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Lord of the Rings Fans *
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Ads *
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British Films *
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Classic Books
Classics
Disney cartoons
Faith-based
Historic movies
Inspirational
Movie trailers
Musicals
Mysteries |
Old movies *
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Sci-Fi *
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Spoilers
Summaries
Theater *
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Television *
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Time travel
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Lord of the Rings Fans: |
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The
Hunt for Gollum
(www.thehuntforgollum.com)
(An independent film, which can be viewed
online. This fills in a scene from "The Lord of the
Rings" with some pretty good look alikes. Was tipped off
from twitter by the tolkienlibrary, www.tolkienlibrary.com
- S. K. Smith)
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Born
of Hope
(www.bornofhope.com)
(Another independent film, which can be viewed
online. This is a prequel from "The Lord of the
Rings."
"A scattered people, the
descendents of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to
survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends
its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant,
desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from
father to son."
Read more: Lord
Of The Rings prequel made by a fanatic using her £25,000 life
savings scores 500,000 views on the internet)
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Lord of the Rings
- Requiem for a dream
(youtubecom)
(music video for Lord
of the Rings)
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How
Lord of The Rings Should Have Ended
(youtubecom)
(Some humor - and wisdom - here. Of
course, if they did it like this there would be no triology or block
buster movies.)
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The Lord of the Rings Movies
(tk421.net/lotr/film/)
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Sam's
Speech (youtube.com)
(From the Two Towers (2002) - the Good worth
fighting for.)
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Hobbit News:
* updates *
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TIME Exclusive: First Look at Balin and Dwalin from ‘The Hobbit’ Movie
(newsfeed.time.com)
("An Exclusive Look at 'The Hobbit'
Dwarves")
* NEW *
THE HOBBIT Trailer HD (youtube.com)
("The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic
quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long
ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. ...')
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Ads:
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American Express -
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Seinfeld and Superman
series:
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Superman,
Seinfeld and Lois
(youtube.com)
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A uniform used to mean something
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Hindsight
is 20/20 (youtube.com)
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Best Ad Ever
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2010
Best TV Advertisement Award (youtube.com)
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Budweiser
- Clydesdales 9/11/11 Tribute Ad (youtube.com)
("Budweiser 9/11/11 Tribute Ad as seen on Sunday
September 11th 2011.")
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Funny Ads
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Top
Funny Ads (youtube.com)
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British
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Amazing
Grace (2006) (youtube.com)
("Amazing
Grace is a 2006 film about the campaign against the slave
trade in 19th century Britain, led by William
Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade
legislation through the Brtish parliament. The title is a reference
to the hymn "Amazing Grace" and the film also recounts
John Newton's writing of the hymn and highlights his influence on
Wilberforce".)
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Chariots
of Fire (youtube.com)
( Chariots
of Fire (1981) is the true story about "two British
track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout
Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics." I found this
scene inspiring as Eric
Liddell reads from Isaiah
40:12-31 . - S. K. Smith)
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Keeping
Mum: Song of Solomon (youtube.com)
(I found the British dark comedy, Keeping
Mum (2005), intriguing and unique for using the The
Song of Solomon as a turning point. In this clip, the
Vicar reads passages from the Bible to re-ignite passion into his
marriage at a critical time when his wife is on the cusp of plunging
into an adulterous affair with a real creep. - S. K. Smith)
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The King's Speech
The
King's Speech (2010) (youtube.com)
(The
King's Speech won Best Picture and Colin
Firth, best actor. - S. K. Smith)
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Speaking Unto Nations (youtube.com)
(One of the most moving scenes ... hope it stays up for
awhile. - S. K. Smith
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A
Tale of Two Cities (final) (youtube.com)
("The final scene from the 1935
movie from Dicken's A
Tale of Two Cities.")
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Classics: |
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Casablanca
- La Marseillaise (YouTube.com)
("Casablanca
is a 1942 American romantic drama film starring Humphrey
Bogart, Ingrid
Bergman and Paul
Henreid, Set during World
War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one
character, love and virtue.")
