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1. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,626
2. 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: 1,264
3. Black Like Me (1964)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.
Director: Carl Lerner | Stars: James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne, Al Freeman Jr.
Votes: 764
4. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969)
185 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Follows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism.
Directors: Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston
Votes: 625
5. 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
6. 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: 413
7. You Are There (1953–1972)
30 min | Drama, History
Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Todd Hunter, Paul Birch, Harlow Wilcox
Votes: 206
8. Mama (1949–1957)
30 min | Comedy, Family, Drama
This well-received series was a comedy-drama about an immigrant family living in 1910s San Francisco.
Stars: Peggy Wood, Judson Laire, Dick Van Patten, Rosemary Rice
Votes: 188
9. The DuPont Show of the Week (1961–1964)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An anthology weekly drama series.
Stars: Walter Matthau, Frank McGee, Art Carney, Gene Wilder
Votes: 185
10. Power and the Land (1940)
Not Rated | 38 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.
Director: Joris Ivens | Stars: William Adams, Stephen Vincent Benet, Hazel Parkinson, William Parkinson
Votes: 161
11. It's in the Bag (1932)
45 min | Comedy
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Prévert | Stars: Julien Carette, Anthony Gildès, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Votes: 101
12. In Our Hands (1983)
90 min | Documentary, Music
One million people. One voice: stop the nuclear arms race. The largest peace demonstration in history, a magical day when even the police were on the side of the marchers.
Directors: Robert Richter, Stanley Warnow | Stars: Joan Baez, Bob Balaban, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Caldicott
Votes: 93
13. The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
30 min | Documentary, History
A long-running documentary series concerning the news and cultural events which shaped the 20th century. It also offered interpretations of the meaning of certain events, and placed wars ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr, Winston Burdett, Peter Kalischer
Votes: 85
14. Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994)
60 min | Documentary
Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
Directors: Manthia Diawara, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | Stars: Manthia Diawara, Ousmane Sembene, John Singleton
Votes: 49
15. America and Lewis Hine (1984)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines, especially the abuse and exploitation of children... See full summary »
Director: Nina Rosenblum | Stars: John Crowley, Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton, Margaret Byington
Votes: 36
16. Mirages de Paris (1933)
77 min | Comedy
In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris."
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Jacqueline Francell, Alice Tissot, Colette Darfeuil, Inka Krymer
Votes: 35
17.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
Keeping On
(1983)
75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A low-key 90-minute drama about unionizing a small southern mill town, a process which affects the whole town, not only the textile workers.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: Jarrett Ellis Beal, Alice Beardsley, Trazana Beverley, Guy Boyd
Votes: 34
18. Short Short Dramas (1952–1953)
15 min | Comedy, Drama
Model Ruth Woods hosted this anthology series of twice-weekly one act plays. The stories could be either dramatic or light comedy with a different cast for each episode. The series ran for only the 1952-53 season.
Stars: Henry Jones, June Dayton, Ruth Woods, Bernard Burke
Votes: 28
19. Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954–1955)
30 min | Drama
Janet Dean is a nurse who has been recently discharged from the U. S. Air Force. She becomes a private nurse and travels around the country treating not only patients physical ailments but also their mental ailments.
Stars: Ella Raines, Lenore Lonergan, Darren McGavin, Anne Sargent
Votes: 21
20.
ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode:
Santiago's Ark
(1972)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An early ABC Afterschool Speical about an imaginative and determined 14-year-old Puerto Rican boy who builds a sailing ship to sail around Central Park. Followed in 1975 by the sequel "Santiago's America."
Director: Albert Waller | Stars: Reuben Figueroa, Marcus Ticotin, Alex Colon, Bill Duke
Votes: 21
21. The Mummy Road Show (1997–2003)
30 min | Documentary
Each episode follows Ron and Jerry's adventures in a new location.
Stars: Jerry Conlogue, Ron Beckett, J. Marla Toyne, Mark Richards
Votes: 14
22.
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954–1955)
Episode:
The Garcia Case
(1954)
Drama
Janet meets the Garcia family where young Jose needs an operation. But his mother is afraid to give permission because of possible consequences. Janet must convince Mrs. Garcia to allow the medical team to help her son.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Ella Raines, Sal Mineo, Will Kuluva, Miriam Goldina
Votes: 10
23.
Short Short Dramas (1952–1953)
Episode:
Equal Partners
(1952)
12 min | Comedy, Drama
A man's wife convinces him to have his business partner murdered for insurance money.
Director: Arthur Rosenblum | Stars: Henry Jones, Truman Smith, Harry Kadison, Ralph Stantley
Votes: 7
25. Desert Mummies of Peru (2000 TV Movie)
Documentary
At south of Peru nearby Atacama desert lived a people called Chiribaya around 1.000 A.D. they settled a narrow strip of land on valley of Ilo that flows into pacific ocean, the anthropologist Dr. Sonia Guillén found many mummies.
Director: Amy Bucher | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Sonia Guillen
29. 16 in Webster Groves (1966 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Arthur Barron | Star: Charles Kuralt
30. Joe Chaikin's Life in the Theatre (2004 Video)
45 min | Documentary
About the life of Joe Chaikin, actor/director who was instrumental in the development of American experimental theater. Chaikin helped to establish the Open Theatre and the Living Theatre, ... See full summary »
Director: Dee Henoch | Stars: Edward Albee, John Belluso, Joseph Chaikin, Shami Chaikin
33. The Bed-Stuy Vollies (1997)
25 min | Documentary, Short
In one of New York's toughest areas, the world's first black volunteer ambulance association (the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps, or "Bed-Stuy Vollies") struggles on a shoestring budget to serve a neglected neighborhood.
Directors: Ed Greene, Maury Loeb | Stars: Joe Perez, James 'Rocky' Robinson
34. And You're So Special? (1990)
6 min | Short, Drama
An apartment dweller overhears a neighbor down the hall refer to him as a "poor miserable wretch". He complains to his wife about this, but she takes the neighbors side. While the man is ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Kazee | Stars: James Peak, Barbara Sanders, Lisa Weeks
35. A Boy and a Boa (1975)
13 min | Short, Family
Bullies set a boy's pet boa constrictor loose in a library.
Director: Renata Stoia | Stars: Edward Beckford, Martin Brayboy, Bill Cobbs, Eric Scholl
36.
The DuPont Show of the Week (1961–1964)
Episode:
Incident on Wilson Street
(1964)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The hour dealt with the cultural enrichment program of a N.Y. school, located in the depressed Brooklyn Williamsburg area.
Director: Bill Jersey | Stars: Pegi Gorelick, Frank McGee
38.
You Are There (1953–1972)
Episode:
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
(1955)
Drama, History
Three soldiers who have never seen action beyond boot camp hear the words of General Eisenhower's order of the day as they prepare to strike at Omaha Beach.
Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Ray Walston, Harold J. Stone, Gene Saks, Peter Gumeny
39.
You Are There (1953–1972)
Episode:
The First Flight of the Wright Brothers (December 17, 1903)
(1955)
Drama, History
The first successful flight of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Walter Cronkite, James Gregory, William Prince, Rusty Lane
40.
You Are There (1953–1972)
Episode:
The Liberation of Paris (August 25, 1944)
(1955)
Drama, History
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Stuart Germain, Alan Penn, Bruce Gordon, Anne Hegira
41.
You Are There (1953–1972)
Episode:
The Signing of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
(1953)
30 min | Drama, History
The task of drafting a declaration of independence that will express the prevailing sentiment of a politically diversified population faces the Continental Congress.
Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Shepperd Strudwick, Addison Richards, Philip Coolidge, F. Herrick Herrick
43.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Al Smith
(1961)
Documentary, History
Star: Walter Cronkite
44.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
First Man on the Moon
(1962)
Documentary, History
Star: Walter Cronkite
45.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
General Marshall
(1961)
Documentary, History
Stars: Walter Cronkite, George C. Marshall
46.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Get the Graf Spee
(1962)
Documentary, History
Star: Walter Cronkite
47.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Guerrilla, Part 1
(1961)
Documentary, History
Directors: Wade Bingham, Peter Poor | Star: Walter Cronkite
48.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Guerrilla, Part 2
(1961)
Documentary, History
Director: Wade Bingham | Star: Walter Cronkite
49.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Hungary Today
(1961)
Documentary, History
Director: Av Westin | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr
50.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Siege at Malta
(1962)
Documentary, History
Star: Walter Cronkite