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1.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln: Part 5
(1953)
30 min | Drama, History, Music
The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge" (tracing Lincoln's early political career), (2) "Napoleon's Love Letters" (dialogue from love letters between Napoleon ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Norman Lloyd | Stars: Richard Borden, Alistair Cooke, Royal Dano, Crahan Denton
Votes: 16
2.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln: Part 3
(1952)
30 min | Drama, History, Music
Norman Lloyd and James Agee continue the story of Lincoln; Robert Tallman and Helen Hayes present stories of Mother Goose.
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Norman Lloyd | Stars: James Broderick, Blanche Charles, Alistair Cooke, Royal Dano
Votes: 11
3.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln: Part 4
(1953)
30 min | Drama, History, Music
The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem" (tracing Lincoln's arrival in New Salem), (2) "Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2" (famous Shakespearean love scene), (3) "Jose Greco" (... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Norman Lloyd | Stars: James Agee, Brian Aherne, Alistair Cooke, Royal Dano
Votes: 17
4.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln: Part 2
(1952)
30 min | Drama, History, Music
The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood" (drama tracing Abraham Lincoln's early youth), (2) "A Christmas Tie" (William Saroyan story), (3) "Tugboat Captain" (... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Jean Benoît-Lévy, Norman Lloyd | Stars: Claude Bessy, Kenneth Buck, Blanche Cholet, Alistair Cooke
Votes: 16
5. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
6. Festival (1960–1969)
60 min | Drama
Festival is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television
Stars: Gillie Fenwick, Gerard Parkes, Eric House, Douglas Rain
Votes: 19
7.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln: Part 1
(1952)
90 min | Drama, History, Music
The program has six segments: (1) "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning" (drama tracing the end and beginning of Abraham Lincoln's life), (2) "The Telephone" (comic operatic sketch), (... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Norman Lloyd, Judd Whiting | Stars: Alistair Cooke, Royal Dano, Crahan Denton, Martin Gabel
Votes: 38
8. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,406 | Gross: $0.65M
9. The African Queen (1951)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Votes: 84,338 | Gross: $0.54M
10. Green Magic (1953)
85 min | Documentary
A group of Italians explore the jungles of South America.
Director: Gian Gaspare Napolitano | Stars: Carlos Montalbán, Bret Morrison, Leonardo Bonzi, Gian Gaspare Napolitano
Votes: 10
11.
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989–1999)
Episode:
La monnaie de l'absolu
(1999)
27 min | Documentary
An 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Alain Cuny, Juliette Binoche
Votes: 707
12. All the Way Home (1981 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Sally Field, William Hurt, Ned Beatty, Ellen Corby
Votes: 107
13. Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989–1999)
267 min | Documentary
An 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century.
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Cuny, Julie Delpy, Sabine Azéma
Votes: 801
14. White Mane (1953)
Approved | 40 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
In the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Alain Emery, Laurent Roche, Clan-Clan, Pascal Lamorisse
Votes: 2,319
15. All the Way Home (1963)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Mary Follet, a wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee, copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 462
16. Genghis Khan (1950)
88 min | Action
Temujin, who later became Genghis Khan is wise, or sometimes cunning. He goes through several heroic episodes; competing at the Man of Men contest, falling in love with the enemy ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Conde | Stars: Manuel Conde, Elvira Reyes, Inday Jalandoni, Jose Villafranca
Votes: 53
17. All the Way Home (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Mary Follet already has a five-year-old son and is pregnant again. Her husband dies in a car accident. How will she survive?
Director: Fred Coe | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Kiley, Pat Hingle, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 54
18. In the Street (2013)
Not Rated | 16 min | Documentary, Short
Images of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.
Directors: James Agee, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb
Votes: 399
19. The Quiet One (1948)
65 min | Documentary, Drama
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
Director: Sidney Meyers | Stars: Gary Merrill, Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper, Sadie Stockton
Votes: 308
20. Face to Face (1952)
89 min | Western, Drama
Two stories. In the first, a sea captain has to conceal a man's presence aboard ship from his crew. In the second, a Wild West lawman has to deal with a troublemaker bent on bloodshed before he can concentrate on matrimony.
Directors: John Brahm, Bretaigne Windust | Stars: James Mason, Gene Lockhart, Michael Pate, Albert Sharpe
Votes: 99
21. A Death in the Family (2002 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Annabeth Gish, John Slattery, Austin Wolff, Kathleen Chalfant
Votes: 116
22.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Lord Byron's Love Letter
(1953)
Drama, History, Music
The program has five segments: (1) "Lord Byron's Love Letter" (Tennessee Williams play), (2) "135th Street" (Gershwin musical with all-black cast), (3) "Photomicrography" (featuring the use... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Seymour Robbie | Stars: Alistair Cooke, James Agee, Ethel Barrymore, John C. Becher
23.
Festival (1960–1969)
Episode:
The Blue Hotel
(1961)
Drama
A Swedish immigrant gets into a card game at the Blue Hotel - and it might kill him.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Howard Da Silva, Michael Forest, Jonathan White, Eric Christmas
24.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln
(1955)
Drama, History, Music
The program has two segments: (1) "Mr. Lincoln" (feature film on the young Abraham Lincoln made from previous Omnibus episodes), and (2) "The Story of Valentines" (short feature on the history of valentines).
Directors: Tad Danielewski, Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alistair Cooke, James Agee, Blanche Cholet, Royal Dano
25.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
The Blue Hotel
(1956)
Drama, History, Music
The program has three segments: "The Blue Hotel" (adaptation of a Stephen Crane story), (2) "The Children's Party" (comic monologue), and (3) "Vest-Pocket Symphony" (harmonica music).
Directors: Fred Carney, Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Alistair Cooke, Charles Aidman, Jim Boles, Ruth Draper