Tom Hanks
Birthday: 1956-07-09
Place of Birth: Concord, California, USA
Biography: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Forrest Gump
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The Simpsons Movie
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Saving Private Ryan
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Toy Story
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The Green Mile
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Apollo 13
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The Da Vinci Code
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The Terminal
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Catch Me If You Can
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Toy Story 3
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Dragnet
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Big
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Joe Versus the Volcano
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Splash
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Road to Perdition
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The Money Pit
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The Polar Express
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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
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The Ladykillers
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Radio Flyer
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A League of Their Own
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A Night at the Academy Museum
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Charlie Wilson's War
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Turner & Hooch
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Cast Away
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The 'Burbs
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Bachelor Party
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You've Got Mail
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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That Thing You Do!
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Philadelphia
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Mazes and Monsters
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Angels & Demons
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Punchline
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
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The Real Mary Poppins
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Nothing in Common
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Elvis Has Left the Building
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The Walk
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A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
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The Great Buck Howard
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Close Up
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He Knows You're Alone
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Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
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Volunteers
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There's Something About Romcoms
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Small Fry
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Cloud Atlas
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Return with Honor
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A Man Called Otto
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
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Here
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Larry Crowne
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The Extraordinary Voyage
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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Saving Mr. Banks
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Captain Phillips
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Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
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Inventing David Geffen
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Electric City
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Partysaurus Rex
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The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Killing Lincoln
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Tom Hanks: The Nomad
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Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King....
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Radioman
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Toy Story of Terror!
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Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
A look behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis' 1994 Oscar-winning film, 'Forrest Gump'....
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Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
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Halftime
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Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
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Who Needs Sleep?
A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work, foc...
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A Hologram for the King
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A Timeless Call
A short tribute to American military veterans, made for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. It ...
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Bridge of Spies
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The Pixar Story
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's p...
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
During a post-Christmas play date, the gang find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest ...
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Ithaca
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be t...
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Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the entertainment company with interviews, rare footage and p...
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Inferno
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against ...
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All In
A behind-the-scenes look at the team and event that made history. The DVD chronicles the Rider's in...
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Misery Loves Comedy
Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, act...
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Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate ...
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The Concert for Valor
A live HBO concert honoring United States veterans in Washington DC....
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Freaky Tales
In 1987 Oakland, a mysterious force guides The Town's underdogs in four interconnected tales: teen p...
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers....
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Earth to America
Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environme...
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Cars
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the jou...
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The Celluloid Closet
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men a...
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Walking the Mile
Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen...
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The Circle
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's r...
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The Bloody Hundredth
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...
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Toy Story 5
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the re...
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'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
A CNN Documentary covering the history and impact of Christmas movies and TV....
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The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
An immersive documentary focusing on the story of the Apollo space program...
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Live 8
On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIV...
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Sully
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberge...
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Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen
Director Baz Luhrmann, actors Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, and others explore the life and legacy of...
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Boatlift
From the midst of 9/11, one of the darkest moments in American history, comes this inspiring and rel...
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Mike Nichols: An American Master
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director....
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Everything Is Copy
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein....
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The Phoenician Scheme
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As ...
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Toy Story 4
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of...
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story....
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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Join an American couple’s courageous mission in 1939 to help refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe. O...
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California Typewriter
A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and techno...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE O...
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The Harryhausen Chronicles
As an actor, director and producer, Ray Harryhausen has been a vibrant figure in Hollywood, working ...
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The Post
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher a...
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Sully: Sully Sullenberger - The Man Behind the Miracle
Documentary about the life of Captain Chesley Sullenberger...
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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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Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "...
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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie becam...
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The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
Set in a small suburban town on All Hallows' Eve, the special centers on David Pumpkins and his skel...
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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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Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need...
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Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Stephen Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can."...
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Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
"As soon as you hear the title to this new one, you know exactly what it's about and why it's likely...
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esq...
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Greyhound
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treach...
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Toy Story 2
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear wh...
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Finch
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, ...
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The Universal Story
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The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecc...
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Quincy
An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for...
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The Last Mile
It's been 25 years since “Philadelphia” premiered, and since then, we've come a long way in the figh...
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Beyond All Boundaries
A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and adva...
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News of the World
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees t...
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The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over
The Dave Clark Five started the rock n roll British invasion that changed the world, having already ...
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The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
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People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'
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Elvis
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Vault of Horror I
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
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Making a 'Splash'
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We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
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Pennis from Heaven
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The Road We've Traveled
A short documentary on the first term of President Barack Obama's administration....
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, m...
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Celebrating America
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Making 'Toy Story'
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Rescued from the Closet
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Concert for George
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Asteroid City
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The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
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How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
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Passport to the Universe
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America | A Tribute to Heroes
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Untitled Greyhound Sequel
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Bigger Than Life - The Making of Elvis
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A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
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John Candy: I Like Me
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Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
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Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
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What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
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