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Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
WGBH

Described as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced," Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an...

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Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Charlie Chaplin

When Charles Chaplin was forced to leave the USA in 1952, he found harbor in Switzerland and settled in a small village on Lake Geneva where he lived with his family until the end of his life in...

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Christopher Reeve: Hope In Motion
Christopher Reeve: Hope In Motion
Christopher Reeve

This intimate portrait focuses on Chris's remarkable recovery of movement and his constant fight to fully regain his mobility. Following Chris closely over many months of treatment and public...

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Citizen King
Citizen King

CITIZEN KING, a two-hour documentary from acclaimed film-makers Orlando Bagwell and Noland Walker, explores the last five years in the life of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr....

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
WGBH and Ambrica Productions, Inc.

She was the nation's conscience, a tireless advocate for America's disadvantaged. Controversial First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt influenced American social policies for decades and helped create the...

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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
A Certain Slant of Light
Bayley Silleck

Julie Harris (Academy Award® and eleven time Emmy® nominee) takes viewers into Emily Dickinson's everyday world in a small New England town to couple and contrast facts about the poet with her...

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Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
A Film by Ric Burns
WGBH

The author of such innovative works as "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night," Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O’Neill wrote 20 long plays in fewer than 25...

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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
WGBH

Fidel Castro has survived U.S. hostility, an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts and an economic embargo. His face has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an...

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Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
Visions
Gordon Parks

He's been a waiter, a train porter, and a piano player in a brothel. He gained world-wide recognition as an award-winning photographer for LIFE Magazine, the first Afro-American to hold such a staff...

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In Remembrance of Martin
In Remembrance of Martin
Idanha Films

Personal comments from family, friends, and advisors fill this remarkable documentary honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King joins the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Julian Bond, Jimmy...

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