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1.
Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
Episode:
The Oscars - Moments of Greatness: Part 1
(1964)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine
Votes: 113
2.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Lagoon of Lost Ships
(1971)
Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 15
3. The World of Animals: Big Cats, Little Cats (1968 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Hosted by Lorne Greene this hour long special took a look at all kinds if cats: big and little, wild and domestic. It also has a nice piece about "Room 8" who was a cat at the Elysian ... See full summary »
Director: Bud Wiser | Star: Lorne Greene
Votes: 7
4.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
The Forgotten Mermaids
(1972)
52 min | Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 14
5.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Secrets of the Sunken Caves
(1971)
60 min | Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 11
6.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
The Lonely Dorymen: Portugal's Men of the Sea
(1968)
60 min | Documentary, History
A documentary showing the adventurous lives of Portuguese cod fishermen in the ice cold sea of Greenland.
Director: George Sluizer | Star: Alexander Scourby
Votes: 11
7.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
Love Those Trains
(1984)
Documentary, History
Covers the history of trains from steam engines to diesels, nostalgically remembering the days when trains bridged the continents, empowered the pioneers, and ferried troops. Also follows the iconic Orient Express on one of its routes.
Star: James Whitmore
Votes: 14
8.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
(1966)
60 min | Documentary, History
Director: Philippe Cousteau | Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Orson Welles
Votes: 20
9.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Search in the Deep
(1968)
60 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Patrick Watson | Stars: Rod Serling, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 15
10. Revolution in the 3 R'S (1966 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Ed Spiegel | Star: Van Heflin
Votes: 8
11.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Savage Worlds of the Coral Jungle
(1968)
60 min | Documentary, Adventure
Directors: Philippe Cousteau, Patrick Watson | Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 17
12.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Legend of Lake Titicaca
(1969)
Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 10
13. American Experience (1987– )
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
Stars: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Michael Murphy, Oliver Platt
Votes: 2,205
14. National Geographic Specials (1965– )
60 min | Documentary, History
For over 30 years, the National Geographic Society has presented specials on nature, foreign culture, scientific breakthroughs, and things which fall under the general category of "neat stuff." Each special is self-contained.
Stars: Alexander Scourby, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Kiley, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 339
15. Up from the Ape (1975)
PG | 84 min | Documentary
A documentary based on Robert Ardrey's books that presents 15 million years of human evolution. The author believes that man began killing systematically 30,000 years ago when the ... See full summary »
Directors: Walon Green, Mel Stuart | Stars: Anthony Zerbe, Paula Crist
Votes: 18
17. Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.
Directors: Barbara Jampel, Andrea Florence | Star: William Shatner
Votes: 22
18.
Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
Episode:
The Unsinkable Bette Davis
(1963)
23 min | Documentary
Film clips and archive footage cover the career of the actress.
Director: Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid
Votes: 220
19.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Whales
(1968)
Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 11
20. The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
60 min | Documentary, Adventure
The aquatic explorations of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso.
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling, Georges Wilson, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 482
21.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
(1984)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary, History
Follow two landmark decades of Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees.
Stars: Jane Goodall, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 44
22.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
The Return of the Sea Elephants
(1970)
52 min | Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Rod Serling, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 9
23.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Tragedy of the Red Salmon
(1970)
51 min | Documentary, Adventure
Deals with the migration of the red salmons to the place of their birth. This particular migration shows the first group of salmons to return to a lake which was artificially populate by man five years earlier with fertilized salmon eggs.
Director: Jacques Renoir | Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 9
24.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
The Dragons of Galapagos
(1971)
Documentary, Adventure
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling
Votes: 8
25. Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
30 min | Documentary
Hollywood and the Stars was a 1963 NBC television documentary series.
Stars: Joseph Cotten, John Huston, Paul Newman, Sharon Tate
Votes: 198
26.
Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
Episode:
The Odyssey of Rita Hayworth
(1964)
30 min | Documentary
Rita's early days as part of her parent's dancing act leads to film parts, bigger and better until she's a leading lady, paired with top male stars. Scenes from some of her best remembered ... See full summary »
Director: Al Ramrus | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Fred Astaire, Glenn Ford, Stewart Granger
Votes: 96
27.
Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
Episode:
Birth of a Star
(1963)
Documentary
Directors: Alexander Grasshoff, Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Stefanie Powers, Sharon Tate
Votes: 22
28.
Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
Episode:
On Location: Night of the Iguana
(1964)
Documentary
Director: William Kronick | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner
Votes: 29
29.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
(1966)
60 min | Documentary, History
Director: Ray Jewell | Star: Orson Welles
Votes: 11
30.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
The Soul of Spain
(1991)
Documentary, History
This program spans Spain to celebrate its history, culture, and traditions.
Votes: 7
31. 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: 1,171
32. Pirate Tales (1997– )
Adventure, Drama, History
The lives of legendary pirates such as Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard and the Irish "pirate lady" Graneuille, as told by the seventeenth century pirate William Dampier.
Stars: Chuck Shamata, Roger Daltrey, Richard Schumann, Antoinette Brennan
Votes: 11
33. The Laverne & Shirley Reunion (1995 TV Special)
60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show
The cast of the classic television series, Laverne and Shirley reunite to reminisce about their favorite moments.
Director: Malcolm Leo | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, David L. Lander
Votes: 35
35. The Big Land (1967 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Documentary showing how the damming of several large rivers in the San Joaquin Valley of central California turned the area from a semi-arid desert into the most productive agricultural area on earth.
Director: David H. Vowell | Star: Lee Zimmer
Votes: 6
36.
Hollywood and the Stars (1963– )
Episode:
Natalie Wood: Hollywood's Child
(1964)
Documentary
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Natalie Wood
Votes: 16
37.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
Yankee Sails Across Europe
(1967)
60 min | Documentary, History
Director: George Sluizer | Stars: Irving Johnson, Electa Johnson, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 8
38. Biography (1961–1964)
30 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A show that tells someone's life story every interesting episode at a time.
Stars: Mike Wallace, Charles A. Lindbergh, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden
Votes: 98
39.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Sharks
(1968)
Documentary, Adventure
Directors: Philippe Cousteau, Jack Kaufman | Stars: Eugenie Clark, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling, Grace Kelly
Votes: 19
40.
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)
Episode:
Sunken Treasure
(1969)
52 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Michel Deloire | Stars: Rod Serling, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Remy de Haenen, Frédéric Dumas
Votes: 10
41.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
(1988)
TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the life and films of actress Lillian Gish.
Director: Terry Sanders | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish
Votes: 77
42.
Story of... (1962–1963)
Episode:
The Story of a Writer
(1962)
Documentary
Portrays the life, attitudes and method of work of a creative writer. Ray Bradbury discusses his experience and views and traces the process of writing the story Dial Double Zero, which is dramatised in condensed form.
Director: Terry Sanders | Stars: Ray Bradbury, Maggie Bradbury, William Joyce, John Willis
Votes: 10
43. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
"Tales from the Crypt" was a 1989 horror story anthology series based on the gruesome E.C. comic books of the 1950s presented by the legendary "Crypt Keeper", a sinister ghoul obsessed with gallows humor and horrific puns.
Stars: John Kassir, Roy Brocksmith, Miguel Ferrer, Cam Clarke
Votes: 27,089
44. China: Roots of Madness (1967 TV Movie)
77 min | Documentary
film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the American perspective during the Cold War.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: David Barrett, Stephen Becker, Pearl S. Buck, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 41
45.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
African Odyssey
(1988)
53 min | Documentary, History
Tracking efforts by zoologists Delia and Mark Owens to begin new research in 1985 in Botswana's Kalahari Game Reserve, where the couple conducted landmark studies from 1974 to 1980.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Delia Owens, Mark Owens
Votes: 7
46.
National Geographic Specials (1965– )
Episode:
Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man
(1966)
60 min | Documentary, History
Director: Guy Blanchard | Stars: Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, Masai Tribesmen of Olduvai Gorge Tanzania Africa, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 10
47. The Infinite Voyage (1987–1991)
G | 60 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi, Sport
An exceptional series about of humanity, the stars, the dinosaurs, and other mysteries of the world and the universe.
Stars: Richard Kiley, Paul Shenar, Josef Sommer, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 23
48. Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo (1970 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking to Hawks about whether he'll be killed ... See full summary »
Director: William Kronick | Stars: George Plimpton, Jack Elam, A.D. Flowers, Victor French
Votes: 17
49. The Making of a President: 1964 (1966 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Mel Stuart | Star: Martin Gabel
Votes: 16
50. Baka: The People of the Rainforest (1989 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary
Director: Phil Agland | Star: Denzel Washington
Votes: 61