Description: Quite a few of these classics need links. List is modified often. There’s an emphasis on pre-code era then up to 1949. Many are flapper-prohibition-depression era through WWII with iconic stars of the studio period of the golden age of films.
There are exceptions, such as Korean, Vietnam war eras, bios, docs & films based on film icons, such as Wild Thing, Death Becomes Her & Cabaret which were based directly from the iconic Louise Brooks or The Chaperone which is her biography. For the purposes of this list, anything above 1949 is not vintage but retro yet still potentially considered to be classic for listing. Monroe’s films are a good example of that.
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White Lies, Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon & Korda’s Queenie were all based on the enigmatic Indian-Maori born Merle Oberon (not Asian - India is it’s own content & not part of Asia anymore than Europe is. There are oops! 8 continents, not 7). Korda was in fact her step-son via her marriage to Alexander Korda. Queenie was Merle’s nickname. Her biography is better than fiction & beyond interesting. Merle’s story is rooted in the racism of the U.S. & her need to obscure her half-caste birth. Merle was the first Indian nominated for the coveted Oscar.
Lupe by Warhol starring Edie Sedgwick in her last role before her own death, is about the false urban legend regarding the suicide by Seconal of the devastatingly beautiful iconic & volatile ex wife of Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, who was pregnant with Gary Cooper’s baby that he refused to claim. They were to marry, but they were a violent couple & Gary’s mom disliked non-whites. She cut him with a knife. She & Tarzan divorced for the same reason. She fired a pistol at him in public at a train station. She also saw any other actress as a rival, & would do scathing humiliating mockeries of them in public that she was rather infamous for. She was the wealthy daughter of an army colonel to a Mexican dictator. Lupe’s story is also rooted in U.S. racism. Lupe was the first Latina to be nominated for an Oscar.
This era is very important. Without Mae West for example, Paramount wouldn’t exist & there likely would’ve never been Star Trek as it is known today.
Hedy Lamarr was a genius inventor who fled nazi germany & invented frequency bandwidth hopping, which is the technology that makes the WiFi you are using possible as well as all missile guidance systems in the military.
Jerry Lewis invented technical innovations such as video playback, which is used on sets mostly for dailies, taught university film making & meticulously crafted his comedy in synced time to all sound events, often working with musicians to compose scores that brought out timing that worked comedically.
The great Carl Stalling, composer of Disney’s Silly Symphonies & more popularly of Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies, invented sound synchronization & composed all of his music highly mathematically to match on-screen action, which today is known as the click-track. He composed about 120 scores a year. No one does that anymore. Now some douche presses some keys on a keyboard, then plays it in an infinite loop until the crappy bad art that a lazy idiot did on a computer is done.
The greatest dancer of all time was the wonderful ballet trained, athletic acrobatic percussive Eleanor Powell, who was the only dancer that intimidated Fred Astaire & was the only dancer who always choreographed all of her own steps, dictating everyone else’s steps, often practicing until her feet bled, worked for weeks on just upper body movement & still today is required learning for any dancer. Quite a bit of Cole Porter’s legendary songs debuted in her films, accompanying her perfect vertical kicks, backward bends & countless high speed spins. All in high heels with slick steel taps. Ginger who? That one didn’t know how to dance & took months of lessons from Fred.
Melanie Griffith’s mom Tippi Hedren of Hitchcock fame, like Betty White, is an animal rights activist & responsible for shutting down infamous theme parks that abuse animals. Leonard Nimoy was responsible for securing rights for every entertainer’s personal legal rights of their own physical likeness, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Jackie Coogan, known as Uncle Fester of the Addams Family, was responsible for securing the rights of child entertainers & protection from financial exploitation, especially from their own parents. His ex-wife was the one & only Betty Grable. Penny Singleton who played Blondie Bumstead was also the voice of Jane Jetson. Billy Burke was Glinda the Good of The Wizard Of Oz & most people look at her at least once a year.
