James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. He was described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen, and "one of the greatest actors in American history". Over his career, he received three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011. His deep voice has been praised as a "stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.8085 |
| Birthday | 1931-01-17 |
| Place of Birth | Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA |
| Also Known As | James Earl Boggins Jones, Todd Jones, |
1977
Star Wars
8.208/22867
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an...
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1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.121/6322
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1993
Sommersby
6.362/436
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Sommersby
1990
The Hunt for Red October
7.387/3757
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The Hunt for Red October
1992
Sneakers
6.9/1098
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'b...
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Sneakers
1989
Field of Dreams
7.119/1751
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Field of Dreams
1980
The Empire Strikes Back
8.4/18848
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The Empire Strikes Back
1983
Return of the Jedi
7.9/17305
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Return of the Jedi
1993
Dreamrider
7.167/6
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Dreamrider
1982
Amy and the Angel
6.667/3
Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy...
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Amy and the Angel
2007
Earth
7.654/382
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Earth
2001
Finder's Fee
6.16/72
Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the...
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Finder's Fee
1990
By Dawn's Early Light
6.528/72
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race...
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1993
The Meteor Man
5.83/203
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1993
The Sandlot
7.564/1381
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1993
Excessive Force
4.942/43
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1987
Matewan
7.367/143
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Matewan
1989
Three Fugitives
6.663/341
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Three Fugitives
2001
Disney's American Legends
7.095/21
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Disney's American Legends
2010
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
6.05/20
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Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
1994
The Lion King
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1986
Soul Man
5.253/172
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Soul Man
1986
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
4.842/323
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
1998
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
6.94/4753
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
1994
Clear and Present Danger
6.649/1748
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman,...
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Clear and Present Danger
1988
Coming to America
6.885/4874
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1982
Conan the Barbarian
6.805/2923
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1997
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
8/1
Host Howie Long takes viewers on a tour of the "Star Wars" universe, as Fox TV celebrates the re-release of the original three legendary films in this...
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Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1982
The Flight of Dragons
6.77/115
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so the green wizard, Carolinus, decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red...
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The Flight of Dragons
1992
Patriot Games
6.682/1882
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Patriot Games
1995
Cry, the Beloved Country
6.8/28
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
2008
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
6.042/323
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1994
Africa: The Serengeti
7/21
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1987
Gardens of Stone
6.153/131
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Gardens of Stone
1997
Gang Related
6.366/183
After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
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Gang Related
2009
Jack and the Beanstalk
5.2/86
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1976
Swashbuckler
6.221/43
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
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Swashbuckler
1976
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
6.1/24
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1994
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
6.8/22
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1996
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
7.139/61
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1996
A Family Thing
6.558/78
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1977
A Piece of the Action
5.818/22
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follo...
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1999
Undercover Angel
6.93/20
With his landlord breathing down his neck and his writing career stagnant, the last thing Harrison Tyler (Dean Winters) needs is a kid hanging around....
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1991
Scorchers
4.441/17
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Scorchers
1987
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
5.63/27
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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
2005
The Reading Room
7.5/12
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The Reading Room
2005
The Sandlot 2
5.894/180
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The Sandlot 2
2004
Nine Dog Christmas
5.556/9
Animated tale about Santa's reindeer, who have come down with the North Pole flu. Nearsighted elf leader Buzz thinks he's found the perfect replacemen...
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Nine Dog Christmas
1990
Grim Prairie Tales
5.821/28
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, eac...
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Grim Prairie Tales
1994
Clean Slate
5.8/74
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle...
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Clean Slate
2000
Fantasia 2000
6.973/1393
Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.
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Fantasia 2000
1995
People: A Musical Celebration
6.6/5
In how many wonderful ways are we different from each other' What if the world were to rejoice in our differences' Cara and her lovable grandfather em...
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People: A Musical Celebration
1996
Timepiece
7/7
Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner come...
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Timepiece
1995
Who's in Rabbit's House?
0/0
Adapted from a Masai folktale about a rabbit who can't get into her house because the Long One, who "eats trees and tramples on elephants, " is hiding...
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Who's in Rabbit's House?
1991
Convicts
5.714/21
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty o...
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Convicts
1974
Claudine
7.106/47
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one c...
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Claudine
2001
Feast of All Saints
4.792/12
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught b...
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Feast of All Saints
1999
Santa and Pete
5.8/4
This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grandson Pete is riveted...
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Santa and Pete
1975
Deadly Hero
5.8/16
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tend...
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Deadly Hero
1977
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
5.657/51
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned...
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1991
True Identity
5.606/33
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
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True Identity
1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.4/523
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, the...
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The Star Wars Holiday Special
1976
The River Niger
6.667/6
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support...
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The River Niger
2019
On Broadway
8.7/3
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...
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On Broadway
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
6.4/22
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone beco...
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What the Deaf Man Heard
1975
The UFO Incident
6.579/19
In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were...
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The UFO Incident
1967
The Comedians
6.115/48
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Comedians
1982
Blood Tide
5.085/47
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
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Blood Tide
2019
The Space: Theatre of Survival
0/0
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of Th...
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The Space: Theatre of Survival
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
7.4/26
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry characters...
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
1990
The Ambulance
5.8/126
One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the...
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The Ambulance
1981
Beauty and the Beast
4/1
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Beauty and the Beast
1999
Summer's End
7.6/5
A 12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal wi...
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Summer's End
1989
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
8/1
Moving documentary looks back on the remarkable life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and combines the tragedy of his untimely death with the rememberances...
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11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
1995
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
7.3/24
This documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Jurassic Park," one of the 90's biggest hits and a milestone in specia...
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1986
My Little Girl
4.6/10
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and t...
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My Little Girl
2000
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
6.846/13
Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. Plenty of detail on every aspect of the film from...
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Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
1970
End of the Road
5.125/8
Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jac...
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End of the Road
2014
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.631/558
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make am...
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
1981
The Bushido Blade
5.3/15
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sen...
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The Bushido Blade
1994
Gangs: Turning the Corner
0/0
This 60 minute video captures in a dynamic format the people and programs that are successfully turning the corner on gangs. Stories and examples from...
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Gangs: Turning the Corner
2003
The Great Year
9/3
The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient civilizations around the globe, and the rise of mode...
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The Great Year
1987
A House Divided
0/0
A House Divided - Documentary about desegregation hosted by actor James Earl Jones. A House Divided explores the history of desegregation through the...
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A House Divided
2004
Black Indians: An American Story
6.4/5
This award-winning feature examines a minority group that is discounted and often ignored by mainstream media. Sharing a common past, many African Am...
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Black Indians: An American Story
2012
Joe Papp in Five Acts
4.5/2
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—...
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Joe Papp in Five Acts
1984
The Vegas Strip War
4/4
Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip's top attraction to avenge his outing by his...
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The Vegas Strip War
1974
The Cay
6.542/12
When Young Phillip is separated form his mother and found by a black man named Timothy and his cat Stewcat, Phillip becomes blind and they all end up...
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The Cay
1994
The Vernon Johns Story
8.5/4
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice t...
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The Vernon Johns Story
1972
The Man
6.5/4
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, S...
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The Man
2013
Gimme Shelter
6.573/259
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
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Gimme Shelter
1989
Best of the Best
6.48/355
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--...
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Best of the Best
1981
The Creation
6.889/9
The film is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson depicting the power of the southern black American preacher's telling of the biblical creation sto...
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The Creation
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8/9
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1970
The Great White Hope
6.311/37
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
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The Great White Hope
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.203/116
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
1996
Looking for Richard
6.791/151
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...
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Looking for Richard
1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic
4.534/818
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and kn...
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
1993
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
8.244/41
Michael Jackson's Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! "Dangerous - The Short Films" captures the visual...
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1989
The Hunting of the Snark
9/1
Enter the imaginative world of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, in this animated adaptation of his classic The Hunting of the Snark. In t...
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The Hunting of the Snark
2013
Blackfish
7.852/1214
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes...
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Blackfish
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
9/2
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from t...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
The Second Civil War
6.053/57
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the sta...
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The Second Civil War
1997
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
10/0
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration c...
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Hitler's Forgotten Victims
1985
City Limits
2.8/28
A series of teenage gangs struggle against each other in a not-so-distant future. Eventually they unite against an evil corporation, as represented by...
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City Limits
2015
Driving Miss Daisy
8/15
Driving Miss Daisy tells the affecting story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur. A...
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Driving Miss Daisy
1994
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
6.5/2
An abridged dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", performed live at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, and based on Dickens'...
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1993
Percy & Thunder
8/1
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Percy & Thunder
2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
6/2
A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."
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1990
Heat Wave
6.8/5
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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Heat Wave
1990
Ivory Hunters
4.857/7
An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal trade in ivory tusks. He's then asked by the local i...
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Ivory Hunters
2003
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
6/4
Includes the following episodes from the Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V, Treehouse of Horror VI, Treehouse of Horror VII, and Treehouse of Horror XII...
