Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Birthday: 1937-07-06

Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Biography: Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and TV series like Network (1976), Friendly Fire (1979), Last Train Home (1990), Hear My Song (1991) and the adaptation movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004). He had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance (1972), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville (1975), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men (1976), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), Bates' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy (1982), twice characters Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol (1987), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed (1990), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy (1993), detective McNair in Just Cause (1995), Ray and Claude's warden/employer Dexter Wilkins in Life (1999), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows (2003), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter (2007), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3 (2010).

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All the President's Men
All the President's Men

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s...

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Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to...

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Nashville
Nashville

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitr...

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Superman
Superman

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Cla...

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Prelude to a Kiss
Prelude to a Kiss

A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with...

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Deliverance
Deliverance

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis...

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Network
Network

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he anno...

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The Fourth Protocol
The Fourth Protocol

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the ...

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The Big Easy
The Big Easy

Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His ...

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White Lightning
White Lightning

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring....

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Repossessed
Repossessed

It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is...

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Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows

Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earni...

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1941
1941

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads...

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Homicide: The Movie
Homicide: The Movie

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conf...

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The American Success Company
The American Success Company

A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitu...

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Sweet Land
Sweet Land

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be he...

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Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

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The Toy
The Toy

On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department ...

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Shooter
Shooter

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...

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Radioland Murders
Radioland Murders

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network....

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The Last American Hero
The Last American Hero

A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south...

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Gray Lady Down
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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Superman II
Superman II

Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a de...

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Hopscotch
Hopscotch

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to r...

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A Cry in the Wild
A Cry in the Wild

13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, ...

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Replikator
Replikator

In a poisoned world where sunshine kills, a hit squad from the Zyklor Corporation interrupts the tes...

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Cookie's Fortune
Cookie's Fortune

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of rea...

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Just Cause
Just Cause

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...

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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Incredible Shrinking Woman

After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This b...

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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradu...

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The Walker
The Walker

Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts...

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Switching Channels
Switching Channels

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story....

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Rolling Vengeance
Rolling Vengeance

A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks wh...

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In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local h...

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Captain America
Captain America

During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new super...

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Wise Blood
Wise Blood

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He...

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Rudy
Rudy

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at...

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Physical Evidence
Physical Evidence

A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appoint...

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Restless Natives
Restless Natives

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and a...

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The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and appar...

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Ed and His Dead Mother
Ed and His Dead Mother

A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexp...

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Rango
Rango

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the l...

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Midnight Crossing
Midnight Crossing

A blind woman, her husband and another couple sail off to find cash hidden on an island near Cuba....

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W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas statio...

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The Big Bus
The Big Bus

A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is pla...

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Spring Forward
Spring Forward

Trying to put himself back together after serving prison time for robbery, Paul takes a job as a par...

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Stroker Ace
Stroker Ace

Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up w...

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The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap

This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment bui...

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Hear My Song
Hear My Song

Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chi...

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The Deadly Tower
The Deadly Tower

The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold....

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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
The Thief Who Came to Dinner

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance inves...

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Rampart
Rampart

The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles ...

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The Curse of Inferno
The Curse of Inferno

A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the mon...

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The Unholy
The Unholy

A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning....

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Dying Room Only
Dying Room Only

A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husb...

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The Execution of Private Slovik
The Execution of Private Slovik

The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be exe...

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Alambrista!
Alambrista!

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the U...

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Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob...

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Konrad
Konrad

Konrad is a factory-made child, perfect in every way. When he is mistakenly delivered to the eccentr...

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The Great Bank Hoax
The Great Bank Hoax

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been e...

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The Affair
The Affair

A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldi...

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Time Trackers
Time Trackers

When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daug...

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Illusions
Illusions

Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strain...

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Our Town
Our Town

3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder....

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Promises in the Dark
Promises in the Dark

A young doctor, Alexandra Kendall, seeking change while recovering from a recent heartbreak, moves f...

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The Trouble with Spies
The Trouble with Spies

George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is...

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Ministry of Vengeance
Ministry of Vengeance

David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to bl...

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Going Under
Going Under

An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine....

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The Big Ask
The Big Ask

The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal af...

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Spy
Spy

Richard is a spy. Ever since his wife Angela left him, cause she never liked what he did or became, ...

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Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to c...

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Big Bad John
Big Bad John

Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who el...

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Tennessee Nights
Tennessee Nights

When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing i...

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Shadows in the Storm
Shadows in the Storm

A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California...

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Thunderpants
Thunderpants

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, be...

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Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire

In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them...

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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...

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Silver Streak
Silver Streak

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murder...

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Tail Gunner Joe
Tail Gunner Joe

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to ...

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Touched
Touched

Two mental patients in an institution fall in love and plan to escape in the search of a normal life...

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Exorcist II: The Heretic
Exorcist II: The Heretic

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon ...

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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands o...

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After the Rain
After the Rain

A father disowns his daughter, Annie, because of her choice to marry a neighboring woodsman. The mar...

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Purple People Eater
Purple People Eater

A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two th...

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Lucan
Lucan

A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised...

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Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse

The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation ...

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A Woman Called Golda
A Woman Called Golda

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in ...

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The Violation of Sarah McDavid
The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventual...

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Angel Square
Angel Square

A Canadian boy comes of age and investigates a mystery in 1945....

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Answers
Answers

Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the firs...

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Go Toward the Light
Go Toward the Light

A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS....

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Lincoln
Lincoln

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...

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He Got Game
He Got Game

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...

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A Question of Love
A Question of Love

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband....

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Warren Oates: Across the Border
Warren Oates: Across the Border

A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews...

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Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Don't Ask Me, Ask God

Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox....

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All the Way Home
All the Way Home

A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising ...

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Chattahoochee
Chattahoochee

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental hea...

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Back to School
Back to School

Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason'...

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Hostage Flight
Hostage Flight

A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers...

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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent t...

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Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

After many years in prison, a changed robber comes home to see his sons again, one of them brain-dam...

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Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin

Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like characte...

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Blind Vision
Blind Vision

A shy mail clerk becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a man involved with the bea...

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All God's Children
All God's Children

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career...

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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-th...

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The Marcus-Nelson Murders
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls ...

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Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass

Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual m...

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Last Train Home
Last Train Home

Tom Bradshaw searches for his family while riding the rails in this family drama set in the 1880s....

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Footsteps
Footsteps

A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in ...

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Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Sex and Buttered Popcorn

Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of th...

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I Was a Rat
I Was a Rat

A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is co...

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Pray TV
Pray TV

A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep confli...

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The Making of 'Network'
The Making of 'Network'

An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."...

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Roughing It
Roughing It

A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune ...

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Life
Life

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a c...

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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three K...

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T Bone N Weasel
T Bone N Weasel

An ex-con and a crazy man are an unlikely duo on the road looking for a better life. All they have i...

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The Gardener's Son
The Gardener's Son

Based on true events which took place in the mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876, the ...

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Earth and the American Dream
Earth and the American Dream

A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From ...

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La Classe américaine
La Classe américaine

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...

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Baggage Claim
Baggage Claim

Although she has traveled all over the world, flight attendant Montana Moore has yet to find a man w...

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Trial: The Price of Passion
Trial: The Price of Passion

Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused...

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The Haunting of Barney Palmer
The Haunting of Barney Palmer

The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his...

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Kentucky Woman
Kentucky Woman

A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small ...

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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide

Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to hel...

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Gator
Gator

After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with...

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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to sei...

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Casting By
Casting By

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma...

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Kiwi Magic
Kiwi Magic

A fun filled, action packed, madcap adventure in New Zealand's countryside. Set among some of the ar...

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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mex...

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Fat Monroe
Fat Monroe

Gurney Norman's short story, navigates the intricate relationship between young Wilgus Collier and t...

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Superman Redeemed
Superman Redeemed

One of the most legendary Fan Edits of all time by ADigitalMan, Superman Redeemed presents a hybrid ...

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