Peter Coyote Filmography

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

Actors: Kyla Pratt, Peter Coyote, Greg Ellis

Synopsis: This comedy concerns Maya Doolittle, a veterinarian with an over-the-top skill for dealing with animals. Maya gets a call from the president himself, hoping to enlist her help in preventing a pet problem from becoming a canine catastrophe. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine

Actors: Peter Coyote

Synopsis: This documentary shines a light on the seemingly effective practice of incorporating poetry into the lives of patients recovering from surgery and major illnesses. Spearheaded by Dr. John Graham-Pole and John Fox, this rather inexpensive addition to the healing benefit has had a positive effect on Read More

Strange Culture

Actors: Peter Coyote, Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz

Synopsis: Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson examines a strange miscarriage of justice amplified by post-9/11 hysteria in this imaginative fusion of documentary and docu-drama. Steve Kurtz is an artist and political activist who was an associate professor at State University of New York's Buffalo campus and a Read More

Soldiers of Conscience

Actors: Peter Coyote

The Brain Fitness Program

Synopsis: This 100 minute program takes a look at the brain and its ability to change and adapt itself based on what it's presented with. Dr. Michael Merzenich of the University of California and his team of scientists present a series of computer stimuli developed to encourage this growth and adaptation Read More

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

Commune

Synopsis: In 1968 members of San Francisco's Mime Troupe and Digger Movement decided to separate from society and form their own community, known as the Black Bear Ranch, to reconnect with nature and experience a different way of life. At the turn of the new century the resilient counterculture settlement Read More

a/k/a Tommy Chong

Actors: Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong, Paris Chong, Eric Schlosser, Lou Adler

Synopsis: When comedy legend Tommy Chong was arrested in 2003 and given a nine-month prison sentence for the manufacture and sale of drug paraphernalia, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's revamped war on drugs soared, like a mighty eagle stricken with vertigo in mid-flight, to new levels of absurdity. Read More

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

Actors: Peter Coyote, Keith David, Bruce McGill, Nicholas Gonzalez

Synopsis: North Korea is threatening to flex its nuclear muscle, and it's up to a team of US Navy SEALs to prevent a catastrophe in this action-packed sequel to Behind Enemy Lines starring Bruce McGill, Keith David, and Peter Coyote. Everything was going as planned, but when the mission is aborted after the Read More

Apparent Horizon

Actors: Peter Coyote, Matthew Carey, Myla Balugay

Synopsis: A mail-order bride from Thailand arrives in America with bright hopes for the future, only to find that her new home is a virtual prison in director Thymaya Payne's emotionally turbulent short film. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Grand Role

Actors: Stéphane Freiss, Bérénice Bejo, Peter Coyote, Lionel Abelanski, Laurent Bateau, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié

Synopsis: An actor who lands the role of his life is forced into an even greater real-life acting challenge in this comedy drama from France. Maurice Kurtz (Stéphane Freiss) is an actor who is passionately in love with his wife, Perla (Bérénice Bejo), and wishes he could provide a better life for her. Read More

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Actors: Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Alex Gibney, who wrote and produced Eugene Jarecki's The Trials of Henry Kissinger, examines the rise and fall of an infamous corporate juggernaut in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which he wrote and directed. The film, based on the book by Fortune Magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Read More

The Inside [TV Series]

Actors: Rachel Nichols, Jay Harrington, Adam Baldwin, Katie Finneran, Nelsan Ellis

Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis

Actors: Aimee Lynn Chadwick, Cory C. Hardrict, John Keefe, Jana Kramer, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: A pair of orphaned teens experience an unexpected reunion with their parents in this fourth installment of the long-running Return of the Living Dead franchise. After a traffic accident kills his folks, high-school senior Julian (John Keefe) leads a more or less typical suburban life. Sure, he's a Read More

