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1. The Civil War (1990)
TV-14 | 76 min | Documentary, History, War
A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.
Stars: David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards
Votes: 18,574
2. All the King's Men (2006)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Thriller
Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
Director: Steven Zaillian | Stars: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins
Votes: 25,611 | Gross: $7.22M
3. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 897
4. All the King's Men (1949)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek
Votes: 16,600
5. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,173
6. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,628
7. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 223
8. Huey Long (1985)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
Ken Burns' portrait of Louisiana governor/U.S. senator Huey Long.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Huey Long, Russell Long, David McCullough, Jennings Randolph
Votes: 571
9. All the King's Men (1958 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, based upon the Robert Penn Warren-novel.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Neville Brand, Frank Conroy, Robert Emhardt, John Fiedler
Votes: 61
10. Shoestring Theatre (1959–1964)
Drama
Stars: Kay Tremblay, Powys Thomas, Gerald Rowan, Margaret Cunningham
11. Carlisle Floyd's Willie Stark (2008 Video)
135 min | Music
Power, passion, and politics collide in Carlisle Floyd's dynamic setting of All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren's classic story of ambition, betrayal, and violent tragedy. In Floyd's ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Kraman | Stars: Dennis Jesse, Daniel Anderson, Noel Bouley, Zachary Bruton
12. NET Journal (1966– )
Documentary, Drama, News
Stars: Paul Niven, Philip Sterling, Hubert H. Humphrey, John Kerry
13. Vsya korolevskaya rat (1971)
198 min
A 1971 screen adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's influential novel, "All the King's Men".
Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Mikhail Kozakov, Lev Durov, Evgeniy Evstigneev
Votes: 76
14. War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War (1999 Video)
60 min | History
In front of a live audience at Gettysburg College, Ron Maxwell and Brian Mallon take turns reciting Civil War era poetry.
Stars: Brian Mallon, Ron Maxwell
15. Lectures pour tous (1953–1968)
Stars: Pierre Desgraupes, Pierre Dumayet, Max-Pol Fouchet, Nicole Védrès
16. Long Shadows (1987)
88 min | Documentary, History, War
Tells the story of the legacy of the American Civil War, the ways in which the Civil War is still felt and seen in American society and culture, from foreign policy to pop cultures, from ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Spears | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Robert Coles, John Hope Franklin, Albert Murray
Votes: 7
17.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Brother to Dragons
(1975)
TV-G | 88 min | Music, Musical
Directors: Ken Campbell, Adrian Hall | Stars: Robert Black, John Chase, George Collins, Timothy Crowe
Votes: 14
18.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
(1986)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
When Katherine Anne Porter left her home state of Texas for New York, she brought with her the hard edge of a Western pioneer. Passionate and intelligent, it was this edge more than anything that made her name as a writer.
Director: Ken Harrison | Stars: Dina Chandel, Eleanor Clark, Joan Givner, Yankton Hatten
Votes: 54
19.
Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
Episode:
All the King's Men: Part 1
(1958)
60 min | Drama
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Neville Brand, Frank Conroy, Robert Emhardt, Tim Hovey
20.
Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
Episode:
All the King's Men: Part 2
(1958)
60 min | Drama
Only an assassin's bullet, it seems, will stop Willie Stark.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Neville Brand, Frank Conroy, Robert Emhardt, Tim Hovey
21.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
A Very Bloody Affair (1862)
(1990)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
By 1862, both sides had 1 million men in uniform across a 1000 mile battle front ranging from Manassas, Virginia to Missouri. Battles had taken a horrendous toll in human lives on both ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris
Votes: 427
22.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Forever Free (1862)
(1990)
TV-PG | 76 min | Documentary, History, War
While Gen. McClellan sat outside Richmond, three Union armies were being kept occupied by Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart in northwestern Virginia. Lee was named commander of the army ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Barbara Fields, Shelby Foote, William Safire
Votes: 397
23.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Most Hallowed Ground (1864)
(1990)
TV-PG | 72 min | Documentary, History, War
By the summer of 1864, the Union push had been stopped. At Petersburg, Union troops had been entrenched in an intricate network trenches for two months. The key to victory lay in Sherman ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, Stephen B. Oates
Votes: 348
24.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Simply Murder (1863)
(1990)
TV-PG | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
By early 1863, Union soldiers with the Army of the Potomac had not been paid for 6 months and supplies were thin. Some 200 men were deserting every day and by January one-quarter of the men... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Barbara Fields, Paul Roebling, James Symington, Sam Waterston
Votes: 384
25.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)
(1990)
TV-PG | 68 min | Documentary, History, War
The North celebrated Lee's surrender and the end of the war. On April 14, Good Friday, John Wilkes Booth learned that President Lincoln, General Grant and others were to attend a play at ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Barbara Fields, Shelby Foote, James Symington
Votes: 349
26.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
The Cause (1861)
(1990)
TV-PG | 100 min | Documentary, History, War
Slavery began to flourish in the U.S. at the end of the 18th century with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. Whereas it would take one person a day to produce a pound of clean ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Barbara Fields, Ed Bearss
Votes: 494
27.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
The Universe of Battle (1863)
(1990)
TV-PG | 96 min | Documentary, History, War
In trying to draw Union troops away from the siege of Vicksburg, Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania and over three days 150,000 men would do battle at Gettysburg. Confederate soldiers had ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Barbara Fields, Daisy Turner
Votes: 378
28.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864)
(1990)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
By 1864, Union forces had the upper hand, though the end of war was not yet in sight. President Lincoln named U.S. Grant the overall commander of the Union army, 533,000 strong and the ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, Sam Waterston
Votes: 350
29.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
War Is All Hell (1865)
(1990)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
By the beginning of 1865, the Confederacy was coming to an end. Atlanta had been overrun and Sherman was marching to the sea. Lincoln approved Sherman's plan against the advice of those ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, James Symington
Votes: 343
30.
Lectures pour tous (1953–1968)
Episode:
Episode dated 2 October 1957
(1957)
Director: Jean Prat | Stars: Georges Belmont, Michel Cof, Pierre Desgraupes, Pierre Dumayet
31.
NET Journal (1966– )
Episode:
To Be a Man
(1966)
Documentary, Drama, News
Director: Murray Lerner | Stars: John Morton Blum, Kingman Brewster Jr., D. Allan Bromley, Robert Giegengack
32.
Shoestring Theatre (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Unvexed Isle
(1959)
Drama
Stars: Beryl Baxter, Leo Ciceri, Douglas Peterson