Morgan FreemanFilmography

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan

Synopsis: A young girl (Saoirse Ronan) is caught in a feud between a captain (Pierce Brosnan) and his crew while on a transatlantic voyage in this adaptation of novelist Avi's young adult best-seller, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Danny DeVito writes and directs the Jersey Films 2nd Avenue film Read More

The Maiden Heist

Crew: Producer

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Three security guards (Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, and William H. Macy) scheme to steal their favorite pieces of artwork that their museum is about to relinquish to another gallery in this Peter Hewitt-helmed crime-comedy. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dark Knight

Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played Read More

Wanted

Actors: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common

Synopsis: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Read More

31st Annual Kennedy Center Hononrs

Prom Night in Mississippi

Synopsis: While the United States Supreme Court declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional in 1954, change came slowly to Charleston, Mississippi. Once a haven for the Ku Klux Klan, Charleston maintained segregated public schools until well into the 1970's, and even then one major event in the Read More

The Code

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: An experienced robber (Morgan Freeman) heavily in debt with the Russian mob engages a novice thief (Antonio Banderas) to pull off one last heist in this crime drama from director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact). Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) co-stars in the Millennium Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler Read More

The Bucket List

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Alfonso Freeman

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star as two terminally ill cancer patients who decide to break out of the hospital and live their last days to the fullest in director Rob Reiner's seriocomic road movie. Edward Cole (Nicholson) is a corporate billionaire who is currently sharing a hospital room Read More

Gone Baby Gone

Actors: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton

Synopsis: Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston Read More

Feast of Love

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke, Selma Blair

Synopsis: A group of friends living in suburban Oregon come into contact with a sensual free spirit named Chloe (Alexa Davalos), who changes their outlook on life in the most unexpected of ways in this ensemble drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by author Charles Baxter. As college professor and writer Read More

Evan Almighty

Actors: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips

Synopsis: 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell reprises his role as preening newscaster Evan Baxter in this heavenly sequel to the 2003 Jim Carrey comedy hit. Shortly after television anchorman-turned-U.S. congressman Evan Baxter (Carell) relocates his family from Buffalo to Northern Virginia, God (Morgan Freeman Read More

The Contract

Actors: Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Jamie Anderson, Alice Krige, Megan Dodds

Synopsis: Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer in director Bruce Beresford's forest-bound thriller. Ray Keene (John Cusack) has lost his wife, and now the grieving Read More

e² Energy [TV Series]

Actors: Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: E2 Energy contains all six episodes of the documentary series devoted to showcasing various developments being made in the hopes of a new environmentally friendly source of power. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

10 Items or Less

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega, Bobby Cannavale, Anne Dudek, Jennifer Echols

Synopsis: A aging Hollywood icon whose fear of failure has smouldered his once-luminous star strikes up an unlikely friendship with an acid tongued checkout clerk while researching his latest role in City of Angels and Moonlight Mile director Brad Siberling's intimate drama. Crippled by his own Read More

Lucky Number Slevin

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: An innocent man visiting a friend in New York City becomes embroiled in a dangerous series of events after being mistaken for the very man he has come to the city to see in director Paul McGuigan's labyrinthine murder mystery. Upon arriving at the empty apartment of his old friend Nick, the Read More

Greasy Rider

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

Synopsis: Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this documentary. Using newsreel footage, rare NASA photographs, and digitally animated re-creations, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon Read More

An Unfinished Life

Actors: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner

Synopsis: Two generations of a damaged family are brought together in this emotional drama. Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher whose spread went to seed after he developed a serious drinking problem. Now on the wagon, Einar looks after what's left of his spread with his friend Read More

War of the Worlds

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins

Synopsis: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two Read More

March of the Penguins

Synopsis: While many people think of penguins as comical birds who look like they've been decked out in tuxedos, the truth is they're among the strongest and most resilient creatures in the animal kingdom. And they have to be -- each year, the emperor penguins of Antarctica travel through the most punishing Read More

Batman Begins

Actors: Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment Read More

Unleashed

Actors: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon

Synopsis: Two men cut off from the world in different ways become unlikely friends and protectors in this offbeat action drama. Danny (Jet Li) is a physically powerful but emotionally stunted man; never given any sort of proper education, Danny has learned little in his lifetime but how to fight, and his Read More

