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Martin Scorsese

1942-11-17 (82 years old) in Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime and sectarianism. Many of his films are known for their depiction of violence and the liberal use of profanity. Scorsese has also dedicated his life to film preservation and film restoration by founding the nonprofit organization The Film Foundation in 1990, as well as the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017. Scorsese studied at New York University (NYU), where he received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1964, and received a master's degree in fine arts in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1968. In 1967 Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door was released and was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival, where critic Roger Ebert saw it and called it "a marvelous evocation of American city life, announcing the arrival of an important new director". He has established a filmmaking history involving repeat collaborations with actors and film technicians, including nine films made with Robert De Niro. His films with De Niro are the psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976), the biographical sports drama Raging Bull (1980), the satirical black comedy The King of Comedy (1982), the musical drama New York, New York (1977), the psychological thriller Cape Fear (1991), and the crime films Mean Streets (1973), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). Scorsese has also been noted for his collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, having directed him in five films: the historical epic Gangs of New York (2002), the Howard Hughes biography The Aviator (2004), the crime thriller The Departed (2006), the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), and the Wall Street black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). The Departed won Scorsese an Academy Award for Best Director, and for Best Picture. Scorsese is also known for his long-time collaboration with film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who has edited every Scorsese film beginning with Raging Bull. Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

Movies

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Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
86 %|Dec 8, 2023
Documentary
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Killers of the Flower Moon
75 %|Oct 18, 2023
Crime, History, Drama
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Kiarostami at Work
0 %|Oct 6, 2023
Documentary
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Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
69 %|Aug 14, 2023
Documentary, TV Movie
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Paul Newman: The Restless
80 %|Jun 11, 2023
Documentary, TV Movie
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The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
56 %|May 22, 2023
Documentary, TV Movie
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
73 %|Nov 13, 2022
Documentary, TV Movie
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Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
76 %|Oct 15, 2022
Documentary, TV Movie
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Fragments of Paradise
67 %|Aug 31, 2022
Documentary
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
87 %|Aug 12, 2022
Documentary, History
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Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues
76 %|Jun 30, 2022
Music, Documentary
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We Are Cinema
95 %|Dec 16, 2021
Documentary, TV Movie
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Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
76 %|Oct 10, 2021
Documentary
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El Planeta
62 %|Sep 24, 2021
Comedy, Drama
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The Oratorio
0 %|Oct 1, 2020
Documentary
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Martin Scorsese on Framing
0 %|Jun 3, 2017
Animation
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Behind the White Glasses
63 %|Sep 21, 2015
Documentary
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
72.77 %|Sep 4, 2015
Documentary
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This Is Orson Welles
74 %|May 21, 2015
Documentary
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Scorsese's GoodFellas
85 %|May 5, 2015
Documentary
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
0 %|Sep 10, 2014
History, Documentary, TV Movie
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Life Itself
75 %|Jul 4, 2014
Documentary
actor
Don Rickles: One Night Only
76 %|May 18, 2014
Comedy, Documentary
actor
Inside Rupert Pupkin
0 %|May 14, 2014
Documentary
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The Wolf Pack
76 %|Mar 20, 2014
Documentary
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The Wolf of Wall Street
80 %|Dec 25, 2013
Crime, Drama, Comedy
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Seduced and Abandoned
62 %|May 20, 2013
Documentary
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
59 %|Apr 27, 2013
Documentary
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Milius
70 %|Mar 9, 2013
Documentary
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John Ford & Monument Valley
10 %|Mar 5, 2013
Documentary
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
48 %|Jan 1, 2013
Documentary
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Bad 25
73 %|Nov 22, 2012
Documentary, Music
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The Race for Colour
0 %|Sep 17, 2012
Documentary
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Bergmans video
62 %|Aug 22, 2012
Documentary
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Side by Side
73 %|Aug 19, 2012
Documentary
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
78 %|Jun 15, 2012
Documentary
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The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
60 %|Feb 28, 2012
Documentary
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
60 %|Feb 28, 2012
Documentary
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The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
0 %|Feb 28, 2012
Documentary
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
60 %|Feb 28, 2012
Documentary
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Corman's World
71 %|Dec 16, 2011
Documentary
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Hugo
72 %|Nov 22, 2011
Adventure, Drama, Family
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
68 %|Nov 20, 2011
Documentary
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Kurosawa's Way
54 %|May 13, 2011
Documentary
actor
Marty on Film
0 %|Feb 2, 2011
Documentary
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Marty and Bobby
0 %|Jan 11, 2011
Documentary
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A Letter to Elia
64 %|Sep 4, 2010
Documentary
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Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
80 %|Jun 8, 2010
Documentary
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… But Film Is My Mistress
62 %|May 12, 2010
Documentary
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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
67 %|Mar 23, 2010
Documentary
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Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
0 %|Oct 7, 2008
Documentary
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Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
44 %|Sep 7, 2008
Documentary, History
