Hal Holbrook
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Hal Holbrook's memoir of growing up behind disguises, and his lifelong search for himself. As the Second World War engulfed Europe, Holbrook began acting almost by accident. Yet through war, marriage, and the work of honing his craft, he climbed up the tough mountain of success and achieved it--at a cost to his wife, children, and his own conscience. This is the story of the dark side of Halbrook's eventual fame from performing the man his career...
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The story of the Mormon Trail unfolds in this breathtakingly documentary from award-winning producer Lee Groberg. This conduit to the West was used by more than 70,000 emigrants--most of them migrating for religious reasons--on their journey to the Great Basin. The great majority of these pioneers made the trek on foot across windblown plains, sun baked deserts, and frozen mountain valleys, each step a triumph in the face of tragedy, and a testament...
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Prime Time Emmy Nominated. A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn't believe the police version of the incident and starts digging around on his own.
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Kultur
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[1999, c1967]
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English
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Hal Holbrook's landmark one-man show is most startling in the freshness of Twain's stinging commentary on politics, the art of lying, religion, partriotism, slavery and man's notion that he is the Creator's pet.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2013]
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Widescreen.
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English
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Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
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Shout Studios
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2024.
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English
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This pulse-pounding conspiracy thriller takes aim at the ultimate cover-up: a faked Mars landing. Just before launch, three astronauts (James Brolin, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson) are whisked away to a secret location, where they learn the shocking truth—NASA’s mission is all smoke and mirrors, designed to save the agency’s crumbling reputation. Forced to play along, the astronauts fake the landing while a relentless journalist (Elliott Gould)...
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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[2014]
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English
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When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his team, a bunch of all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire, and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.
8) The Fog
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StudioCanal
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1980.
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According to legend, six sailors killed when shipwrecked 100 years ago in Antonio Bay, California, will rise to avenge their deaths when a strange glowing fog appears. The town is commemorating the centenary of the shipwreck and Father Malone discovers a diary kept by an ancestor; he learns that the ship was wrecked by six founder fathers of the town. The vengeance of their victims will be the death of six people. As daylight fades, a mysterious fog...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2011]
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Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
10) The Majestic
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Warner Bros
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2021.
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Jim Carrey stars as Peter Appleton, a Hollywood screenwriter who, in 1951, receives a summons to testify before the feared House Un-American Activities Committee. But Appleton accidentally crashes his car, develops amnesia and ends up in a small town. His remarkable resemblance to a missing World War II hero, Luke Trimble, causes the residents, including Luke's girlfriend, to rejoice at his "homecoming." The soldier's father (Academy Award winner...
11) Mark Twain
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Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America's best-known and best-loved author. Considered in his time as the funniest man on earth, Twain was also an unflinching critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism. He created some of the world's most memorable characters as well as its most quoted sayings. And, in his often-misunderstood novel "Huckleberry...
12) Into the Wild
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Paramount Pictures
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2007.
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English
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After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) abandoned his possessions, donated his entire savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Nominated for Best Performance Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook) and Best Achievement in Film Editing at the **Academy Awards.** *"As [Hirsch] struggles with the elements, his increasing fragility and the cinematography's...
13) The bachelor
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New Line Home Video
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[2004]
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Faced with the choice of getting married within the next 24 hours or losing a $100 million inheritance, unrepentant bachelor Jimmie Shannon is suddenly desperate to get to the altar.
15) Into the Wild
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Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
16) Magnum Force
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2008]
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Deluxe ed.
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English
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Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
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A & E Television Networks : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
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©2000.
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English
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They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar bills and pocket change.
18) The firm
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Mitch joins a prosperous Memphis firm that affords Mitch and his wife an affluent lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch sets out to find the truth.
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PBS DVD
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[2004]
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Full screen.
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English
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Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.

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