Frances Gumm, known as Judy Garland, gave birth to Liza Minnelli who later emulated Louise Brooks. The great singer Keeley Smith of Louis Prima fame in particular took 100% of her look from Miss Brooks long before Liza was born. Carmen Miranda had a heart attack on live tv during the Jimmy Durante show & died shortly after. Jimmy himself narrated & sung Frosty The Snowman. Jean Harlow died of kidney failure at a mere 26, collapsing on the set of her last & most famous film, dying before it was finished, after she cemented Howard Hughes’ & her own fame, but also primary suspect in her husband’s murder. Gracie Allen, like Carmen & Judy, also died young, barely over 50 having worked herself to death merely to entertain. Yet she was an Irish catholic happily married to her Jewish husband George Burns.
Others were blatant right-wing nazi fascist sympathizers whose names & works should be forgotten & lost in the swirling eddies of time.
Each one of these very ordinary people had some very extraordinary aspects to their lives that were highly interesting & well worth researching. Either way, these people affect our lives today very profoundly- but none more thanHedy. Many of these legends built the Hollywood system as it is presently & in many cases saved it singlehandedly, such as founder of Universal Carl Laemmle & Charlie Chaplin(insisted on relocating film making from the insane violent Thomas Edison in New Jersey to California away from his brutal goons that regularly smashed up any studio that dared operate outside of the Edison monopoly) who co-founded United Artists for independent filmmakers & The Academy of Motion Pictures. Without Chaplin & his partners, there would be NO Hollywood at all or film making as it is presently known.
For all of these reasons & more, this era should not be forgotten or regarded as irrelevant, but should be celebrated just as much as any contemporary work- for without it, there would be NO contemporary works, & free speech today might not be so free at all.
Care is taken to compile a good default listing, but in this case it is fun to sort by Date Of Release since this list is best served by passion for the subject than anything else.
Sorting by date will separate time periods & group like items together. More contemporary dates are likely to have docs & bios about past decades.
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Out of Europe
( 2010 )
Out of Europe chronicles the story told by my cousins, aunts, and uncles as they were forced to suddenly leave their homes in Belgium and make their way through the treacherous hurdles experienced in escaping the tightening Nazi-Vichy vise of 1940. The film shows how each person individually and collectively survived from day to day. Out of Europe is a rarely told story of survival, of my large Jewish family's extraordinary good luck in attaining freedom. The intimate memories of being refugees provide an emotionally alive first -hand telling of a journey by car, truck, train, and on foot through France, Spain, Portugal, and finally, to freedom in the United States.
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The White Ribbon
( 2010 )
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lolita?
( 2009 )
Documentary following writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith on the trail of Vladimir Nabokov, the elusive man behind the controversial novel and 1962 film, Lolita.
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Loot
( 2009 )
During WWII, Darrel was stationed in Europe. Andrew was fighting in the Philippines. In the chaos of combat, each stole valuable treasures and hid them overseas before returning to civilian...
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42nd Street: River to River
( 2009 )
42nd STREET: RIVER TO RIVER is an impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City, the street has ranged from the glamorous to the derelict, housing everything from peep shows to such international institutions as the United Nations. The documentary is an exploration of the street's expansion from the farmland where Washington bivouacked his troops to the flashy, commercial center that it is today. With historical information, musical performances and personal narratives, the film traces the rise, subsequent dilapidation, and eventual resurgence of a street that has come to represent a place where, notoriously, anything may and has happened.
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Pinocchio
( 2009 )
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
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1929
( 2009 )
Director William Karel examines the biggest stock market crash in history, which occurred on the New York Stock Exchange 80 years ago -- Black Thursday, October 24, 1929. In this film, a wide range of economists and historians take turns discussing the causes of the crash and its economic and political consequences. These included acute poverty and the rise of the extreme right, both of which were to have a considerable impact on the decade to come. 1929 uses a wealth of black-and-white archive footage to illustrate what the experts have to say.
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Anjar: Flowers, Goats and Heroes
( 2009 )
Growing up in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, the filmmaker's life in a small Armenian village becomes forever linked to a group of 1915 genocide survivors. Through rare photos and archival footage the feature documentary lyrically travels between two war-torn eras, leaving the viewer with the impression that history is never that far away.
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Hollywood on the Tiber
( 2009 )
Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.
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The Unknown Marx Brothers
( 2009 )
Leslie Nielsen hosts this retrospective of the Marx Brothers, from their early career on stage to their post-film career in television. Their children and co-workers are interviewed, and numerous clips and rare footage being shown.
