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Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend

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Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend is a new one-hour biography of the most notorious gangster in history. On January 17th, 1999, Al Capone would have celebrated his 100th birthday. [click to continue…]

Alaska, the World & Wally Hickel

Throughout his career, Wally Hickel confounded friend and foe alike because he defied the easy stereotypes of “environmentalist” and “businessman.” He was convinced he’d discovered a novel philosophy – inspired by the history of Alaska, and centered around the concept of “the commons” – that could show us how to balance development with preservation, satisfy our [...]

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Dracula: The True Story

The world’s most famous vampire has been “undead” for over a century.

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George Marshall & The American Century

“The cost of war is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.”

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Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn An Original

Born in Mexico, he became the main family provider when his father died in an accident.

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Hollywood Collection: Audrey Hepburn Remembered

Audrey Hepburn was one of movies best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication, and an enduring aura of youthful innocence.

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Hollywood Collection: Burt Lancaster Daring to Reach

Burt Lancaster went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner.

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Hollywood Collection: Cary Grant The Leading Man

Cary Grant was the very essence of a movie star: a man every woman loved and every man wanted to be.

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Hollywood Collection: Charlton Heston For All Seasons

He has been king and slave, hero and villain, renowned throughout the movie-going world for the heroic figures he played during his early years in Hollywood: Moses, Ben-Hur, El Cid and Michaelangelo.

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Hollywood Collection: Gary Cooper The Face of a Hero

Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Cooper’s horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies.

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Hollywood Collection: Grace Kelly The American Princess

She came from a wealthy and competitive Philadelphia family, but the life of well-brought up society held little appeal for this acclaimed beauty.

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Hollywood Collection: Gregory Peck His Own Man

One of Hollywood’s most enduring and popular stars draws on his memories to tell the amusing and touching story of how it was when the studios ruled supreme,

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Hollywood Collection: Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style.

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Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon America’s Everyman

John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon III, was born on February 8, 1925. An only child, he was raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and was that rarity among Hollywood stars, a man with affectionate memories of his parents.

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Hollywood Collection: Joan Crawford Always the Star

This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work.

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Hollywood Collection: Marilyn Monroe Beyond the Legend

Her story is well-known – the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood’s greatest love goddess.

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Hollywood Collection: Michael Caine Breaking the Mold

Narrated with gentle self-deprecating humor and honesty by the star himself, this Special features clips from such films as Educating Rita, The Man Who Would Be King, Alfie, California Suite, Hannah And Her Sisters, Mona Lisa, Sleuth, Deathtrap, Zulu, and The Ipcress File.

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Hollywood Collection: Robert Mitchum The Reluctant Star

This entertainment special looks at the life and career of one of Hollywood’s consummate leading men, narrated with good humor by Mitch himself.

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Hollywood Collection: Roger Moore A Matter of Class

Roger Moore, one of the most popular of actors, has traveled far…

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Hollywood Collection: Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz.

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Hollywood Collection: Shirley Temple America’s Little Darling

There never was a star quite like her.

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Hollywood Collection: 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 his shoulder.

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Hollywood Collection: The Story of Lassie

For 50 years, she has represented all that is good about the enduring bonds between human beings and their dogs.

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Hollywood Collection: Walter Matthau Diamond in the Rough

Walter Matthau was barely three when his father deserted the family.

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Hollywood Collection: William Holden The Golden Boy

It was said of him that in more than seventy films, he never once gave a bad performance.

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Hollywood Collection: Yul Brynner The Man Who was King

There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy, and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his charm.

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Impossible Spy, The

Based on the true story of Elie Cohen, Israel’s national hero, whose daring mission took him from Argentina to Damascus where he successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government.

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Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory was called “The Myth of our Century” when he was revealed as a master forger in 1968.

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Racehoss: The Life of Albert Race Sample

Born in 1930 in Texas, Sample was the mixed-race son of Emma (a hard-drinking black prostitute and gambler) and Mr. Albert (a wealthy white cotton broker and one of her tricks).

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Raise The Song: The History of Penn State

This 60-minute documentary produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting (WPSU-TV) brings to life the people and events that have taken the Commonwealth’s land-grant university from its humble roots as the Farmers’ High School to an internationally recognized pinnacle of scientific research, sports, academic achievement, agriculture and more.

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Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice

No other photographer has captured the far-flung social and cultural life of the Cote d’Azur in the 50s with such intelligent verve and remarkably gentle irony as the Irishman Edward Quinn (1920 – 1997).

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Song of Survival

They survived three-and-a-half years in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra during World War II.

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Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice

Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six.

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The Real Middle Earth

A Quest for the Magical Places That Inspired The Lord of the Rings Narrated by Bilbo Baggins (Sir Ian Holm) J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is the most popular work of fiction ever created. It is a tale of epic proportions held together by its unforgettable setting, Middle Earth. The great trilogy introduced the world [...]

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Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy’s Ride to the White House

Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy’s Ride to the White House is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883.

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Westinghouse: The Life & Times of An American Icon

Westinghouse is a feature-length documentary about the life and times of George Westinghouse, his companies, legacy, personality, partnership with Nikola Telsa, and conflict with Thomas Edison.

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Xavier: Missionary & Saint

“This is the story of a missionary who died alone on a desolate island within sight of the land of his life’s dream, unaware that he had forever changed the face and the race of Christianity.”

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