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  • Back to the Future picture
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    Back to the Future (1985)

    A teen (Michael J. Fox) takes a crackpot's (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean time machine to 1955 and...

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    Blue Velvet (1986)

    A young man (Kyle MacLachlan) ties the mystery of a severed ear to a roadhouse floozy (Isabella...

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    The Astronaut Farmer (2007)

    Pursuing a lifelong dream, a rancher (Billy Bob Thornton), who once trained to be an astronaut,...

  • American Graffiti picture
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    American Graffiti (1973)

    Four teens in 1962 California get a final, nostalgic glimpse of innocence before facing their...

  • A Prairie Home Companion picture
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    A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

    The creator of a long-running radio show conducts business as usual while his guests, cast and crew...

  • The Best Years of Our Lives picture
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    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    A disabled serviceman and two other veterans (Fredric March, Dana Andrews) have difficulty adjusting...

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    Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

    A '50s-era housewife (Julianne Moore) uses her wit and winnings from commercial jingle contests to...

  • Friday Night Lights picture
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    Friday Night Lights (2004)

    A high-school football coach (Billy Bob Thornton) in Odessa, Texas, tries to lead his players (Derek...

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    Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)

    A voyeuristic teen (Vincent Kartheiser) focuses his camera on a neighborhood girl (Monica Keena) and...

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    Fargo (1996)

    A pregnant police chief (Frances McDormand) probes the murderous events that evolved from a...

  • Meet Me in St. Louis picture
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    Meet Me in St. Louis

    A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904...

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    Fast Food Nation (2006)

    A marketing executive (Greg Kinnear) for a burger chain investigates when tests show that meat...

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    Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

    The owner (Ray Romano) of a small-town Maine hardware store runs for mayor against a former...

  • The Great Gatsby picture
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    The Great Gatsby (1974)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford), shady 1920s millionaire, tragically loves Daisy...

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    The Final Season (2007)

    An inexperienced coach (Sean Astin) takes charge of the last season of a champion high-school...

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington picture
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    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

    A country bumpkin faces ridicule and corruption when he takes his idealistic views to the nation's...

  • Eight Men Out picture
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    Eight Men Out (1988)

    Disgruntled Chicago White Sox stand trial for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series for mobster...

  • Bound For Glory picture
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    Bound For Glory (1976)

    Folk singer Woody Guthrie (David Carradine) tours Depression-era work camps and spreads his word by...

  • America's Heart and Soul picture
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    America's Heart and Soul (2004)

    Filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg examines the beauty of the United States and the spirit of its...

  • Peggy Sue Got Married picture
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    Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

    A 1985 housewife (Kathleen Turner) passes out at her high-school reunion and wakes up in 1960, in...

  • A League of Their Own picture
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    A League of Their Own (1992)

    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League begins in 1943 with a major-league has-been as a...

  • The Majestic picture
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    The Majestic (2001)

    Residents of a 1950s coastal community mistake an amnesiac screenwriter for a soldier who never...

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    Bubble (2006)

    Residents of a small town investigate a murder which took place at a local toy factory.

  • Pleasantville picture
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    Pleasantville (1998)

    A shy suburban teen and his sister are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV...

  • The Cider House Rules picture
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    The Cider House Rules (1999)

    Raised to be an obstetrician at a Maine orphanage, a young man (Tobey Maguire) leaves to work at a...

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    The Basket (2000)

    In the midst of World War I, the people in a small Pacific Northwest town are tired, confused and...

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? picture
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    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

    A mysterious lawman tracks three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson)...

  • Easy Rider picture
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    Easy Rider (1969)

    Two free spirits (Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper) on chopped motorcycles clash with the Establishment...

  • Remember the Titans picture
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    Remember the Titans (2000)

    A Virginia high school hires a black football coach (Denzel Washington) after undergoing integration...

  • City of Hope picture
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    City of Hope (1991)

    A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile, the...

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    Dave (1993)

    White House aides draft a down-to-earth double (Kevin Kline) to impersonate the president, who has...

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    Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

    Two brothers from the wrong side of the tracks share complicated relationships with the daughters of...

  • Alice's Restaurant picture
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    Alice's Restaurant (1969)

    A draft-dodging folk singer (Arlo Guthrie) visits hippie friends in his VW microbus and ends up in...

  • The Reivers picture
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    The Reivers (1969)

    A Mississippi boy (Mitch Vogel) drives to Memphis with two rascals (Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse) in...

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    Bright Angel (1991)

    Two young Montana lovers (Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor) drive to Wyoming, where they try a bribery...

  • Election picture
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    Election (1999)

    When a school's goody-two-shoes (Reese Witherspoon) runs for class president, a teacher/adviser...

  • Beggars in Ermine picture
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    Beggars in Ermine

    The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both...

  • The Grapes of Wrath picture
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    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...

  • I Want You picture
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    I Want You (1951)

    Uncle Sam sends small-town family men (Dana Andrews, Farley Granger) into the Korean War whether...

  • Forrest Gump picture
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    Forrest Gump (1994)

    JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate and other history is seen through the eyes of an Alabama man (Tom...

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    Harry and Tonto (1974)

    A retired New Yorker (Art Carney) travels across the United States with his cat.

  • The Natural picture
    Movies

    The Natural (1984)

    The almost mythical ability of a middle-aged baseball player rockets a major-league team toward the...

  • John Teneyck picture
    People

    John Teneyck

    John Teneyck worked in Production on TV shows such as The Great American History Quiz: 50 States,...

  • Linda Newton picture
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    Linda Newton

    Linda Newton was a Consultant for TV shows such as The Great American History Quiz: 50 States and...

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    Buffalo

    Buffalo appeared in the movie Americana.

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    Masagwa

    Masagwa appeared in the movie Americana.

  • Claire Townsend picture
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    Claire Townsend

    Claire Townsend appeared in the movie Americana.

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    Glenna Walters

    Glenna Walters appeared in the movie Americana.

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    Miguelito Valdes

    Miguelito Valdes performed for movies such as RocknRolla, You Were Never Lovelier, and...

  • Arnold Herzstein picture
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    Arnold Herzstein

    Arnold Herzstein appeared in the movie Americana.