Al Franken
Birthday: 1951-05-21
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Movies
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to...
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Stuart Saves His Family
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place....
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Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
The humorous, provocative and moving examination of the Culture Wars and faith in America. Featuring...
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Hot Coffee
Most people think they know the "McDonald's coffee case," but what they don't know is that corporati...
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Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
The life and career of conservative icon Barry Goldwater is recounted from his days as an Arizona bu...
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Left of the Dial
A documentary look at the troubled first year of liberal talk radio start up Air America and its sla...
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Tunnel Vision
A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which ...
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Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
Family frenemies, Gracie and Pedro, must put their differences aside, embarking on a thrilling quest...
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The Definite Maybe
When 25-year-old New Yorker Eric Traber gets fired from his job and kicked out of his apartment, he ...
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Al Franken: God Spoke
Join filmmaking duo Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob as their cameras follow Franken to book signings, ca...
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Earth to America
Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environme...
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Harvard Man
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" pl...
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Franken and Davis at Stockton State
Released in 1984 featuring Al Franken and Tom Davis writers and performers on the original Saturday ...
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes ...
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When a Man Loves a Woman
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addicti...
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One More Saturday Night
The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get date...
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Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
A TV special celebrating the 15th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, m...
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Wellstone!
Paul Wellstone was the charismatic Minnesota progressive who used grassroots organizing to get elect...
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Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero....
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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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Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Feature length documentary about Howard Dean and the Democratic primary....
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Long Strange Trip
The tale of the Grateful Dead is inspiring, complicated, and downright messy. A tribe of contrarians...
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Trading Places
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by t...
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Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
Twenty million people live within a 50-mile radius of the Indian Point Energy Center and its three n...
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Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
Recorded October 30th and 31st, 1980, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Dead Ahead showcase...
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Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Comic Chris Farley breaks through as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" and later stars in sever...
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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, m...
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Inside the Russian Info War Machine
Acclaimed journalist Paul Moreira investigates how Russia manipulates public opinion, undermines dem...
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Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night ...
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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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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos ...
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Hot Grease
Set in Houston, Texas, the energy capital of the world, HOT GREASE is the surprising story of how ki...
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Downey Wrote That
Exploring the sketches, contributions and influence of Jim Downey, one of the most impactful comedy ...
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Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Following the departure of the show's original cast and creator after five seasons, SNL in the '80s ...
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Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
A retrospective of "Saturday Night Live" during the 1990's. Includes interviews with the cast and cr...
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