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- New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
- Four female New Yorkers gossip about their sex lives (or lack thereof) and find new ways to deal with being a woman in the late 1990s.
- The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
- An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
- Another installment of Bravo's "The Real Housewives" reality show. In this series, they focus on housewives living in New Jersey.
- A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
- Three nurses deal with patients and personal issues at Mercy Hospital.
- A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
- A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
- Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.
- In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
- Grace, a football enthusiast, fights an uphill battle to play in the boys' varsity team of her high school and gain support for women's soccer while dealing with the death of her brother.
- Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.
- Debbie (Diane Lane) and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
- An ex convict befriends an elderly coworker as they both try to find meaning in life and forgiveness for their past.
- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- A martial artist/ survivalist must play a game of cat-and-mouse with a maniacal sadistic Man by the name of Santos and survive against five killers in order to save his life as well as his girlfriends.
- A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- A college student suffering from memory loss discovers that he is on the verge of a major, scientific breakthrough, but he soon finds out that the one thing he's been searching for is the one thing he's been trying to forget.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
- The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
- Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- A vignette of a barroom/liquor-store in the West, no plot per se. However this short is usually regarded as the first "Western" in the sense that it depicts a western scene.
- Annie Oakley, the 'Little Miss Sure Shot' of the 'Wild West' gives an exhibition of rifle shooting at glass balls and clay pigeons in a film from the Edison Catalog.
- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- Bound by the injustice of her untimely demise, Julie's ghost returns to seek vengeance on her killer.
- Strong-man Eugene (Eugen) Sandow poses in a long shot on a bare stage against a black background, wearing only tight trunks and laced sandals. He begins with his arms folded against his chest, looking off screen left, then strikes a variety of poses that accentuate his muscular development. These positions include flexing his right arm with the fist to his head and face to shoulder; turning his back to the camera and flexing his upper arms and shoulder muscles; and, with his back still to the camera, stretching out and up with one arm at a time. Sandow then turns back to face the camera and performs a standing back flip. He closes in the same pose with which he opened From Biograph photo catalog: 24 feet. Still another picture of the great athlete displaying his muscles, and turning a somersault without touching hands to the floor.
- Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.
- Two men shake hands for the Kinetograph.
- "Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog
- An Edison company worker makes large gestures in front of a Kinetoscope to test the new camera system.
- In an experiment that follows up on the results of 'Monkeyshines, No. 1', an Edison company worker again moves around in front of the motion picture camera.
- A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. (from the Edison Catalog)
- "King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home." (from Edison Films)
- "This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor. The scene is an actual one, showing Mr. Edison in working dress engaged in an interesting chemical experiment in his great Laboratory. There is sufficient movement to lead the spectator through the several processes of mixing, pouring, testing, etc. as if he were side by side with the principal. The lights and shadows are vivid, and the apparatus and other accessories complete a startling picture that will appeal to every beholder."
- Experimental film to test the new kinetoscope which depicts two men practicing fencing.
- Two friends combat an endless summer of suburban boredom by breaking into neighborhood houses and flirting with pizza delivery guys. When events occur that threaten to push the two from girlhood into adulthood, it's all too much for one of them.
- Short, experimental film depicting James C. Duncan smoking a pipe.
- "The umpire makes a decision that Casey doesn't like, and an argument follows, during which Casey deftly trips him up, and continues the argument on the ground. The other players run from the bench and join in the rumpus. The fielders come running in and the pile on the home plate looks like a foot ball scrimmage. A solemn warning to all rotten umpires."
- One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to drive the nail into the shoe of the horse's hoof, to change his position and every movement needed in the work was clearly shown as if the object was in real (life). In fact, the whole routine of the two men's labour and their movements for the day was presented to the view of the observer.
- Set in 1971 during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration, Heading Home tells the story of an unlikely friendship. Horace, Frankie Faison "Silence of the Lambs", "Coming to America", TV's "The Wire") an African American bus driver whose son is MIA, drives a charter of young white middle-class war protesters to Washington, D.C. During the course of a long spring night, Horace befriends Kate, a troubled white 17-year-old girl, Margaret Welsh ("Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"). Overcoming their differences, Horace and Kate forge a friendship that transcends the boundaries of age and race, and celebrates the possibilities of the human spirit. Also stars Emmy Award Winner Allison Janney (TV's "The West Wing") and a moving performance by Mary Alice ("The Matrix Revolutions").