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Biography - Cleopatra: Destiny's Queen 1 review
Biography
A&E Home Video, 1997
Cleopatra was a great queen of Eygpt
the mysterious cleopatra was many things: a mother, a wife, and a leader. she did many great things in her lifetime to better her country. conquering new lands and keeping controlling of her country was her goal. Some of her as a goddess and in a way she was for her story is immortal and will ...
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Biography - Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Vivien Leigh
A & E Home Video, 2000
While this 45-minute documentary from A&E doesn't break any new factual ground for Vivien Leigh fans, its inclusion of lots of rare footage--screen tests, excerpts from Leigh's Academy Awards acceptance speeches, home movies, and candid photos--make it well worth the price of admission. Narrated by Harry Smith, the video includes interviews with Leigh's stepson Tarquin Olivier, John Gielgud, Mia ...
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Biography - Tyrone Power 5 reviews
A & E Biography
A & E Home Video, 2000
A Beautiful Biography
+ Great But Buy MARK OF ZORRO DVD instead!!!
+ Honest portrayal
+ The Life and Career of Tyrone Power
+ A Must Have
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Biography - Adam & Eve2 reviews
Biography
A&E Home Video, 1998
Great A&E Biography!!
This is a great A&E Biography of the biblical legends Adam & Eve.They were the worlds first nudists!!!
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Hail Caesar: Julius Caesar - Master of 3 reviews
Hail Caesar
A & E Home Video, 2001
A battle begun but not won
This video on the life of Julius Caesar is light information for the buyer that wants to know basic facts spiced with historiccally biased but interesting semi-facts. Anyway, I don't want to sound too critical I did enjoy the video though it failed to capture the true greatness of Caesar. One ...
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Lana Turner: Hollywood's Screen Siren
Lana Turner
A & E Home Video, 2001
There's an amusing moment in L.A. Confidential when Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) accuses the blonde having a drink with gangster Johnny Stompanato of being a hooker that merely looks like Lana Turner. "That is Lana Turner," his partner (Kevin Spacey) says with a smirk. Yet more proof, if any were needed, that Lana Turner's legend lives on. If anything, her life was even more dramatic than her ...
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A & E Biography Series: Arnold Schwarzenegger4 reviews
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A & E Home Video, 2000
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+ Never Fear; he'll be Back!
+ IT WAS COOL
+ HFXGKVBZYGKCXG
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Biography - Clark Gable 2 reviews
Biography
A&E Home Video, 1996
A great Actor!!
Clark Gable was a great actor as shown in this A&E biography.He rules!!
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Biography - Al Capone - Scarface2 reviews
A&E Home Video, 1997
Capone
This was one of the best movies I've seen in a while. The director completely captured the idea of mobsters which is Capone. This movie changed my outlook on life.
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Biography - Bugsy Siegel: Gambling on the Mob 2 reviews
A&E Home Video, 1997
Everything you want to know about this charming gangster!
+ pretty informative.
This is, by far, the most informative biography on the legendary gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. It looks at his life as a mobster, and as a business man and of coarse, as a ladies man. Hard to believe how such a charming and dapper man could be what he was. This is a must see piece for anyone ...
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Biography - Jack the Ripper2 reviews
A & E Biography
A & E Home Video, 2000
One of the better Ripper documentaries I've seen
+ Spooky
This is a well done documentary. It concentrates on the facts and gives one a good idea of the social background of the Victorian East End slums in which the Ripper operated. It also is fortunate to have Donald Rumbelow, martin Fido and Stewart Evans provided insight into the cases. The ...
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Biography - Bob Hope: America's Entertainer1 review
A&E Home Video, 1998
Thanks For the Memories!!
Bob Hope is probably the best actor/comedian ever and a person of impeccable character!!This year he will be 100 years old.This A&E Biography is an excellent video.So Mr. Bob Hope may you live forever in our hearts,we all love you!!
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Biography - John Wayne: American Legend7 reviews
A&E Home Video, 1998
A Legend which will last forever!
+ Excellent Documentary.
+ Superb Wayne primer, once again fine job by A & E. Take that, his tory (propaganda chanel)!
I have completely enjoyed anything that has been shown for John Wayne. Since I was a little boy, my mother would take me to see his movies and it never showed ignorant cussing or sex scenes that would appaul the parents. He showed manhood and decency to us kids. I wish I could spend hours of ...
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Biography - Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth8 reviews
Biography
A&E Home Video, 1997
*Fantastic* Biography
+ She did it all at 26 ... and died at 33
+ Not entirely accurate but it's still intriguing.
+ Beauty and intelligence made her powerful yet loved
+ Admirable attempt, impossible objective: Evita is all myth!
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Biography - Rudolph Valentino4 reviews
A & E Biography
A & E Home Video, 2000
Excellent and interesting!
+ Valentino is timeless
+ A&E Biography at its very best
+ Great for Rudy
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Biography - Humphrey Bogart
A & E Biography
A & E Home Video, 2000
Humphrey Bogart's screen career followed an offbeat trajectory from villain to antihero to romantic icon, an evolution that underscores the acting craft beneath that familiar persona. This well-crafted profile from A&E's Biography series brackets that compelling arc by chronicling Bogart's success in establishing a public image that was genuinely against type, given his origins in a privileged ...
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Sally Hemings: Redefining History (A & E Biography)1 review
Jack Perkins, Annette Gordon Reed
A & E Home Video, 2001
A Great Biography
This film offers a complex look at a woman who is said to have captured the heart of our thrid president. It starts out with Sally Hemings birth and explores her life and what the world was like around her, which might have helped shape the woman she became. Qualified historians and respected ...
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Biography - Ingrid Bergman: A Passionate Life
Ingrid Bergman
A & E Home Video, 2001
Orphaned as a young girl, shy Ingrid Bergman dreamed of becoming an actress. Voted Sweden's most popular actress, she was wooed by Hollywood. A natural beauty, she was praised for her talent, winning an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy. Also, a look at her stormy private life, including the affair with director Roberto Rossellini.
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Biography - Cary Grant: Hollywood's Leading Man3 reviews
Biography
A&E Home Video, 1999
Another great Biography
+ Cary Grant: Hollywood's Leading Man
I'm a fan of the Biography series and of Cary Grant. Biography keeps with its winning formula of filling out the timeline of Cary Grant's life with interesting anecdotes, comments from friends, and excellent pictures and film clips. The show keeps away from the gossipy side, but does reveal ...
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A & E's Legendary Women Biography Series: Anne Frank - The Life of a Young Girl6 reviews
David Janssen, Anne Frank
A & E Network, 1998
Interesting Introduction to Anne With Extras
+ An interesting introduction to Anne Frank
+ Courageous Acknowledgement of Man's Inhumanity to Man!
+ Annelie Marie Frank
+ Good for Beginners
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