Liev Schreiber Filmography

Repossession Mambo

Actors: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Alice Braga

Synopsis: Writers Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner team with director Miguel Sapochnik to adapt Garcia's novel about a repo man named Remy whose body has been constructed almost entirely of artificial organs. When Remy (Jude Law) fails to keep up on payments for his recent heart transplant, his former partner Read More

Operation Filmmaker

Actors: Muthana Mohmed, Nina Davenport, Dwayne Johnson, Peter Saraf, Liev Schreiber, Matthew Stillman

Synopsis: Touched by the plight of an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker whose dreams of working in Hollywood seemed to fall with Baghdad, American filmmaker Liev Schreiber invites the ambitious wannabe director to intern on Everything Is Illuminated, to unexpected results. In 2004, just one year after the United Read More

Constantine's Sword

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated director Oren Jacoby helmed this documentary adaptation of former Catholic priest James Carroll's nonfiction book of the same name. An anti-war activist, Carroll delves into Christianity's history to learn how a faith founded on peace could come to be used as a tool for Read More

Sputnik Mania

Synopsis: Fifty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Sputnik into space, the reverberations of that historical event are still echoing around the world. Produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of this defining moment in human history, this documentary from filmmaker David Hoffman Read More

Chicago 10

Synopsis: The Kid Stays in the Picture director Brett Morgen turns his unique eye toward the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in this 2006 documentary. Using a star-studded voice cast along with a blend of archival footage and animation, Morgen tells the story of the eight demonstrators who were Read More

Secrets of the Dead: Escape from Auschwitz

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: It marks an odd and intriguing footnote to the Second World War: liberation-linked discoveries aside, the world attained much of its knowledge about what happened in Auschwitz from two concentration camp prisoners, Alfred Wetzler and Rudolph Vrba, who escaped from that hellhole and determined to Read More

Secrets of the Dead: Sinking Atlantis

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: This documentary explores what scientists now believe caused the destruction of Minoan civilization almost five thousand years ago. Experts believed a tsunami destroyed the cities built by people that many believe to be the first Europeans to use a written language. Some believe these events may Read More

Defiance

Actors: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Tomas Arana

Synopsis: Four Jewish brothers must escape Nazi-occupied Poland in this WWII drama directed by Edward Zwick, based on a true story. After fleeing to a remote forest, the brothers join the ranks of the Russian resistance fighters, who took up arms to help set other Jews free from the Nazi regime of Read More

The Jewish Americans [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Emmy award-winning filmmaker David Grubin explores the struggle of a tiny minority to integrate itself into the American mainstream while remaining true to their roots in this documentary that begins as 17th Century Jews arrive in New Amsterdam, and traces their journey as they contend with racism Read More

Secrets of the Dead: Aztec Massacre

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: When the remains of over 400 mutilated bodies were unearthed in Mexico, historians were at a complete loss at how to explain such a grim discovery. In this documentary, filmmakers question everything we ever thought we knew about this ancient civilization by offering a compelling new take on the Read More

Love in the Time of Cholera

Actors: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's novel of the same name, director Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera details a passionate love triangle that unfolds in turn-of-the-century South America. Oscar-winning Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood adapts the story of two young Read More

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Produced in association with National Geographic, Sean Phillips' Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure utilizes state-of-the-art three dimensional photography in order to tell the tale of Dolly, a prehistoric sea creature who negotiates the waters at a time when a sea divides North America into Read More

The Ten

Actors: Paul Rudd, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver

Synopsis: Much of the group responsible for MTV's The State - including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino, Kerri Kinney-Silver and Joe Lo Truglio - reunite for this outrageous, irreverent and raunchy sketch comedy, which skewers the Ten Commandments. In the framing sequences, comedian Paul Read More

NOVA: First Flower

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: The filmmakers from NOVA set out on a quest to find the world's earliest flower in a special documentary that explores the plant form that has long been at the epicenter of human existence. Flowers show how we feel about others, fill our gardens with beauty, and help to provide us with food and Read More

NOVA: The Marathon Challenge

Actors: Liev Schreiber, Julia Cort

Synopsis: For millions of marathon runners worldwide, Patriots Day looms steadily and prominently on the horizon; such is the pivotal day when untold numbers journey to Boston, Massachusetts to participate in the legendary, 26.2 mile Boston Marathon. As produced by WGBH - Boston public television and Read More

The UCLA Dynasty

Synopsis: UCLA Dynasty documents the twelve year span from 1964 through 1975 where the UCLA Bruins under the steady hand of coach John Wooden won ten NCAA men's basketball titles, considered by many experts to be the greatest dynasty in American team sports. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Nature: Raptor Force

The Painted Veil

Actors: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: A couple with a broken relationship learns some valuable lessons about love, life, and sacrifice in this romantic drama based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It's 1925, and Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is a physician and bacteriologist who has become smitten with Kitty (Naomi Watts), the Read More

