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Robert Duvall

About: Robert Duvall was born Jan. 5, 1931, in San Diego, Calif., the son of a Navy admiral. After military service, Duvall studied acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and made off-Broadway appearances.His first screen role as the mute Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) left a lasting impression, and his visibility grew in such films as The Chase, Bullitt, True Grit, The Rain People and MASH. Duvall received his first Oscar nomination for The Godfather (1972); he scored another nomination for Apocalypse Now and a third for The Great Santini.He finally earned a Best Actor Oscar for playing country singer Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983) and was also nominated for The Apostle (which he also directed) and A Civil Action. Duvall has excelled in cowboy roles that have led to Emmy and Golden Globe recognition, including the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and Broken Trail (2006), for which he won his first Emmy for Best Actor in a Miniseries.

Captain Newman, M.D.

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1963

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About: Although he's charged with clearing shell-shocked soldiers to return to active duty, Capt. Josiah J. Newman (Gregory Peck) is keenly aware that some of them simply aren't ready. But the neuropsychiatrist's caution doesn't sit well with his superiors. Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin round out the all-star ensemble cast in this World War II-era drama that was filmed in the 1960s.
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MASH

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1970

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About: Director Robert Altman's thinly veiled Vietnam War satire is indicative of when the spirit of the 1970s went mainstream, with Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland and Tom Skerritt as Army doctors fighting military insanity and healing wounded soldiers during the Korean War. Featuring an Oscar-winning score and standout work from a huge ensemble cast (including Robert Duvall and Sally Kellerman), M*A*S*H is a masterpiece of '70s cinema.
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John Q

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2001

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About: In director Nick Cassavetes's gripping social drama, blue-collar worker John Q. (Denzel Washington) finds that his meager insurance won't cover his son's emergency heart transplant. Desperate, he holds a hospital's emergency room hostage until doctors agree to perform the surgery. Meanwhile, gung ho police chief Gus Monroe (Ray Liotta) and hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) try to diffuse the situation amid a media frenzy.
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A Civil Action

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1998

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About: In this true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation for big bucks when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of industrial solvents. Believing the contamination is responsible for the large number of leukemia deaths among the town's children, the citizens -- lead by a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) whose child has died -- hire a lawyer to take on the corporate polluters.
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To Kill a Mockingbird

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1962

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About: Set in a small Alabama town during the Depression, this adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), a lawyer who defends an innocent black man (Brock Peters) against rape charges, but winds up in a fury of hate and prejudice. Finch's children, Jem and Scout (Phillip Alford and Mary Badham), soon learn lessons about race, class, justice and the pain of growing up.
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A Shot at Glory

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2002

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About: Gordon McLeod (Robert Duvall), the manager of a flailing Scottish soccer team, faces intense pressure from its American owner (Michael Keaton) to turn the squad around. Determined to deliver a Scottish Cup victory, McLeod recruits a once-great player (Ally McCoist). But soccer isn't his only problem; to reclaim glory, McLeod also has to make amends with his estranged daughter and face a friend-turned-nemesis.
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A Family Thing

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1995

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About: Sixty-year-old Earl Pilcher Jr. (Robert Duvall) has just been informed that his real mother was black and he has a half-brother he never knew existed. Setting out to find and get to know his brother, their first encounter is awkward and fraught with tension, mistrust, anger and prejudice. But as they begin to explore their pasts, they learn that the bonds of family are indestructible. Written by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1991

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About: It's Francis Ford Coppola vs. natural catastrophe, crazy actors, the Philippine government and crushing self-doubt in this unbelievable account of the making of the 1979 classic Apocalypse Now. Behind-the-scenes location footage is combined with candid 1990 interviews of cast and crew members; the result is a fascinating portrait of a director plunged into the very obsession he sought to portray on film.
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A Show of Force

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1990

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About: A journalist puts her life in danger to investigate a potential FBI cover-up in this taut thriller. Set in 1978 Puerto Rico, the film centers on reporter Kate Melendez (Amy Irving), who sets out to uncover the truth behind the murders of two students who wanted their country to secede from the United States. The government claims the men were terrorists, but Melendez isn't buying it. Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Duvall also star.
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The Godfather

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1972

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About: Director Francis Ford Coppola brings Mario Puzo's multigenerational crime saga to life in this Oscar-winning epic. When an organized crime family patriarch (Marlon Brando) barely survives an attempt on his life, his son Michael (Al Pacino) convinces his brother Sonny (James Caan) to let him take care of the would-be killers. Amid betrayals and corruption, Michael launches a campaign of bloody revenge that continues through the film's two sequels.
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The Godfather: Part II

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1974

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About: Racking up Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), the second film in The Godfather series continues the Corleone family's saga and explores its roots. In parallel story lines, the film traces Don Vito's (De Niro) journey from Sicilian immigrant to head of a powerful crime family, and charts his son's (Al Pacino) ascension to don as the family extends its operations to Cuba.
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Gods and Generals

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2003

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About: Director-producer Ron Maxwell mines America's history in this epic movie chronicling the Civil War's beginnings in 1861 to the tragic Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the heroes who defended their honor on both fronts. Robert Duvall is Gen. Robert E. Lee, who leads the Confederates; Jeff Daniels is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin College professor who fights for the Union army, and Stephen Lang portrays Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
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