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Anne Frank Remembered
Genres: War, Documentary, Biography
Year: 1995
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Director: Jon Blair
Starring: Glenn Close, Kenneth Branagh, Joely Richardson, Anne Frank, Edith Frank, Margot Frank, Miep Gies
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
Wicked Attraction - Season Four
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Matthew James Gulbranson, Travis McHenry, Jayme Mantos, Jay Gates, Zachary Bradshaw
Starring: Wendy McQuiston, Matthew James Gulbranson, Travis McHenry, Jayme Mantos, Jay Gates, Zachary Bradshaw, Chris Manitius
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Wicked Attraction uses some of the worlds leading criminal psychologists to explore couples who kill by delving into the minds of some of the most infamous criminals in history. It seeks to explain how murdering duos find each other, how they select their victims, and what motivates them. Each hour of Wicked Attraction features one case, and takes the audience through the twists and turns of the killers' deadly relationship and law enforcement's investigation and arrest of each mu rdering couple.
Heart Like a Wheel
Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Starring: Martin Casella, Hoyt Axton, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Anthony Edwards, Michael Cavanaugh, Bonnie Bedelia
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
American Splendor
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Danny Hoch, Larry John Meyers, Josh Hutcherson, Daniel Tay, Chris Ambrose, Joey Krajcar
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb fi...
Leadbelly
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1976
Country: USA
Director: Gordon Parks
Starring: Paul Benjamin, Roger E. Mosley, Albert Hall, Art Evans, John Henry Faulk, Alan Manson, Madge Sinclair
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2005
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Bob Dylan, Paul Nelson, Allen Ginsberg, B.J. Rolfzen, Dick Kangas, Liam Clancy, Tony Glover
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Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter ...
Fearless
Genres: Action, Sport, Biography
Year: 2006
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Masato Harada, Jet Li, Nathan Jones, Brandon Rhea, Shido Nakamura, Collin Chou, Anthony De Longis
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history, defining the true spirit of martial arts. His self-discovery, and the choices he made, inspired his nation. The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, the bullied Huo Yuanjia resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win. Years of training enable him to ace match after match in his home region of Tianjin. But as his fame as a martial arts master grows, so does his pride. After an ill-advised fight ...
The Doors
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Michael Madsen, Kathleen Quinlan, Val Kilmer, Frank Whaley, Michael Wincott, Josh Evans, Meg Ryan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movies features a tour- de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
One Week Job
Genres: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2010
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Ian Mackenzie
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
After graduating from university, Sean Aiken struggled with the question 'What should I do with my life?' His father said to find his passion. Taking the advice to heart, Sean created The One-Week Job Project, with the goal of working 52 jobs in 52 weeks.
Little Ashes
Year: 2008
Country: UK, Spain
Director: Paul Morrison
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Javier Beltrán, Marina Gatell
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunel. Salvador is absorbed into their youthfully decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However as time passes, Salvador feels and increasingly strong pull towards ...
Bird
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Keith David, Samuel E. Wright, Arlen Dean Snyder, Diane Venora, Bill Cobbs, Sam Robards
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
The Times of Harvey Milk
Genres: History, Documentary, Biography
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Rob Epstein
Starring: Harvey Fierstein, Tom Ammiano, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Jim Elliot, Henry Der
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978. Milk's life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal recollections.
Dillinger
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Director: Max Nosseck
Starring: Marc Lawrence, Eduardo Ciannelli, Elisha Cook Jr., Lawrence Tierney, Ludwig Stössel, Constance Worth, Ralph Lewis
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.
A Matador's Mistress aka Manolete
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Year: 2008
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Spain, France
Director: Menno Meyjes
Starring: Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz, Enrique Arce, Nacho Aldeguer, Pedro Casablanc, Enrique Hernández, Javier Mejía
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The film starts in the trip from Sevilla to Linares, where Manolete stops in Córdoba to see his mother. He will be remembering some passages of his life.
Midnight Express
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1978
Country: USA, UK
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: John Hurt, Paul L. Smith, Michael Ensign, Randy Quaid, Brad Davis, Norbert Weisser, Paolo Bonacelli
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
In Love and War
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin, Mindy Lee Raskin, Carlo Croccolo, Ingrid Lacey, Margot Steinberg
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.
Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Dick Lowry
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Christian Slater, Barton Heyman, Clu Gulager, Noble Willingham, Richard Thomas, Mickey Jones
Available Quality: DivX
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.
An Angel at My Table
Year: 1990
Country: USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Kevin J. Wilson, Kerry Fox, Brenda Kendall, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn, Jessie Mune
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Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she is locked up in a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write books.
King Midas
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Brandon David
Starring: Justin Michael Morales, Angelica Lawrence, Louis Sapp III, Josh Mond
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Tommy Gold makes a living out of dealing drugs. One day he gets caught carrying cocaine. He is sentenced to ten years in prison, but gets released after two years. In prison Tommy had plenty of time to think things over and as soon as he is released, he wants to return to his old job. Since he doesn't have any money, he pays a visit to Uncle Murphy, a loan shark. With his newly found fortune, things are seemingly going very well for Tommy. He's becoming more famous by the day, but still it's not enough. Tommy wants even more. He decides to buy a studio for his hip hop musician friend Chief, which Tommy can use to make his business look more l...
The American Experience - Season Twenty three
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers
Starring: David Ogden Stiers, David McCullough
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
From the Civil War, to Vietnam, to World War II, and more contemporary conflicts, soldiers have been writing home from the front lines for centuries. Has anyone ever written to you from the battlefield? Do you have any war letters or stories about wartime correspondence to share with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE?