James Coburn

James Coburn

Birthday: 1928-08-31

Place of Birth: Laurel, Nebraska, USA

Biography: James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.

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Digital Dreams
Digital Dreams

An amalgam of documentary and cinema verité, this movie outlines the life, loves and music of Rollin...

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Duck, You Sucker
Duck, You Sucker

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mal...

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The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes....

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Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc.

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc.,...

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The Player
The Player

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but ...

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Cross of Iron
Cross of Iron

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...

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Charade
Charade

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she ...

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The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...

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Looker
Looker

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are se...

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The Great Escape
The Great Escape

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...

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Superstunt II
Superstunt II

Sequel to the NBC special about dangerous stunts....

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Hard Times
Hard Times

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b...

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Midway
Midway

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...

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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
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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In Like Flint
In Like Flint

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minut...

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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presid...

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The President's Analyst
The President's Analyst

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's An...

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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
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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Our Man Flint
Our Man Flint

When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the wea...

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Affliction
Affliction

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other e...

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Snow Dogs
Snow Dogs

When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a...

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Hell Is for Heroes
Hell Is for Heroes

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliatio...

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The Last of Sheila
The Last of Sheila

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of frie...

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Young Guns II
Young Guns II

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — re...

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Bite the Bullet
Bite the Bullet

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to r...

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Eraser
Eraser

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involv...

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Hudson Hawk
Hudson Hawk

Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to...

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The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor

When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows d...

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Maverick
Maverick

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k...

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Ride Lonesome
Ride Lonesome

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where...

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Deadfall
Deadfall

After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wi...

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Major Dundee
Major Dundee

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Ar...

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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are w...

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World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape
World's Scariest Ghosts - Caught on Tape

Everyone has heard ghost stories, but what if those stories were true? Hosted by James Coburn, this ...

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Sky Riders
Sky Riders

When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband ...

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Missing Pieces
Missing Pieces

Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a re...

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The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless an...

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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate...

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Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis
Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

While most think an oasis in the desert is at best a mirage, this is not always so, as is the case o...

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Proximity
Proximity

When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehic...

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American Gun
American Gun

A father uses the serial number on a hand gun in an attempt to track down his daughter's killer. The...

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The Man from Elysian Fields
The Man from Elysian Fields

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work...

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A High Wind in Jamaica
A High Wind in Jamaica

In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their sh...

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The Last Hard Men
The Last Hard Men

In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo an...

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Train to Heaven
Train to Heaven

About Niño, an orphanage boy in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador....

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The Loved One
The Loved One

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment...

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Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days

Marilyn Monroe's final project, "Something's Got to Give", has become one of the most talked about u...

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Candy
Candy

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while se...

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High Risk
High Risk

Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South America...

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Face of a Fugitive
Face of a Fugitive

A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the ...

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Firepower
Firepower

A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to...

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Hard Contract
Hard Contract

A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful ...

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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is ...

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Mr. Murder
Mr. Murder

A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is bor...

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The Carey Treatment
The Carey Treatment

A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge....

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Harry in Your Pocket
Harry in Your Pocket

A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets....

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Waterhole #3
Waterhole #3

After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in...

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The Cherokee Kid
The Cherokee Kid

Isaih Turner didn’t want to be a hero-all he wanted was revenge. Orphaned when both his parents were...

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Duffy
Duffy

Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calver...

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Kurosawa
Kurosawa

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa...

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The Internecine Project
The Internecine Project

Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when...

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Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, who...

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Goldengirl
Goldengirl

A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised &...

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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the ...

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The Honkers
The Honkers

An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend....

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Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth

A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee, this movie traces his college life, his ma...

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Death of a Soldier
Death of a Soldier

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psycho...

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The Yellow Bird
The Yellow Bird

A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s....

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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an em...

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Intrepid
Intrepid

Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once...

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The Avenging Angel
The Avenging Angel

Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to questi...

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Draw!
Draw!

In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was h...

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The Man from Galveston
The Man from Galveston

Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stem...

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Keys to Tulsa
Keys to Tulsa

Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his...

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Martin's Day
Martin's Day

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He ...

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Sins of the Father
Sins of the Father

Fresh out of law school, Kevan Harris is hired by her dead father's ex-partner, Frank Murchison, and...

