Charlton Heston
Birthday: 1923-10-04
Place of Birth: Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Biography: Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater, and television. He is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, and Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
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Planet of the Apes
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...
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Bowling for Columbine
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Touch of Evil
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Solar Crisis
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Ben-Hur
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Will Penny
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
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Hamlet
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...
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In the Mouth of Madness
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The Three Musketeers
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Earthquake
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The Buccaneer
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The Omega Man
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Midway
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Town & Country
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The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
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Two-Minute Warning
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major ch...
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Gray Lady Down
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a ...
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Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue...
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Hercules
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in...
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Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to...
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I Am Richard Pryor
The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who ...
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Wayne's World 2
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Almost an Angel
Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car wh...
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Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies...
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Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of ma...
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Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the...
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The Big Country
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud ...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t...
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55 Days at Peking
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the Internati...
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The Legacy of Malthus
Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th cen...
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Airport 1975
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardes...
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Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Alaska... Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discov...
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Secret of the Incas
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunb...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
There are many heroes in the Old Testament. Some are great warriors. But others are men of quiet fai...
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Khartoum
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the ...
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Major Dundee
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Ar...
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Dark City
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in ...
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Julius Caesar
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which port...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to scul...
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The War Lord
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defe...
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The Call of the Wild
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton w...
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True Lies
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he ...
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Andersonville Diaries
A documentary about the Confederate prison camp, known for its brutality....
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Pony Express
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. J...
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Arrowhead
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of Scou...
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The Order
When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he ...
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The Naked Jungle
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of...
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The Last Hard Men
In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo an...
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El Cid
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without comp...
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The Awakening
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter....
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right ont...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Jonah and the Whale
Jonah And The Whale is a great adventure story-but is much more than that. On its deepest level, it ...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: David and Goliath
This is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. When the story begins, David is a mere shephe...
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western....
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Ruby Gentry
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man....
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The Lord Protector
With the future of the world hanging in the balance, one fearless hero's quest to solve "The Riddle ...
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Bad for Each Other
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping t...
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Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Current filmmakers such as Ridley Scott and George Lucas reflect on the importance and influence of ...
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Three Violent People
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas....
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Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico in...
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The Mountain Men
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days ...
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The Hawaiians
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties....
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The Far Horizons
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from Fra...
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Mother Lode
A couple of young adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleag...
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Skyjacked
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia....
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The Mystery of the Sphinx
Hosted by Charlton Heston, it explores the possibility that the Sphinx maybe older than expected. Jo...
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Number One
A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women....
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Yesterday's Tomorrows
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in w...
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The President's Lady
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent ...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic ...
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Fun in the Big Country
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."...
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The Crucifer of Blood
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium add...
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Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Hollywood is still the home of the American Dream - the place where fame and fortune can be achieved...
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The Little Kidnappers
Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who tra...
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The Private War of Major Benson
A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of t...
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an em...
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Uncertain Verification
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies....
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The Avenging Angel
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to questi...
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The Savage
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the ...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove t...
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Lucy Gallant
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil ...
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Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Ronald Reagan said of his beloved Santa Barbara, California ranch, “No place before or since has eve...
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Diamond Head
Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everythi...
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A Man for All Seasons
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces de...
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Counterpoint
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour ...
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Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
Feature-length documentary chronicling Charlton Heston's life while filming Ben Hur. Includes behind...
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The Pigeon That Took Rome
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for out...
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A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicte...
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America at the Movies
A compilation of scenes from 83 films, divided into 5 segments: The Land, The Cities, The Families, ...
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Nairobi Affair
A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poacher...
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Gideon
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement...
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Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...
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Andrew Weyth, The Helga Pictures
Charlton Heston tells the fascinating story of the intertwining of Andrew Wyeth's biography and art....
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Noël
The story of Noel, a cheerful Christmas ornament with a certain "happiness" that rubs off on the fam...
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The Five Cities of June
The Five Cities of June is a 1963 American short documentary film directed by Bruce Herschensohn. Th...
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While I Run This Race
While I Run This Race is a 1967 American short documentary film about poverty in the United States d...
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Lasting Love
A one hour documentary debuting on PBS that looks at the "secrets" of creating a loving, lasting rel...
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Forbidden Area
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price c...
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The Gun Deadlock
Documentary about gun control focusing on how women feel about owning guns. The program features bot...
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Planet of the Apes
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Samson and Delilah
Samson is one of the greatest heroes of the Old Testament. His legendary feats of strength have insp...
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Proud Men
A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his rec...
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Hail Satan?
The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with t...
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Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
The life and times of actor and NRA activist Charlton Heston....
