Martin Scorsese
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: November 17, 1942 (82 years old)
Place of Birth: 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).
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
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Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
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From Darkness to Light
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Hello Down There
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Beatles '64
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Funny Birds
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
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The Freshly Cut Grass
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Escape
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Beatles '64
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The Absence of Eden
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Hello Down There
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Paul Newman: The Restless
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Kiarostami at Work
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Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
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Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
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The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
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The Moviemakers: Scorsese
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Pet Shop Days
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Asteroid City
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Maestro
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
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A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
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The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
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Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues
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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
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Fragments of Paradise
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
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Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
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The Eternal Daughter
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Murina
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Dreaming Walls
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Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only
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The Sky Is Everywhere
2021
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El Planeta
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Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
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We Are Cinema
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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
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Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
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Evolution
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Building a Bridge
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Midnight in the Switchgrass
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The Souvenir: Part II
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The Card Counter
2020
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The Oratorio
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30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
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Crazy, Not Insane
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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
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The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
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Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
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Making 'The Irishman'
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Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
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Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
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Shirley
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Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
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Scorsese Shorts
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Pieces of a Woman
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Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
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The Irishman: In Conversation
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Tomorrow
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The Irishman
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Diane
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Uncut Gems
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The Irishman
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The Souvenir
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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Port Authority
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Martin Scorsese on Framing
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
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Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
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Spielberg
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The Pulitzer At 100
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Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
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Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
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Abundant Acreage Available
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Long Strange Trip
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The Snowman
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The Ciambra
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The Elephant and the Butterfly
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Free Fire
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Scorsese's GoodFellas
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
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This Is Orson Welles
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Behind the White Glasses
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The Audition
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French Cinema Mon Amour
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Campus Code
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or
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Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
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The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
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The Audition
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Love
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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The Wannabe
Original Film Writer
I Call First
2014
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
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The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
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The Wolf Pack
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Don Rickles: One Night Only
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Life Itself
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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And the Oscar Goes To...
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Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini
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Life Itself
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The 50 Year Argument
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Revenge of the Green Dragons
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
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Life Itself
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The Third Side of the River
2013
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Seduced and Abandoned
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Milius
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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John Ford & Monument Valley
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
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Trespassing Bergman
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One Direction: This Is Us
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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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Peter Gabriel - Live In Athens 1987
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The Family
2012
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Side by Side
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Bad 25
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
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The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
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The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
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The Race for Colour
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
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Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
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Casting By
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… But Film Is My Mistress
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A Letter to Elia
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Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
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Public Speaking
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Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
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The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
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Shutter Island
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A Letter to Elia
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Public Speaking
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A Letter to Elia
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Shutter Island
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Public Speaking
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Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
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Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
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Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
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Milagrez
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Saul Bass: Title Champ
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In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
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Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
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Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
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Shine a Light
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Notes on an American Film Director at Work
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O Retorno do Dragão
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
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Shine a Light
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Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
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Lymelife
2007
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The Key to Reserva
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
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Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
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Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
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Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
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Brando
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Crossing Criminal Cultures
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Making Casino
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365 Day Project
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Cannes: All Access
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The Key to Reserva
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
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Crossing Criminal Cultures
2006
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The Searchers: An Appreciation
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The Real Goodfella
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Edge of Outside
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A Beautiful Vacation
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Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
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Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
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Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
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The Departed
2005
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Raging Bull: Before the Fight
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Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
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Raging Bull: After the Fight
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Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
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The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
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White Heat: Top of the World
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Casino: The Story
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The Eye of the Beholder
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By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
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Club Oscar
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Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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The 'New York, New York' Stories
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Michael Powell
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2004
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Shark Tale
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
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Scorsese on Scorsese
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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
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Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
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The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
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Lightning in a Bottle
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
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Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
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Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
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The Workaday Gangster
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On the Set: Elaine’s
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The Aviator
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Brides
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The Aviator
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Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
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Frankenstein
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Lightning in a Bottle
2003
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Biography - Humphrey Bogart
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
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Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
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A Decade Under the Influence
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The Song of the Little Road
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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
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The John Garfield Story
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Feel Like Going Home
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Bringing Out the Dead
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My Voyage to Italy
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Making 'Taxi Driver'
Actor Martin Scorsese
The Muse
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A Conversation with Gregory Peck
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The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman
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Bringing Out the Dead
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My Voyage to Italy
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Dogma
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My Voyage to Italy
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
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Search and Destroy
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
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Robbie Robertson: Going Home
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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
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Casino
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Casino
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Clockers
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Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
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Search and Destroy
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Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits: HIStory
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Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
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New York Stories: Life Lessons
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Actor Alighieri's mentor
In the Hand of Dante
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You Never Know
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Megadoc
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Fascinating Rhythm
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The Wager
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The Wager
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In the Hand of Dante
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Die, My Love
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Feebleminded
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The Memory Police
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What Happens At Night
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Untitled Grateful Dead Project
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Roosevelt
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Roosevelt
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King Leopold’s Ghost
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Another Turn of the Screw
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Shipwrecks of Sicily
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Shipwrecks of Sicily
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Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
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Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
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