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documentary film
Morning Light is a documentary that follows the youngest crew (by average age) to compete in the Transpac. All crew members were between 18 and 23 at the time. The film follows the formation of the Morning Light sailing team, their six mon…
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In September 2004, UVSC student council leaders, Jim Bassi and Joseph Vogel, invited liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to come speak on campus at Utah Valley State College. The predominantly conservative community of Orem surrounding the sch…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The film is to…
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biographical film, drama film, sport film
Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell row to victory in the double sculls.
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to w…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film revolves around Eileen Gray's E-1027 villa, one of the first homes Gray designed and also one of the first homes of the modern architecture movement, and Gray's relationship with fellow architect Le Corbusier, who erased Gray's re…
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biographical film, drama film, romance film
Biographical picture, Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, musical film
biographical film, drama film
Biographical picture, biographical film
In 1980, Ronald Reagan is elected president. However, he is in need of a press secretary, and two men are the choice for the job: James (Jim) Brady and Lyn Nofziger. Later, Brady finds out he has the job.
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Biographical picture, biographical film, trial film
In 1902, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and his wife Fanny Bowditch Holmes arrive in Washington D.C., where he is to become a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Holmes spends his leisure time at his home, where he and hi…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
In Seoul, 1988, Greg Louganis hits the diving board while plunging towards the water, cutting his head open. Splashing into the water, Greg begins to have flashbacks: as a young kid being ridiculed by neighborhood bullies; his adoptive fat…
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Over four hundred orphans from Buchenwald were sent to an orphanage in Écouis, France, where they were educated and cared for. The documentary follows the orphans, who are now old men, as they re-unite on the 55th anniversary of the libera…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
biographical film, drama film
Margaret grows up to become a respectable lady in the South, just like her mother May Belle. She wants to become a writer, but her feminist mother insists on her becoming a female doctor. May Belle puts a lot of pressure on her daughter, f…
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Biographical documentary
The documentary accounts Walter Mercado's early life as a gifted child in Puerto Rico in the 1930s, living in a rural area of sugar cane plantations with his family. While his brother, Henry, was away working with their father, Walter stay…
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biographical film, drama film
biographical film, documentary film
The film includes interviews with several recovering alcoholics who are photographed in dark shadows to maintain their anonymity, and also makes use of dramatic reenactments to visualize key events in Wilson's life. Blake J. Evans portrays…
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biographical film, documentary film
Biographical documentary
The film follows Britney Spears' life over several years and her conservatorship.
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biographical film
Under the direction of an abusive husband and against the wishes of her father, young dancer Rita Cansino rose to the top of Hollywood as Columbia Pictures contract player Rita Hayworth. Her confidence and boldness increased as she rose to…
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biographical film, drama film, romance film
The life of Irish politician and Home Rule activist Charles Stewart Parnell.
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Historical drama, biographical film, drama film
This historical drama recounts the events that led to the accession of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias. The film opens with the arrival in 1744 of Princess Sophie Auguste Frederika – whose name would be changed to ‘Catherin…
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Motherland is a documentary about the African continent from Ancient Egypt to the present. It is an overview of African history and contemporary issues but with the African people at the centre of the story.
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