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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.
In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
Actors: Mira Nair (director), Ronald Bass (writer), Ronald Bass (producer), Gabriel Yared (composer), Don Carmody (producer), Hilary Swank (producer), Ron Smerczak (actor), Christopher Eccleston (actor), Ewan McGregor (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Richard Donat (actor), Hilary Swank (actress), Jeremy Akerman (actor), Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew), Ken Dhaliwal (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.
Keywords: 16-year-old, 1920s, 1930s, adultery, adventuress, advertisement, aeronautics, africa, air-derby, air-raceActors: Amy Smart (actress), Scott Trimble (miscellaneous crew), Don Abernathy (actor), Scott Trimble (miscellaneous crew), Ioan Gruffudd (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Massi Furlan (actor), Alexandra Welker (costume designer), Greg Lazzaro (miscellaneous crew), Glenn Gordon Caron (writer), Michael Hubert (miscellaneous crew), Glenn Gordon Caron (producer), Eddie Driscoll (actor), Rae Allen (actress), J. Hanna (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Janine Dauterich (editor), Ingrid Mülleder (actress), Aaron Le (actor), Hacky Rumpel (actor), Eugen Schlegel (director), Christoph Willumeit (director), Robert Faldner (composer), Abba Khan (actor), Milos Costic (actor), Barbara Falkner (director),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Courtney B. Vance (actor), Lee Holdridge (composer), Mekhi Phifer (actor), Christopher McDonald (actor), Malcolm-Jamal Warner (actor), Vivica A. Fox (actress), Marco Perella (actor), Andre Braugher (actor), Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Deborah Ricketts (miscellaneous crew), Benita Brazier (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
Keywords: 1940s, aerial-combat, african-american, alabama, arkansas, army-life, aviation, bigotry, biplane, breakthrough-heroActors: Shay Cunliffe (costume designer), Richard D. Zanuck (producer), Saul Rubinek (actor), John Wells (miscellaneous crew), Anne Haney (actress), Robert Guillaume (actor), Joan Plowright (actress), Mary Nell Santacroce (actress), Will Mackenzie (director), Ivar Brogger (actor), Zoaunne LeRoy (actress), Hillary B. Smith (actress), Theresa Merritt (actress), Alfred Uhry (writer), Jerry Davis (editor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Michael Greene (actor), Joan Fontaine (actress), Christopher Plummer (actor), Jan Rubes (actor), Horst Buchholz (actor), John Holland (actor), Hubert Noël (actor), Vincent Grass (actor), Henri Czarniak (actor), Stewart Granger (actor), Zach Galligan (actor), François-Eric Gendron (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), Cheryl Ladd (actress), Rosanna Huffman (actress),
Plot: Danielle Steele's WWII soap opera is given the epic treatment in this film that was shown across three nights on network TV. At the film's beginning, an industrialist meets the wife of a French ambassador on a transatlantic voyage to Europe. As time and the war progresses, she returns to America when Paris becomes occupied by the Nazis and again encounters the industrialist. An affair ensues. Meanwhile, her husband is rumored to be a Nazi collaborator, but whose side is he really working for?
Keywords: adultery, affair, based-on-novel, collaborator, diplomat, french, german-occupation, husband-wife-relationship, industrialist, infidelityActors: Ann Reinking (actress), John Huston (director), Peter Marshall (actor), Carol Burnett (actress), Shawnee Smith (actress), Bernadette Peters (actress), Greta Garbo (actress), Larry Hankin (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Robert Taylor (actor), Albert Finney (actor), John Huston (actor), Tim Curry (actor), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Margaret Booth (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger.
Keywords: 10-year-old, 1930s, adoption, alcoholic, backflip, bald-man, based-on-comic, based-on-stage-musical, bathtub, bathtub-ginActors: Edward Binns (actor), Kim Hunter (actress), Kenneth Welsh (actor), George R. Robertson (actor), Jason Robards (actor), Olympia Dukakis (actress), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), James Karen (actor), Michael Gross (actor), Cec Linder (actor), Ken Pogue (actor), Terry O'Quinn (actor), Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Tom Harvey (actor), Sylvia Sidney (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: David Susskind (producer), Ian Abercrombie (actor), Priscilla Pointer (actress), Lindsay Crouse (actress), Jane Alexander (actress), John Beal (actor), Anna Lee (actress), Mark Harmon (actor), Ray Baker (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), Blair Brown (actress), Robert Banas (actor), John Barry (composer), Donald Moffat (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Paul Kruger (actor), Chuck Hicks (actor), Jack Perrin (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Ben Erway (actor), William F. Haddock (actor), John McKee (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Francis De Sales (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Walter Sande (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor),
Plot: The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
Keywords: 1920s, ambition, bare-chested-male, based-on-play, bathrobe, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, campaign, children, cigarette-smoking