Glenn Jordan

Glenn Jordan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Glenn Jordan (born April 5, 1936) is an award-winning American television director and producer. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Jordan directed multiple episodes of Family and has helmed numerous television movies, several based on real persons as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, George Armstrong Custer, Lucille Ball, Christa McAuliffe, and Karen Ann Quinlan. His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan's Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory. Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds, Sarah, Plain and Tall, To Dance with the White Dog, Barbarians at the Gate, The Long Way Home, and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End. Jordan has directed three feature films: Only When I Laugh, The Buddy System, and Mass Appeal. Jordan has been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won four, for producing the miniseries Benjamin Franklin for producing and directing the Hallmark Hall of Fame production Promise and for executive producing the HBO production[ "Barbarians at the Gate"]. He won two New York area Emmys for the PBS series ["Actor's Choice"] and ["New York Television Theater"].He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for Family and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials or Movies for Television for Les Misérables. Three of his productions ("Benjamin Franklin" "Heartsounds" and "Promise") have won Peabody Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Glenn Jordan
  • Popularity: 1.027
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1936-04-05
  • Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas
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  • Also Known As: Glenn A. Jordan
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Glenn Jordan Movies

  • 1973
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    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    6.682 1973 HD

    A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown...

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  • 1978
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    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    7.056 1978 HD

    In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

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  • 1999
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    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    7.3 1999 HD

    The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a...

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  • 1993
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    Barbarians at the Gate

    Barbarians at the Gate

    6.8 1993 HD

    F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier,...

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  • 1981
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    Only When I Laugh

    Only When I Laugh

    6 1981 HD

    A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the...

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  • 1970
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    Dragon Country

    Dragon Country

    5 1970 HD

    Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with...

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  • 1984
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    The Buddy System

    The Buddy System

    4.7 1984 HD

    A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.

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  • 1991
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    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    7.3 1991 HD

    Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

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  • 1975
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    Song of the Succubus

    Song of the Succubus

    1 1975 HD

    The leader of a rock group is haunted by the ghost of a music star who took her own life at the turn of the century.

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  • 1998
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    Legalese

    Legalese

    5.7 1998 HD

    When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.

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  • 1992
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    O Pioneers!

    O Pioneers!

    5.5 1992 HD

    A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning...

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  • 1997
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    A Christmas Memory

    A Christmas Memory

    6.5 1997 HD

    A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a...

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  • 1987
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    Echoes in the Darkness

    Echoes in the Darkness

    7.5 1987 HD

    Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion...

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  • 1998
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    The Long Way Home

    The Long Way Home

    6.2 1998 HD

    A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an...

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  • 2003
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    Lucy

    Lucy

    7.4 2003 HD

    MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.

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  • 1984
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    Mass Appeal

    Mass Appeal

    6.2 1984 HD

    A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

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  • 1993
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    To Dance with the White Dog

    To Dance with the White Dog

    7 1993 HD

    When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

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  • 1995
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    7 1995 HD

    Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information...

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  • 1987
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    Echoes in the Darkness

    Echoes in the Darkness

    7.5 1987 HD

    Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion...

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  • 1985
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    Toughlove

    Toughlove

    5 1985 HD

    The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for...

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  • 1971
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    Hogan's Goat

    Hogan's Goat

    8 1971 HD

    A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair...

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  • 1980
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    The Women's Room

    The Women's Room

    4.3 1980 HD

    A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women...

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  • 1991
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    Aftermath: A Test of Love

    Aftermath: A Test of Love

    5.2 1991 HD

    Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.

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  • 1979
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    Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

    Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

    6 1979 HD

    A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However,...

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  • 1995
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    My Brother's Keeper

    My Brother's Keeper

    1 1995 HD

    A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.

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  • 1976
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    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    7 1976 HD

    The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the...

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  • 1977
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    The Displaced Person

    The Displaced Person

    7 1977 HD

    A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.

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  • 1984
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    Heartsounds

    Heartsounds

    8 1984 HD

    New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which...

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  • 1999
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    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    7.3 1999 HD

    The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a...

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  • 1973
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    6 1973 HD

    Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.

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  • 1999
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    Night Ride Home

    Night Ride Home

    5.7 1999 HD

    When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions...

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  • 1976
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    One of My Wives Is Missing

    One of My Wives Is Missing

    7.2 1976 HD

    Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Corban...

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  • 1980
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    The Women's Room

    The Women's Room

    4.3 1980 HD

    A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women...

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  • 1970
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    Dragon Country

    Dragon Country

    5 1970 HD

    Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with...

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  • 1993
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    To Dance with the White Dog

    To Dance with the White Dog

    7 1993 HD

    When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

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  • 1995
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    7 1995 HD

    Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information...

