The life of one of the controversial figures in the history of modern religion is brought to the screen in this historical...
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Frederick the Wise
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2003
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In the tradition of Arthur Miller's McCarthy-era play The Crucible, this two-part TV dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials...
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William Stoughton, deputy governor
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2003
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For a variety of reasons, mostly political, Charlie Chaplin left the United States in the early fifties living the final...
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2003
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Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely...
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2001
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Geraldine Cox is an eccentric but deeply compassionate Australian woman who since the 1980s has been operating a refugee...
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Narrator
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2000
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In this romantic comedy, Chris O'Donnell plays Jimmie, the grandson of an eccentric millionaire. At the reading of his...
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1999
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This 5.7-million-dollar British comedy from writer/director Gary Sinyor satirizes the now-familiar Merchant-Ivory style of...
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Horace
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1999
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Based on Mark Twain's highly acclaimed book Following the Equator, On the Trail of Mark Twain with Sir Peter Ustinov: Isles...
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1999
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George Orwell's political fable about corruption and betrayal in post-revolutionary Russia gets a new look in this version...
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1999
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Originally produced for NBC television, this adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic features an impressive cast, including...
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1999
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Based on Mark Twain's highly acclaimed book Following the Equator, On the Trail of Mark Twain With Sir Peter Ustinov: A...
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1999
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On the Trail of Mark TwainWith Sir Peter Ustinov: Such a Wonderful Thing -- Vol. 4 is the final episode in a four-part PBS...
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1999
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Based on Mark Twain's highly acclaimed book Following the Equator, On the Trail of Mark Twain With Sir Peter Ustinov:...
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1999
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Actor Peter Ustinov narrates this look at the personal and professional life of the highly accomplished writer C.S. Lewis....
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1996
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1995
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Host
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1995
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1995
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A word of explanation for the unfamiliar: the Salzburg Marionette Theater, located in Salzburg, Austria, performs...
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1995
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1995
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1995
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A word of explanation for the unfamiliar: the Salzburg Marionette Theater, located in Salzburg, Austria, performs...
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Presented by
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1995
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1995
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In this Disney version of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop, Nell Trent is well cared for by her kind and gentle...
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1994
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This video is part of a series of interviews made by actor Peter Ustinov and noted celebrities. This program features...
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1994
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Professor Nikolais
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1992
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Based on the children's book by John Burningham, Granpa brings together original music, heartfelt characterizations, and a...
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Narrator
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1991
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This program is part one of a two-part series, in which actor Peter Ustinov leads viewers on a tour of China. The diverse...
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1990
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This program is the second part of a two-part series, in which actor Peter Ustinov leads viewers on a tour of China. The...
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1990
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Claude Monet and his artwork has dazzled people for years. Who was this man and what inspired him? Monet: Legacy of Light...
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1989
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Pierce Brosnan stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he...
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Detective Fix
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1989
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With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film...
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1989
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In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium...
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Hercule Poirot
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1988
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1988
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1988
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1988
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1988
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This documentary covers the life and times of C.S. Lewis, the Christian scholar. ~ Rovi...
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1988
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1988
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More than a century after he lived, Jack the Ripper remains the most notorious serial killer of all time. In this 1988...
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1988
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1987
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This program is part of a series, narrated by actor Peter Ustinov, which explores the colorful history of Russia. In this...
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1986
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This program is part of a series, narrated by actor Peter Ustinov, which explores the colorful history of Russia. In this...
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1986
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This program is part of a series, narrated by actor Peter Ustinov, that explores the many faces of Russia. In this episode,...
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1986
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This program is part of a series, narrated by actor Peter Ustinov, which explores the colorful history of Russia. In this...
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1986
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This program is part of a series, narrated by actor Peter Ustinov, which explores the colorful history of Russia. Ustinov,...
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1986
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Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts represents Peter Ustinov's fifth appearance as Dame Agatha's brilliant, insufferable...
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Hercule Poirot
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1986
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Hercule Poirot
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1986
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This program is part of a series, narrated by actor Peter Ustinov, which explores the colorful history of Russia. In this...
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1986
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Agatha Christie's famous Belgian fussbudget detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is called in after a beautiful American...
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Hercule Poirot
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1985
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1985
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This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful...
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Director, Screenwriter, Abdi Aga
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1983
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1982
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Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular...
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Hercule Poirot
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1981
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The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie,...
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1981
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In the late 1970s, Grendel by John Gardner was a highbrow best-seller that everyone with pretensions to intellectual...
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Grendel
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1980
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Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from his clumsy grandson...
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Charlie Chan
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1980
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Five ancient Greek myths are updated and set to disco music in this animated, tuneful anthology narrated by Peter Ustinov. ~...
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1979
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Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from...
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Suleiman
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1979
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One of the most turbulent eras in Dublin history is detailed in this adaptation of the James Plunkett novel directed by Tony...
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1979
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In this comedy, Victor (Peter Ustinov) is a film director whose career has taken a nose dive. He believes that his job...
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Victor
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1979
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With a screenplay by naturalist Gerald Durrell, this British film follows the poignant tale of a loving otter, who gives...
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1979
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Hercule Poirot
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1978
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This made-for-TV fantasy is a tale from the well-known Arabian Nights fable featuring a flying carpet, a prince, a pretty...
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The Caliph
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1978
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Marcello Mastroianni plays the downtrodden Bruno Baldassare, a murder-squad investigator in Rome who gets no respect from his...
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Harry Hellman
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1977
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An ambitious musical adaptation of Michel Déon's best-selling novel, Un Taxi Mauve is set in Ireland during a time in which...
