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Includes:Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years (1999) Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Years (1999) Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years This video is part one of a two-part series on the life of Ronald Reagan. This volume explores Reagan's career as an actor on the silver screen and television. Starting in radio broadcasting, Reagan landed roles in over 50 movies. He may be best remembered for his starring role in Knute Rockne -- All American and his television series Death Valley Days. The documentary uses archival film footage, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues to tell the story of this Hollywood star, still destined for his leading man role of President of the United States. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Years This video is the second volume in a two-part series on the life of Ronald Reagan. This episode explores Reagan's political career. After becoming a staunch Republican, Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966. His political fortunes le
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A homeless woman living in Central Park is examined in this documentary. Maggie is a good-humored woman in her '40s. She lives in Central park with 6 dogs and a huge backpack. It is in the park that filmmaker Miche Negroponte met her and gradually became her friend. Outwardly she seems normal enough. She is witty, gentle, and intelligent. She claims to be the daughter of actor Robert Ryan and has six children. She also claims to receive radio reports from her husband Jupiter, the Greek god. In trying to understand what she means, Negroponte spent two years following her and interviewing her. The film, which also looks into her past is the result. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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This biographical documentary examines the life of legendary physicist Albert Einstein. The film takes a look at his beginnings a an excited young scientist, his celebrated status in his adopted country of America, as well as his being the subject of a government investigation, and the modern opinion that he was one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
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This program tells selected stories about the life and death of Jesus from his mother's visit from an angel to inform her of the immaculate conception to Jesus' experiences with his disciples as an adult. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott, a self-styled folk musician, was an important transitional figure between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. This documentary serves as both a chronicle of his colorful life and an attempt by his daughter, director Aiyanna Elliott, to reconnect with her often-absent father. Born Elliott Adnopoz in Brooklyn, Jack ran off as a teenager in 1947 to join a traveling rodeo troupe after seeing them perform in Madison Square Garden. He returned to New York and took up singing, first cowboy songs, then traditional and contemporary folk music. He and Woody Guthrie traveled through the South in the 1950s, learning songs from blues artists such as the Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotton, and Jesse Fuller. Elliott remained one of Guthrie's truest friends all through Guthrie's long battle with Huntington's chorea, the congenital nerve disease that killed him in 1967. In 1955, Elliott and the first of his four wives decamped to England, where his reputation was made with fans of the skiffle music craze. H
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Relating his facts in straight-on documentary fashion, Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 Biblical film stars Enrique Irazoqui as Jesus. In it, Christ and his followers are depicted as gentle radicals working against the grain of the unjust Roman power structure. Typically offbeat Pasolini touches include having Satan disguise himself as a Catholic priest and the casting of the director's own mother as the Virgin Mary. The music is selected from a variety of sources, from Bach to American spirituals. Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo was released in the U.S. as The Gospel According to St. Matthew -- much to the discomfort of Pasolini, who didn't want Matthew designated as a saint. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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