The Omen

Actors: Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: A child that will steer humankind down the road to hellfire has been born, and as his evil flourishes in a world full of hate, the ominous Biblical prophecies slowly begin falling into place in director John Moore's remake of Richard Donner's 1976 horror classic. Robert (Liev Schreiber) and Read More

The New Medicine

Synopsis: Hosted by Dana Reeve, the documentary The New Medicine shows how such techniques as meditation and relaxation can offer benefits that many doctors have not considered. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Everything Is Illuminated

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin

Synopsis: A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with Read More

Lackawanna Blues

Actors: S. Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A. Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathleen Chalfant

Synopsis: A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show. Ruben Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. Ruben Read More

NOVA: Saving the National Treasures

Synopsis: Saving the National Treasures documents the care and restoration of quintessential American totems as the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. This episode of the award-winning NOVA series shows how modern science and technology have been used in order to save Read More

Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team

Synopsis: Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team documents how a group of five women formed the core of the international team that captured the Women's World Cup. Team members Brandi Chastain, Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and others share stories about their time on the team, and the filmmakers Read More

Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists documents the attempt to bring to justice the various men of science who helped build Hitler's Third Reich. The film utilizes a wealth of historical footage along with interviews given by both people who were involved in the events depicted and by Read More

Mantle

Synopsis: The remarkable life of baseball's most beloved icon comes to the screen with the kind of loving attention to detail only achieved by the respectful, sports-loving documentary filmmakers at pay-cable giant HBO. Filmed in part to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the legendary switch-hitter's Read More

The Manchurian Candidate

Actors: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme directed this updated remake of John Frankenheimer's 1962 cult favorite The Manchurian Candidate, a pioneering examination of political conspiracy and psychological reconditioning. Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) are two soldiers Read More

Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

Nine Innings From Ground Zero

Synopsis: On September 11, 2001, New York City became the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil when a group of extremists brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The event struck to the heart of New Yorkers as well as Americans across the country (and their friends around Read More

Secrets of the Dead: D-Day - The Ultimate Conflict

Synopsis: Presented by PBS Home Video, Secrets of the Dead: D-Day - The Ultimate Conflict takes a look at the methods and techniques that the Allies used to outwit the Germans and overtake their daunting Atlantic Wall to storm the beaches of Normandy and turn the tide of the war. This documentary, narrated Read More

The Wild Ride to Super Bowl I

Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Nazi Dams

NOVA: Battle of the X-Planes

Synopsis: The fierce competition between Boeing and Lockheed-Martin is the subject of this Nova installment. Both companies are trying to earn government contracts with their "X-Planes," 15-ton stealth fighter jets with state-of-the-art technology. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

NOVA: Lost Treasures of Tibet

Synopsis: The Thubchen monastery has long been a hallmark of Buddhist art, with its elaborate wall paintings. This episode of Nova chronicles how the pictures came to be, and the battle over how to preserve them. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

NOVA: Mountain of Ice

Synopsis: In this episode of NOVA, Conrad Anker leads an expedition to climb the highest mountain peak in Antarctica: Vinson Massif. Anker was joined by author Jon Krakauer, guide Dave Hahn, glaciologist Dan Stone, extreme skier Andrew McLean, NOVA producer Liesl Clark, and a three-person camera crew. This Read More

Spinning Boris

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Boris Krutonog, Svetlana Efremova

Synopsis: Roger Spottiswoode directs Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, and Liev Schreiber in the political satire Spinning Boris. The film takes place during the Russian elections of 1996 that ended with Boris Yeltsin becoming the head of the country. The trio of lead actors play political consultants who Read More

Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: British actor Robert Carlyle stars as the 20th century's most infamous dictator in this two-part TV biopic. The film covers the life of Adolf Hitler from his childhood to his emergence as absolute ruler of Germany in 1934. Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's Read More

Secrets of the Dead: Bridge On the River Kwai

Synopsis: This PBS special documents the sequence of events resulting from the Japanese army's capture of more than 200,000 Allied POWs during 1942, specifically pertaining to the supply route needed to support its front-line troops in Burma. Under deplorable conditions, the POWs, along with thousands of Read More

The Sum of All Fears

Actors: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates

Synopsis: The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical Read More

Picture Perfect: The Stories Behind the Greatest Photographs in Sports

O.J.: A Study in Black and White

Actors: Liev Schreiber, Jim Brown, Jerry Burgdoerfer, Dr. Mary Jo Kane

Synopsis: This 60-minute cable TV documentary places the sensational murder trial of ex-football star O.J. Simpson in context with American race relations of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Deliberately courting controversy, the filmmakers opine that, up until his arrest on suspicion of murder in 1994, Simpson Read More

NOVA: Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on PBS, NOVA: Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies attempts to uncover the nearly 300 Americans who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1940s. De-classified reports from the National Security Agency reveal the identity of several Soviet spies living and working for the U.S. Read More

