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The story of one of the most infamous books ever written, “The Anarchist Cookbook,” and the role it’s played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it…

Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films, photos and stories about her…

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who’s yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Attorney’s daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing…

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one…

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer’s prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.

A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he’s really a con man…and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora’s cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer…

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication’s frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a…

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a “forgotten man” to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the…

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as…

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of…

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam’s sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle…

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s secret.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller’s shop.

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a “Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company”, and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy,…

A woman’s life falls to pieces when she’s caught cheating on her husband.

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in “society.”

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn’t know is that…

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.