Edison Force

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Justin Timberlake, LL Cool J, Dylan McDermott

Synopsis: Corruption is the law of the land in the every-city of Edison, and the only soul brave enough to peer into the fire and face the wrath of an entire squad of corrupt cops is a fresh-faced journalist in this neo-noir thriller from television director-turned-feature helmer David J. Burke. Joshua Read More

Blues Divas

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Irma Thomas, Odette, Mavis Staples, Deborah Coleman

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Actors: George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Peter Bogdanovich, David Brown, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Take a walk on the fine line between box-office blockbusters and instantly forgettable bombs as Oscar and Emmy-winning producer/director Bill Couturie sets out to explore just what separates such high-profile hits as Jaws from such room-clearing disasters as Howard the Duck. Executive produced by Read More

Slavery and the Making of America [TV Documentary Series]

Million Dollar Baby

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter

Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high Read More

The Hunting of the President

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Paul Begala, Sidney Blumenthal, David Brock, John Camp

Synopsis: From the best-selling book by journalists Gene Lyons and Joe Conason comes The Hunting of the President, a documentary by filmmakers Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry. Going back to Bill Clinton's time as Governor of Arkansas and tracing through his impeachment while President of the United Read More

The Big Bounce

Actors: Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Sara Foster, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: George Armitage directs this big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce. Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is an occasional thief who tends to a judge (Morgan Freeman). A woman involved with Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinese), a real estate developer of questionable ethics, seduces Jack. Ritchie and Read More

Decisions That Shook the World

Synopsis: This program examines the decisions made by some of the 20th centuries most pivotal presidential administrations that affected such issues for the public at large as civil rights, war, and science. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Bruce Almighty

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell

Synopsis: After a bad day at work, a man suddenly gets a new job -- as the world's new Heavenly Father -- in this comedy. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a television reporter working in Buffalo, NY, who has been growing increasingly dissatisfied with his existence, and after an especially bad day, he flies Read More

Levity

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: Action comedy screenwriter Ed Solomon switches gears to psychological drama for his feature film directing debut, Levity. Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton) gets released after doing 23 years in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. Not having any place to go as a free Read More

Dreamcatcher

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg

Synopsis: Four men are changed forever by an act of mercy -- changes which have a profound impact many years later -- in this blend of horror and science fiction based on a novel by Stephen King. Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Henry (Thomas Jane), Pete (Timothy Olyphant), and Beaver (Jason Lee) were four friends Read More

Guilty by Association

Synopsis: D-Mo (Daemon Moore) is a small-time Washington, D.C. drug dealer who decides to make his move. He enlists his friend, Drama (Jeff Edward), a petty thief on probation, in his scheme to become a local drug kingpin. Drama reluctantly goes along, and soon the two are moving product, and watching the Read More

A Tale of Two Schools

Actors: Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Produced by the Reading Rockets Project of the Washington, D.C., public-television outlet WETA, A Tale of Two Schools focuses on the teachers and administrators of two different public schools, both of which have been singled out as among the worst in their respective communities. The illiteracy Read More

The Art of Romare Bearden

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Romare Bearden is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and visionary American artists of his generation, and among the most important African-American visual artists of the 20th century. Best known for his work in collage, in which he captured both the sights and the energies of the various Read More

Last of the Mississippi Jukes

Synopsis: Last of the Mississippi Jukes is a documentary about blues and juke joints directed by Robert Mugge. Featuring music by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Bobby Rush, and Chris Thomas King, it includes interviews and on-location footage telling the journey of the last few blues bars throughout the state of Read More

American Experience: Partners of the Heart

Actors: Beau James, Chris Haley, Jane Leuders, Morgan Freeman, Courtney Vance

Synopsis: This 60-minute entry in the PBS American Experience anthology chronicles the unorthodox medical partnership between Alfred Blalock, chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins, and Vivien Thomas, a black man with little more than a high school education. When Thomas applied for a janitorial post at Johns 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

High Crimes

Actors: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel, Amanda Peet, Tom Bower

Synopsis: Defense attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) seems to have the perfect life. She has a high profile job at a big firm, a beautiful home outside San Francisco, and a husband, Tom (James Caviezel of The Thin Red Line), who loves her. Claire's biggest problem appears to be that she wants to have a Read More

Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

Along Came a Spider

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem

Synopsis: Morgan Freeman returns as forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Cross in this thriller based on the novel by James Patterson (whose work also formed the basis of the hit Kiss the Girls). Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott) is a brilliant but remorseless psychopath who has landed a teaching position at an Read More

Nurse Betty

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Harriet Sansom Harris, Allison Janney, Aaron Eckhart, Greg Kinnear

Synopsis: After two acclaimed independent films in which he took a troubling look at male/female relations, director Neil LaBute moves on to less controversial ground in this dark comedy. Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) is a woman from Kansas City who waits tables at a diner and is married to an Read More

The Directors: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: Two-time Best Director Oscar winner and easily one of America's most popular directors, Steven Spielberg and his films, such as E.T., Jurassic Park, and Jaws, redefined the term "Hollywood blockbuster." This video biography highlights his high-flying career, featuring interviews with Jeff Read More

The Directors: Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: Directors: Clint Eastwood profiles the acclaimed actor, director, and Hollywood icon. Eastwood has entertained generations of people, moving successfully back and forth between acting and directing. Here, Eastwood discusses his more commercial directing projects, such as Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County Read More

Under Suspicion

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Thomas Jane, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: When a powerful man is accused of murder, who tells the truth -- the man, or his estranged wife? Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), an American attorney living in Puerto Rico, is called in to speak with police detective Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman). A few days earlier, Hearst reported finding the Read More

Scandalize My Name: Stories From the Blacklist

Synopsis: Scandalize My Name provides a searing examination of how "Red Scare" politics were used to hinder America's civil rights movement. This powerful film documents the first-hand experiences of African-American performers faced with blacklists, loyalty oaths and other discrimination. It explores the Read More

Mutiny

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Jai White, David Ramsey, Duane Martin, Adrian Pasdar, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: This made-for-television docudrama that aired on March 28, 1999 on NBC, relates the story of an actual event that occurred during World War II, but is centered around the lives of fictional characters. On July 17, 1944 at a U.S. naval base near San Francisco, a ship exploded causing the deaths of Read More

Hard Rain

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner

Synopsis: A natural disaster breeds man-made treachery in this suspense thriller. Severe flooding threatens an Indiana town after a massive rainstorm taxes dams to the breaking point. As part of an emergency evacuation effort, armored car driver Tom (Christian Slater) and his uncle Charlie (Edward Asner) Read More

Deep Impact

Actors: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis: Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White Read More

The Long Way Home

Actors: Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: The struggles of European Jews during WWII have been well documented, but this film (produced with the cooperation of the Simon Weisenthal Center) makes it clear that the ordeal of those who suffered during the Holocaust did not end with the liberation of Europe. The Long Way Home uses interviews Read More

Amistad

Actors: Arliss Howard, Jeremy Northam, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Read More

Kiss The Girls

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Tony Goldwyn, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: This thriller is adapted from the 1995 novel by James Patterson about a serial killer prowling a Southern university. Washington, D.C., forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) is also a best-selling author. After his niece Naomi (Gina Ravera) is reported missing, he heads his Porsche Read More

Cosmic Voyage

Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award, this 36-minute IMAX production offers a state-of-the-art, computer-generated journey through the universe, and tries to pinpoint the role of human beings cohabitating within its vastness. Among the topics included are a variety of the greatest scientific theories Read More

Moll Flanders

Actors: Paul Hickey, Robin Wright Penn, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch, Aisling Corcoran

Synopsis: An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences as a prostitute in this period drama set in 18th century London. Drawing only loose inspiration from the Daniel Dafoe novel that provided the film's title, writer-director Pen Densham creates a new story Read More

Chain Reaction

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Just as the university research team is about to prove that their new technique will permit water to be used as a fuel, their laboratory is sabotaged and the lab manager is killed. Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) stumbles onto the scene and manages not only to witness the sabotage, but to escape Read More

National Geographic: Inside the White House

Actors: Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Instead of standing in line with hundreds of tourists, wouldn't it be nice to get an inside look at the White House? What do the private living areas of the first family look like? What sort of food is served at a state dinner? National Geographic Video: Inside the White House takes the viewer on Read More

Outbreak

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Synopsis: A handful of scientists struggle to prevent the destruction of a small town -- and possibly the entire country -- in this suspense drama. In the mid-1960s, a deadly virus is discovered in Zaire that wipes out an entire village in 24 hours. Government researchers are brought in to investigate, but Read More

Seven

Actors: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a Read More

The Shawshank Redemption

Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most Read More

Bopha!