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The Baltimore Bullet
The Baltimore Bullet

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game....

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National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge
National Geographic - Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge

Stalk the Arctic ice with the fiercest predator, the polar bear, as it prowls one of the most forbid...

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The Hit List
The Hit List

A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure....

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Loving Couples
Loving Couples

Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a...

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I Love Muppets
I Love Muppets

Gonzo the Great talks about the Muppets creator Jim Henson and what he did before the television sho...

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The Set Up
The Set Up

Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from ja...

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Skeletons
Skeletons

A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England ...

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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother....

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The Second Civil War
The Second Civil War

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governo...

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The Murder Men
The Murder Men

Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation...

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Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon

Documentary on the making of Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon (1973)....

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California Suite
California Suite

The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel....

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The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson is a mockumentary on the disappearance of a fictitious wealthy Br...

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Walking After Midnight
Walking After Midnight

Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities....

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Football America
Football America

It is the most American of all games, a contest of wills, skills, and finesse. We are overwhelmed by...

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Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very dif...

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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on h...

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A Christmas Reunion
A Christmas Reunion

Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero

Documentary tribute to actor and former bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger....

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Action on the Beach
Action on the Beach

Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily ...

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Mr. Patman
Mr. Patman

Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward....

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White Rock
White Rock

British documentary filmmaker and producer Tony Maylam reinvigorated the sports documentary genre wi...

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True Facts
True Facts

Aka National Lampoon's True Facts...

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Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

A documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's last western, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (197...

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Walter and Henry
Walter and Henry

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty ...

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Silverfox
Silverfox

Unsold series pilot about a former secret service agent, turned government spy, who can't seem to re...

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Call from Space
Call from Space

A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi mo...

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Pinocchio
Pinocchio

A lonely wood-carver named Geppetto wishes for a son one night before going to bed. The Blue Fairy c...

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Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster,...

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The Life of Bruce Lee
The Life of Bruce Lee

Documentary about martial arts actor Bruce Lee, from his birth in 1940 till his death in 1973, with ...

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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'....

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Payback
Payback

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after ...

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Mastergate
Mastergate

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealin...

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The Wolf Men
The Wolf Men

The Wolf Men [also known as Wolves and the Wolf Men) is a 1969 documentary film produced by Irwin Ro...

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Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On

This insightful documentary takes an in-depth look at the life of Bruce Lee, and the physical and me...

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The Path of the Dragon
The Path of the Dragon

Produced and directed by Walt Missingham who, in 1983, became the first non-Chinese to practice Kung...

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Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Ray investigates the murder of a judge....

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Kings of the Sun
Kings of the Sun

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gul...

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Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a compan...

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Malibu
Malibu

A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes...

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Formula 1 - Speed fever
Formula 1 - Speed fever

Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1...

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Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist

Follow the transformation of world-renowned martial arts great Bruce Lee, from his early years as a ...

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Greyhounds
Greyhounds

A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot....

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Return to 'The Great Escape'
Return to 'The Great Escape'

A documentary about the making of the 1963 film THE GREAT ESCAPE, as well as some of the historical ...

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The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones
The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones

A documentary on the United States Army Air Forces pilot David Jones, the inspiration for Steve McQu...

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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn't make it, like th...

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Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Portrayal of a talented, influencial and troubled artist: a filmmaker who fought his own demons and ...

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Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

A portrait of director Sam Peckinpah focusing more on his personal life than his moviemaking - featu...

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The Curse of the Dragon
The Curse of the Dragon

A 1993 documentary film about Bruce Lee. The film includes interviews from some of his fellow studen...

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Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976....

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The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Muppets Go Hollywood

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o...

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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian...

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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
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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Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist....

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The Night America Trembled
The Night America Trembled

A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in...

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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...

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Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right

A documentary on the life of famed character actor and rodeo star Ben Johnson, featuring interviews ...

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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....

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Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

Behind-the-scenes footage, rare screen tests and insightful interviews highlight this engrossing two...

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Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

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Earth's Two-Minute Warning
Earth's Two-Minute Warning

The two-minute warning signals the final and climactic moments of play in a football game. In this r...

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