02 Feb 2016
Murder of a President
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
1988
Top Billed Cast
F. Murray Abraham Self - Narrator (voice)
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