hold a meeting to decide whether or not to fix prices. The only...
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1979
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William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's The Ninth Configuration. Army...
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Maj. Nammack
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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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Pike
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1978
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, the imperious Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is shocked to discover that Hester-Sue...
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1978
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When the blind school at Winoka is sold by the bank, the people of Walnut Grove decide to establish a new school at the...
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1978
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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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It appears to be a clear-cut case of brain damage when young boxer Luke Stokes (Rodney Hoston) collapses and dies right after...
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1977
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1976
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1976
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Season four of Good Times marked the first of the series' significant cast changes -- or, to be more precise, cast deletions....
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1976
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In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the...
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Cletus
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1975
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Fame star Irene Cara made her film bow in Aaron Loves Angela. Cara plays Angela, a Puerto Rican girl who falls in love with...
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Ike
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1975
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In this ecologically conscious drama, a teen-age boy learns to respect the precious eco-system of a bayou when he goes to...
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1975
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Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape his ghetto surroundings. He does so by becoming a...
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Blackwell
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1975
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Veteran black comedienne Jackie "Mobs" Mabley is featured in her first (and last) starring vehicle, Amazing Grace....
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Welton J. Walters
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1974
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The only real novelty in the videotaped 90-minuter Legacy of Blood is its having a largely black cast going through the...
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1974
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A police detective is shot down on the pistol range. What seems like an accident is revealed to be premeditated murder....
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1973
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John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's...
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1973
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Peter Yates directs the early '70s comedy caper The Hot Rock, based on the Donald Westlake novel and adapted for the screen...
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1972
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The old Outward Bound formula is pulled out of mothballs for the made-for-TV Haunts of the Very Rich. The scene is a gorgeous...
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1972
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Bumpy Jonas
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1972
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If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's...
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1971
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Television veteran Fielder Cook brings a TV-like intimacy to his direction of Eagle in a Cage. This underrated film stars...
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1971
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Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, "the cat who won't cop out, when there's...
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Bumpy Jonas
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1971
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The made-for-TV The Sheriff borrows a bit from the premise of the theatrical feature film Tick Tick Tick (71). Ossie Davis...
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1970
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Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations...
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1970
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Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in...
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1970
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1969
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The FBI is called on the scene when the baby of prominent African American leader John Sheppard (Moses Gunn) is kidnapped....
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1969
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In this comedy, New York City undergoes a dramatic change when a toucan carrying a strange virus is smuggled through...
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1968
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A landmark independent film, Nothing but a Man is the first dramatic story featuring a largely black cast created for an...
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1964
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