Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor and occasional producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984's The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Emmy Awards, having starred in over eighty film and television productions during his forty-five year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances."
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 14.812 |
| Birthday | 1940-11-15 |
| Place of Birth | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | 샘 워터스톤, |
1984
The Killing Fields
7.5/727
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American...
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The Killing Fields
1980
Heaven's Gate
6.8/357
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants...
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Heaven's Gate
1974
The Great Gatsby
6.321/471
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, t...
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The Great Gatsby
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
7.5/1034
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.4/862
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1994
Serial Mom
6.747/678
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascinatio...
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Serial Mom
1987
September
6.214/189
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's...
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September
1977
Capricorn One
6.747/447
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing....
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Capricorn One
1980
Hopscotch
6.9/151
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destro...
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Hopscotch
2003
Le Divorce
4.959/146
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
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Le Divorce
1985
Warning Sign
6/63
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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Warning Sign
1975
Rancho Deluxe
5.4/26
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
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Rancho Deluxe
1978
Interiors
6.845/342
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughter...
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Interiors
1995
The Journey of August King
6.7/15
The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does e...
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The Journey of August King
2002
The Matthew Shepard Story
5.8/21
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the fin...
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The Matthew Shepard Story
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
4.879/87
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenk...
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Shadow Conspiracy
1991
The Man in the Moon
7.4/303
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and C...
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The Man in the Moon
1991
Mindwalk
6.8/48
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist who abandoned a lucrative career after discovering...
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Mindwalk
2010
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
5.9/6
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Who among us has not wanted to open their window and shout that at the top of their lungs?...
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The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
1989
Welcome Home
5.8/4
Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family...
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Welcome Home
1973
The Glass Menagerie
7.6/14
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her...
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The Glass Menagerie
1969
Generation
4.5/2
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.
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Generation
1994
The Enemy Within
5.7/33
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
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The Enemy Within
1974
Reflections of Murder
7/6
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the...
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Reflections of Murder
1996
The Proprietor
0/0
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
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The Proprietor
2024
Merchant Ivory
7/1
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...
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Merchant Ivory
1979
Eagle's Wing
5.19/21
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meetin...
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Eagle's Wing
1986
The Fifth Missile
6/3
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is...
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The Fifth Missile
1987
Swimming to Cambodia
6.6/21
Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film 'Th...
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Swimming to Cambodia
1982
Games Mother Never Taught You
0/0
Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the...
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Games Mother Never Taught You
1975
Journey into Fear
5.6/10
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
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Journey into Fear
1987
The Room Upstairs
4/3
A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more...
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The Room Upstairs
1998
Miracle at Midnight
7.3/13
Gripping historical drama presents a triumphant celebration of the human spirit. The true-life story of how one Danish family risked their lives in a...
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Miracle at Midnight
1969
Three
5/9
Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.
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Three
1988
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
6/2
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero r...
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Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1995
Nixon
6.9/361
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
1989
Lantern Hill
8/1
In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is...
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Lantern Hill
1972
Mahoney's Last Stand
5.4/4
"A truly remarkable performance!" - Charlie Chaplin In this rare and virtually unseen film we follow the exploits of Leroy Mahoney (Alexis Kanner) as...
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Mahoney's Last Stand
2024
A Case for Love
0/0
“A Case for Love” is a heartfelt yet personally challenging movie inspired by the teachings and writings of Bishop Michael Curry, most well-known for...
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A Case for Love
1994
David's Mother
8.5/4
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been d...
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David's Mother
1993
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
8/1
Lilly Taylor returns to her hometown for the first time in thirty years, where she remembers the dramatic events that led to her leaving, and learns w...
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I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
1983
Dempsey
6/3
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sens...
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Dempsey
1980
Sweet William
4/2
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), bu...
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Sweet William
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.4/9
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1970
Cover Me Babe
4.6/5
Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.
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Cover Me Babe
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4/2
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
1971
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
4.6/5
A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest...
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
2015
Please Be Normal
4/2
Victor is a struggling playwright and theater director and his girlfriend Mary is expecting their first child. He has a temporary job in construction...
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Please Be Normal
2016
Anesthesia
5.8/118
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Anesthesia
1984
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
0/0
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1986
Flagrant désir
5/4
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspecto...
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Flagrant désir
1985
Love Lives On
8/2
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
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Love Lives On
1998
Exiled
5.4/14
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the investigat...
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Exiled
2024
The Six Triple Eight
0/0
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 mill...
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The Six Triple Eight
1986
Just Between Friends
5.2/9
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their r...
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Just Between Friends
1993
A Captive in the Land
5/4
An American meteorologist attempts to rescue an injured Soviet airman. A killer storm soon maroons them both and the unlikely duo must learn to overco...
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A Captive in the Land
1973
Much Ado About Nothing
5/2
Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turns down his proposal, Don Pedro decides to matchmak...
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Much Ado About Nothing
1972
Savages
5/8
A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long I...
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Savages
2000
A House Divided
5/2
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a...
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A House Divided
2016
Miss Sloane
7.441/1787
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
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Miss Sloane
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
0/0
Four tales are compiled from the popular television series. After a death row inmate (Patrick Swayze) is struck by lightning, he discovers he's receiv...
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Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1967
Fitzwilly
6.1/29
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam...
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Fitzwilly
1987
Devil's Paradise
3.5/2
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes...
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Devil's Paradise
1966
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
7.7/2
Written, directed, and self-financed by Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is the story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon...
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The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1976
Sweet Revenge
5.9/10
A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is t...
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Sweet Revenge
1985
Finnegan Begin Again
6.3/10
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
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Finnegan Begin Again
1983
In Defense of Kids
5/1
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for ne...
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In Defense of Kids
2017
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
7/2
We all know Curious George. But what about his creators, Hans and Margret Rey? From fleeing Nazi Germany on handmade bicycles to encounters with exoti...
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Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2018
On the Basis of Sex
7.393/1018
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century o...
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On the Basis of Sex
2020
The Man in the Woods
3.5/2
On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, an...
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The Man in the Woods
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
0/0
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by t...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
2018
The Mayo Clinic
7/7
The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca," the "Supreme Court of Medicine," and the "plac...
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The Mayo Clinic
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
1988
A Walk in the Woods
0/0
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USSR on limiting medium-range nukes in Europe, met by...
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A Walk in the Woods
1999
In Bad Taste
8/8
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...
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In Bad Taste
2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
7.5/54
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – an...
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2015
Dean Smith
6/1
Coach, mentor, social activist ...the life and legacy of Dean Smith, North Carolina's legendary basketball coach - who went to 11 Finals Fours and won...
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Dean Smith
2017
Dateline: Saigon
8/1
How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times'...
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Dateline: Saigon
1992
Earth and the American Dream
6.7/3
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
1980
Friendly Fire
7.5/2
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam...
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Friendly Fire
2021
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
6.737/19
A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archives to create the first film featuring the revolut...
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
1999
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
0/0
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the compelling stories behind some of the world's most mem...
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Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
2020
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
0/0
The summer Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Connecticut inspired one of the world's most beloved novels: The Great Gatsby. We know the book, we kno...
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Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2003
The Commission
0/0
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination o...
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The Commission
1999
The Unfinished Journey
6/2
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
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The Unfinished Journey
2015
And It Was Good
0/0
A couple reunites after a long separation to find themselves in a world that seems designed for their enjoyment and comfort. They immediately get marr...
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And It Was Good
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
0/0
On April 17, 1975, the face of Cambodia would forever be changed. As Khmer Rouge soldiers marched into the capital city of Phnom Penh, the unsuspectin...
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