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  • 1975
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    Rock-a-Die Baby

    Rock-a-Die Baby

    1 1975 HD

    A premonition comes true when the members of a rock group begin to die off for no apparent reason.

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  • 1991
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    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    7.3 1991 HD

    Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

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  • 1988
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    Jesse

    Jesse

    7 1988 HD

    True television account of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.

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  • 1996
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    Jake's Women

    Jake's Women

    1 1996 HD

    Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he...

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  • 1992
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    O Pioneers!

    O Pioneers!

    5.5 1992 HD

    A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning...

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  • 1971
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    Hogan's Goat

    Hogan's Goat

    8 1971 HD

    A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair...

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  • 1999
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    Night Ride Home

    Night Ride Home

    5.7 1999 HD

    When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions...

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  • 1977
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    In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

    In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

    8.2 1977 HD

    Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never...

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  • 1996
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    After Jimmy

    After Jimmy

    5 1996 HD

    This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much,...

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  • 1981
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    The Princess and the Cabbie

    The Princess and the Cabbie

    7 1981 HD

    A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.

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  • 1994
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    Jane's House

    Jane's House

    5 1994 HD

    Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When he unexpectedly falls in love with Mary, a former...

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  • 1977
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    The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

    The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

    1 1977 HD

    General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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  • 1997
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    A Christmas Memory

    A Christmas Memory

    6.5 1997 HD

    A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a...

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  • 1986
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    Promise

    Promise

    7.2 1986 HD

    Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother...

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  • 1998
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    The Long Way Home

    The Long Way Home

    6.2 1998 HD

    A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an...

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  • 1996
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    After Jimmy

    After Jimmy

    5 1996 HD

    This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much,...

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  • 1986
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    Promise

    Promise

    7.2 1986 HD

    Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother...

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  • 1971
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    Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

    10 1971 HD

    Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them...

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  • 1989
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    Home Fires Burning

    Home Fires Burning

    6.4 1989 HD

    When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.

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  • 1990
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    Challenger

    Challenger

    6.2 1990 HD

    A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its...

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  • 1972
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    Particular Men

    Particular Men

    1 1972 HD

    A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the...

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  • 1982
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    Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

    Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

    6 1982 HD

    A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

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  • 2001
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    Midwives

    Midwives

    7 2001 HD

    It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of...

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  • 2001
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    Midwives

    Midwives

    7 2001 HD

    It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of...

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  • 1994
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    Jane's House

    Jane's House

    5 1994 HD

    Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When he unexpectedly falls in love with Mary, a former...

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  • 1977
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    Sunshine Christmas

    Sunshine Christmas

    1 1977 HD

    A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas...

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  • 1973
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    A Prowler in the Heart

    A Prowler in the Heart

    1 1973 HD

    A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.

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  • 1996
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    Mary & Tim

    Mary & Tim

    5.5 1996 HD

    Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him...

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  • 1979
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    The Family Man

    The Family Man

    1 1979 HD

    A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles...

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  • 1971
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    The Typists

    The Typists

    1 1971 HD

    Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student...

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  • 1991
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    The Boys

    The Boys

    1 1991 HD

    When Walter's diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, because that partner is a...

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  • 1991
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    The Boys

    The Boys

    1 1991 HD

    When Walter's diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, because that partner is a...

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  • 1975
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    Shell Game

    Shell Game

    4 1975 HD

    A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.

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  • 1996
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    Mary & Tim

    Mary & Tim

    5.5 1996 HD

    Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him...

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  • 1971
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    Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

    10 1971 HD

    Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them...

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  • 1969
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    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    1 1969 HD

    A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.

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  • 1977
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    Delta County, USA

    Delta County, USA

    1 1977 HD

    Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his...

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  • 1986
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    Something in Common

    Something in Common

    6 1986 HD

    A young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her about it and when the girlfriend comes to meet...

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  • 1996
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    Jake's Women

    Jake's Women

    1 1996 HD

    Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he...

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  • 1969
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    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    1 1969 HD

    A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.

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  • 1998
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    Legalese

    Legalese

    5.7 1998 HD

    When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.

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  • 1970
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    8.8 1970 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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  • 1970
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    8.8 1970 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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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Friends is a short-lived kids-oriented drama that aired in the spring of 1979. The series, which was produced by Aaron Spelling and aired on ABC,...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Benjamin Franklin is a 1974 American television miniseries that chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin. It was broadcast by CBS. It won the Emmy...

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  • 1970
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    5.4 1970 HD

    When a cadet at a military academy is found dead, the assumption is it was an accident. But the autopsy reveals that's not the case and that he's a...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    This mini-series is a critically acclaimed drama of psychological intrigue, conspiracy and murder. It began in 1979 with the grisly discovery of...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    This mini-series is a critically acclaimed drama of psychological intrigue, conspiracy and murder. It began in 1979 with the grisly discovery of...

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