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Marius Weyers, Maynard Eziashi

Synopsis: This 1993 film adaptation of Percy Mtwa's South African play Bopha was rendered anachronistic by late-breaking events, though it still contains plenty of food for thought. Danny Glover stars as a black police officer in the waning days of apartheid. Though dedicated to his job, Glover has mixed Read More

Unforgiven

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett

Synopsis: Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face Read More

The Power of One

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Gielgud, Maria Marais

Synopsis: John G. Avildsen, director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, adapts Bryce Courtenay's compassionate novel about the coming of age of a white anti-apartheid activist during the years of World War II in South Africa. Avildsen cumbersomely grafts Courtenay's tale of fighting apartheid onto a Read More

Rabbit Ears: Follow the Drinking Gourd

Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Savior Is Born

Synopsis: This video is part of a series that presents some of the best loved stories in the Bible. In this program, actor Morgan Freeman narrates the story of the birth of Jesus. The familiar story unfolds, as Joseph and Mary arrive in Bethlehem, where the sacred birth takes place. Visitors, from angels to Read More

Rabbit Ears: The Savior is Born

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Actors: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman

Synopsis: This film is a '90s version of the classic Robin Hood story, with Kevin Costner starring as the good-guy thief. Costner is joined in his efforts against the murdering Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by Morgan Freeman who plays a philosophizing Moor, and by Nick Brimble, who plays Little John Read More

The True Story of "Glory" Continues

American Experience: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

Synopsis: Originally telecast on the award-winning PBS series The American Experience, this documentary chronicles the formation and battlefield heroics of the first all-black Union regiment, the Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry. Early in the Civil War, most whites thought that blacks would never be able Read More

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle Read More

The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

Ken Burns' Civil War [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: Ken Burns' epic series begins with the causes of the Civil War in 1861 and ends with the war's aftermath in 1865. A combination of photographs, interviews, and narration create a sweeping historical documentary. Commentary and anecdotes by historian Shelby Foote add another level of authority to Read More

Driving Miss Daisy

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the twenty-five year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman). Both employer and employee are Read More

Glory

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Cliff De Young, Andre Braugher

Synopsis: Glory is a celebration of a little-known act of mass courage during the Civil War. Simply put, the heroes involved have been ignored by history due to racism. Those heroes were the all-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick Read More

Johnny Handsome

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Small-time crook Mickey Rourke is mockingly named Johnny Handsome because of his grotesquely deformed face. While in stir on a robbery rap, Rourke is knifed by convicts in the employ of his former partner--and now bitter enemy--Lance Henriksen. While in the prison hospital, Rourke is cared for by Read More

Lean on Me

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume, Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen, Jermaine Hopkins

Synopsis: After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Read More

Clean and Sober

Actors: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Tate Donovan

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of the television series Moonlighting (1985-89), this intense, gritty drama was received as one of the best-ever cinematic treatments of substance abuse. Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hustling, successful Philadelphia real estate Read More

Clinton and Nadine

Actors: Anthony Correa, Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film was originally titled simply Clinton & Nadine when it made its debut on May 28, 1988. Andy Garcia plays Clinton, who is eager to find his brother's murderer. To do so, he enlists the aid of Nadine (Ellen Barkin), a high-priced call girl. Clinton and Nadine get sucked into a Read More

Street Smart

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson

Synopsis: Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a newspaper reporter who becomes a celebrity when he writes a fictitious exposé on prostitution. The story of the high-living pimp is too close a resemblance to real-life flesh pedlar Fast Black (Morgan Freeman), and Jonathan is jailed when he refuses to turn Read More

Fight for Life

Actors: Barry Morse

Synopsis: In his TV-movie debut, Jerry Lewis plays Dr. Abrams, an Ohio optometrist, whose beloved 6-year-old daughter (Jaclyn Bernstein) falls victim to a rare form of epilepsy. The traditional means to keep the girl's seizures under control fail to work, putting a strain on the Abram's (Lewis and Patty Duke Astin Read More

