Meryl Streep
Birthday: 1949-06-22
Place of Birth: Summit, New Jersey, USA
Biography: Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations (winning three) and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations (winning eight). She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.
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Doubt: Stage to Screen
A look at how the cast and crew brought "Doubt" from the stage to the screen....
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The Hours
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...
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Out of Africa
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...
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The Bridges of Madison County
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...
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Manhattan
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
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The House of the Spirits
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America....
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Prime
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the ...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. T...
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Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr...
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Lions for Lambs
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presi...
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She-Devil
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a weal...
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s....
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There's Only One Paul McCartney
An affectionate portrait of the man and the musician in a week that sees the ex-Beatie playing at th...
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Rendition
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his Americ...
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It's Complicated
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unex...
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Evening
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, A...
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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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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, the...
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The Deer Hunter
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to...
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Mamma Mia!
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites ...
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Julie & Julia
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though sep...
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take th...
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Still of the Night
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigatin...
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Defending Your Life
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller f...
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The River Wild
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holida...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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A Prairie Home Companion
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, ...
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Silkwood
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highl...
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Death Becomes Her
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a m...
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Marvin's Room
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow....
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Music of the Heart
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to tak...
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...First Do No Harm
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of ...
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The Ant Bully
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustration...
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Heartburn
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...
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Evil Angels
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in cent...
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Ironweed
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for ...
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Plenty
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war l...
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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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The Manchurian Candidate
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terribl...
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Doubt
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a trou...
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Before and After
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend....
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Stanislavski: Lust for Life
A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his ...
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An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
An introduction to the Ketogenic Diet, a special high-fat diet used to treat seizures, as a treatmen...
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Sophie's Choice
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...
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Hurricane on the Bayou
The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katr...
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missi...
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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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Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointmen...
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Stolen Childhoods
Narrated by Meryl Streep and filmed in eight countries, Stolen Childhoods is the story of 246 millio...
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The Living Sea
The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with thi...
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Dark Matter
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American l...
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Falling in Love
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will ...
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The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a foc...
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One True Thing
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mot...
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Hope Springs
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling sessio...
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Wings of Life
A beautiful love story in danger. Our future depends on an amazing love story between the flowers an...
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A Fierce Green Fire
It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of ...
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To the Arctic 3D
A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate th...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Ribbon of Sand
At once exaltation and elegy, this documentary profiles the natural history of North Carolina's Oute...
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Theater of War
A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" tha...
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August: Osage County
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have d...
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Alice at the Palace
Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from ...
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Joe Papp in Five Acts
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arg...
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Girl Rising
Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapes...
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New York at the Movies
Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Centu...
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Radioman
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alc...
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Uncommon Women and Others
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Hol...
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind...
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Into the Woods
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curs...
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The Giver
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy i...
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The Devil Wears Prada
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and w...
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Suffragette
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced u...
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The Homesman
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, t...
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Ricki and the Flash
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed ...
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Birthing Mamma Mia!
This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!"....
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stage...
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, w...
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The Concert for Valor
A live HBO concert honoring United States veterans in Washington DC....
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Florence Foster Jenkins
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, d...
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Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
First published in 1922, Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit is a classic of child...
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz is synonymous with the Holocaust, but it’s also a place on the map with a surprising histo...
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Kiss Me, Petruchio
A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakes...
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Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
Solving the mysteries of Leonardo DA Vinci's first known portrait, the first of only three women he ...
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Vermeer Master of Light
Vermeer: Master of Light, is a visual quest in search of what makes a Vermeer a Vermeer. It is a jou...
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Secret Service
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control o...
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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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Shout Gladi Gladi
Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistu...
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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 Earth Day Special
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April ...
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Stuck on You
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by b...
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Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
The earth is rapidly approaching a sixth mass extinction event, with a quarter of all species under ...
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Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magica...
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The Music of Regret
Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objec...
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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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The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
The interviews show these extraordinary women sharing their diverse journeys, personal stories, and ...
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Five Came Back
The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywo...
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In ...
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The Words That Built America
In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join ...
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The Deadliest Season
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a ...
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The Laundromat
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawye...
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Starring Austin Pendleton
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of ch...
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This Changes Everything
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-kn...
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Every Act of Life
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbrea...
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Age 7 in America
An adaption of the British TV series, this documentary chronicles the lives of a group of economical...
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An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Follow the difficult birth and full realization of this beautifully told romance through its many tw...
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Museum Town
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to ...
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The Prom
After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annu...
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Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
Through interviews with key AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) stakeholders from over the years couple...
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Let Them All Talk
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her ...
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A Song of Africa
An impressively done new documentary taking a look back at the making of this picture. Interviews wi...
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. L...
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his...
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Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
Comments from the Farrellys, Thomas, Wessler, Damon, Kinnear, and actors Ray “Rocket” Valliere, Wen ...
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Emotional Uncertainties
In this short documentary, produced in 2015, actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and editor John Bl...
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Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
A behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single parent...
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Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
This tribute to the dynamic artist Elizabeth Murray, an intrinsic figure in New York's contemporary ...
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Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still consider...
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Don't Look Up
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth...
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a l...
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In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Follow Elvira as she searches for the Sanderson Sisters, interviewing various figures who claim to h...
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Chrysanthemum
A little mouse named Chrysanthemum starts going to school and realizes she is the only kid with the ...
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Dear Elizabeth
Based on the compiled letters between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, Dear Elizabeth maps ...
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Karen Blixen: Out of This World
This is the story of the incredible life of Karen Blixen/ Isak Dinesen − a story just as dramatic as...
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Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
Rufus Wainwright has composed a requiem in memory of those lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. This ode ...
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos ...
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringi...
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Schindler Space Architect
Architect R.M. Schindler, transformed the way we see space and laid the foundation for what is now c...
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
Miranda Priestly navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing. She faces...
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Out of Print
Out of Print, narrated by Meryl Streep, draws us into the topsy-turvy world of words, illuminating t...
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America: The Story of Us
A six-night miniseries presenting the history of how the United States was invented, looking at the ...
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Useful Idiots
Covers the New York luxury property market, disillusioned with writing puff pieces about the wealthy...
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Hoppers
Scientists have discovered how to "hop" human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing ...
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