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A Venue For The End Of The World | Himself | 2014-09-14 | Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the danger… |
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Narrator (voice) | 1972-01-10 | This documentary explores and celebrates Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio’s glorious history. MGM’s eventual decline led to the sale of its back lot an… |
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Bye Bye Kipling | Self | 1986-01-01 | This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and per… |
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The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks | himself | 2006-09-07 | Dick Cavett interviews Mel Brooks in 2006…. |
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Dick Cavett’s Watergate | Himself | 2014-08-08 | From 1972 to 1974, the Watergate scandal was frequently a part of “The Dick Cavett Show.†In fact, Cavett was at the forefront of national TV cove… |
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Frontier University Dreams | Narrator | 2005-04-01 | Pioneering the harsh landscape of Nebraska was difficult enough in 1869. Pioneering a new university was almost beyond reason. What was a university? … |
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Remember Me | Narrator | 1979-01-01 | Remember Me is a 1979 American short documentary film produced by Dick Young, that was filmed in the US, the Middle East and Asia. The film depicts th… |
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Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Himself | 2018-08-02 | The life and times of Muhammed Ali shown through the lens of his numerous appearances on The Dick Cavett Show. The film features new interviews with D… |
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Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate | Himself – Chat-Show Host | 2014-03-02 | A peep behind the scenes of the golden era of Hollywood to discover exactly how and why Katharine Hepburn became one of the most famous actresses in t… |
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Dick Cavett’s Vietnam | | 2015-04-27 | Examine the Vietnam War and its impact on America through the prism of interviews conducted by the iconic host of “The Dick Cavett Show.†This pro… |
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Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising | Narrator | 1999-01-01 | From ancient phrases etched in stone, to today’s cutting edge multimedia commercials, selling has always meant grabbing attention. This is a story of … |
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Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson | Narrator | 2000-05-30 | “A delightful documentary about Anderson, in which we get to know the man as well as his music, through interviews with colleagues and family members,… |
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From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall | Self | | A documentary film chronicling the history, loss and rebuilding of a landmark, 125-year-old house known as Tick Hall. In 1997, a huge fire burned Tick… |
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay | Narrator | 2012-10-04 | The life and career of renowned magician and sleight of hand artist Ricky Jay…. |
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James Brown – The Man, The Music & The Message | Dick Cavett | 2014-11-08 | The Godfather of Soul tells his life story and features his greatest live performances…. |
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again | Himself | 2011-09-09 | For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting … |
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Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show | Himself | 1969-07-06 | The complete collection of Jimi Hendrix’s celebrated appearances on The Dick Cavett Show. The Dick Cavett Show marked Jimi’s US network television deb… |
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Funny Girl to Funny Lady | Himself | 1975-03-09 | A benefit concert for the Special Olympics and an opportunity to promote Streisand’s upcoming film (Funny Lady), this special was a combination of Str… |
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Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-01 | Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North Amer… |
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Doctor Duck’s Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce | Self | 1986-01-01 | A montage of sketch comedy and music videos…. |
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Norman Mailer: The American | Self | 2012-05-18 | A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes be… |
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Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America | Himself | 2017-11-09 | With his naïve air, his rangy and reassuring silhouette, James Stewart symbolizes success, someone who everybody wants to look like. Behind his legen… |
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The Education of Gore Vidal | Himself (archive footage) | 2003-06-30 | A contrarian and wickedly funny man, “The Education of Gore Vidal” explores Vidal’s extraordinary life and work, joining him at his cliff-side villa i… |
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Jack Paar: Smart Television | Self | 2003-11-29 | PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar…. |
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The One, the Only… Groucho | Himself | 1991-05-28 | Groucho’s life story, with jokes… |
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Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves | Himself | 2010-11-21 | A collection compiled from the harmonising duo’s televised performances from Saturday Night Live, The Dick Cavett Show and The Grammy Awards. Tracks i… |
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Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie | | 2007-07-31 | Documentary about the film Where Danger Lives (1950)… |
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Histoire Du Fartform Vol. One: Cinema | Himself | 2022-07-23 | A look at the last one hundred years of the cinematic artform…. |
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Janis: Little Girl Blue | Himself | 2015-09-09 | Janis Joplin’s evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators…. |
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Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous | himself | 1990-01-01 | A special examining America’s fascination with celebrities. Based on the irreverent, satirical humor of “Spy Magazine.” Comedian Jerry Seinfeld acts a… |
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After School | Himself | 1988-09-01 | A student-teacher relationship goes way beyond the classroom, including pre-historic times…. |
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This Is Bob Hope… | Himself | 2017-12-29 | During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the ent… |
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Unforgettable | | 2010-08-16 | Brad Williams is only the second person ever studied by neurologists for the newly-identified syndrome called “hyperthymesia”, an extremely detailed f… |
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To My Great Chagrin | Himself | 2007-09-09 | The story of eccentric, avant-garde New York comic, Theodore Gottlieb. Known as Brother Theodore, this brilliant (some would say insane) comic made n… |
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Elvis Meets Nixon | Narrator | 1997-08-12 | A “mockumentary” about Elvis’s real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA… |
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Best of Enemies | Self | 2015-07-31 | A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and th… |
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Imagine | Himself | 1972-12-23 | A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John’s historic ‘Imagine’ alb… |