Resting Place

Actors: John Lithgow

Synopsis: Set in 1972, The Resting Place stars John Lithgow as an Army major who accompanies the body of a young black lieutenant killed in action to the dead man's Georgia home town. Though the local cemetery is for whites only, the town's resident liberal has paid for a plot for the deceased lieutenant. Lithgow Read More

The Gospel at Colonus

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Isabell Monk, Carl Lumbly, Robert Earl Jones, Jevetta Steele

Synopsis: Featuring Isabell Mont and Morgan Freeman, this video features the BAM performance of Oedipus at Colonus. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Execution of Raymond Graham

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Philip Sterling, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Jeff Fahey plays Raymond Graham, who for five years has lived on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of a store clerk. Having given up on any further legal delays, Graham wearily awaits the fatal injection. Joining the condemned man in his death watch are Graham's family and attorney, a Read More

That Was Then... This Is Now

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, Kim Delaney, Jill Schoelen, Barbara Babcock

Synopsis: Emilio Estevez adapted S.E. Hinton's teen coming-of-age novel for the screen in this film adaptation directed by Christopher Cain. Estevez also takes the lead role of Mark Jennings, a troubled teenager who has been living with his best friend Byron Douglas (Craig Sheffer) and his mother (Barbara Babcock Read More

Marie

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Morgan Freeman, Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama stars Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, a Tennessee housewife stuck in a bad marriage with an abusive husband and caring for a child with long-term health problems. Determined to turn her life around, Marie leaves her husband and goes back to school. Against long Read More

The Atlanta Child Murders

Synopsis: The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases of the past twenty years. From 1979 through 1982, some 28 African-American children and young adults disappeared from Atlanta--some without a trace, but others to later turn Read More

Teachers

Actors: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this satiric look at contemporary urban high schools, examining disillusioned teachers who try to regain their idealism. Nick Nolte stars as Alex, a teacher at John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School, who was once an idealistic teacher but whose main concern now is sobering up Read More

Harry and Son

Actors: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Harry (Paul Newman), a middle-aged hardhat, has trouble communicating with his teenaged son Howard (Robby Benson). While Harry wants Howard to find a bread-and-butter job, the sensitive boy would rather pursue a writing career. Howard tries his best to please his dad, but ultimately realizes that Read More

Death of a Prophet

Synopsis: Morgan Freeman makes an early screen appearance in this made-for-television docudrama inspired by the life and death of African-American activist Malcolm X. Book-ended by interviews with people who knew and worked with Malcolm X, the bulk of Death of a Prophet follows 24 hours in the life of a Read More

The Marva Collins Story

Actors: Ed Asner, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: When the story of the real-life Marva Collins was nationally telecast on 60 Minutes in 1979, residents of Chicago had been intimately familiar with the accomplishments of Ms. Collins for at least four years. After 14 years of teaching in Chicago's dead-end public school system, Marva used $5000 of Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Irene Worth

Synopsis: Fresh off the success of Breaking Away(1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a thriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver. When she arrives at his building to interview the tenants about a murder that's occurred Read More

Brubaker

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

Attica

Actors: George Grizzard

Synopsis: Attica is a probing, no-nonsense TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica (New York) Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions used jerry-built weapons to take 38 guards as hostage. Negotiations begin Read More

Hollow Image

Synopsis: Hollow Image is an occasionally overwritten but generally impressive screenwriting debut for Lee Hunkins. Saundra Sharp plays an African-American career woman who has become a success in Manhattan's high-fashion world. She has risen from the grinding poverty of Harlem, but her roots are deeper Read More

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Synopsis: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was a TV pilot film in the form of a three-part miniseries. Set in 1933 Mississippi, the story focuses on the Logans, a closely knit, fiercely independent African-American family. In Part One, the Logans spearhead a boycott against a bigoted merchant who clandestinely Read More

Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?

Actors: Kevin Riou, Otis Stephens

Synopsis: This upbeat children's adventure tells the true story of gentle Barney Marcovitz who firmly believes that the world's hope is in the hands of children. Barney manages a pony farm/petting zoo in Greenwich Village so that city kids can sample country life. The trouble begins when the real estate Read More