Joseph Sargent
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The United States and Russia have both built computer complexes capable of independently regulating national defenses of their countries. However, the two computers link and share classified information and top secrets, and it is up to the American designer of the U.S. complex, Charles Forbin, and his Soviet counterpart to stop the computers from seizing control of the world's nuclear missile stockpile.
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Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures...
5) MacArthur
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Biographical drama of the controversial general, from 1942 in the Philippines to his dismissal by Truman for insubordination in 1951.
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Follows the life and times of Abraham, one of the most recognizable figures in Judeo-Christian religions. Abraham is a shepherd who heeds a divine command to take his wife, Sarah, and leave their home for a new land where Abraham will become "Father of Nations." Abraham and Sarah face many trials during their journey, but none so painful as their inability to conceive a child. When at last Sarah gives birth to their son, Isaac, both Abraham and Sarah...
8) Warm springs
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The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
10) Miss Evers' boys
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In 1932, Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on the "Tuskegee Experiment" to study the effects of syphilis. She is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns the patients are denied treatment that could cure them.
11) Skylark
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Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
12) Day one
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"Complex and moving story of the Manhattan Project ... Allied scientists wrestle with the challenge of creating the ultimate weapon ... [and] witness its grisly consequences"--Container