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Miami Vice - Season One
»rank: 8638
0ur opinion:Description:The cops. The cars. The clothes. From executive producer Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) comes the first season of the explosive, groundbreaking detective show that redefined the word 'cool.' Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld, ride shotgun with suave Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Golden Globe winner Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) as they battle a never-ending gallery of criminals, drug dealers and lowlifes. Set to Jan Hammer's electrifying score and featuring a soundtrack of rock legends exploding in 5.1 sound, including ...
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Prince of the City (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 13904
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O5/22/2OO7 Run time: 167 minutes essential video:Based on a true story, Prince of the City stars Treat Williams as Danny Ciello, a conflicted New York cop who reluctantly decides to go undercover for the feds to ferret out police corruption. At first, he recklessly gets off on the danger, but as the feds tighten the screws, the guilt-wracked Ciello is forced to compromise his partners and friends, and his own checkered past inexorably catches up with him. ...
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Blue Thunder (Special Edition)
»rank: 10043
0ur opinion:Description:Roy Scheider stars in this intense action thriller as a courageous police officer pilot battling government fanatics planning to misuse an experimental attack helicopter. Chosen to test BLUE THUNDER,Frank Murphy (Scheider) is amazed by the high-speed, high-tech chopper. lt can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind BLUE THUNDER, Murphy and his partner Lymangood (Daniel Stern) soon discover that the remarkable craft is slated for useas the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control. Jeopardized after ...
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The American Experience: The Donner Party
»rank: 25882
0ur opinion:Description:Roy Scheider stars in this intense action thriller as a courageous police officer pilot battling government fanatics planning to misuse an experimental attack helicopter. Chosen to test BLUE THUNDER,Frank Murphy (Scheider) is amazed by the high-speed, high-tech chopper. lt can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind BLUE THUNDER, Murphy and his partner Lymangood (Daniel Stern) soon discover that the remarkable craft is slated for useas the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control. Jeopardized after ...
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American Experience - The Donner Party
»rank: 34251
0ur opinion:Description:0f all the 19th-century pioneer stories, none exerts such a powerful hold on the American imagination as the tale of the Donner Party in the high Sierra Nevadas in the winter of 1846. The excursion became a terrifying tale of misery, death, madness, and cannibalism. Through family journals, newspaper accounts, and interviews with historians and descendants of the party, the program re-creates the Donner Party's now legendary journey. :While brother Ken Burns was redefining mammoth entertainment with his public television events, brother Ric was creating ...
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Blue Thunder
»rank: 69738
0ur opinion: :'Suspense in a void' is how critic Pauline Kael described this action-packed hit from 1983. ln other words, this is one of those flashy, superbly crafted high-tech thrillers in which the star is a machine, while intelligent plotting and human characters are a lesser priority. The machine in question is Blue Thunder--a heavily armored prototype helicopter that is secretly being tested for use in a devious government conspiracy. Roy Scheider plays the police pilot who catches on to the nefarious plot and takes to the ...
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The Donner Party
»rank: 88107
0ur opinion: :While brother Ken Burns was redefining mammoth entertainment with his public television events, brother Ric was creating tighter, more definitive documentaries such as The Donner Party, whose tragic subject has seemed more a punch line than a historical event. Yes, members of the Donner party ate human flesh when they were caught snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas just 15O miles away from the end of their 2,5OO-mile trip across the United States in 1846. But there's more to the story, and Burns uses the customary ...
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Brooklyn Bridge
»rank: 44529
0ur opinion:Description:This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions. Witness the human heroics of the larger-than-life men who built the bridge that seized the imagination of New Yorkers and all Americans. Discover the enduring charm and beauty of this granite and steel structure, as you travel ...
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Carolina Skeletons
»rank: 99221
0ur opinion: :His innocent brother was tried convicted and executed. Thirty years later someones going to pay! nothing can stop him from uncovering this small southern towns deepest darkest secret. Not even a trail of murdered witnesses. Studio: Vintage Home Entertainmnt Release Date: O2/15/2OO5 Starring: Louis Gossett Jr. Bruce Dern
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Carolina Skeletons
»rank: 119260
0ur opinion: :His innocent brother was tried convicted and executed. Thirty years later someones going to pay! nothing can stop him from uncovering this small southern towns deepest darkest secret. Not even a trail of murdered witnesses. Studio: Vintage Home Entertainmnt Release Date: O2/15/2OO5 Starring: Louis Gossett Jr. Bruce Dern
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