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A raucous western comedy, is punctuated with a classic Lerner and Loewe musical score, including “They Call the Wind Maria” and “I Talk to the Trees.” The story of a gold mining boomtown full of brawny men centres on the work-and-play partnership of Ben and Pardner (Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood) and the delicate wife they share (Jean Seberg).
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"A well-known actor, who hasn't accepted a role in four years, is considering a project. The cousin of the director drives him to Archie's Ranch Market, in Carson, and drops him off to do a little research. He's fascinated by one of the checkers, Scarlet, a young woman from Spain with a preternatural ability to ring up items at the cash register. She hates her job, stuck at the 10 items or less lane. The actor chats her up, and when her shift ends,...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a band of survivors fleeing across the Wasteland in a war rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and ruthlessly pursues the rebels in the high-octane Road War that...
Pub. Date
2006-11-01
Description
"Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. 'The young people, without any political party, and without any politicians, just came together ... not only tens of...
Pub. Date
2000
Description
This Ken Burns film looks at the earliest days of jazz starting in New Orleans. It incorporates every kind of music heard in the streets of this cosmopolitan city. The mixture of military marches, Caribbean dances, Italian operas, blues and ragtime rhythms created a new art form.
13) War room
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"Tony and Elizabeth Jordan have it all--great jobs, a beautiful daughter, and their dream house. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, their world is actually crumbling under the strain of a failing marriage. While Tony basks in his professional success and flirts with temptation, Elizabeth resigns herself to increasing bitterness. But their lives take an unexpected turn when Elizabeth meets her newest client, Miss Clara, and is challenged...
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"Is it possible that some people can read your mind? (Telepathy) or look into the future? (Clairovoyancy) Why is it that some people can cure themselves while in the last stages of a deadly cancer? (Healing). Does mind over matter really exists, and if so, how do we explain this? (Telekinesis). In the US millions of people claim to 'see' distant objects or places (Remote Viewing). Do they really 'see' something? And where is the boundary between 'real'...
16) Smother
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"When Noah Cooper is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse, but arriving home he discovers his overbearing mother Marilyn has moved in with her five dogs in tow! Hilarity ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering"--Copyright descriptive material.
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Flappers, prohibition, speakeasies, and the booming stock market, the uproarious Jazz Age sets the tone for this episode, and the story of cities, Chicago and New York, and two extraordinary artists whose lives and music span almost three-quarters of a century, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.