Jason Robards
Birthday: 1922-07-26
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
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Magnolia
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...
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All the President's Men
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a despera...
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Parenthood
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjo...
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Max Dugan Returns
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned...
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Arthur Miller: Writer
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...
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Quick Change
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan ba...
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A Boy and His Dog
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring d...
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Caboblanco
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Naz...
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It...
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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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The Day After
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
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Hour of the Gun
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs ...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twiste...
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My Best Fiend
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep tr...
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Raise the Titanic
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known sourc...
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The Paper
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long ho...
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an at...
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Burden of Dreams
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
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Comes a Horseman
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-...
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Julia
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission t...
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Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
This is a collection of Metallica's videos ending with those shot for St. Anger....
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Julius Caesar
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which port...
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Isadora
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...
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The Night They Raided Minsky's
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised cr...
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Any Wednesday
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate whe...
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A Thousand Clowns
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps ...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopar...
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Dream a Little Dream
Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue ...
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Johnny Got His Gun
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger
When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militarist...
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Melvin and Howard
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the ...
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Bright Lights, Big City
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me...
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A Thousand Acres
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath the...
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The Trial
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested....
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Black Rainbow
Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with ...
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The House Without a Christmas Tree
A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Chri...
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Pr...
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The Real Macaw
An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nur...
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Reunion
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the ri...
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The Journey
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary....
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The Enemy Within
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and...
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Square Dance
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort...
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Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, who...
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Divorce American Style
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world ...
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You Can't Take it With You
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccen...
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Mark Twain and Me
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a...
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The Good Mother
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by...
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The Christmas Wife
An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in th...
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Truman
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant ...
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By Love Possessed
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner....
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Empire City
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
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Storyville
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets....
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”...
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America and Lewis Hine
Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working cond...
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The War Between Men and Women
A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the ...
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Act One
This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic ...
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The Belle of 14th Street
Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways bo...
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Inherit the Wind
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teache...
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Fools
A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney....
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My Antonia
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, ...
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...
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Haywire
Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward an...
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Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, bu...
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Philadelphia
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...
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Deceptions
A beautiful widow is determined to uncover the facts behind her husband's death....
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Operation Snafu
World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun i...
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Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri...
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Heartwood
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the ...
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Journey
Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while livin...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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The Easter Promise
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successf...
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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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Noon Wine
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in sou...
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Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital, narrated by 2-time Academy Award-winning actor Jason Rob...
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A Christmas to Remember
A city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough...
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Addie and the King of Hearts
Addie becomes jealous when her widowed father starts to woo a beautician....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Unfinished version of the immortal story with Jason Robards in the lead role, who was replaced by Ja...
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The Iceman Cometh
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront ba...
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Hurricane
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter...
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The Spy Who Never Was
A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization ...
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Little Big League
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. Th...
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The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
Retrospective of TIME's reporting of the personalities and events of the past six decades. Made in c...
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The Thanksgiving Treasure
Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending t...
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Going Home
A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or retur...
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Portrait: Werner Herzog
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life an...
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The Perfect Tribute
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height...
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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maver...
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The Bat
A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities suppos...
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl....
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That Moment: Magnolia Diary
A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through ...
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Laguna Heat
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquili...
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A Doll's House
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded....
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Breaking Home Ties
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leavin...
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Beloved
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver...
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Old Faithful
A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
A champion of the strenuous life, Teddy Roosevelt embodied the notion of an expanded presidency. Sta...
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Tender Is the Night
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to...
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Once Upon a Time in the West
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...
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Enemy of the State
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer a...
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Crimson Tide
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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Johnny Bull
An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the lat...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to wi...
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The Country Girl
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a co...
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The World of Tomorrow
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images ...
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The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
A documentary about the New York Public Library, including the Lincoln Center Library for the Perfor...
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The Face of Genius
The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R....
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
Summoned by God to preach his Word to the people of Nineveh, Jonah attempts to flee and is swallowed...
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When It Was a Game
As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the stor...
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When It Was a Game 2
Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8mm and 16mm footage filmed between 1925 and 1961 by baseball...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Ghosts of Cape Horn
Set prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, the 1980 documentary 'Ghosts of Cape Horn' ret...
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