Van Heflin

Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. (December 13, 1910 – July 23, 1971) was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).

  • Title : Van Heflin
  • Popularity : 8.204
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1910-12-13
  • Place of Birth : Walters, Oklahoma, USA
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  • Also Known As : Emmett Evan Heflin Jr., Ван Хефлин, Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr.
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Van Heflin Movies

  • 1940
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    Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail

    5.6 1940 HD

    As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

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  • 1953
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    Shane

    Shane

    7.4 1953 HD

    A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

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  • 1965
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    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    6.4 1965 HD

    From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling....

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  • 1970
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    Airport

    Airport

    6.4 1970 HD

    Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

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  • 1947
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    Possessed

    Possessed

    6.9 1947 HD

    After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

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  • 1948
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    Tap Roots

    Tap Roots

    6.4 1948 HD

    Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the...

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  • 1951
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    The Prowler

    The Prowler

    6.8 1951 HD

    Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who...

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  • 1946
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    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    7.1 1946 HD

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

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  • 1949
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    Act of Violence

    Act of Violence

    6.9 1949 HD

    A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him...

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  • 1941
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    Johnny Eager

    Johnny Eager

    6.1 1941 HD

    A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

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  • 1957
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    3:10 to Yuma

    3:10 to Yuma

    7.2 1957 HD

    Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's...

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  • 1965
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    Once a Thief

    Once a Thief

    6.4 1965 HD

    Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer...

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  • 1948
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.8 1948 HD

    Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

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  • 1958
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    Gunman's Walk

    Gunman's Walk

    6.7 1958 HD

    A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

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  • 1943
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    Presenting Lily Mars

    Presenting Lily Mars

    6.1 1943 HD

    Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

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  • 1954
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    Black Widow

    Black Widow

    6.3 1954 HD

    A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

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  • 1939
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    Back Door to Heaven

    Back Door to Heaven

    5 1939 HD

    The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

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  • 1949
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    Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary

    6.7 1949 HD

    A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social...

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  • 1951
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    Tomahawk

    Tomahawk

    6.6 1951 HD

    In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to...

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  • 1966
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    Stagecoach

    Stagecoach

    6 1966 HD

    A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been...

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  • 1942
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    Grand Central Murder

    Grand Central Murder

    5.9 1942 HD

    Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a...

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  • 1942
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    Kid Glove Killer

    Kid Glove Killer

    6.2 1942 HD

    Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.519 1959 HD

    An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion...

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  • 1946
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    Till the Clouds Roll By

    Till the Clouds Roll By

    5.6 1946 HD

    Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage...

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  • 1968
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    Certain Honorable Men

    Certain Honorable Men

    1 1968 HD

    The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.

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  • 1942
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    Tennessee Johnson

    Tennessee Johnson

    6.2 1942 HD

    The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...

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  • 1955
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    Count Three and Pray

    Count Three and Pray

    4.8 1955 HD

    A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

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  • 1955
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    Battle Cry

    Battle Cry

    5.6 1955 HD

    The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits...

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  • 1952
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    My Son John

    My Son John

    5.2 1952 HD

    In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

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  • 1954
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    The Raid

    The Raid

    6.5 1954 HD

    A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie...

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  • 1948
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    B.F.'s Daughter

    B.F.'s Daughter

    6.3 1948 HD

    Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

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  • 1965
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    Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon

    Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon

    1 1965 HD

    Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer David Wolper. It concerned the world of pro...

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  • 1968
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    The Ruthless Four

    The Ruthless Four

    6.1 1968 HD

    This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in...

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  • 1956
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    Patterns

    Patterns

    7.2 1956 HD

    Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with...

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  • 1941
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    H.M. Pulham, Esq.

    H.M. Pulham, Esq.

    6.8 1941 HD

    A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young...

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  • 1941
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    The Feminine Touch

    The Feminine Touch

    5.1 1941 HD

    A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...

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  • 1942
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    Seven Sweethearts

    Seven Sweethearts

    7 1942 HD

    Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven...

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  • 1949
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    East Side, West Side

    East Side, West Side

    7 1949 HD

    A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

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  • 1947
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    Green Dolphin Street

    Green Dolphin Street

    6.1 1947 HD

    Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William....

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  • 1953
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    South of Algiers

    South of Algiers

    6 1953 HD

    Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.

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  • 1969
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    The Big Bounce

    The Big Bounce

    5.2 1969 HD

    A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?

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  • 1960
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    Five Branded Women

    Five Branded Women

    6.05 1960 HD

    Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to...

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  • 1948
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    The Secret Land

    The Secret Land

    5.9 1948 HD

    This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump....

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  • 1954
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    Woman's World

    Woman's World

    7.1 1954 HD

    Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto...

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  • 1960
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    Under Ten Flags

    Under Ten Flags

    5.4 1960 HD

    "Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and...

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  • 1963
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    Cry of Battle

    Cry of Battle

    4.2 1963 HD

    During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and...

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  • 1937
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    Flight from Glory

    Flight from Glory

    5.5 1937 HD

    Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney...

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  • 1937
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    The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    6 1937 HD

    The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

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  • 1951
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    Week-End with Father

    Week-End with Father

    5.8 1951 HD

    Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

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  • 1937
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    Annapolis Salute

    Annapolis Salute

    6 1937 HD

    The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the...

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  • 1937
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    Saturday's Heroes

    Saturday's Heroes

    7 1937 HD

    College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

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  • 1958
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    Tempest

    Tempest

    6.2 1958 HD

    A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he...

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  • 1971
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    The Last Child

    The Last Child

    7 1971 HD

    In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very...

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  • 1954
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    Tanganyika

    Tanganyika

    7.5 1954 HD

    A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.

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  • 1967
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    The Man Outside

    The Man Outside

    6 1967 HD

    Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be...

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  • 1961
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    The Wastrel

    The Wastrel

    4.9 1961 HD

    A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his...

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  • 1936
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    A Woman Rebels

    A Woman Rebels

    5.8 1936 HD

    A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.

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  • 1973
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    The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1961
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    Ricochet

    Ricochet

    1 1961 HD

    An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.

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  • 1974
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    That's Entertainment!

    That's Entertainment!

    7.2 1974 HD

    Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

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  • 1953
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    Wings of the Hawk

    Wings of the Hawk

    5.1 1953 HD

    Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the...

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  • 1997
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    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

    7 1997 HD

    Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...

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  • 1965
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    The Teen-Age Revolution

    The Teen-Age Revolution

    1 1965 HD

    Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.

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  • 1965
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    The Bold Men

    The Bold Men

    1 1965 HD

    A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports-related and not, that are at the limit of human...

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  • 1950
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    University U.S.A.

    University U.S.A.

    1 1950 HD

    Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A student film about college life on the UCLA campus in the...

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  • 1957
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    The Dark Side of the Earth

    The Dark Side of the Earth

    1 1957 HD

    A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.

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  • 1991
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    Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

    Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

    5.7 1991 HD

    Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

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  • 1954
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    A Star Is Born World Premiere

    A Star Is Born World Premiere

    8 1954 HD

    Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the...

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  • 1966
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    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    1 1966 HD

    The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.

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  • 1944
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    Land and Live in the Jungle

    Land and Live in the Jungle

    8 1944 HD

    In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two...

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  • 2019
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    Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

    Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

    7.7 2019 HD

    An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

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  • 1985
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    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    5.4 1985 HD

    Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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  • 1945
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    Land and Live in the Desert

    Land and Live in the Desert

    1 1945 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.5 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1952
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    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

    6.4 1952 HD

    This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961....

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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