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Echoes That Remain
( 2009 )
Echoes That Remain paints a rich portrait of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. Folk stories, parables, and anecdotes come together in a complex tapestry woven from archival research and oral histories.
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
( 2009 )
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation in musical film. Later in the decade, Rock & Roll became the musical choice of the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit. Highlights of this 2-part program include: Films based on smash Broadway musicals become the rage. A pretty starlet with no musical training named Marilyn Monroe takes the country by storm in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." With favorites from the previous decade continue to delight audiences: Rock & Roll films, songs and musical numbers.
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Tales from the Script
( 2009 )
Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.
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I Remember Better When I Paint
( 2009 )
I Remember Better When I Paint' is the first international documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer's and how these approaches can ...
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Red and White: Gone with the West
( 2008 )
A journey into the American Wild West, between Past and Present, from Buffalo Bill's last gleaming hopes, to the Native Americans resurrection.
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Easy Virtue
( 2008 )
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
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The River Ran Red
( 2008 )
The River Ran Red, part of The Witnesses Trilogy, is a 60 minute documentary about the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Using eyewitness testimonies, the filmmaker, himself a survivor, weaves a story of terrifying intensity, from the highland waters of the Euphrates to the burning deserts of Syria, to the final resting place of those who died in and around the river.
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The Brothers Warner
( 2008 )
An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
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Johnny Got His Gun
( 2008 )
The story of a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell on the last day of the First World War. The film takes place in the mind of a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Regaining consciousness, 20 year-old Joe Bonham slowly discovers that while his brain is healthy and able to reason, the rest of his body is irreparably shattered, leaving him forever trapped within the confines of his own imagination. He struggles valiantly to find some way to communicate with the outside world. Tapping his head in Morse code he breaks through and pleads with his caretakers to be put on display as a living example of the cost of war.
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
( 2008 )
"Mary Pickford, The Muse of the Movies" traces the life and work of the legendary silent film star, movie pioneer, and keen business woman who co-created United Artists Studios. Pickford's life (1892-1979)also parallels an even larger story, the telling of the "birth of the cinema" itself.
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Trumbo
( 2008 )
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture.
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Death Defying Acts
( 2008 )
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
( 2008 )
Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie making in the early 1930s, and those same factors which resulted in the drastic turn to working under the code for the twenty or so years starting in 1934. The "code" is the Hollywood Production Code of 1930 (also known as the Hays Code, so named for Will H. Hays, the first head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), which was developed in order for movie making in Hollywood to run smoothly in the face of increased outside censors. The code was largely ignored until 1934, when its enforcement was overseen by Joseph I. Breen who took over from Hays and who had a different agenda of moral purity. During those four years, pre-code Hollywood movies are characterized by their rawness and pushing the envelope of sexuality and moral ambiguity (with the depraved side often winning), which were not allowed under the code. What happened to the distribution of pre-code movies during the years that the code was enforced, the reasons for the slow breakdown of the code in the early to mid 1950s, and the reasons for renewed interest in pre-code movies later in the century are also discussed.
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The Savages
( 2008 )
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Radio City Christmas Spectacular
( 2007 )
Santa Flies to New York. Jump right into Santa's sleigh as ti zooms over the frozen North, pas internationl borders, and right to the doors of Radio City Music Hall.
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The Fearmakers Collection
( 2007 )
Half-hour profiles of ten of the screen's masters of classic terror and suspense, based on the book THE FEARMAKERS (St. Martin's Press, 1994) by John McCarty.
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Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
( 2007 )
Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller. The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others. Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U.S. These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nation¹s history.
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TV Land Myths & Legends
( 2007 )
Myths and Legends investigates the mysteries that have blossomed around Hollywood's most memorable stars, TV shows, films and music. In a town called the Dream Factory, where reality collides with wild imagination, there's a blurred line between truth and fiction.