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Janis | | 1974-10-18 | Released just a few years after her death, this forms a picture of who Janis was through interviews and performance clips…. |
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Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation | Self – TV Host (archive footage) | 2021-06-18 | The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublim… |
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Smash His Camera | Self | 2010-07-30 | A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi…. |
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Driving Me Crazy | Mr. Johnson | 2012-01-06 | Meet Elliot Brown. He is one of Brooklyn’s most neurotically sweet and eligible bachelors . . . who also happens to be pushing forty and living with h… |
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Listen to Me Marlon | Self (archive footage) | 2015-07-29 | With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his li… |
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Himself (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 | 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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Moonage Daydream | Self (archival footage) | 2022-09-15 | A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey…. |
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Cocksucker Blues | Himself | 1972-01-01 | This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their first return to the States since the tragedy at A… |
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Nightside | Dick Cavett | 1973-04-05 | The story of three people – a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner – whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and… |
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David Bowie: Five Years | Self (Archival Footage) | 2013-05-25 | Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young Ameri… |
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell | Himself | 1982-01-02 | A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this … |
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Health | Dick Cavett | 1980-09-12 | Health is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president…. |
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 | “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth” encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was… |
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I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-03 | Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United… |
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Beetlejuice | Bernard | 1988-03-30 | Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge… |
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Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain… Begins to Die | Self (archive footage) | 2004-10-22 | This film attempts to correct the record when it comes to the left’s attacks on President Bush, 9/11 and the war in Iraq and Kerry’s 20-year tenure in… |
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-21 | This intimate and loving portrait of the legendary arbiter of fashion, art and culture illustrates the many stages of Vreeland’s remarkable life. Born… |
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Penn & Teller’s Invisible Thread | Himself | 1987-03-18 | Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have inv… |
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Kyoko | Himself (archive footage) | 2017-03-11 | In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono embark on a search for a girl named Kyoko. On April 23rd, they are arrested by the police at a hotel in Palma de Mal… |
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Excuse Me for Living | Reverend Pilatus | 2012-10-12 | A charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic’s demand to lead a seniors men’s group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiat… |
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The Fred Astaire Songbook | Self (archive footage) | 1991-03-08 | A loving tribute to Astaire the singer, hosted by Audrey Hepburn…. |
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Inside Deep Throat | Self | 2005-02-11 | In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel, “Deep Throat,” starring Linda Lovelace. This film would … |
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Simon | Himself | 1980-02-01 | A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he was… |
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Lucy and Desi | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-22 | Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz r… |
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The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self | 2022-08-31 | The Ghost of Richard Harris is about the once famous Hollywood star and notorious hellraiser. It is the story of a legendary Irishman, perhaps the gre… |
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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | (archive footage) | 2019-09-06 | With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early … |
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Power Play | Dick Cavett | 1978-11-01 | A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak…. |
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Woody Allen: A Documentary | Himself | 2011-11-20 | Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time…. |
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Barbarians at the Gate | Self | 1993-03-20 | A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco…. |
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Moon Over Parador | Self | 1988-09-09 | Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator’s right hand man, Rob… |
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Bergman: A Year in a Life | Self | 2018-07-12 | A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films… |
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Night Of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 | A celebrity benefit for The Actors’ Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy…. |
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Year of the Gun | Ben Gershon | 1991-09-10 | In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade’s terrorist plan to kidnap Ita… |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Dick Cavett | 1987-02-27 | It’s been many years since Freddy Krueger’s first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy’s all grown up;… |
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Nureyev | Self, Archive Footage | 2018-09-25 | An insight into the life of the world’s most famous male dancer, Rudolf Nureyev…. |
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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Self | 2016-11-04 | Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one… |
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River of Fundament | Wake Guest | 2014-02-12 | Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collabo… |
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Annie Hall | Dick Cavett | 1977-04-19 | New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall…. |
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The Capote Tapes | Self | 2021-09-10 | Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on t… |
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ | Self – TV Host (archive footage) | 2013-11-04 | An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented and influential guitarist of the twentieth century:… |
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Forrest Gump | Dick Cavett | 1994-06-23 | A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what a… |
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 | For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office a… |
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