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1. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A teen drama anthology that often touched on social issues of the day.
Stars: Lance Kerwin, Samaria Graham, Mara Hobel, Alexa Kenin
Votes: 1,266
2. Nova (1974– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Science documentaries about various topics.
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Stacy Keach, Eric Meyers
Votes: 3,101
3. 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: 1,175
4. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson
Votes: 416
5. The Lathe of Heaven (1980 TV Movie)
105 min | Sci-Fi
In a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.
Directors: Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton | Stars: Bruce Davison, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks, Kevin Conway
Votes: 2,814
6. Zoom (1972–1978)
TV-G | Comedy, Drama, Family
Middle School students teach kids how to do cool tricks.
Stars: Maura Mullaney, Edith Mooers, Mike Dean, Luiz Gonzales
Votes: 359
7. Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988 TV Movie)
TV-G | 89 min | Comedy, Family
14-year-old Ralph and his All-American family head off on their annual trek to summer resort Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.
Director: Dick Bartlett | Stars: Jean Shepherd, James Sikking, Dorothy Lyman, Jerry O'Connell
Votes: 565
8. Summer Solstice (1981 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.
Director: Ralph Rosenblum | Stars: Henry Fonda, Myrna Loy, Stephen Collins, Lindsay Crouse
Votes: 283
9. Visions (1976–1980)
Drama
Weekly anthology series of original dramas, often with period settings.
Stars: Ellen Travolta, Lesley Woods, Harry Basch, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 85
10. The Elegant Universe (2003)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
A documentary examining string theory.
Stars: Brian Greene, Leonard Susskind, Amanda Peet, Steven Weinberg
Votes: 2,280
11. Between Time and Timbuktu (1972 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow, Dortha Duckworth, William Hickey, Ray Goulding
Votes: 205
12. Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
60 min | Documentary
Uncover the complicated truth behind our sense of taste.
Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chad Cohen, Ziya Tong, David Pogue
Votes: 528
13. The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976 TV Movie)
77 min | Family
Teenager Ralph Parker faces his junior prom while fantasizing about his dream date Daphne Bigelow, and dealing with the ups and downs of life as a teen in a working-class neighborhood in the early-1950's Midwest.
Directors: Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton | Stars: David Elliott, Barbara Bolton, James Bonnell, James Broderick
Votes: 124
14. Latin Music USA (2009)
TV-PG | Documentary, Music
Latin Music USA highlights the great American music created by Latinos and celebrates the Latin Rhythms at the heart of Jazz, rock, country and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on ... See full summary »
Stars: Jimmy Smits, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Keane, Ellis Creez
Votes: 27
15. Mattie's Waltz (1992 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama, Family
Mattie (Michael Learned) thought her life was going fine. Her long-time husband (Ed Asner) was a good provider, and her son was grown with children of his own. But there were things they ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Kirschenbaum | Stars: Kate Anthony, Edward Asner, JD Cullum, John Cullum
16. Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street' (1998 TV Movie)
Crime, Documentary, Drama
A brief look at the history of "Homicide: Life on the Street", one of the best shows on television and its ratings history as well as some of the people on the show, as well as behind the ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Bogosian | Stars: Will Lyman, G.A. Aguilar, Michael Ahl, A. Russell Andrews
Votes: 111
17. No Room for Opal (1993 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Tyne Daly, Claire Danes, Moses Gunn, Daniel J. Travanti
Votes: 11
18. Life Swap (2010)
23 min | Short, Comedy
People always say they want a different life, but siblings Claire and Joseph actually make it happen. They switch cities, apartments and friends, permanently. It seemed like the perfect plan - until they showed up.
Director: Marty Johnson | Stars: Rachel Bitney, Jeb Burris, Taylor Burris, Lisa Cordner
19. Secrets of Lost Empires II (1996– )
50 min | Documentary
Stars: Piers Gibbon, Art Malik
Votes: 19
20. An Armenian Journey (1988)
58 min | Documentary, History
Armenian-American film maker & journalist Theodore Bogosian takes on the controversial subject as to weather the deaths of over 1 million Armenians in eastern Turkey during the first world ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Bogosian | Star: Ted Bogosian
Votes: 32
21. Ruby (1971)
83 min | Comedy
Ruby moves to Texarkana Arkansas and has a hard time fitting in at her new school.
Director: Dick Bartlett | Stars: Ruth Hurd, Phillip Webber, Joanie Andrews, George Bartlett
Votes: 10
22. Nova: In Search of Human Origins (1994– )
Documentary
Stars: Donald Carl Johanson, Owen Lovejoy, Bill Kimbel, Ailsa Berk
Votes: 16
23. Once Upon a Choice (1980)
Short, Family
Director: Liane Brandon | Stars: Debra Franco, Horace Reed, Athena Warren
24. How to Prevent a Nuclear War (1987)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Liane Brandon | Star: Tom Lehrer
25. Made in America? (1992 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich examines the changes occurring in global manufacturing and its impact on American workers.
Directors: Peter Frumkin, Linda Garmon, Judy Katz | Star: Robert Reich
26. Off Your Duff (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary
Stars: Tom Brokaw, Kenneth Cooper, Ted Kennedy, Billie Jean King
28. Survivor's Guide to High School (2004 TV Special)
Reality-TV
Director: Joshua Seftel | Star: Samantha Bessudo Drucker
29. Thomas Berry Speaks (2000 Video)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short
The late cultural historian, Thomas Berry shares his critique of societal dysfunction and his optimistic look to the future, in this major statement about what it means to be human in an emerging universe.
Director: Marty Ostrow | Star: Thomas Berry
30. Strange Faculty (2007 TV Short)
17 min | Short, Comedy
STRANGE FACULTY follows main characters Mark, Marty and Will, three likeable but deeply flawed teachers who are unexpectedly brought together by a supernatural event. These three are deeply... See full synopsis »
Director: John Dabrowski | Stars: Marty Johnson, Will Luera, Mark Odlum, Rachel Bitney
31. What Love Is: The Duke Pathfinders 50 (2012)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary, Family, Music
Fifty women from North Carolina with incurable breast cancer heroically endure an experimental medical protocol to prove that there is a better way of life, and death, for cancer patients and their families everywhere.
Director: Ted Bogosian | Star: Scott Simon
32. A Centennial Toast to Symphony Hall (2002 TV Special)
Music
Boston's Symphony Hall celebrates its 100th anniversary with highlights of some of the composers and musicians whose works have been performed there throughout the last century. Music ... See full summary »
Director: William Cosel | Stars: Diana Rigg, Keith Lockhart, Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa
33. Sharon Isbin: Troubadour (2014)
57 min | Documentary
Winner of the 2015 ASCAP Television Broadcast Award, this one-hour documentary portrait of multiple GRAMMY-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin shows us a trailblazing performer and teacher who ... See full summary »
Director: Susan Dangel | Stars: Joan Baez, John Corigliano, Lesley Gore, David Hyde Pierce
34. The Press Secretary (2001 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows former Clinton press secretary around the White House from September 13-15, 2000.
Director: Ted Bogosian | Stars: Christine Anderson, Bill Clinton, P.J. Crowley, Bob Deans
35. The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Director: John Rich | Stars: Jean Shepherd, John Shepherd, Richard Venture, Barbara Bolton
Votes: 10
36. 50/50 (2006 Video)
37 min | Short
'50/50' deliberately puts its protagonists -- and its viewers -- onto a collision course with the future of what connects us all: Human Genetics. Three women, each in an agonizing ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Bogosian
39.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
(1982)
56 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Matt Dillon plays a young Jean Shepherd (author and narrator of A Christmas Story). Through Matt, Shep tells several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Matt Dillon, James Broderick, Barbara Bolton, Babe Sargent
Votes: 253
40.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
(1985)
56 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of young Jean Shepherd ("A Christmas Story")'s life and obsession with a beautiful Polish girl he dreamed of dating.
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Jean Shepherd, Peter Kowanko, George Coe, Barbara Bolton
Votes: 90
41.
Visions (1976–1980)
Episode:
Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree
(1978)
Drama
This is the story of Charlie Smith, a 134-year-old black man, who tells his life story, via flashbacks, to an orderly at his nursing home. The story moves from his childhood days when he ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Richard Dysart, Morgan Freeman, Tex Hill, Glynn Turman
42.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
(2006)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Hear the story of Woody Guthrie's creative energy, personal imperfections and family tragedy.
Director: Peter Frumkin | Stars: Peter Coyote, Rick Sharp, Robin Wiley, Peter Mark Joliat
Votes: 147
44.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Saving the National Treasures
(2005)
TV-G | 58 min | Documentary
Follows the restoration and re-encasement of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights between 2001 and 2003.
Directors: Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer | Stars: Eriq La Salle, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 8
45.
Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
Episode:
Asteroid/Island of Stability/Obesity/Profile: Karl Iagnemma
(2006)
Documentary
The Apophis asteroid, the size of a football stadium, is headed towards Earth and should arrive in 2036.Island of Stability: The long road to creating element 114.Obesity: The biology of ... See full summary »
Directors: Julia Cort, Dean Irwin, Vincent Liota
46.
Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
Episode:
Finch Brains/Northern Lights/Yoky Matsuoka/Smart Bridges
(2005)
Documentary
Bird Brains - Clues to the origins of human language are turning up in the brains of birds. Space Storms - Behind the dazzling display of the aurora borealis are space storms that could ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Doyle | Star: Neil deGrasse Tyson
47.
Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
Episode:
Arthur Ganson
(2005)
Documentary
Director: Marty Ostrow | Star: Neil deGrasse Tyson
48.
Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
Episode:
Fuel Cells/RNAi/Fastest Glacier/Profile: Brothers Chudnovsky
(2005)
Documentary
Featured segments include: the future of hydrogen fuel cell cars, the discovery of medical potential within a petunia, a fast moving glacier and what it says about global warming, and a ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Cort | Stars: Robert Krulwich, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Votes: 6
49.
Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
Episode:
Profile: The Brothers Chudnovsky
(2005)
Documentary
Director: Dean Irwin | Star: Neil deGrasse Tyson