2024-10-01
A three-part history of the legacy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Part 1 traces the studio's creation and rise under the guidance of Louis B. Mayer and Irving J. Thalberg, from 1924 to 1936. Featured: film clips, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. Also: stories about Jean Harlow, Johnny Weissmuller and Greta Garbo. Patrick Stewart hosts. (Repeat).
Part 2 of the MGM studio's history focuses on the post-Thalberg period and the productions of 1936-46. Included: clips from "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Philadelphia Story." Featured: Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. (Repeat).
The conclusion traces the studio's decline in the late 1940s; and the struggle for control of the company by Louis B. Mayer and new production chief Dore Schary. Featured: clips of Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. Host: Patrick Stewart. (Repeat).
A group of military engineers is tasked with scouring the tunnels of Vietnam to search for a highly classified intel binder. Their mission: to secure or destroy the binder at all costs. They must brave the harsh conditions and territorial disadvantage with their lives on the line.
Three transgender performers well known for their lavish costumes and lip-synching in Sydney travel across the Australian Outback in their ramshackle bus, "Priscilla," on their way to a gig at a casino.
An FBI agent investigating a group of white supremacists finds herself attracted to their leader.
Robert Redford gives a commanding performance as Eugene Irwin, a disgraced three-star general who is sentenced to 10 years in a military prison run by a sadistic colonel (James Gandolfini). Irwin eventually becomes fed up with the warden's barbarism and leads his fellow prisoners in a revolt. Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo.
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Ethan Hunt and his teammates reunite for this pulse-pounding sequel, in which they attempt to take down a secret international organization known as the Syndicate—highly skilled ex-IMF agents who are intent on bringing down their former outfit.
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