James Woods
Birthday: 1947-04-18
Place of Birth: Vernal, Utah, USA
Biography: James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.
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Once Upon a Time in America
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
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Casino
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empi...
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The Getaway
An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned....
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The Virgin Suicides
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their stri...
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of cre...
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Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...
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Videodrome
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewer...
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The General's Daughter
When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigator...
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Cat's Eye
Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy tript...
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True Crime
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's fa...
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The Specialist
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she w...
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Chaplin
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...
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Be Cool
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a...
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Scary Movie 2
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie ...
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Best Seller
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living,...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Stuart Little 2
Stuart, an adorable white mouse, still lives happily with his adoptive family, the Littles, on the e...
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Play It to the Bone
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters f...
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
A heroic version of Lex Luthor from an alternate universe appears to recruit the Justice League to h...
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The Hard Way
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollyw...
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Against All Odds
Having been cut from his professional football team, down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan is in despera...
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Salvador
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the le...
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Mickey's House of Villains
The villains from the popular animated Disney films are gathered at the House of Mouse with plans to...
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True Believer
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. ...
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Ghosts of Mississippi
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist ...
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Eyewitness
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued whe...
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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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John Q
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then...
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Cop
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area...
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Night Moves
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard mis...
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Northfork
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is abou...
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Surf's Up
A young surfer enters his first contest, hoping a win will earn him respect. But an encounter with a...
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End Game
Alex Thomas was the man in charge of protecting the president but, when the time came to fulfill his...
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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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Vampires
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching ...
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The Onion Field
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loophole...
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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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Ark
The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions ...
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America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
This is a documentary about two photographers work to document and raise awareness about endangered ...
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Another Day in Paradise
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go dis...
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Straight Talk
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Acc...
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This Girl's Life
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, ...
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Race to Space
In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who wil...
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Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
The evil space pirate Gloomius Maximus is determined that since he can't have fun, nobody else will ...
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My Name Is Bill W.
Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart a...
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The Gambler
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately...
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Fast-Walking
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates....
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Straw Dogs
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a liv...
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Too Big to Fail
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided ...
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestatio...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at...
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The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...
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Diggstown
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns ...
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Split Image
An impressionable young man finds himself enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to b...
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Citizen Cohn
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p...
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The American Nightmare
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they refle...
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Kicked in the Head
When Redmon finds himself out of home and job, his life becomes a series of unpredictable escapades ...
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The Black Marble
When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involv...
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Hickey & Boggs
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | ...
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The Boost
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal gov...
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a gua...
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Immediate Family
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency whi...
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The Easter Egg Adventure
The idyllic Egg Town is the location for the The Easter Egg Adventure, which sees the beautiful loca...
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Officer Down
When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to th...
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The Visitors
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when ...
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...And Your Name Is Jonah
A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagn...
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Next Door
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errup...
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Dean Martin: King of Cool
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to...
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Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spanning from his rising d...
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The Summer of Ben Tyler
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitmen...
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For Better or Worse
A comic love triangle wherein a loser falls in love with his recently-married brother's wife....
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Jobs
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrep...
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel...
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Alex & the Gypsy
A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of atte...
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White House Down
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting Pr...
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Dirty Pictures
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken ...
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Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including R...
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The Gift of Love
Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but quite ...
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Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tra...
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Joshua Then and Now
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish wr...
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Free as a Dog
Jack McCoy’s latest film for Billabong! Featuring Joel Parkinson and Australian supergroms James Woo...
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In Love and War
This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam...
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The Disappearance of Aimee
In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up severa...
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Jamesy Boy
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-se...
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Badge of the Assassin
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation...
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A Great American Tragedy
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his jo...
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Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Ben Maverick (Charles Frank) inherits the poker hand of a friend who died during a high stakes game....
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Once Upon a Studio
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of lege...
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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a...
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming c...
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The Way We Were
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the...
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An American Carol
A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday...
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Mary and Martha
Wealthy American housewife Mary Morgan takes her bullied son George out of school for home education...
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Buddy
The story of the often contradictory and always audacious public figure, Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci, ...
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All the Way Home
Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. Whe...
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Promise
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earli...
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Riding in Cars with Boys
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...
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Pretty Persuasion
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama tea...
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Bling
Lowly theme park mechanic Sam dreams about his childhood sweetheart Sue. With the mistaken belief th...
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring ...
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Raid on Entebbe
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Fron...
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Jane's House
Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...
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First Contact
After a close encounter with a UFO, a man becomes a trance channel for an extraterrestrial entity, w...
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Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
See inside the exclusive Playboy Mansion, with parties attended by all the A-List celebrities...
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Distance
’Distance’ is an award-winning, independent feature film exploring the distance between men and wome...
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Recess: School's Out
The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quic...
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The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
A featurette made in 1982 to promote the new film by David Cronenberg, including interviews with the...
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola...
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The Billion Dollar Bubble
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibso...
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The Boys
When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his s...
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Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Peter makes good on another power outage at home by retelling "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strik...
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Crimes of Passion
Lives are changed forever by obsession and violence in this Emmy-nominated program that examines the...
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Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
A short behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Northfork" (2003)....
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America | A Tribute to Heroes
A benefit concert and telethon organized by George Clooney and broadcast uninterrupted and commercia...
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Hercules: Zero to Hero
After defeating Hades for good, Hercules marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, ...
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Any Given Tuesday
Any Given Tuesday is an awareness short film about an unsuspecting teen discovered to be gay by his ...
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Foster & Laurie
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by ...
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Several aspects of Ridley Scott's masterpiece Hannibal (2001) are examined through interviews with t...
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Hollywood on Horses
Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movi...
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A Journey to Sundance
'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all...
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The Making of Hercules
Behind the scene footage of Disney's 35th full length animated feature....
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
Tension builds as threats are carried out, stakes are raised and communication breaks down. In Los S...
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Eddington
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is...
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Sensational Cities: New York
New York City is considered by many to be the most exciting place on earth with its stunning landsca...
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Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After
Enter the realm of the Magic Mirror—where dozens of villains are trapped! They want the Mirror to re...
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