The Green Bus vs. The White House

Actors: Peter Coyote

Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave

Actors: Aimee Lynn Chadwick, Cory C. Hardrict, John Keefe, Jenny Mollen, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: In this sequel to 1985's Return of the Living Dead, a bunch of horny teens discover that their new designer drug is actually a chemical that turns humans into flesh-eating zombies. Unfortunately, they don't make this discovery until they're in the middle of an enormous outdoor dance party, where Read More

A Little Trip to Heaven

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry comedy drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Holt (Forest Whitaker) is an insurance investigator who is sent to Minnesota to look into a bus accident; the bus seems to have had significantly more passengers after Read More

Deepwater

Actors: Lucas Black, Peter Coyote, Mía Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: An orphaned drifter recently released from the hospital and seeking gainful employment finds that sometimes fate can play cruel tricks on the desperate in a tightly wound tale of adultery, deception, and murder starring Peter Coyote and Lucas Black. Nat Banyon (Black) is an orphan just looking to Read More

The Damnedest, Finest Ruins

Actors: Peter Coyote

Bon Voyage

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: The last frantic days before the Germans seized France in 1940 provide an unlikely backdrop for this dark comedy. Viviane (Isabelle Adjani) is a glamorous and well-known film actress who attracts the attentions of many men -- often many she has no interest in knowing. One night, at a reception Read More

The 4400: Season 01

Actors: Peter Coyote, Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Patrick Flueger, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali

Synopsis: The first season of USA Network's sci-fi thriller The 4400 begins (pardon the cliché) with a bang, as a huge, glowing object falls from the sky and lands near Highland Beach, Washington. The comet-like object then disgorges some 4400 human beings, all of whom had vanished from the earth over the Read More

Spirit Riders

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Charlotte Black Elk, Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Christopher Leith, Mel Lonehill

Synopsis: The Lakota Native American tribe has a long tradition of ceremonial horseback rides, which are used to celebrate within the community or bring positive spiritual energies toward matters of concern. In 1990, members of the Lakota Nation felt it was time the tribe addressed the growing need for Read More

Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Ed Asner, John Kerry, John McCain, Bob Dornan

Shadow of Fear

Actors: James Spader

Synopsis: When an underground society of powerful and dangerous men transforms from a secretive safe haven into a tangled web of lies and deceit, their unwavering desperation culminates in a shocking act of murder in this thriller from director Rich Cowan. Everyone in the secret society has committed a Read More

Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters

Actors: Peter Coyote

Oil on Ice

Synopsis: The documentary Oil on Ice discusses various factors that are having negative effects on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The film explains how America's energy policy, the rights of Gwich'in Indians, animal rights, and global warming are all causing serious disturbances to the Refuge. ~ Perry Read More

There's Something About W

Synopsis: This deeply critical and often humorous documentary opens with President George W. Bush's acceptance of the 2000 Republican nomination and Bush's assertion that each U.S. president must be fully responsible for his actions. It then moves forward in time to examine the extent to which Bush failed Read More

The Hebrew Hammer

Actors: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Mario Van Peebles, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the world in this satiric comedy. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess and is always ready to do the right thing for Read More

Northfork

Actors: James Woods, Nick Nolte, Claire Forlani, Duel Farnes, Mark Polish

Synopsis: What was once a brave frontier town has become a haven for enlightened oddballs in this unusual drama from director Michael Polish, written in collaboration with his twin brother, Mark Polish. Northfork is a small town in Montana which, in 1955, is soon to disappear in the name of progress; a Read More

Sex in the 20th Century [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Hosted by actor Peter Coyote, this four-part documentary series was an unofficial follow-up to The History of Sex. Covering the years 1900 to 2000, the series emphasized changing sexual manners and mores during those 100 years, covering the first 20 years of the century in the opening program Read More

Out of the Blue

Actors: Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Although the feature length UFO documentary Out of the Blue first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, the film takes a sober, clinical and surprisingly down-to-earth approach to its subject matter. Assuming that the audience already accepts the existence of UFOs, the producers -- and narrator Peter Coyote Read More

Dreaming of Tibet

Phenomenon II

Synopsis: Made for television, Phenomenon II is not so much as sequel to the theatrical feature Phenomenon as it is a remake--and as such, it is rather obvious that the film is the pilot for a proposed TV series. Christopher Shyer stars as California mechanic George Malley, who after being literally struck Read More