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1995
Jefferson in Paris
5.1/50
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...
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Jefferson in Paris
1977
The Greatest
5.652/23
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of th...
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1971
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
8/1
King (1929-68), the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, set an example of non-violence and led the civil rights movement advocating just...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
1999
Our Friend, Martin
7.1/14
Two teens are sent back in time to meet Martin Luther King Jr. at several points during his life.
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Our Friend, Martin
1997
Alone
6.714/7
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a...
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Alone
1989
Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark
5.5/2
Embark on one of the greatest adventures of all time--presented by one of the screen's most eloquent voices--as James Earl Jones narrates this beautif...
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2019
Words from a Bear
0/0
A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native Americ...
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1988
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
7.6/7
This 53-minute television special retraces Michael Jackson’s rise from child prodigy with the Jackson 5 to global superstar of the 1980s. Combining ra...
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2013
Milius
7.095/58
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.
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2015
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
7.923/97
The Inquisitor is dead. The Ghost crew has connected with other rebel cells. And a new ally named Ahsoka Tano has emerged. Despite these successes and...
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1990
Teach 109
8/2
In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little a...
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Teach 109
1992
Lincoln
7.333/6
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
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Lincoln
1999
The Annihilation of Fish
6.433/15
A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giac...
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Broadway: The Next Generation
0/0
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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1990
Last Flight Out
0/0
Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and immediately before Communist forces overrun the ci...
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2016
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
6.713/1225
Set in the African savannah, the film follows Kion as he assembles the members of the 'Lion Guard'. Throughout the film, the diverse team of young ani...
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2016
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
9/1
Follows Elliot Rosewater, heir of a massive fortune controlled by the Rosewater Foundation, as he deals with the guilt surrounding his wealth. At the...
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
0/0
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dream...
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2014
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
7.279/165
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1985
Night of 100 Stars II
6.8/5
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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2004
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
7.6/217
From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy.
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1981
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
0/0
"Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle of the ugly Beast. Though the Beast is kind, and...
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2001
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
7.6/5
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Butterfly in the Sky
8.25/12
Two seconds into the bubbling synth sounds of its theme song will have a child of the 1980s or ‘90s exclaiming “Reading Rainbow!” Such is the beloved...
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
0/0
Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chronic...
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1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.333/12
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, M...
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1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.518/2617
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh...
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1994
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
5.4/5
Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigato...
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1972
Malcolm X
6.667/15
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7.5/16755
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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1990
Terrorgram
4.5/8
Three horror stories linked by a sinister delivery boy. The stories are "Heroine Overdose", "Pandora" and "Veteran's Day".
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2003
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
5.4/4
This program features the standard mix of movie clips, production materials, and interviews. Cast and crew start at the beginning and discussed the ac...
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2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
7.5/15297
When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Je...
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1997
Afro Promo
8/1
Co-curated by Jenni Olson and the late Black gay activist Karl Knapper, this entertaining showcase of vintage movie trailers traces the evolution of A...
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2004
The Story of Star Wars
7.2/22
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i...
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2005
Robots
6.505/5061
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now...
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2013
Muse of Fire
6.5/2
This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tacklin...
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2019
The Lion King
7.09/10900
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Sc...
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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
7/0
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
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Warning Shot
5.1/20
A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family's farmhouse. When a business rival covets their wate...
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Click
6.3/7762
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved...
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1977
The Making of Star Wars
7.061/41
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted...
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1986
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
6/5
Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine.
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1974
King Lear
9/1
James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their lo...
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2017
The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands
2/1
Rough, tough and roarin' to go, your favorite heroes are back for even more epic adventures! Join Kion and his fearless friends as they defend the Pri...
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1991
Visitors from the Unknown
6/2
A look at the Travis Walton abduction
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1986
The Lone Star Kid
6.333/3
The Lone Star Kid is about a compassionate eleven year old boy who becomes mayor of a small town when he witnesses an accident and a death due to lack...
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2006
The Benchwarmers
5.864/966
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league...
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1995
Judge Dredd
5.9/2842
In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being f...
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1999
On the Q.T.
7.1/5
A struggling violin player has his morals tested after he meets a wise musician while playing in the subway who introduces him to the music world in N...
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2007
John, Paul, George and Ben
5/1
This humorous and factual history of five lads who grew up to become Founding Fathers brings the early days of American history to life with sass and...
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2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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1981
God's Trombones
0/0
A trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables.