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Charlie Chaplin: The
Great Dictator (1940)
(This 1940 film was Charlie Chaplin's first
"Talkie." It was very bold and prophetic for its
time, as it conceived on the cusp of World War Two and the rise of
Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. A Jewish barber, recovering
from amnesia, is a dead ringer for the dictator of Tomainia,
Adenoid Hynkel. The symbol of the dictator's regime is the
double cross, which is enforced by Storm Trooper. See
more: The
Great Dictator.)
Charlie
Chaplin: Scene in the jewish ghetto
(YouTube.com)
("This film made in 1940, after
Kristallnacht
1938, predicted many of the tragic events that would affect
European jewry in the period 1940-1945, including the
extermination camps. Charlie Chaplin was truly a genius.")
The
Great Dictator- Globe Scene (YouTube.com)
("A classic scene of cinema, Chaplin's dance with
the globe.")
The
Great Dictator - speech (YouTube.com)
("This is the climax to the 1940 Charlie Chaplin
film "The Great Dictator")
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Disney
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Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937):
Heigh
Ho!
(youtube.com)
(Note: I see these dwarfs were into mining much
like the dwarfs in Tolkien's Hobbit and Lords of the Rings.
- S. K. Smith)
Love's First Kiss (Finale)
(youtube.com)
("Over 70 years old.. yet, it is so timeless..")
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Hunchback
of Notre Dame (1996):
God
Help The Outcasts (youtube.com)
Hellfire
(youtube.com)
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Faith-Based: |
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faith-based
film (faithbasedfilm.com)
("blog and news postings.")
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Wired4Film (wired4ilm.com)
("Because of the success of Mel Gibson’s
“The Passion”, Walden Media’s “Chronicles of Narnia” and
Sherwood Baptist Church’s “Facing the Giants,” Hollywood has
begun taking note of the Christian audience to begin creating more
faith-based, family friendly fare. ")
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Movie
Recommendations (sermonfollowup.org)
(Some intriguing trailers.)
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Historic Movies:
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The 18th century:
Amadeus
- Salieri views Mozarts music and has an epiphany
(youtube.com)
("Amadeus
is a stage play written in 1979 by the English dramatist Peter
Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart and Antonio
Salieri. Shaffer then adapted Amadeus for a film released in
1984.")
Barry Lyndon (1975)
(youtube.com)
("Barry
Lyndon is a 1975 period film by Stanley
Kubrick loosely based on the 1844 novel The
Luck of Barry Lyndon by William
Makepeace Thackeray. It recounts the exploits of a 18th century
Irish adventurer, particularly his rise and fall in English society.")
Note:
Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major,
D. 929 (Op. 100) is very moving. It was one of the last
compositions completed by Franz
Schubert, published bin late 1828, shortly before the
composer's death.
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The Civil War:
Gone with the
Wind:
Gone
with the Wind (youtube.com)
(70th anniversary promo from the 1939
movie from Margaret Mitchell's Gone
With the Wind)
Then/Now Special: The Stars of 'Gone With the Wind'
(foxnews.com)
("More than seventy years after its release
in 1939, the Oscar-winning film "Gone With the Wind"
remains a piece of Hollywood history.")
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The Turn of the Century:
Titanic
(1997) - Nearer My God to Thee
(youtube.com)
(This scene from the 1997
film is very moving - as it captures the doom of the ship as the
passengers face eternity..)
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The Russian Revolution:
Dr.
Zhivago - The Private Life is Dead
(youtube.com)
(This 1965
film based on Boris
Pasternak's novel about the Bolshevik Revolution.)
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The Great Depression:
The
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
(youtube.com)
(John
Ford's 1940
film based on John
Steinbeck's novel about the Great Depression about .)
The
Sting
(youtube.com)
(Theme of The
Sting, in memory of the passing of Paul
Newman on September 26, 2008.)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) - Atticus Finch Delivers Closing
(americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches)
("Atticus Finch delivers his Closing Argument at the
Trial of Tom Robinson" in To
Kill a Mockinbird.)
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World War Two:
Patton
(1970)
(YouTube.com)
(Critics pick - Patton,
the portrait of a maverick general starring George
C. Scott.)
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Holocaust:
Remembering
the Holocaust in Film (networkedblogs.com)
("The United States Congress established the
Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the
Holocaust.: This weblog has a list of recommended
films.")
Schindler's List
Schindler's List (YouTube.com)
(Scenes from Schindler's List - Theme
Itzhak Perlman)
Movie Speech from Schindler's List - Farewell Address to Jewish Factory Workers
(americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches
("Oskar Schindler Addresses 1200 Jewish Brunnlitz Factory
Workers And Nazi Guards")
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Inspirational:
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Dead
Poet Society (1989) - Carpe Diem (youtube.com)
("Carpe Diem - A scene from the film Dead
Poets Society 1989 - Starring Robin Williams")
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Forrest
Gump (1994) (youtube.com)
(One of the last scenes in Forrest
Gump - Forrest and Jenny.)
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Movie
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Academy
Award Winning Movie Trailer (youtube.com)
(Very amusing "template" for a great
movie trailer. - S. K. Smith)
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Los
33 - The Chilean Miners film trailer
(youtube.com)
("An extraordinary Hollywood cast for the
amazing true story of the Chile miners. The movie the whole world is
waiting for." I'd love to really see this. :) - S. K. Smith)
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Musicals: |
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42nd
Street (youtube.com)
("The final dancing and singing number
from the film 42nd Street (1933)")
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Porgy
& Bess - Summertime (youtube.com)
("Summertime is an aria composed by
George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy
and Bess.")
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Yankee
Doodle Dandy - Over There
(youtube.com)
(Yankee
Doodle Dandy (1942) "James Cagney portraying George
M. Cohan, the song he wrote during WWI that boosted the morale and
patriotism of an untold number of Americans during this time.")
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White
Christmas
(youtube.com)
(Bing Cosby singing Irving
Berlin's song in the 1954
musical. I find this one of the most moving scenes in the
movie as Captain Wallace sings to the troops while oversees during
World War II.)
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Oklahoma
(youtube.com)
(The final song of Oklahoma
(1955).)
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The
Music Man - Ya Got Trouble (1962)
(youtube.com)
("The
Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert
Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley
Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway
musical of the same name by Meredith
Willson.")
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The
Sound
of Music - Edelweiss
(youtube.com)
(This is my favorite song from The
Sound of Music (1965).)
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Fiddler
on the Roof: Sunrise, Sunset
(youtube.com)
("Beautifully sung marriage procession
from the movie: Fiddler
On The Roof (1971) ")
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Godspell
- It's all for the best
(youtube.com)
(The final scene of this clip of Godspell
(1973) was shot on top of the unfinished World
Trade Center in New York City. Who would have know
about September 11, 2001 those towers would be tumbling down.")
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O
Brother,Where Art Thou? - Constant
Sorrow
(youtube.com)
(Theme from O
Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000))
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Mysteries: |
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Castle
(Examiner.com)
("National Castle Examiner - TV | There
is just something about watching a writer ride along and help a
detective solve her cases with her and her coworkers.")
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Old Movies
- like real, real old:
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Arctic Canada caught on 1919 silent film (bbc.co.uk)
("One of the world's early documentaries
featured unique footage of the lives of Arctic fur trappers in 1919.")
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Film
of 1906 Street Car in San Francisco (stevebass.posterous.com)
("Here's a neat opportunity to enjoy some
time travel. The film is from a streetcar
cable car traveling down Market Street in San Francisco, four days
before the big earthquake/fire that destroyed the area.")
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Frankenstein
(1910) - Full Movie (youtube.com)
("Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by
Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It
was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein.")
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SciFi: |
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Contact
- Opening scene (youtube.com)
(This opening scene of Contact
(1997) is awesome! - S. K. Smith)
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Dr. Who
Dr.
Who: The Empty Child (youtube.com)
(BBC's Dr.
Who is the longest
running Sci-Fi program in the world.
"The
Doctor," a Time
Lord, regularly regenerates into different incarnations as he
travels through time and space, usually with a mortal female
companion. His vehicle, the TARDIS,
resembles an old fashioned British Police Box, which is bigger on
the inside that the outside. Oh, the marvels of science fiction.
Two 2005 episodes, "The
Empty Child" and its sequel "The
Doctor Dances", are set in Great Britain during the
onslaught of World War Two. The TARDIS lands the ninth
Doctor, played by Christopher
Eccleston, and his companion Rose
Tyler from 21st century London, back in London of 1941 during the
Blitz.