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The Aryan Couple
( 2006 )
In 1944, in Hungary, the wealthy Jewish industrialist Joseph Krauzenberg is forced by the Reichführer Heinrich Himmler to deliver his 3,000 employee factory; his palace with his collection of antiques and arts; a large amount in gold; and his house to the Reich. In return, the Nazis would send his big family that is arrested in Gestapo safe and sound to the neutral Switzerland and then to Palestine. Himmler schedules a dinner with Krauzenberg and his wife Rachel Krauzenberg to sign the contract and orders the butcher Eichmann to not do harm to the imprisoned Jews relatives of Krauzenberg. Himmer also send the SS Edelhein to check the security of the palace and the two German house servants of Krauzenberg, Hans Vassman and his beautiful pregnant wife Ingrid Vassman. Hans and Ingrid are actually the Jews David and Leila Steinberg and members of the resistance. When the Krauzenberg couple concludes the negotiation with Himmler, Ingrid discloses to the couple that Hans and she are Jews. However, the deal is closed and Joseph has no means to include the young servants in his deal.
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The Borgia
( 2006 )
A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.
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Hollywoodland
( 2006 )
A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).
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Stan
( 2006 )
Based on the Neil Brand's critically acclaimed radio play of the same name, the drama follows Stan Laurel's last visit to his dying friend and comedy partner Oliver 'Babe' Hardy and Stan's subsequent coming to terms with the ghosts of his past.
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Calling Hedy Lamarr
( 2006 )
A Face, a Tag Line, an Invention. Two facets that don't seem to belong to the same woman. A Hollywood star as an ingenious inventor piques our curiosity. The director Georg Misch is interested in how truth and myth intertwine. He listens to stories about her told by people who knew her. He dissects the history of the woman with the exotic eroticism who not only made surprising and daring decisions in her private life, but who caused a sensation with an intrepid film project right from the start. What is left? her first film Ecstasy with its scandalous nude scenes, movies that nobody has seen or heard of, a sixty-year-old son who is still struggling with his relationship to his mother, an invention whose patent ran out too soon, so that what has become a cornerstone for wireless communications, which are in constant use in our everyday lives, brought its inventor late fame but never earned her any money. At the end of the day what lingers is the echo of her fascinating beauty. The way the film handles the archive material from various sources reflects the inner conflicts of a Hollywood diva whose other talent as a mathematical genius and inventor was not allowed to unfold so as not to endanger her aura as a successful goddess of the silver screen. As we peel away the convolution of myths that grew up about her while she was still alive what gradually emerges is the portrait of a modern woman beyond the Hollywood star. In the last decades of her life the telephone became her only means of communication with the outside world, even with her children and close friends. She often talked up to six or seven hours a day on the phone, but she hardly spent any time with anyone in person in her final years. For this reason, though also of course because of the significance of her invention to modern communications, the telephone has been chosen as the "structuring motif" of the movie. The interviews in the movie have been staged as telephone calls and lead the viewer through time like a nostalgic conference with the film's protagonists. Calling Hedy Lamarr isn't, however, a portrait; it is above all a film about the Hollywood diva from the perspective of her son Anthony Loder, a fairly successful telephone dealer in Los Angeles who wants desperately to be the Hollywood producer of a feature film about the life of his mother. Through his research he encounters contradictory statements and fantastic theories. There is often only a fine line between truth and lie. Many times the conversations between him and the other protagonists shift and take on a magical aspect, and in a supernatural way Hedy Lamarr sometimes even seems to join in. The Hollywood diva's purported schizophrenia is expressed dramaturgically as a persistent shifting between the extremes of her character and is a strong pattern in the film. The meaning of truth must be constantly reinterpreted. Lamarr's death in February 2000 marked the end of one of the most complex Hollywood biographies of the last century. The film ends where Hedy Lamarr's story began: in Vienna. In her will she asks that her ashes be strewn in the Vienna Woods. A homecoming she always dreamed of but which she never managed to make during her lifetime.
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The White Countess
( 2006 )
Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
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Laurel & Hardy: Hats Off
( 2005 )
There are few film stars who are genuinely loved by their audiences, but back in the days of the silent movie, a comedy duo enjoyed that from the very beginning. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, with their gentle mixture of slapstick and technical skill, brought laughter to millions through the 20th Century and are still continuing to generate laughter to this very day. Yet, like so many of the truly great Kings of Comedy, Laurel and Hardy often found it difficult to find laughter, peace, and contentment in their own lives and the story of the men behind the carefully constructed masks is both enlightening and entertaining. This program is a delightful celebration of the magic of Laurel and Hardy and a rare glimpse into the private lives of these two enigmatic men. From their earliest beginnings through to their final curtain calls, enjoy getting up close and personal with Stan and Ollie. It's a relationship that started as a business arrangement and blossomed into one of the truest friendships Hollywood has ever known. Whether you're young or simply young at heart, enjoy stepping back in time to discover the true story of Laurel and Hardy where fact will prove equally as fascinating as fiction.