Secrets of the Dead: Tragedy at the Pole

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Young Dr. Freud

NOVA: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

Synopsis: Galileo Galilei was one of the first truly revolutionary men of science; between 1585 and 1638, this pioneer was one of the first to employ mathematics to determine laws of motion, develop a telescope to help chart the heavens, observe the movements of stars and planets, and declare that the Earth Read More

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant, Part 1 - The Warrior

Synopsis: Ulysses S. Grant was born the son of a tanner and little distinguished him as a young man. He attended West Point at his father's insistent, but felt ill suited for demands of military life. When the Mexican-American War erupted in 1846, Grant served beside many officers who later fought for the Read More

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2 - The President

Synopsis: Following the Civil War, Grant considered returning to civilian life. Racial violence in the South, however, along with President Andrew Johnson's ineffectual leadership, led the ex-soldier into politics. Beginning in March 1869, Grant would serve two presidential terms. Although he attempted to Read More

American Experience: A Brilliant Madness - The Story of John Nash

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: A Brilliant Madness chronicles the life of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash. Born in Bluefield, WV, the eccentric Nash joined the prestigious math department at Princeton in the late '40s. In 1950, at the age of 21, he developed the Nash Equilibrium, a challenge to traditional game Read More

Kate and Leopold

Actors: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer

Synopsis: Filmmaker James Mangold follows his Oscar-winning drama Girl, Interrupted (1999) with this whimsical fantasy. Meg Ryan stars as Kate McKay, a modern female executive in New York City whose drive to succeed in the cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance. When her genius Read More

NOVA: Cancer Warrior

Synopsis: Nova gained an exclusive when it secured the story rights to the life of Dr. Judah Folkman. The controversial cancer treatment pioneer tells all about his dramatic struggle to erase the disease from the planet. Folkman began unraveling the cure for cancer when he was a surgical resident. Through Read More

NOVA: Search for a Safe Cigarette

Synopsis: The decades-long scientific quest to develop a less hazardous cigarette is examined in this program from the PBS series, NOVA. Directed by Carl Charlson, NOVA: Search for a Safe Cigarette features discussions with scientists as well as tobacco researchers and manufacturers to trace the history of Read More

Shot Heard 'Round the World

The Game of Their Lives: Pro Football's Wonder Years

Spring Forward

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Playwright and character actor Tom Gilroy made his feature directorial debut with this dialogue-driven character study set against the backdrop of the changing seasons. Liev Schreiber plays Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Julia Stiles

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized interpretation. Writer/director Michael Almereyda updates the story to the present day, where Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is a struggling filmmaker whose personal and familial trials are set Read More

Scream 3

Actors: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley

Synopsis: Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson produced a third installment of their Scream franchise. Read More

Bill Russell: My Life, My Way

Synopsis: Bill Russell was one of the most successful players in the history of American basketball. In college, he led the University of San Francisco's team through a 55-game winning streak, and as a member of the Boston Celtics, alongside coach Red Auerbach, he helped guide the team to eight consecutive Read More

When It Was a Game 3

Actors: Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: The third installment of the HBO series When It Was a Game focuses on the 1960s, an era of great change for the game of professional baseball. This volume features some of the first color baseball footage available, including the 1938 World Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago. In addition to Read More

NOVA: Runaway Universe

Synopsis: This Nova program grapples with the truly big questions of science -- what is the universe's structure, what lies beyond the limits of our "sight," and how can we predict the ultimate fate of the universe? The film uses as its main focal point a recent discovery that space is not only expanding Read More

Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America

Synopsis: This made-for-cable documentary traces the intimate relationship between professional athletics and sexuality over the past century. From the use of sex appeal in the marketing of sports to the private lives of athletes both straight (legendary womanizer Wilt Chamberlain) and gay (Billie Jean Read More

The Hurricane

Actors: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah

Synopsis: In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a top-ranked middleweight boxer whom many fight fans expected to become world champion. When three people were shot to death in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey, Carter and his friend John Artis, driving home from another club in Paterson, were stopped and Read More

Jakob the Liar

Actors: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis

Synopsis: This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little Read More

A Walk on the Moon

Actors: Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Viggo Mortensen, Tovah Feldshuh

Synopsis: The personal turning points of a family in crisis are portrayed against the backdrop of one of America's most tumultuous summers in this drama. In 1969, Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane) is spending the summer at a resort in the Catskills. Married to TV repairman Marty (Liev Schreiber) and the mother Read More

American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island

Synopsis: Just days after Hollywood released The China Syndrome, a film about the possible meltdown of a nuclear power plant, life closely imitated art and a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, PA, suddenly overheated. Tension, panic, and fear embroiled the area for a Read More

NOVA: The Killer's Trail - Murder Mystery of the Century

Synopsis: With modern methods and precise science, Nova gets scientific to catch a killer. Nova: Murder Mystery of the Century takes the viewer behind the scenes of the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Accused of killing his wife Marilyn in 1954, Sheppard was tried not once, but twice. He was convicted of Read More

RKO 281

Actors: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn,