Richard Dreyfuss
Birthday: 1947-10-29
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.
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Stand by Me
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys d...
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Poseidon
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the ...
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Jaws
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the ...
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Mr. Holland's Opus
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...
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Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner wo...
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W.
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his w...
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James and the Giant Peach
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...
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American Graffiti
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in ...
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What About Bob?
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on ...
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get ...
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Tin Men
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver...
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Stakeout
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them...
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Always
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love...
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Victory at Entebbe
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Enteb...
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Fail Safe
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclea...
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My Life in Ruins
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag...
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Catch-22
Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to...
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Postcards from the Edge
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w...
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Krippendorf's Tribe
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf ...
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Waltzing with Brando
The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architec...
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, a...
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Inserts
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s,...
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Another Stakeout
A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lak...
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The American President
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he w...
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is gett...
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Leaves of Grass
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to tak...
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Moon Over Parador
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the...
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant ...
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Citizen Steve
On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive r...
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Lost in Yonkers
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their...
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Dillinger
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...
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Nuts
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared...
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The Competition
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chanc...
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The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)...
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The Big Fix
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm...
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Hello Down There
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his famil...
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name fo...
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The Goodbye Girl
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are r...
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Piranha 3D
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents fo...
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The Buddy System
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequen...
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Night Falls on Manhattan
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation t...
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RED
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassemb...
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Mad Dog Time
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious ri...
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Once Around
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling r...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip...
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killi...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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Silent Fall
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with cont...
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
"Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery, ...
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The Sentinel
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl...
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Silver City
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a b...
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildensterm, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road t...
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The Lightkeepers
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females...
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film sta...
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Let It Ride
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it ...
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Very Good Girls
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high sc...
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The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and ta...
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Lansky
Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for som...
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The Shark Is Still Working
After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focus...
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Frank Capra's American Dream
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family....
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Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
This thorough documentary covers the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, from his birth until his ...
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Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefe...
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Paranoia
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a ...
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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded ...
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Cas & Dylan
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadverten...
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The Two Million Year Old Boy
A 9-year-old boy in South Africa discovers one of the greatest fossil finds of all time while taking...
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Murder at Yellowstone City
A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decli...
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Prisoner of Honor
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur...
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Sweetwater
In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals...
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The Young Runaways
Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as...
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The Second Coming of Suzanne
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to ...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists ...
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Squatters
A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their ho...
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Coast to Coast
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. ...
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Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
The story of how Audrey Hepburn survived World War II, became an award winning actress, and gave bac...
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1...
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The Graduate
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter....
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The Making of 'Jaws'
A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made, filled with trivia, interviews f...
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Audrey
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey H...
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The Last Word
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past....
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Zipper
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political fut...
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Milius
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of...
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Me
Tomby, a challenged teenage boy, manipulates his family who cater to his every desire. Only his twin...
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Caserta Palace Dream
The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naple...
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Save Christmas
Grumpy Dad dislikes Christmas while mum and kids strive to save Santa from animated villain's captiv...
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The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
A promotional short for The Goodbye Girl. It takes a behind the scenes look at the production, with ...
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Valley of the Dolls
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show busin...
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Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Jaws: The Inside Story
Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie....
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I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to b...
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America Betrayed
Writer/director Leslie Carde finds her villain in the US Army Corps of Engineers, an agency whose pr...
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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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Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet p...
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The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film Americ...
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the b...
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Da...
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. C...
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'...
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Spielberg
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Stev...
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Book Club
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shade...
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Bayou Caviar
Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled ...
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Asher
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brook...
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The Universal Story
Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by ...
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Ocean of Fear
Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever is a Movie that launched the 20th anniversary of the Discover...
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The Last Laugh
After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy ...
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Polar
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going...
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Daughter of the Wolf
Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her fathe...
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Astronaut
A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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New England Our Way
The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. ...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on...
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The Johnstown Flood
On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a ...
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star War...
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In Search of Peace
In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the or...
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The John Garfield Story
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he d...
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The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressio...
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Manassas: End of Innocence
As the first major land battle of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Manassas, fought on Ju...
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Every Last One of Them
Desperate to find his missing daughter, a man tracks her last known whereabouts to a small desert to...
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Crime Story
When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. ...
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Two for the Money
Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt ...
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Casting By
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma...
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Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...
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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happe...
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Into the Deep
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a...
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premier...
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...
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American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Activist, lover, visionary, renegade - For 75 years, Abe Osheroff fought on the front lines of socia...
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