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The Key to Reserva
72 %|Dec 14, 2007
Thriller, Comedy
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
64 %|Sep 7, 2007
Documentary, Music
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
69 %|Sep 2, 2007
Documentary, TV Movie
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
72 %|May 18, 2007
Music, Documentary
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Edge of Outside
58 %|Jun 11, 2006
Documentary
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The Searchers: An Appreciation
0 %|Jan 1, 2006
Documentary
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The Real Goodfella
57 %|Jan 1, 2006
Documentary
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Casino: The Story
0 %|Jun 14, 2005
Documentary
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Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
100 %|Feb 8, 2005
Documentary
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Raging Bull: Before the Fight
100 %|Feb 8, 2005
Documentary
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Raging Bull: After the Fight
0 %|Feb 8, 2005
Documentary
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Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
0 %|Feb 8, 2005
Documentary
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Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
78 %|Jan 1, 2005
Documentary
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The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
60 %|Jan 1, 2005
Documentary
actor
White Heat: Top of the World
80 %|Jan 1, 2005
Documentary
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The Eye of the Beholder
0 %|Jan 1, 2005
Documentary
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Scorsese on Scorsese
77 %|Dec 8, 2004
Documentary, TV Movie
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
69.68 %|Oct 12, 2004
Documentary, History
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Shark Tale
60.300000000000004 %|Sep 20, 2004
Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
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Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
70 %|Aug 17, 2004
Documentary
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The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
0 %|Jun 17, 2004
Documentary
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Lightning in a Bottle
73 %|Feb 12, 2004
Music, Documentary
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Biography - Humphrey Bogart
0 %|Oct 5, 2003
Documentary
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Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
60 %|Jul 1, 2003
Documentary, History
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
80 %|May 20, 2003
Documentary
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Forever Ealing
68 %|Dec 5, 2002
Documentary
actor
New York at the Movies
0 %|Jul 7, 2002
History, Documentary, TV Movie
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The Making of 'Cape Fear'
72 %|Sep 18, 2001
Documentary
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
71 %|Sep 27, 2000
Documentary, TV Movie
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Bringing Out the Dead
66 %|Oct 22, 1999
Drama
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My Voyage to Italy
76 %|Sep 11, 1999
Documentary
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Making 'Taxi Driver'
69 %|Jun 14, 1999
Documentary
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Frank Capra's American Dream
62 %|Jan 1, 1997
Documentary
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
85 %|Jun 5, 1995
Documentary, TV Movie
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Search and Destroy
49 %|Apr 23, 1995
Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
80 %|Jan 1, 1995
Documentary
actor
Everybody Just Stay Calm
0 %|Nov 26, 1994
Documentary, Comedy
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Quiz Show
72.72999999999999 %|Aug 25, 1994
History, Drama, Mystery
actor
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
62 %|Feb 22, 1994
Documentary
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The Age of Innocence
70 %|Sep 10, 1993
Drama, Romance
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Guilty by Suspicion
64.78 %|Mar 15, 1991
Drama, Thriller
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Dreams
77 %|May 11, 1990
Fantasy, Drama
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New York Stories
62 %|Mar 10, 1989
Comedy, Drama
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Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
68 %|Jan 2, 1988
Documentary, Music
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Hollywood Uncensored
55 %|Dec 1, 1987
Documentary
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
64 %|Jun 26, 1987
Documentary
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Round Midnight
71 %|Sep 23, 1986
Drama
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Before Midnight
0 %|Jan 1, 1986
Documentary
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After Hours
75 %|Aug 16, 1985
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
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In the Pope's Eye
66 %|Sep 19, 1980
Comedy
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Il resto del Pap'occhio
50 %|Sep 19, 1980
Comedy
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American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
66 %|Sep 16, 1978
Documentary
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The Last Waltz
76 %|May 1, 1978
Documentary, Music
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Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
74 %|Apr 6, 1978
Documentary
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Cannonball
55.339999999999996 %|Jul 6, 1976
Action, Comedy
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Taxi Driver
81.41 %|Feb 9, 1976
Crime, Drama
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Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
70 %|Jan 1, 1973
Documentary
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Who's That Knocking at My Door
61.57 %|Mar 14, 1969
Drama, Romance
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In the Hand of Dante
0 %|Invalid Date
Thriller, Crime
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End of Daylight
0 %|May 30, 2025
Crime, Drama
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Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
75 %|Apr 14, 2024
Documentary, TV Movie
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Crazy, Not Insane
73 %|Mar 18, 2020
Documentary
actor
Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
0 %|Jan 1, 2019
Documentary
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Spielberg
76 %|Oct 5, 2017
Documentary
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
68 %|Aug 1, 2017
Documentary
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
77 %|Jul 26, 2017
Music, Documentary
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The Pulitzer At 100
60 %|Jul 21, 2017
Documentary
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Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
65 %|May 13, 2017
Documentary
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
72 %|Dec 2, 2016
Documentary
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Cinema Futures
62 %|Sep 2, 2016
Documentary, Drama
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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
67 %|Sep 2, 2016
Documentary
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Ken San
60 %|Aug 20, 2016
Documentary
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Lumière!