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Taubelman
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1977
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This rather complex animated adventure concerns the quest of a toy wind-up mouse and his son to become self-winding.The two...
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1977
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1977
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Beau Geste, the classic adventure story of a young man's dangerous journeys as part of the French Foreign Legion, becomes the...
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Sgt. Markov
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1977
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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Herod the Great
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1977
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The...
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Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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In a hermetically sealed post-apocalyptic urban environment several centuries hence, Logan 5 (Michael York) and his friend...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From the BBC and Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on the...
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1976
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From producers BBC/Time Life, the Europe the Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on...
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1976
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From producers BBC/Time Life the Europe - The Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on...
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1976
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From producers BBC/Time Life the Europe - The Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on...
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1976
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From producers BBC/Time Life the Europe - The Mighty Continent series explores the immense changes that have taken place on...
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1976
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In this comical Disney espionage adventure, a herd of nannies team up with Scotland Yard and set off to find important...
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Hnup Wan
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1975
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1975
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Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the...
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Prince John
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1973
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Loosely based on the Faust legend, Hammersmith is Out stars Richard Burton as the title character, a mental patient confined...
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Director, Doctor
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1972
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Director
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1971
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The second NBC cartoon special inspired by Jean de Brunhoff's delightful "Babar" books, Babar Comes to America, like its...
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All Voices
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1971
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Rod Serling wrote the teleplay for the made-for-TV Storm in Summer; as with much of his latter-day work, it was snubbed by...
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1970
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This comedy was banned in Mexico and plagued by vandalism and threats of violence during film production in San Antonio,...
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Gen. Maximilian Rodrigues de Santos
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1969
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Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous...
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Capt. Blackbeard
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1968
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This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he...
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Screenwriter, Marcus Pendleton
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1968
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French artist-writer Jean de Brunoff's Babar the Elephant first saw the light of the animation board in this 1968 TV cartoon...
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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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Ambassador Pineda
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1967
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Socrates falls from grace, and becomes the lone voice of democracy amongst the corruption of his fellow Athenians in this...
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1966
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1965
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Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik....
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King Fawz
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1964
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After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his...
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Arthur Simpson
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1964
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Capt. Edward Fairfax Vere
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1962
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Director Gualtiero Jacopetti and his "mondo" films started an entire category of degrading shockumentaries which deal with...
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1962
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Peter Ustinov went the auteur route as writer, director, producer, and star of this Cold War farce, based on his play and...
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Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter, The General
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1961
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Lentulus Batiatus
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1960
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In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his...
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Rupert Venneker
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1960
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An animated classic romance, this is the story of a handsome young chimneysweep and a beautiful princess. The voices are...
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1959
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Filmed in 1955, Les Espions (The Spies) was based on Midnight Patient, a novel by Egon Hostowsky. The scene is a rundown...
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Michael Kiminsky
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1957
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Peter Ustinov stars as a nasty, grasping Brooklyn slum lord who earns the hatred of everyone. An old lady, cast out on the...
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Mr. Bossi
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1957
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A top international cast distinguishes the leisurely-paced drama I Girovaghi (The Wanderers). Peter Ustinov stars as...
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1957
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Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece...
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Jules
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1955
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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Circus Master
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1955
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Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper,...
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1954
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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Prince of Wales
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1954
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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1952
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Emad
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1951
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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Nero
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1951
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This espionage drama was based on the true story of Odette Sansom Churchill, who became an unlikely hero during WWII. Born in...
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Arnaud
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1950
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Peter Ustinov co-produced, wrote and co-directed the quietly effective Private Angelo. Set during
WW II, the film stars...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Pvt. Angelo
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1949
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Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1947
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Produced, directed and scripted by Peter Ustinov (who did not star), Secret Flight was released in Great Britain in 1946, but...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1946
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Of the many films (English and American) bearing the title Carnival, only one was based on the Compton MacKenzie novel of the...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Let the People Sing is an offshoot of J. B. Priestly's earlier show business-based fable The Good Companions. In Companions,...
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1942
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Future action-film expert Basil Dearden cut his directorial teeth on The Goose Steps Out, a wartime espionage comedy. The...
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1942
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This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and...
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1941
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1940
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This historical documentary makes use of both archive footage and dramatic re-enactments to show the rise to power of Adolf...
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1940
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Artemis, Apollo's twin sister, was a virgin goddess, who did not take kindly to being viewed by men. Her rage at being seen...
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The trying circumstances of Dionysus' birth are discussed in this episode of the eight-film series on Greek mythology. The...
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In this series, actor Sir Peter Ustinov narrates the fascinating stories from Greek mythology. Though they are colorful and...
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Apollo and his sister Artemis were the only twins to be descended from the gods of Mt. Olympus. In the Path of the Gods:...
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Fertility rituals appear in many ancient cultures, and the ancient Greeks held the topic in high regard. Demeter was the...
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As this series on Greek mythology continues, the focus is on two rival goddesses, Aphrodite and Athene. Narration is...
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The two siblings Ares and Eris are legitimate children of Zeus and Hera, and create misery and strife wherever they appear....
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The ancient Greeks believed in a god of the sea, Poseidon, brother of Zeus. In the Path of the Gods: Poseidon: Master of the...
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Peter Ustinov has made his mark on the world as an actor, writer, and director. He is interviewed for this program by Paul...
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Learn about the humpback whale. ~ Rovi...
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Learn about kangaroos. ~ Rovi...
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Learn about elephants. ~ Rovi...
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Discover the eco-system and its participants. ~ Rovi...
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Learn about lions. ~ Rovi...
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