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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)

Street of No Return (1989)

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Marie: A True Story (1985) -- (Movie Clip) Women In Important Positions

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) We Call It The Nerve Center

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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)

Street of No Return (1989)

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Marie: A True Story (1985) -- (Movie Clip) Women In Important Positions In Nashville, ca. 1976 Sissy Spacek as the title character, a new Vanderbilt graduate, meets Keith Szarabajka as political staffer Kevin, then co-star Jeff Daniels, as college friend Eddie Sisk, aide to the new governor (Ray Blanton), who offers her a job, then congrats from friend Toni (Lisa Banes) and her kids, in director Roger Donaldson’s Marie: A True Story, 1985.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) We Call It The Nerve Center Transit cop Zach Garber (Walter Matthau) introduces Lt. Patrone (Jerry Stiller) as he shows Tokyo subway officials the inner-workings of the New York system in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The -- (Movie Clip) Fiorello LaGuardia Warren the deputy mayor (Tony Roberts) takes charge as Al the mayor (Lee Wallace) and his wife (Doris Roberts) consider whether to pay ransom in Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974.

He Knows You're Alone (1980) -- (Movie Clip) A Bride Was Killed Grumbling cop Frank Daley (Paul Gleason) drops news on equally frustrated colleague Len Gamble (Lewis Arlt) who, it turns out, is eager to act on this new lead on the bride killer, his reasons explained for the first time to a third officer, in He Knows You’re Alone, 1980.

Mon Oncle (1958) -- (Movie Clip) He Simply Won't Obey The modern house now famous as writer, director and star Jacques Tati's "Villa Arpel" is central, as Gerard (Alain Becourt) is delivered by his uncle (Tati), while mother (Adrienne Servantie) entertains before father (Jean-Pierre Zola) gets home, in Mon Oncle, 1958.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Taking Your Train Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw), Green (Martin Balsam), Grey (Hector Elizondo) and Brown (Earl Hindman) take the train in the dramatic opening of director Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974.

Primary (1960) -- (Movie Clip) A Candidate's View The opening of documentarian Robert Drew's first in his series of films chronicling the election and presidency of John F. Kennedy, beginning with senator Hubert H. Humphrey campagning in the Wisconsin primary, in Primary, 1960.

Primary (1960) -- (Movie Clip) If We Can Hold The Darts Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, campaigning in the Democratic Presidential Primary in Wisconsin, early 1960, from Robert Drew's documentary Primary, 1960.

Adventures On The New Frontier (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Eyes Of The World As broadcast on the ABC-TV series Close-Up! in 1961, the opening of documentarian Robert Drew's the second film on the 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Adventures On The New Frontier.

Adventures On The New Frontier (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Inauguration Day From the second segment of Robert Drew's television documentary, some behind-the-scenes coverage of the inauguration of president John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961, featuring John Kenneth Galbraith and John Steinbeck chatting in a limo, from Adventures On The New Frontier, 1961.

Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment (1963) -- (Movie Clip) This Is The Account What's called a cold open nowadays, plus music, documentarian Robert Drew begins with Alabama Governor George Wallace at the capital in Montgomery, then students Vivian Malone and James Hood, then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and his brother the president, in Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment, 1963.

Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Alabama Is The Last State Documentarian Robert Drew offers all-but unprecedented material, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, consulting with aides about the admission of African-American students to the University Of Alabama, in Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment, 1963.

Great Santini, The - (Original Trailer) A marine (Robert Duvall) has problems adjusting to domestic life during peacetime in The Great Santini (1979).

Standing in the Shadows of Motown - (Original Trailer) Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002), a documentary about a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.

Trading Places - (Teaser Trailer) A Wall Street investor (Dan Aykroyd) and a man from the hood (Eddie Murphy) find themselves Trading Places (1983).

Shadows and Fog - (Original Trailer) Woody Allen adapted his one-act play into this all-star tribute to German Expressionism, Shadows And Fog (1992).

Radio Days - (Original Trailer) A young boy's coming of age is mirrored by his favorite radio shows and the lives of their stars in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987).

Tender Mercies - (Original Trailer) Robert Duvall gives one of his greatest performances as a has-been country singer who finds love in Tender Mercies (1983).

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