Femme Fatale

Actors: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney, Edouard Montoute

Synopsis: Brian De Palma blends the emotional netherworld of film noir with a stylish portrayal of life among the wealthy and powerful in Paris in this glossy thriller. Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) is a beautiful but mysterious woman who has aligned herself with a small ring of jewel thieves, led by a Read More

A Walk to Remember

Actors: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German

Synopsis: The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Read More

The Shape of Life, Episode 8: Bones, Brawn & Brains

Founding Brothers: A More Perfect Union, Part One - Leadership

Founding Brothers: The Evolution of a Revolution, Part Four - Posterity

Founding Brothers: A More Perfect Union, Part Two - Government

The Shape of Life, Episode 2: Life on the Move

The Shape of Life, Episode 5: The Conquerors

The Shape of Life, Episode 6: Survival Game

The Shape of Life, Episode 7: Ultimate Animal

The Shape of Life, Episode 3: The First Hunter

The Shape of Life, Episode 1: Origins

Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota

Actors: Peter Coyote

Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara

The Color of War [TV Documentary Series]

Written in Blood

Actors: Dan Gauthier, Gwen McGee, Steve Rankin, Michael T. Weiss, Peter Coyote, Maureen Flannigan

Synopsis: John Terlesky's psychological thriller Written in Blood concerns a police detective named Matt Ransom who attempts to clear the name of his partner after the partner is convicted of killing his wife. The investigator uncovers a web of people who might have been responsible for the crime, but he Read More

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election

Actors: Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Independent filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler direct the political documentary Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this 50-minute film examines the controversial occurrences in Florida during the 2000 presidential election leading up to the eventual Read More

Founding Brothers: The Evolution of a Revolution, Part Three - Parties

A Time for Dancing

Actors: Larisa Oleynik, Shiri Appleby

Synopsis: A girl with powerful dreams for her future may not have the chance to live them out in this drama based on the novel by Davida Wills Hurwin. Samantha (Shiri Appleby) and Juliana (Larisa Oleynik) are a pair of high-school students who have been close friends for years. Both girls share a love of Read More

In the Light of Reverance

Suddenly Naked

Actors: Wendy Crewson, Joe Cobden, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Veteran Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler spins this lighthearted romantic comedy about finding love in odd places. Jackie York (Wendy Crewson) is middle-aged author whose books regularly top the bestseller lists but whose romantic life consists mostly of bad choices from the cutout bin. Though the Read More

The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, Part 1 - Ocean World

Synopsis: David Attenborough hosts this series on the oceans of the world and their inhabitants with some incredible photography of never-before-seen, groundbreaking animal behaviors. Part one of the series, Blue Planet: Seas of Life, Pt. 1 -- Ocean World, looks at the oceans' dominating influence on the Read More

Jack the Dog

Actors: Nestor Carbonell, Barbara Williams, Andrew J. Ferchland, Travis Fine, Micole Mercurio

Synopsis: One man's insatiable appetite for sex begins upending his life in this biting independent comedy. Jack (Nestor Carbonell) is a photographer known to his friends as "Jack the Dog," thanks to his compulsive womanizing; Jack seems incapable of staying with one partner for long before he finds himself Read More

Purpose

Synopsis: An Internet entrepreneur looking to revolutionize the way the world wide web is utilized finds out that there's more to the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" than he ever imagined in this tale of innovation soured, helmed by greedy dot-com cynic Alan Ari Lazar. As the Read More

The Basket

Actors: Peter Coyote, Karen Allen, Robert Karl Burke, Amber Willenborg, Jock MacDonald

Synopsis: In this drama about intolerance and acceptance that takes place during World War I, a pair of German orphans, Helmut and Brigitta, are sent to a farming community in the Pacific Northwest after a stay in an internment camp. While they are welcomed by some in the town, many resent their presence Read More

