Jason Robards
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A group of Americans are interested in raising the ill-fated Ocean liner Titanic. One of the team members finds out the Russians also have plans to raise the ship from its watery grave. Why all the interest? A rare mineral on-board could be used to power a sound beam that will knock any missile out of the air when entering United States airspace!
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1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln’s war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode Two begins with the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln’s administration and then follows Union General George McClellan’s ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, where his huge army meets a smaller but infinitely more resourceful Confederate force. During this episode we witness...
3) Philadelphia
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Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
4) Julia
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Born to great wealth, the firecely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting facism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, a friend of Julia's is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
5) Heidi
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After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.
6) Truman
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The story of the unlikely rise of a gritty American original, Harry Truman. He was a farmer, a bankrupt businessman, an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held America's highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared, but he would prove to be a surprise. Facing some of the biggest crises of the century, Truman would end the war with Germany, use the atomic bomb against Japan, confront...
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A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
10) The day after
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Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
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An American special agent embarks on a mission to recover vital material for the United States' defence, believed to be contained in the sunken ship Titanic. The ship is too deep for divers so it must be raised, in absolute secrecy. But the extreme rigours of the climate, deadly interference from a rival nation and the need to invent new technology hamper the mission.
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A film version of Eugene O'Neill play which centers around drunks and whores who have found sanctuary in a saloon. Each has their own "pipe-dream" that sustains them until Hickey, the "Iceman", attempts to free them from their illusions by stripping them of their lies and guilt.
14) Parenthood
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The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
16) Any Wednesday
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Any Wednesday you'll find business tycoon John Cleves with Ellen Gordon in what John calls his company's executive suite. It's a cozy arrangement until the Thursday a visiting businessman from Akron is accidentally assigned to the 'executive suite'
Business tycoon John Cleeves spends every Wednesday in his "executive suite" with his mistress, Ellen Gordon. What will happen to Ellen's life when a handsome young businessman is accidentally assigned...
18) Haywire
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After fleeting marriages to Henry Fonda and William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan found contentment as the wife of producer Leland Hayward and as the mother of three. Or so it seemed, until the marriage crumbled, the children rebelled and she was found dead of an overdose at the age of 50.
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Addie Mills is a smart and strong-willed young girl living in Nebraska in the 1940s with her sensible but stubborn father, James, and her loving, quirky Grandma. In The House Without A Christmas Tree, all Addie wants is to have a Christmas tree for the first time. But James refuses due to a painful family memory. Trouble ensues in The Thanksgiving Treasure when Addie tries to invite Jame's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending...