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Strategic Trust: The Making of a Nuclear Free Palau
Actress Joanne Woodward narrates the story of an emerging Republic (Palau Islands) in America's Pacific Trust Territory as it tries to maintain history's first nuclear-free national constitution.
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Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
In the aftermath of a war fought by magnetic weapons which caused massive earthquakes, a young and spunky boy naned Conan gets involved in a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great war. He meets a young girl named Lana, and they eventually foil the plans of the city-state of Industria which wants to regain the lethal weapons. Note: This film is only a compilation of the final three episode of the television series.
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Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story
A shot-on-video straight-to-television comedy adaptation of the Frankenstein story. Co-written by, and starring Gary Cohen (director of Video Violence).
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Neil Sedaka Says: All You Need Is the Music
Hugely successful singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka plays hits from his early rock 'n' roll days and his later, more lyrical age in this special one-man show from the 1980s.
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The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me
Rodney Dangerfield's first ABC special, featuring stand-up and sketches.
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
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Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
Sigui 1967-1973: invention de la parole et de la mort is a never-before-seen synthesis of the roaming ceremony of the Dogon people living in Mali, the Sigui. It is celebrated for seven years every sixty years, and it is to commemorate the first forefather’s death and funeral and the bestowal of speech to humans.
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The Pink Panther in 'Pink at First Sight'
It is Valentine's Day and the hip feline has no love and no money except for seven cents. He goes to a messenger service for a job but messes his rehearsal up. He then buys a cassette player and pre-recorded cassettes with the seven cents he had left and goes back to the messenger service miming to "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, and gets hired as a messenger on Valentine's Day
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Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
Adrian Thrills investigates a new and exhilarating musical blend which is taking the country by storm. 2-tone is a unique mix of music, fusing together reggae, rock, soul, ska, blue beat and punk. With its home in Coventry and its roots in reggae, it derives its name and identity from the co-existence of its black and white members.
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The Great Railway Cavalcade: Rocket 150 at Rainhill
Brian Redhead reports from the 'Rocket 150' event held at Rainhill, Lancashire to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway and the Stephensons' legendary Rocket locomotive. On display are 'celebrity' engines from across the country, including the 'Green Arrow', the 'Flying Scotsman' and the record-breaking Mallard-class train that bore its designer's name, 'Sir Nigel Gresley', as well as the king of the modern electric railway, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT).
