Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the “conquering” of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he’d already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook’s corner–as is this TV movie.
Category: Drama
Drama
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10 to Midnight
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy’s guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.
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Among Grey Stones
A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.
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Keeping On
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
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Unico in the Island of Magic
A young unicorn named Unico must fight an evil magician and save everyone who’s trapped under his spell.
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The Imperilled
During Iranian revolution some prisoners manage to escape the prison. In a border village they meet a man Yaqub who wants to convince them not to escape. They first mocking at him not …
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Ryuji
Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he’s used to easy money, it’s a difficult transition.
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Silkwood
A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.
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El Norte
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.