80 %|Jun 7, 2016
Documentary, History
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The Audition
62 %|Oct 3, 2015
Comedy
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Campus Code
41.790000000000006 %|Sep 22, 2015
Action, Science Fiction
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French Cinema Mon Amour
5 %|Jul 6, 2015
Documentary
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or
58 %|May 20, 2015
Documentary
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Trespassing Bergman
66 %|Aug 28, 2013
Documentary
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One Direction: This Is Us
83 %|Aug 28, 2013
Documentary, Music
actor
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
60 %|Nov 30, 2012
Documentary
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American Prince
73 %|Mar 1, 2009
Documentary
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
69 %|Oct 21, 2008
Documentary, TV Movie
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Saul Bass: Title Champ
67 %|Oct 7, 2008
Documentary
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Shine a Light
68 %|Apr 4, 2008
Documentary, Music
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Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
0 %|Apr 1, 2008
Documentary
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Milagrez
0 %|Jan 2, 2008
Documentary
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365 Day Project
0 %|Dec 31, 2007
Documentary
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Cannes: All Access
37 %|Oct 27, 2007
Documentary
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
67 %|Oct 13, 2007
Documentary, Comedy
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Making Casino
0 %|May 22, 2007
Documentary
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Brando
68 %|May 1, 2007
Documentary
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Crossing Criminal Cultures
60 %|Feb 13, 2007
Documentary
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A Beautiful Vacation
60 %|Dec 23, 2006
Documentary
actor
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
0 %|Sep 18, 2006
Documentary
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
0 %|Aug 17, 2004
Documentary
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
60 %|Apr 5, 2004
Documentary
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Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
50 %|Jan 14, 2004
Documentary
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The Song of the Little Road
0 %|Aug 30, 2003
Documentary
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Gangs of New York
73.23 %|Dec 14, 2002
Drama, History, Crime
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The Neighborhood
61 %|Oct 20, 2001
Documentary
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
73.82 %|May 2, 2001
Documentary
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Painting with Light
0 %|Jan 1, 2001
Documentary
actor
With Friends Like These...
50 %|Sep 10, 1998
Comedy
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Robbie Robertson: Going Home
0 %|May 28, 1995
Music, Documentary
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The Grifters
65 %|Aug 8, 1990
Crime, Drama
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Martin Scorsese Directs
90 %|Jun 16, 1990
Documentary
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The Scorsese Machine
70 %|Jan 1, 1990
Documentary
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First Works
0 %|Oct 10, 1989
Documentary
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The King of Comedy
78 %|Dec 18, 1982
Drama, Comedy
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Raging Bull
79.28 %|Nov 14, 1980
Drama
actor
You Never Know
0 %|Invalid Date
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Beatles '64
0 %|Nov 28, 2024
Documentary, Music
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From Darkness to Light
0 %|Aug 28, 2024
Documentary
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Hello Down There
0 %|Feb 7, 2024
Comedy, Science Fiction
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The Moviemakers: Scorsese
60 %|Oct 25, 2023
Documentary
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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
64 %|Oct 11, 2021
Documentary
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
69 %|May 2, 2021
Documentary
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Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
65 %|Jan 29, 2021
Documentary
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Making 'The Irishman'
70 %|Nov 24, 2020
Documentary
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Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
72 %|May 28, 2020
Documentary
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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
67 %|Feb 21, 2020
History, Music, Documentary
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The Irishman: In Conversation
74.95 %|Nov 27, 2019
Documentary
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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
60 %|Mar 28, 2017
Documentary
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Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
0 %|Mar 6, 2017
Documentary
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Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
0 %|Oct 14, 2015
Documentary
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The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
0 %|Jul 20, 2015
Documentary
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And the Oscar Goes To...
