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Will Geer

Will Geer was an American actor who became popular for playing Grandpa Zeb Walton in the CBS television series, "The Waltons". He was a political activist and advocate for workers' rights and was blacklisted during the "Red Scare". He passed away in 1978.

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A Woman Called Moses

A Woman Called Moses

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavemen...

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Seconds

Seconds

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1966 IMDB Rating: 7.6

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity – one that comes with its own price.

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Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.6

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early fro...

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Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently...

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Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 7.4

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he i...

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Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atro...

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The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was...

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Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.

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Bandolero!

Bandolero!

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff...

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Napoleon and Samantha

Napoleon and Samantha

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 6

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

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