Here is another one of my favorite scenes from the 2nd
part: Doctor
Who - The Doctor Dances
- S. K. Smith)
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Radio Astronomers Receiving Lost Dr. Who Episodes....From Deep Space
(news.dice.com)
(Where life imitates art and Dr. Who and
Contact meet! - S. K. Smith)
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Fifth
Element: Opera Diva (youtube.com)
(For a blue skinned alien, the voice of this diva
in the Fifth
Element (1997) is awesome! - S. K. Smith)
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Science of Space Movies is Out of This World
(news.discovery.com)
("Last week I snagged a seat
for a fun event called Out
of This World: The Science of Space Movies, held at the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles")
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Star Trek
15 Things You Didn't Know about Star Trek
(onlineschools.org)
("The First Star Trak
program hit the airwaves in 1966 and had one of the largest impacts
on popular culture and science than any other Franchise in history.")
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Star Trek's classic, "Bread and Circuses," testifies to
power of Christianity (youtube.com)
("...classic Star Trek episode where Kirk
testifies to the power of "Son-worshipers" to transform
a culture as Christians did ancient Rome.")
Star
Trek parody (youtube.com)
("Star Truck" - an animaniacs take. SK Smith)
* NEW *
The Trouble with Tribbles (youtube.com)
(One of the most popular episodes in the original
series. - SK Smtih)
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Spoilers: |
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Spoiler
TV Movies
(movies.spoilertv.com)
("... a comprehensive and up
to date spoiler service on all the major US
TV shows, Movies
and Celebrity
Photos.")
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Summaries: |
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Film Study Guides - SparkNotes
(sparknotes.com)
( The Cliff Notes of film.
S. K. Smith)
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Theater: |
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Les
Misérables (1987) - Do
You Hear The People Sing?
(Youtube.com)
("From the 25th anniversary
of the musical Les
Miserables - based on the Victor
Hugo novel (1862) - Les
Miserables.")
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Oliver -
Londons Westend Cast (2009)
(Youtube.com)
("Heres the advertisment for
Oliver in Londons west end!")
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SOUTH PACIFIC Video Montage
(Youtube.com)
("A video montage from
Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-award winning production of Rodgers
& Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC")
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Television:
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General:
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Full Episodes from - Watch Free Online on SlashControl
(slashcontrol.com)
(Free episodes on TV)
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Hulu
(hulu.com)
(More tv (and movies) to watch online.)
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Sitcoms:
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Happy
Days (youtube.com)
(One of my favorite episodes. Richie
almost dies. Fonzie cries.)
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Mini-series:
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I,
Claudius - Half Wit Beats Senate (youtube.com)
(The mini-series, based on the Robert
Graves novel, I,
Claudius (1976) starring Derek
Jocobi was on the biggest hits by the BBC. Also, one of
characters, Sejanus is played by Patrick
Steward - (Captain Picard of Star
Trek - Next Generation) when he had hair.)
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Time
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Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.
(YTTM.tv)
(Gives a new meaning to going to the "time
warp, again." Default at 1987. It's fun and scary
to look back at ourselves, or at least the images we left. - S. K.
Smith)
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Topical: |
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Corporate take-over:
Other
People's Money (1991) - board election address
(youtube.com)
( Both Gregory
Peck and Danny
DeVito are awesome! Other
People's Money (1991) seems like it could be written for
2010. - S. K. Smith)
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Political:
Memorable Political Films
(FoxNews.com)
( "From the completely comical to
edge-of-your-seat action, Fox411 has compiled a list of some of the
most memorable political flicks from the present-day to the distant
past.")
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Westerns: |
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General:
Those
Westerns (oldfortyfives.com)
( Here's to a simpler time.
- S. K. Smith)
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Miscellaneous: |
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Almost
Everything on TV is filmed with green screen (mikelgan.posterous.com)
(Even the most mundane scenes these days are filmed with the magic
of green screen technology. )
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All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation
(boxofficemojo.com)
(Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation )
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Be
a Movie Producer
(buyacredit.com)
(If you have the pounds or dollars, you, too, can be a movie producer! S.
K. Smith ;) )
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The Oracle
of Bacon
(oracleofbacon.org)
("...the most comprehensive version of the
Kevin Bacon game on the web." It's been around a while,
but it's fun. S. K. Smith)
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