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2005
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
9.5/2
Villains have always been with us. In a war-plagued world, brutality and corruption embody our darkest fears--all that is selfish and wicked in the hu...
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1985
Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates
0/0
A retrospective of the work of Robert Abel and Associates, a pioneering commercial computer graphics company that created some of the most iconic earl...
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1979
Paul Robeson
8/1
Major events in the life of Robeson are recounted in this solo performance.
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Coming 2 America
6.318/2444
Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native name...
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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
0/0
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the...
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1997
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
5.4/342
Before he met and befriended the other ghouls at Applegate Manor, friendly ghost Casper meets young Chris Carson, a lonely kid who decides to teach Ca...
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2004
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
5.833/6
A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and...
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Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
5.875/16
A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film.
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2000
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
5.563/8
A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to thi...
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1981
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
0/0
Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats.
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2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.2/11144
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener...
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2006
Scary Movie 4
5.498/3742
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are i...
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The Me Nobody Knows
0/0
Complex, introspective children in low-income neighborhoods of New York City tell their stories.
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2001
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
6.31/42
Principal Prickly gets his car stuck in a snowbank and decides it has to be the Recess gang's fault, but the teachers look back and remember all the g...
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Searching for Orson
5.5/2
Narrated by Peter Bogdanovich, this biography of Orson Welles includes the emotional memoirs of actress Oja Kodar and interviews with Steven Spielberg...
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1978
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
9/1
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights mov...
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2012
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
6/1
In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of t...
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1984
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
0/0
An adaptation of the book by Verna Aardema
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1993
Hallelujah
6.5/2
As Christmas at the Messiah Church in Washington D.C. approaches, a young preacher and, later in the day, a mysterious pregnant girl arrive at the chu...
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2002
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film
0/0
An action-packed, full hour documentary, filmed on the actual battlefield.
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2000
Antietam: A Documentary Film
9/1
Re-enactments illustrate the details of the three principle stages of the battle of Antietam, fought November 17th, 1862. Also features animated tacti...
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2007
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
0/0
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.
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2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
6.667/3
Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City a...
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1994
The Making of the Lion King
8.667/3
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Lion King.
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1991
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
0/0
Host/narrator James Earl Jones explores the island of Cuba, introduces the viewer to the Cuban people and discusses the uncertainty of the country's f...
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
5.8/5
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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1979
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
0/0
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of S...
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1998
Primary Colors
6.238/357
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to...
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BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy
0/0
Tribute special featuring archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with the award-winning actor at various stages of his illustrious and pion...
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1996
Corwin
5/2
Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Actors in his radio plays included Orson Welles, Jimmy...
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1991
When It Was a Game
10/1
As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the story of America's favorite pastime from the Depressio...
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1985
Moses
0/0
The trio become slaves in Egypt with the Israelites then witnesses the ten plagues and follow Moses through the parting of the Red Sea to freedom.
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1995
Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable
7/2
An attraction at EPCOT in Disney World which explains how damage is done to the environment and how we can prevent it.
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1997
Good Luck
4.864/11
Bernard "Bern" Lemly is fed up with being in a wheelchair and wants more out of life. Meanwhile, former football player Tony "Ole" Olezniak is stewing...
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2011
Strange Septembers: The Hill Abduction & the Exeter Encounter
0/0
The two world-famous UFO experiences took place in New Hampshire in September 1961 and September 1965. Strange Septembers attempts to decipher the mys...
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1992
The JFK Conspiracy
7.333/3
Up to now, no one knows the truth about the JFK assassination. But now, in a fast-paced two-hours, learn what really happened, who ordered it, and how...
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2006
The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
4.5/2
This two-hour documentary explores one of the great historical tragedies of America's aboriginal people. In 1830, eager to gain access to lands inhab...
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2025
Indiana Jones Adventure | Disneyland Resort
9/1
Hold on tight because ancient secrets, mystery, and danger await! In honor of the Disneyland® Resort 70th Celebration, you're invited to step into Ind...
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The Story of the Faithful Wookiee
4/3
The Story of the Faithful Wookiee is the animated cartoon from The Star Wars Holiday Special, first broadcast in November 1978. Chewbacca and C-3PO ar...
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2000
Ennis' Gift
0/0
Ennis William Cosby was dyslexic. As a boy, he struggled to learn in school. And he didn't know why. Eventually, Ennis came to understand that he simp...
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Diamonds on the Silver Screen
0/0
A chronicle of the history of baseball in the movies. Includes interviews with the directors and stars of some of the most memorable baseball-themed f...
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