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Edith Head: The Paramount Years
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the f...
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Any Given Sunday
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replac...
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The Special London Bridge Special
In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transp...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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My Father
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the A...
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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Let Poland Be Poland
Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US I...
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a s...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
"In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth..." With those words, the biblical story of...
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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
10th Anniversary of the 100 greatest films as chosen by the American Film Institute....
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A Bolt of Lightning
The story of James Otis who was a part of the American revolution. He contested in court the right o...
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Christmas in Hollywood
Dozens of stars--including Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Bob Hope, and more--demonstrate how the yuletide s...
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Television: The First Fifty Years
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclus...
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Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner ...
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Planet of the Apes Test Reel
A make-up test to determine the feasibility of 'Planet of the Apes' (1968)....
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from the...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...
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Alaska
Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a for...
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The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter...
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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV s...
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Cats & Dogs
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets t...
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Peer Gynt
Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen, Gynt, an imaginative young man looked down upon by most everybody...
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Call from Space
A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi mo...
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Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
A TV special celebrating the 15th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, m...
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The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan digs up the set of the 1923 film 'The Ten Commandments', long buried in the ...
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With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles....
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Eclipse of Reason
Charlton Heston-narrated anti-abortion documentary depicting a late-term abortion....
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The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and so...
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Original Sin
When his son is kidnapped a man has to face his past demons in speaking to a Mafia don about it....
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Vietnam! Vietnam!
Inspired by a series of articles by Thomas Duggan Goss. Part One - Vietnam:The People and the War - ...
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Bienvenido Mr. Heston
Spain, 1961. Life in the small village of Torrelobatón, in the province of Valladolid, was turned up...
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Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Jesus of Nazareth
Documentary / Drama / Historical - "There's been more ink-and blood-spilled over this man since they...
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Ben Hur
During the first century A.D., Judah Ben-Hur is a young Hebrew prince who is thrown into slavery by...
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Texas
In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Texas....
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Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent...
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Forever Hollywood
Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los...
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The Bible According to Hollywood
Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced th...
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Stars of Cabaret
A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends....
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Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis
Charlton Heston presents the Book of Genesis....
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends: The Story of Moses
For more than 40 years, Charlton Heston has been captivating audiences with his thrilling portrayal ...
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Directed by William Wyler
A documentary on the film director William Wyler (1902-1981), this feature was conceived by his daug...
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Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
Documentary - In the first of Heston's acclaimed four part series, the renowned actor serves as stor...
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Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
As the story begins, we learn that the Israelites-under the leadership of Moses-have been wandering ...
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Todos los nombres de Sara
Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitio...
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Energy: A National Issue
Animated documentary talking about the United States' use of oil....
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Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These event...
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Spanish Western
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, ...
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Charlton Heston Presents The Bible: The Story of Moses
"Ever since playing Moses in The Ten Commandments," Charlton Heston has said, "I've felt a deep, per...
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Armageddon
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to ...
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Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding sk...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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The Mysterious Origins of Man
The documentary challenges what we have been taught about human evolution and the rise of early civi...
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Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Documentary explores that his of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Opened on May 18, 1927 as ...
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The Patriots
Thomas Jefferson has just returned from France, hoping to relax with his daughters at Monticello. Ge...
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Three Lives
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writer...
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Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
The noted star of such epics as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur discusses his career with TCM host ...
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This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special
30th anniversary special of This is Your Life, hosted by David Frost....
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The Last Man Alive: The Omega Man
Vintage documentary that briefly looks at the making of several parts of the film and showcases Hest...
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Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Documentary focused on the creation of movie and television special effects, hosted by Roy Scheider ...
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Last Party 2000
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts do...
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Elizabeth the Queen
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert D...
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The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Germany after Adolf Hitler himse...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
This madcap comic short features (incredibly) Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave and a young Peter O'...
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The Making of The Ten Commandments
Go behind the scenes of the beloved biblical epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as ...
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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentar...
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Airports
Edited together from all four Airport movies by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A H...
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"Studio One" Wuthering Heights
Live television adaption of Emily Brontë's classic tale...
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Cults: Saying No Under Pressure
Describes how to resist the deception and pressure used to recruit members into cults and keep them ...
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The Orson Welles Story
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film....
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Look at Life: The City's Built for Shooting
A look at the cities and towns that are constructed for the world of cinema, including those for The...
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Symphony for the Spire
An impressive lineup of international stars puts on a spectacular "Symphony for the Spire" to kick o...
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The Making of 'Tombstone'
A Documentary covering the making of the 1993 Western 'Tombstone' featuring cast and crew...
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