The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huckaby, one of the teachers and girls’ vice principal.
Category: TV Movie
TV Movie
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Hellinger’s Law
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate’s accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
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Zločin na poště
A report of embezzlement is made against Helenka, a popular clerk at the village post office. The investigation reveals that she is 200 crowns short and the girl commits suicide. Her protector and friend, the gendarmerie sergeant Brejcha, does not believe that the girl is capable of any crime, and he investigates how the money was actually stolen. Apparently, someone stole her money when she turned away from her window. He gets further clues from the new clerk who took over after Helenka…
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We’re Fighting Back
Inspired by the exploits of New York’s Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens’ patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
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The Cause
“I wish I could write … about what Spain was like – a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went.” A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley ‘s mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
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The Other Victim
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
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Esop
This is a story about Greek slave Esop, who contributed a lot to the world of literature, and about his silly owner, who had the power and money, but did not have kindness.
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A Matter of Life and Death
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.
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Senior Trip
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the musical “Sugar Babies.”
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A Turn for the Worse
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian. Simpson believes the boy has talent and starts to groom him for ‘stardom’.