A.C. Lyles Movies

  • 2007
    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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    Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • 2002
    The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel

    The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel

    The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel

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    One of the dominating figures in Elvis Presley's life was his manager, who was known as the "Colonel". No other relationship in Elvis' life was as...

    The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel
  • 1994
    Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

    Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

    Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

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    As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

    Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
  • 1990
    The Hunt for Red October

    The Hunt for Red October

    The Hunt for Red October

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    A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The...

    The Hunt for Red October
  • 2007
    The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

    The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

    The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

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    Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...

    The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
  • 1998
    Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

    Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

    Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

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    Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies....

    Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
  • 1979
    A Christmas for Boomer

    A Christmas for Boomer

    A Christmas for Boomer

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    A sacked maid and butler kidnap a pampered dog and want $20,000 ransom from the rich owner, Lila Manchester. A shaggy dog named Boomer helps save it...

    A Christmas for Boomer
  • 2003
    Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

    Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

    Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

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    Beginning with William Wrigley's acquisition of the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919, the history of the island is explored with archival...

    Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
  • 1998
    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

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    This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major...

    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
  • 2012
    Wings: Grandeur in the Sky

    Wings: Grandeur in the Sky

    Wings: Grandeur in the Sky

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    A making-of featurette for the first Academy Award winning film "Wings" (1927), with plenty of rare photographs and the participation of William...

    Wings: Grandeur in the Sky
  • 1964
    Stage to Thunder Rock

    Stage to Thunder Rock

    Stage to Thunder Rock

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    An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.

    Stage to Thunder Rock
  • 2002
    Cinerama Adventure

    Cinerama Adventure

    Cinerama Adventure

    7.62002HD

    A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry...

    Cinerama Adventure
  • 1963
    The Young and the Brave

    The Young and the Brave

    The Young and the Brave

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    A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South. Along the...

    The Young and the Brave
  • 2002
    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

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    Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious stories on the acclaimed Billy Wilder's masterpiece...

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
  • 1967
    Hostile Guns

    Hostile Guns

    Hostile Guns

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    US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura...

    Hostile Guns
  • 2003
    John Travolta Remembers James Cagney

    John Travolta Remembers James Cagney

    John Travolta Remembers James Cagney

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    John Travolta Remembers James Cagney
  • 1996
    Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

    Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

    Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

    6.41996HD

    Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the...

    Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
  • 1972
    Night of the Lepus

    Night of the Lepus

    Night of the Lepus

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    Rancher Cole Hillman is fed up of rabbits plaguing his fields. Zoologist Roy Bennett conducts an experiment to curb their population, but it gives...

    Night of the Lepus
  • 1966
    Johnny Reno

    Johnny Reno

    Johnny Reno

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    The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.

    Johnny Reno
  • 1999
    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

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    Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl