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It's one of the most popular songs in the English language. Transcending race, creed, geography, generation, and social station, 'Amazing Grace' has been recorded more times than any other hymn. In this fascinating program, Bill Moyers explores the song's origins and enduring power.
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Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion, and much more.
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Grace Kelly is a huge movie star with the promise of a glittering career when she marries Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. Six years later, with her marriage in serious difficulty, Alfred Hitchcock offers her the chance to return to Hollywood to play the role of Marnie in his next film. But France is also threatening to annex Monaco, the tiny principality where she became the Princess. Grace is torn and forced to choose between the creative flame...
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Doris Day collection volume 2
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English
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The story of lyricist Gus Kahn and his wife, from the day Gus walks into a Chicago music publishing house to his public triumphs, private failures, career decline and comeback.
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At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general₂s concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen₂s enemies.
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Grace Kelly reigned as one of Hollywood's brightest stars before becoming Princess of Monaco. Her film credits include High Noon, the Country Girl (Academy Award, Best Actress) and High Society, as well as Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and To Catch a Thief. In this intimate portrait, experience the triumph and tragedy of Princess Grace through rare photographs, home movies and newsreel clips. This revealing documentary also includes...
12) Grace Kelly
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At the height of her career, Grace Kelly, with her cool beauty and glamorous poise, left the Hollywood screen behind for the real-life role which seemed to be her destiny. Marrying the Prince of Monaco, Princess Grace became true royalty. Charting her rise from shy but determined daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia family to her meteoric rise to Oscar-winning actress, this made-for-television movie was released shortly after the tragic death of Princess...
13) Alias Grace
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Grace Marks is a young, poor Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott, finds herself accused and convicted of the infamous 1843 murders of her employer, wealthy farmer Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery.
16) Libby, Montana
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Libby, Montana is a small logging and mining town. This documentary looks at Libby in the context of its being deemed by the E.P.A. as the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in U.S. history. In the case of Libby, this substance is asbestos, and hundreds of the townsfolk are sick or have already died from exposure due to asbestos contamination of the W.C. Grace & Co.'s vermiculite mine. The film documents the stories of the...
17) A civil action
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A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.
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A Civil Action : A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic legal battle ... one that may cost him his career, reputation and all that he owns.
The Insider : When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the...