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Where the Truth Lies
( 2005 )
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
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Olive Thomas: Everybody's Sweetheart
( 2005 )
Story of the life of silent-screen actress Olive Thomas, the wife of Jack Pickford and a former Ziegfeld showgirl. Hailed in her time as one of the most beautiful women in the world, Thomas' rising film career was cut short by her tragic, and controversial, death at age 25.
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1945: The Year That Changed the World
( 2005 )
The series' narrative thread is an examination of the power struggle between the Soviet Union, Britain and USA over who will WIN THE PEACE. The five programmes follow a chronological order which enable us to track the shifting fortunes of the big three as a new world order is established.
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The Day Mary Pickford Fell off the Screen
( 2005 )
Mary Pickford has just fallen off the screen and, dumbfounded wanders through the streets of a major city. Everything is so different from her time. The city is too loud. The people are too busy. She only needs someone to show her the way back to the movies, the silent ones. Terrified in this unknown reality, Mary Pickford finds comfort in an isolated park. Wait a minute, she's not alone anymore, somebody else has also fallen off the screen.
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The Aviator
( 2004 )
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
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Beyond the Sea
( 2004 )
A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin and specifically his relationship with wife Sandra Dee.
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Taboo: The Beginning of Erotic Cinema
( 2004 )
Traces the first fifty years of adult films, contrasting the variety and explicitness of French films with less explicit but technically-superior U.S. productions. In Europe, from the early years of cinema, women and men engaged in sex on screen. In the U.S., the production code of 1930 as well as Puritan values gave rise to striptease films featuring bare breasts. As U.S. adult films became more mainstream, they showed even less; in the late 1940s and 1950s, the striptease and fan dance gave rise to films of women fighting and women in bondage, often with little bare skin exposed. A narrator guides the viewer through a montage of film clips and social history.
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
( 2004 )
Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner, and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death.
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Piccadilly Jim
( 2004 )
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
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Ziegfeld on Film
( 2004 )
A short documentary which features on the UK DVD release (2004) of the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which includes interviews with Ziegfeld's daughter Patricia, and one of the film's stars, Luise Rainer. They discuss Ziegfeld's life and the making of the movie respectively.
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You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
( 2003 )
This documentary tells the story behind the making of one of the most beloved movies of all time, 'Casablanca'. Interviews with writers and others who were part of the original production, along with film critics and historians, relate the process by which this movie came about. Many clips from the movie are included, along with the original theatrical trailer.
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Rita
( 2003 )
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth. Born Margarita Cansino, she studied dancing from the age of 5 and was soon part of the family's night club act. By age 18 she was married and pursuing a movie career. She reached her peak appeal with the movie Gilda, but found that people expected her to be that character in real life. In fact she was shy and introverted. Married four times (most notably to Orson Welles and Ali Khan) she had two children and was a dedicated and loving mother. As she got older, she focused on more dramatic roles but the early onset of Alzheimer's disease rendered it difficult for her to learn her lines. She died in 1987.
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Unlikely Heroes
( 2003 )
For most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a few isolated acts throughout WWII. "Unlikely Heroes", narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, highlights 7 previously unknown stories of extraordinary men and women who exemplified the highest levels of courage and human dignity during the most desperate days of the Holocaust.
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
( 2003 )
A biography of pioneering black American singer/actress Dorothy Dandridge, featuring clips from her films and interviews with friends and co-workers.
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Norwegian Actresses in Hollywood
( 2003 )
Norwegian actresses in international film throughout the silent era and into the 1970's is told in this 4 episode tv series produced for Norwegian television. The women toke part in many of the historic event in 75 years of film history and has surfaced to become actresses to be reckonned with after years of being in the shadow of the biggest Norwegian star of them all, Sonja Henie.
