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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • Confessions of a B Movie Actor
    • By: Bruce Campbell
    • Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,027 ratings
    • Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor....

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    • True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
    • By: Dr. Lee Mellor
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs....

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    • By: Gregory Bullock
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Whether you are a history buff, a movie buff, just learning about history, or all of the above, this is your essential guide to movies and TV shows...

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    • By: Cormac McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,027 ratings
    • Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years....

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    • By: Allen Eskens
    • Narrated by: Zach Villa
    • Series: Joe Talbert, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68,461 ratings
    • College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person....

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    • Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
    • By: Mark Harris
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 ratings
    • Here is the epic drama behind the making of five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967, and through them, the story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies....

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    • The Mystery Surrounding the Orville Nix Home Movie of November 22, 1963
    • By: Gayle Nix Jackson
    • Narrated by: Lydia Mackay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • This book does not attempt to answer the question of who killed John F. Kennedy; instead it addresses why we should question the actions of those involved and why the truth was withheld….

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    • Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies
    • By: Alicia Malone
    • Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film....

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    • The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
    • By: Andrew Maynard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society....

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    • Turner Classic Movies
    • By: Carla Valderrama
    • Narrated by: Carla Valderrama
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age....

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    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,795 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Peter Guiness
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The Movie Book profiles 100 of the best movies ever made throughout the world....

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    • The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
    • By: Harold Schechter
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films....

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    • The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
    • By: Foster Hirsch
    • Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
    • Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post-WW II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts....

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