Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include I Never Sang for My Father (1970); his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1975); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); A Bridge Too Far (1977); his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); Under Fire (1983); Twice in a Lifetime (1985); Hoosiers (1986); No Way Out (1987); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and his final film role before retirement, in Welcome to Mooseport (2004).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 36.901 |
| Birthday | 1930-01-30 |
| Place of Birth | San Bernardino, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Eugene Allen Hackman, Eugene Alder, Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman, Τζιν Χάκμαν, |
1972
The Poseidon Adventure
7.104/791
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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The Poseidon Adventure
1974
The Conversation
7.5/1505
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union...
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The Conversation
1971
The French Connection
7.54/1632
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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The French Connection
1988
Mississippi Burning
7.674/1471
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where...
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Mississippi Burning
2000
Under Suspicion
6.088/408
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes"...
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Under Suspicion
1975
French Connection II
6.784/372
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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French Connection II
2001
Heist
6.303/483
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he...
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Heist
1986
Hoosiers
7.063/435
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a t...
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Hoosiers
1985
Target
5.9/87
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
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Target
1973
Scarecrow
7.023/256
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
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Scarecrow
1989
The Package
6.085/188
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gal...
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The Package
1990
Narrow Margin
6.3/170
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically...
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Narrow Margin
1990
Loose Cannons
5/79
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The ne...
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Loose Cannons
1977
The Domino Principle
5.814/59
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he wil...
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The Domino Principle
1975
Night Moves
6.629/259
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress wh...
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Night Moves
1991
Company Business
5.15/60
An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
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Company Business
1977
March or Die
5.892/74
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost...
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March or Die
1975
Bite the Bullet
6.372/99
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...
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Bite the Bullet
2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
7.496/4177
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all...
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The Royal Tenenbaums
1983
Uncommon Valor
6.17/174
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
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Uncommon Valor
1988
Full Moon in Blue Water
6.167/12
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senil...
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Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
Bat★21
6.253/154
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to...
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Bat★21
1991
Class Action
6.319/138
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...
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Class Action
1983
Eureka
5.2/64
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
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Eureka
2004
Welcome to Mooseport
5.1/150
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another loca...
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Welcome to Mooseport
1984
Misunderstood
6.722/9
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
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Misunderstood
1970
I Never Sang for My Father
6.734/32
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother under...
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I Never Sang for My Father
1988
Split Decisions
5.075/20
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
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Split Decisions
1974
Zandy's Bride
6.3/23
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they s...
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Zandy's Bride
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
6.5/12
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with...
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
1985
Twice in a Lifetime
5.8/21
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in a...
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Twice in a Lifetime
1981
All Night Long
5.22/25
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that...
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All Night Long
2017
We, The Marines
5.8/16
We, The Marines takes viewers on an action-packed adventure into the unparalleled experience of becoming and serving as a member of the U.S. Marine Co...
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We, The Marines
2005
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
0/0
In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, f...
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Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
7.4/260
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are...
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
1967
Community Shelter Planning
10/1
Gene Hackman stars as a Regional Civil Defense official who attempts to convince a skeptical county commissioner to adopt a Community Shelter Planning...
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Community Shelter Planning
2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima
5.5/3
This heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken.
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Heroes of Iwo Jima
1997
Absolute Power
6.639/958
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...
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Absolute Power
1992
Unforgiven
7.914/3961
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one las...
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Unforgiven
1987
No Way Out
6.901/596
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretar...
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No Way Out
2000
The Replacements
6.632/840
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that im...
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The Replacements
1996
Extreme Measures
5.957/292
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency roo...
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Extreme Measures
2003
Runaway Jury
6.922/1134
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Runaway Jury
1996
The Chamber
6/229
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n...
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The Chamber
1995
Get Shorty
6.464/911
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood produc...
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Get Shorty
2001
Behind Enemy Lines
6.322/1318
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot d...
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Behind Enemy Lines
1995
The Quick and the Dead
6.519/1547
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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The Quick and the Dead
1995
Crimson Tide
7.164/1572
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on...
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Crimson Tide
1983
Under Fire
6.651/149
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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Under Fire
1969
Downhill Racer
5.857/77
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe f...
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Downhill Racer
1998
Enemy of the State
7.009/3494
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is...
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Enemy of the State
1972
Prime Cut
6.548/94
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not...
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Prime Cut
1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
6.3/226
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of cor...