69.7 %|Feb 1, 2014
Documentary, TV Movie
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Casting By
71 %|Nov 1, 2012
Documentary
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
0 %|Oct 6, 2012
Music, Documentary
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Public Speaking
70 %|Nov 22, 2010
Documentary
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Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
63 %|Sep 10, 2010
Documentary
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The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
66 %|May 14, 2010
Documentary
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Images from the Playground
65 %|Sep 24, 2009
Documentary
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O Retorno do Dragão
0 %|Oct 8, 2008
Documentary
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
77 %|Jul 21, 2005
Documentary, Music
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Club Oscar
49 %|Feb 8, 2005
Animation, Comedy, Family
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The 'New York, New York' Stories
0 %|Feb 8, 2005
Documentary
actor
On the Set: Elaine’s
0 %|Nov 22, 2004
Documentary
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The Workaday Gangster
0 %|Nov 19, 2004
Documentary
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A Decade Under the Influence
80 %|Apr 25, 2003
Documentary
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The John Garfield Story
80 %|Feb 3, 2003
Documentary, TV Movie
poster
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
50 %|May 7, 2002
Documentary
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The Magic of Fellini
28 %|Jan 27, 2002
Documentary
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Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
65 %|Apr 4, 2001
Documentary
poster
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
74 %|Oct 14, 1999
Documentary
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The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman
60 %|Feb 1, 1999
Documentary
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The Muse
52 %|Jan 5, 1999
Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
actor
The Race to Save 100 Years
0 %|Oct 17, 1997
Documentary
actor
À la recherche des films perdu
0 %|Jan 1, 1996
Documentary
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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
70 %|Dec 30, 1995
Documentary, Music
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Jonas in the Desert
55 %|Jan 1, 1994
Documentary
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Gershwin
0 %|Jul 23, 1993
Documentary
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Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
65 %|Dec 1, 1992
Documentary
poster
Making of 'Dreams'
80 %|Nov 2, 1990
Documentary
poster
Hollywood Mavericks
60 %|Sep 7, 1990
Documentary
actor
Arena - John Cassavetes
0 %|Feb 24, 1989
Documentary
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The Last Temptation of Christ
72.46000000000001 %|May 28, 1988
Drama
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The Color of Money
68 %|Oct 17, 1986
Drama
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Anna Pavlova
45 %|Aug 1, 1983
Drama
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Movies Are My Life
60 %|Oct 6, 1978
Documentary
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Lost in the Garden of the World
0 %|Jun 2, 1975
Documentary
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Italianamerican
67 %|Oct 1, 1974
Documentary
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Mean Streets
71 %|Oct 14, 1973
Drama, Crime
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Boxcar Bertha
58.51 %|Jun 14, 1972
Crime, Drama
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Directed by John Ford
68 %|Sep 6, 1971
Documentary
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Street Scenes
54 %|Sep 14, 1970
Documentary
actor
Megadoc
0 %|Invalid Date
Documentary

Series

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The Studio
0 %|Mar 25, 2025
Comedy
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100 Years of Warner Bros.
76 %|May 25, 2023
Documentary
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The Last Movie Stars
68 %|Jul 21, 2022
Documentary
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Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
70 %|Sep 9, 2021
Documentary
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Pretend It's a City
74.17 %|Jan 8, 2021
Documentary, Comedy
poster
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
66 %|Sep 8, 2015
Comedy, Talk
poster
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
58 %|Feb 17, 2014
Comedy, Talk
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30 Rock
74.21000000000001 %|Oct 11, 2006
Comedy
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The Culture Show
58 %|Nov 11, 2004
News, Documentary
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Tanner on Tanner
0 %|Oct 5, 2004
Comedy
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Leçon de Cinéma
70 %|Mar 20, 2004
Documentary, Talk
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The Blues
71 %|Sep 28, 2003
Documentary
poster
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
55 %|Jan 26, 2003
Talk, Comedy
poster
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
58 %|Nov 2, 2001
Comedy, Talk
poster
Curb Your Enthusiasm
80 %|Oct 15, 2000
Comedy
poster
New York: A Documentary Film
75 %|Nov 14, 1999
Documentary
poster
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
80 %|Jun 23, 1998
Documentary
poster
Scene by Scene
60 %|May 10, 1997
Documentary
poster
E! True Hollywood Story
81 %|Aug 21, 1996
Documentary
poster
The Daily Show
64 %|Jul 22, 1996
News, Comedy
poster
Inside the Actors Studio
73 %|Aug 14, 1994
Talk
poster
Hi Octane
75 %|Jul 1, 1994
Comedy
poster
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
70.95 %|Sep 13, 1993
Comedy, Talk
poster
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
53.730000000000004 %|May 25, 1992
Talk, Comedy
poster
The Kennedy Center Honors
72 %|Dec 28, 1978
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The Hollywood Greats
35 %|Aug 4, 1977
Documentary
poster
Saturday Night Live
70 %|Oct 11, 1975
Comedy, News
poster
Spécial cinéma
0 %|Sep 25, 1974
Talk
poster
Great Performances
49 %|Jan 28, 1971
Comedy, Documentary, Drama
poster
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
77 %|Oct 2, 1955
Mystery, Drama, Crime
poster
The Oscars
70 %|Mar 19, 1953
poster
Today
58 %|Jan 14, 1952
News, Talk
poster
Golden Globe Awards
68 %|Jan 20, 1944
Talk