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The alamo: Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie - retreat within the walls of the Alamo, a Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort. Once inside, the men prepare themselves for what will be a bloody battle to the death. U.S. General Sam Houston leads the charge from the...
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A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010. The influence the magazine has had on our culture through turbulent times, , morphing into Second City, Saturday Night Live, and the movies, and the stars and sorrows it has produced.
83) Apollo 13
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Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
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Footloose. A fatherless teen-age boy from Chicago who likes to dance tries to shake up his new small midwestern hometown of Bomont, which doesn't allow public dancing. Bomont's Baptist minister is a staunch supporter of the ban on public dancing, but has a "loose" teenage daughter in high school who doesn't share his views on the ban. The two teenagers develop a mutual affection for each other and fight the ban in order to have a high school dance.
Flashdance....
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When the last person was rescued from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, 250,000 lives were still stranded: the city's pets, barred from the evacuation. Learn the stories of the unknown victims of America's worst natural disaster, and the people who came to their rescue.
87) My one and only
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Ann Devereaux has just left her philandering husband Dan, a society bandleader, and taken to the road with her teenage sons, George and Robbie, in search of a suitable new mate. But it's 1953, years past Ann's courting days. Now it seems that the losers and playboys outnumber the eligible and willing bachelors.
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These intimate interviews of the former chiefs themselves, along with two former presidents, provide an unprecedented look behind the closed door of the Oval Office and the annals of history that have unfolded there over the years. Spend almost three hours with the most powerful advisors and closest confidants of presidents past and discover the closely guarded secrets to being the president's gate keeper.
89) Friday the 13th
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A new owner and several young counselors gather to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, where a young boy drowned and several vicious murders occurred years earlier. They₂ve ignored the locals' warnings that the place has a death curse, and one by one they are stalked by a violent killer.
90) Wildthings
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A thriller about two high school students, the guidance counselor they accuse of rape, and the detective who knows there's more to the story.
91) Friday the 13th
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In 1957, a young boy named Jason Voorhees drowned. In 1958, two camp counselors were murdered. In 1962, fires and bad water kept Camp Crystal Lake from reopening. Now in 1979, Crystal Lake will finally be reopened by Steve Christy with the help of a few new counselors. The counselors begin to get ready for campers that summer. Ignoring the warnings from a local, the murders start once again while a mysterious stalker prowls the area. As bodies fall...
92) Tremors
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The small desert town of Perfection is under attack from giant prehistoric man-eating worms that can sense any sound. Now the few left alive must get out of town before they end up as worm food.
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X-Men: A war is brewing between people with special powers (mutants) and the rest of humanity-- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants: the X-Men.
X2 : X-Men united: A new war between humans and mutants begins after an assassination attempt is made on the life of the president of the United States. Now, every mutant needs to fight together against a common enemy: General William Stryker,...
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"The acclaimed comedy team of Lanny Morris and Vince Collins are at the top of their game when a beautiful woman is found dead in their hotel suite. Though both stars have airtight alibis, the resulting scandal forces the duo to terminate the act. Now, years after the breakup, journalist Karen O'Connor resolves to uncover the truth that lies behind the mysterious incident"--Container.
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Friday the 13th uncut (1980, 95 min.): Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for its horrifying and creative murder sequences.
Friday the 13th, part 2 (1981, 87 min.): Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal...
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Diner (1982, 110 min.) : Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams ; Liberty Heights (1999, 128 min.) : A Jewish family living in the Liberty Heights area of Baltimore experiences the social changes of 1954.
99) Losing Chase
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Follows the intimate relationship between Chase Phillips and Elizabeth Cole over the course of one summer on Martha's Vineyard. As Chase recovers from a nervous breakdown, she and her children are cared for by a 20-year-old mother's helper, Elizabeth. As the summer lazes on, the two women form a very special bond.
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Racing stripes. Horse breeder Nolan Walsh rescues a baby zebra accidentally left behind by a traveling circus and takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows that...