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Down with Love
( 2003 )
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
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Complicated Women
( 2003 )
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1929-1934 - before the Hollywood Production Code was enforced.
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The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
( 2003 )
Woody Harrelson hosts a special tribute to the Three Stooges in honor of their 75th Anniversary. In addition to classic Stooges routines, there are feature film clips, ultra-rare shorts, solo appearances, andTV performances, rare home movies, and interviews with Stooge family members and special guest stars. A must for any Stooge fan? Why soitenly!
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Five Cent War.com
( 2003 )
In 1947, children launched an audacious chocolate bar revolt against candy manufacturers who raised the price of chocolate bars from five cents to eight cents. Though the dramatic uprising was sparked by only a few pennies, it caused a national sensation and drew fatal accusations of a communist conspiracy.
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An Injury to One
( 2003 )
An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.
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Dorothy Dandridge: Singing at Her Best
( 2003 )
These musical performances reveal a special insight into the depth of Dorothy's acting, singing and dancing talents. they help us to better understand just how Dorothy Dandridge became FIlmland's first Black female superstar.
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Martin and Lewis
( 2002 )
The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
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Auto Focus
( 2002 )
The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.
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The Tramp and the Dictator
( 2002 )
Explores the making of Charles Chaplin's first "talkie" The Great Dictator (1940) and draws many things that between Chaplin and Hitler had in common. The film contains colour home movie footage of the film's production which where shot by Charles' brother Sydney. These never before seen films were discovered by his daughter Victoria while looking though an old suitcase she found in the basement. The raw footage gives us an alternate insight to Chaplin's classic film which started production years before Adolf Hitler was seen as a major threat in the western world.
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RFK
( 2002 )
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
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The Cat's Meow
( 2002 )
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
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Who Is Alan Smithee?
( 2002 )
This documentary on the elusive director 'Alan Smithee' was first shown on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable channel. We learn where the name came from and why the Directors Guild of America (DGA) first allowed his name to be used on Richard Widmark's western Death of a Gunfighter (1969). The film follows the numerous problems that director Tony Kaye had during the production and post-production of the film American History X (1998) and why the DGA refused to allow Alan Smithee to be credited for that film.
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The Trouble with Merle
( 2002 )
The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in search of the truth, but her quest ultimately results in probably more questions than it answers.
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Uprising
( 2001 )
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
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Memories of Oz
( 2001 )
Actors who played Munchkins, Bert Lahr's daughter, John Waters, the film's choreographer, film critics, and others tell stories about the making of the "Wizard of Oz," discuss its special effects, and assess its place in film history. Munchkins also talk about Judy Garland, the set, and the rehearsals; Buddy Ebsen describes his short-lived and nearly-fatal time as the Tin Man; and, footage from the film illustrates the points made by talking heads.
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Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
( 2001 )
Documentary about the moviestar's last months including her tumultuous love affairs, drug and alcohol dependency, depression and eventual firing from her final film, 20th Century Fox's "Something's Got To Give". Features several first time interviews with the people surrounding Monroe at the end of her life, behind the scenes footage and stills, and the assembled footage from her final film, co-starring Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse.
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Groucho: A Life in Revue
( 2001 )
Groucho Marx recounts his life from a young performer to a beloved icon of entertainment.
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Pulp Cinema
( 2001 )
DVD Compilation of Film Noir movie trailers, etc...
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
( 2000 )
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary. We learn of his deaf mute parents, his own long-delayed ability to talk and the origins of his expressive face and hands, which were to serve him so well in his career. He started as a touring stage actor where he met the singer, who became his first wife, and gave him the child who later became a lesser horror star on his own. Lon Chaney's early film roles lead to his first fame as a contortionist in "The Miracle Man," and then on to the horror roles, that are well remembered today, and to the varied character roles, that are still beloved of silent movie fans. Lung cancer ends his life, and we learn how the world reacted. Finally, there is a mysterious anecdote about Lon Chaney's tomb.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
( 2000 )
Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and the havoc that ensues.
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The Audrey Hepburn Story
( 2000 )
Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywood's most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn, spaning from her early childhood to the 1960's which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina, coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a movie actress and the emotional trials that follow her with it.
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fl4g0ndry : This was a fun ride! Loved it! Now I'm going to have to go back and re-watch all of them. ...