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Ken Burns: The Civil War
1990 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThis documentary masterpiece from Ken Burns depicts the strategies and action of famous Civil War battles, and relates the stories of generals, field soldiers, politicians, heroes and a beleaguered president. The Emmy-winning miniseries begins by looking at the factors that led to the firing on Fort Sumter, and covers specific notable battles, climaxing with Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender and Pres. Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
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Ken Burns: The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe award-winning documentarian turns his insight and cameras to the history and breathtaking splendor of America's national parks. The words of early naturalists and modern advocates accompany panoramas of Yosemite, Glacier, Redwood and other parks.
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Ken Burns: The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsTrace the history of American national parks with director Ken Burns's rousing documentary, which recounts how remarkable heroes fought to preserve nature for all people and offers striking views from Yosemite, Yellowstone and other stunning locales. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this Emmy-nominated program also features the voices of talented actors like Tom Hanks, Andy Garcia, John Lithgow, George Takei and Sam Waterston.
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Law & Order: Season 7
1996 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe series' seventh season -- which earned two Emmys -- finds Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) with a new associate (Carey Lowell), who struggles to keep pace with her career and single motherhood. Later, a three-part story follows detectives Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) to Hollywood to investigate a studio bigwig's murder, and Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) sits at his ailing wife's bedside.
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Law & Order
1990 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsLaw & Order is the police procedural/legal drama that started it all -- including the spinoff Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and a British version across the pond -- by painting an often-complicated portrait of America's criminal justice system. Over the course of its 20-season run, the series picked up an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama as well as Screen Actors Guild statuettes for leading men Sam Waterston and Jerry Orbach.
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Law & Order: Season 8
1997 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe Emmy-winning series returns for more police investigations and courtroom drama inspired by contemporary news events, including an indictment of television violence as a probable cause of real-life bloodshed. In other stories, recovering alcoholic Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) falls off the wagon after a visit from his estranged daughter, and Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross (Carey Lowell) considers giving up the practice of law.
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Law & Order: Season 6
1995 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsBenjamin Bratt joins the show's cast as Det. Rey Curtis, the new partner of caustic Det. Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), in the venerated series' sixth year. In the opener, a distraught mother guns down -- in court -- the man charged with abducting and murdering her young daughter. Guest stars this season include Sada Thompson, Sandy Duncan, Chris Cooper, Frank Converse, Ellen Pompeo and Jennifer Garner.
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Law & Order: Season 5
1994 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsSam Waterston joins the cast for a fifth season of the acclaimed series as Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy in a story line that has Ben Stone quitting in disgust after a witness he vowed to protect is murdered. The talented but womanizing McCoy works with colleague Claire Kincade (Jill Hennessy) to put away the criminals collared by detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth). S. Epatha Merkerson also stars.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The Seventh Year
2007 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsIn the seventh season of the "Law & Order" spinoff, Alicia Witt joins the cast as Detective Nola Falacci, who helps her partner, Mike Logan (Chris Noth), solve crime in New York City's Major Case Squad. The series alternates between the cases of Logan and Felacci and those of quirky ace profiler Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and his pragmatic partner, Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe).
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The Eighth Year
2009 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsJeff Goldblum joins the cast of the long-running procedural drama as Detective Zach Nichols, who partners with Detective Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) in the eighth season of high-profile investigations conducted by the NYPD's Major Case Squad. Goldblum and Nicholson are featured in half of the season's episodes, while the other half star original cast members Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe as ace sleuths Goren and Eames.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The Ninth Year
2010 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsAn internal tragedy in the Major Case Squad leads to big cast changes for Season 9 of this installment of the "Law & Order" franchise. Saffron Burrows joins as Det. Serena Stevens, who partners with Det. Nichols (Jeff Goldblum) and new Capt.
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The Man in the Moon
1991 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsSet in 1950s Louisiana, this coming-of-age drama follows a 14-year-old tomboy as she tries to cope with her budding sensuality and a rivalry with her older sister. Trouble begins to brew when the siblings both fall for their dreamy new neighbor.
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The Journey of August King
1995 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsYoung widower August King encounters Annalees, a runaway slave, in the woods of North Carolina in 1815. Rather than let Annalees's cruel owner catch her, August decides to risk his own life to help her reach freedom in the North.
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Hopscotch
1980 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsOne of the CIA's top international operatives, Miles Kendig is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig begins writing a memoir that exposes the secrets of every intelligence agency in the world.
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The Glass Menagerie
1973 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsKatharine Hepburn makes her television dramatic debut as overbearing matriarch Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's poignant play. Amanda's unrealistic dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter (Joanna Miles) and her aspiring writer son (Sam Waterston). Michael Moriarty plays the gentleman caller whose visit disrupts the family's precarious balance. Moriarty and Miles won Emmys for their performances.
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The Great Gatsby
1974 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsMysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan in this 1974 film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. Beyond Gatsby's grasp, Daisy is married to unfaithful Tom, making for a love triangle that ends with broken hearts.
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Heaven's Gate
1980 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen wealthy cattlemen use brutal tactics to drive settlers off their land, Sheriff James Averill intervenes in this Western based on the true story of Wyoming's Johnson County War. Averill clashes with, then befriends, one of the armed mercenaries.
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