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Geronimo: An American Legend
1969
Riot
5.4/14
A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State P...
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Riot
1967
First to Fight
8.5/2
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a M...
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First to Fight
1978
Superman
7.117/3468
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...
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Superman
1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
4.5/1122
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, re...
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1980
Superman II
6.731/2069
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House an...
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Superman II
1994
Wyatt Earp
6.768/747
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his bro...
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Wyatt Earp
1998
Twilight
5.982/168
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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Twilight
1993
The Firm
6.7/1804
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...
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The Firm
1971
The Hunting Party
6.246/57
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
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The Hunting Party
1969
The Gypsy Moths
6.054/37
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
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The Gypsy Moths
1986
Power
5.881/53
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio sen...
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Power
1972
Cisco Pike
5.517/29
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
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Cisco Pike
1975
Lucky Lady
5.182/11
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate lo...
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Lucky Lady
1971
Doctors' Wives
5.077/13
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and...
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Doctors' Wives
1999
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
7.6/5
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of...
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1982
The Making of 'Superman II'
7/5
Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman.
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The Making of 'Superman II'
1978
Formula 1 - Speed fever
7.2/5
Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1" champions - from Lauda to Regazzoni, from Andret...
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Formula 1 - Speed fever
2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
6/1
10th Anniversary documentary looking back at Unforgiven (1992)
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All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
1994
Shurtleff on Acting
0/0
A feature length documentary on legendary acting guru, casting agent and author, Michael Shurtleff. Interviews with actors such as Gene Hackman, Ellio...
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Shurtleff on Acting
2019
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
0/0
Revisiting the achievements of Sacheen Littlefeather, the first woman of color to utilize the Academy Awards to make a political statement.
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Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
1967
Bonnie and Clyde
7.5/1443
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the c...
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Bonnie and Clyde
2001
Heartbreakers
6.066/811
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them....
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Heartbreakers
1996
The Birdcage
7/1010
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservat...
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The Birdcage
1990
Postcards from the Edge
6.57/236
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continu...
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Postcards from the Edge
1966
Hawaii
6.4/39
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii,...
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Hawaii
1968
Shadow on the Land
10/1
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
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Shadow on the Land
1980
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
5.6/5
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film,...
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
7.7/3
Behind the scenes of Unforgiven (1992)
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Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1988
Another Woman
6.791/223
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...
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Another Woman
1968
The Split
6.833/24
A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
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The Split
1969
Marooned
5.881/84
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. Af...
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Marooned
1967
A Covenant with Death
5.3/9
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a...
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A Covenant with Death
2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
6.5/2
Marc McClure presents a documentary on the making of 'Superman' (1978).
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
6.5/2
Documentary on the making of the 1978 film 'Superman.'
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Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
1998
Antz
6.14/4137
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...
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Antz
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
5.853/17
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with w...
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
6.868/53
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominat...
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2000
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
8.3/3
A documentary on the production of The French Connection (1971).
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The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2001
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
5/1
TV documentary about American film director Wes Anderson.
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With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
The Mexican
5.9/1301
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique...
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The Mexican
1964
Lilith
6.484/62
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he...
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Lilith
2001
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'The French Connection'
7/3
The exciting story of the making of William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971), hosted by former NYPD detective Sony Grosso, who inspired the cha...
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Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'The French Connection'
1977
A Bridge Too Far
7.222/712
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...
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A Bridge Too Far
2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
6.3/3
The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.
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Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
6.8/5
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing...
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
1967
Banning
6.1/7
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
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Banning
1994
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
7.5/8
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, f...
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
6.9/8
As he enters his eighth decade in the movies, Warner Bros. celebrates this cinematic icon - actor, producer, director, master filmmaker - with 9 new d...
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Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2002
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
6.5/2
Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts o...
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1996
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
8.2/5
Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.
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Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1974
Young Frankenstein
7.901/2877
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a prett...
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Young Frankenstein
1961
Mad Dog Coll
6/7
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
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Mad Dog Coll
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
0/0
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from t...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
1992
Earth and the American Dream
9/2
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness l...
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Earth and the American Dream
1981
Reds
6.861/292
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...
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Reds
2006
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
7.375/24
The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.
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Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
2001
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
6.759/27
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the mode...
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Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
1983
Two of a Kind
6.013/120
God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, bo...
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Two of a Kind
2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
7.206/143
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yor...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
0/0
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
7.163/46
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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