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1. The Day After (1983 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum
Votes: 18,196
2. 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
3. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
4. The Goddess (1958)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland
Votes: 1,138
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. Louisiana Story (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Drama
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu, Frank Hardy
Votes: 2,156
7. The Spanish Earth (1937)
Unrated | 52 min | Documentary, War
A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Director: Joris Ivens | Stars: Enrique Lister, Carlos Romero Giménez, José Díaz, Gustav Regler
Votes: 862
8. Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me (1970)
89 min | Documentary
A biographical look at the life and contemporary impact of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). At Radcliffe a student of William James, to Paris with her brother Leo: they take up residence at 27 ... See full summary »
Director: Perry Miller Adato | Stars: Pierre Balmain, Bennett Cerf, Janet Flanner, Jacques Lipschitz
Votes: 27
9. The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Unrated | 25 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Director: Pare Lorentz | Stars: Thomas Chalmers, Bam White
Votes: 753
10. Un siècle d'écrivains (1995– )
Documentary
From 1995 through 2001,France 3 Tv presented a series of 257 hour long documentaries on authors of the 2oth century.
Stars: Bernard Rapp, Philippe Sollers, Jean-Claude Dauphin, François Marthouret
Votes: 29
11. The River (1938)
Unrated | 31 min | Documentary, Short, History
This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.
Director: Pare Lorentz | Star: Thomas Chalmers
Votes: 670
12. Max Liebman Spectaculars (1954– )
90 min | Music, Musical
Stars: Steve Allen, Dick Shawn, Art Linkletter, Judy Holliday
13. The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1983 TV Special)
Documentary
Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra
Votes: 116
14. Tuesday in November (1945)
16 min | Documentary, Short
This artful and beautifully conceived film mixes archival and dramatized images of the 1944 US presidential election into a sophisticated encoding of memes centering on fairness, democracy, and media as a benevolent force.
Director: John Berry
Votes: 48
15. Power Among Men (1959)
90 min | Documentary
Directors: Alexander Hammid, Gian Luigi Polidoro, V.R. Sarma | Star: Laurence Harvey
16. Harvest (1967)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short
The American farm and farmer at harvest time, beginning in Texas with the first cutting of winter wheat, and following the season north to the Canadian border.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Star: John Carter
Votes: 46
17. Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse (1961– )
Documentary
Stars: Jean-Marie Drot, Léopold Levy, Pierre Bertin, André Salmon
18. Poem Posters (1966)
24 min | Short
Real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, and Jonas Mekas.
Director: Charles Henri Ford | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Charles Henri Ford, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein
19. Suddenly an Eagle (1976 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
An American narrator (Lee J. Cobb) and a British narrator (Kenneth Griffith) relate their countries' differing perspectives of the events leading up to American Independence.
Director: William Peters | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Kenneth Griffith
21. Kinsey Photographer (1980 TV Special)
A 3-minute, sepia-toned film of selected works of Darius Kinsey, a turn-of-the-century photographer whose work focused on the Pacific Northwest logging industry. Soundtrack is from "The ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Clayton-Thompson
22. Música de América y España (1965)
13 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary about the 'I Festival de Música de América y España'. It shows the orchestral music rehearsal, and also an homage to the Spanish musician Manuel de Falla.
Director: José López Clemente | Stars: Odón Alonso, Gustavo Becerra, Pozzi Escot, Guillermo Espinosa
23.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
King Lear
(1953)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, History, Music
An old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous.
Director: Andrew McCullough | Stars: Orson Welles, Natasha Parry, Arnold Moss, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 191
24.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
George Gershwin Remembered
(1987)
TV-14 | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a song-plugger on Tin Pan Alley, but was soon writing his own pieces.
Stars: Clarke Peters, Harold Arlen, Fred Astaire, Leonard Bernstein
Votes: 117
25.
Un siècle d'écrivains (1995– )
Episode:
Is dead ou Portrait incomplet de Gertrud Stein
(2000)
47 min | Documentary
Director: Arnaud des Pallières | Stars: Micheline Dax, Michael Lonsdale, Bernard Rapp
Votes: 7
26.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Chelsea Hotel
(1981)
56 min | Documentary
BBC documentary that catches scenes in the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
Director: Nigel Finch | Stars: Stanley Bard, Joe Bidewell, Jobriath Boone, William S. Burroughs
Votes: 54
27.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
The Battler
(1953)
Drama, History, Music
The program has five segments: (1) "The Battler" (adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway story), (2) "Lola Flores and Her Flamenco Dancers" (Spanish dance and music), (3) "Operation Hurricane" (... See full summary »
Directors: Bob Banner, Paul Nickell | Stars: Paco Aguilera, Peter Brook, Alistair Cooke, Faíco
28.
Max Liebman Spectaculars (1954– )
Episode:
Sunday in Town
(1954)
Music, Musical
Director: Max Liebman | Stars: Steve Allen, Todd Bolender, Jacques d'Amboise, Judy Holliday
29.
Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse (1961– )
Episode:
Le groupe des six et la rue Huyghens
(1964)
Documentary
Director: Jean-Marie Drot | Stars: Georges Auric, Pierre Bertin, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Février