Erin Brockovich

Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones

Synopsis: Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit, asks her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), if he Read More

Emperor of Hemp

Synopsis: Jack Herer, a longtime outspoken defender of legalizing the hemp plant, is known to some as "the prophet of pot" and to others as a central figure in an important environmental cause. This documentary uses interviews, archival footage, and an entertaining style to look at Herer's life -- including Read More

The Living Edens: Glacier Bay - Alaska's Wild Coast

National Geographic: Submarine I-52 - In Search of WWII Gold

Synopsis: In 1944, near the end of World War II, the Japanese submarine I-52 -- carrying cargo to Nazi Germany -- was torpedoed by American bombers. It sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with it 100 people and two tons of gold. Half a century later, Paul Tidwell, a Vietnam veteran and Read More

Red Letters

Actors: Peter Coyote, Nastassja Kinski, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: Nastassja Kinski and Peter Coyote star in this suspense thriller about a college professor who finds himself in a whirlwind of danger when he agrees to help a beautiful woman who has just escaped from prison. She was convicted of murdering a woman who was having an affair with her husband, and she Read More

Natural Connections

Understanding: Extraterrestrials

Synopsis: The Learning Channel takes viewers into the great unknown and beyond with its special series presentation of Understanding: Extraterrestrials. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this intriguing documentary reveals what NASA missions have discovered about other worlds and how scientists at the SETI Read More

Future Shark

More Dogs Than Bones

Synopsis: The crime comedy More Dogs Than Bones starts with female gangster Victoria Galetti hiding one million dollars in cash in the bags of Raj Lukla -- a foreigner flying into town in order to visit his nephew Andy. Victoria's underlings are assigned to retrieve the cash, but learn that the task is far Read More

Random Hearts

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, Paul Guilfoyle, Peter Coyote, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Two people who've known the pain of loss and the sting of betrayal are brought together under trying circumstances in this romantic drama. Dutch van den Broeck (Harrison Ford) is a police detective based in Washington D.C. whose wife works for an upscale department store; flying to Miami on Read More

Rome: Power & Glory - The Seduction of Power

Synopsis: Each episode of Rome: Power and Glory charts a chapter in the growth of one of the world's greatest empires. Covering over two million square miles and standing for nearly 1,300 years, the Roman Empire was crucial in determining the future direction and stance of the great empires that would Read More

The History of Sex, Part 5: The 20th Century

Synopsis: Actor Peter Coyote, of Roman Polanski's dark sex comedy Bitter Moon, narrates this History Channel series that examines human biology, art, humor, and attitudes regarding sex through the ages. Directed by Mark Hufnail, this last of five episodes examines the importance of sex to the movie Read More

Rome: Power & Glory - The Rise

Synopsis: Each episode of Rome: Power and Glory charts a chapter in the growth of one of the world's greatest empires. Encompassing over two million square miles and standing for nearly 1,300 years, the Roman Empire was crucial in determining the future direction and stance of the great empires that would Read More

Rome: Power & Glory - Legions of Conquest

Synopsis: Each episode of Rome: Power and Glory charts a chapter in the growth of one of the world's greatest empires. Covering over two million square miles and standing for nearly 1,300 years, the Roman Empire was crucial in determining the future direction and stance of the great empires that would Read More

Rome: Power & Glory - Grasp of Empire

Synopsis: Each episode of Rome: Power and Glory charts a chapter in the growth of one of the world's greatest empires. Covering over two million square miles and standing for nearly 1,300 years, the Roman Empire was crucial in determining the future direction and stance of the great empires that would Read More

The History of Sex, Part 3: The Middle Ages

Synopsis: Without the Christian Church of the Middle Ages, Freud of the 19th century would have been out of work. Actor Peter Coyote, of Roman Polanski's dark sex comedy Bitter Moon, narrates this History Channel series that examines human biology, art, humor, and attitudes regarding sex down through the Read More

The History of Sex, Part 4: From Don Juan to Queen Victoria

Synopsis: Actor Peter Coyote, of Roman Polanski's dark sex comedy Bitter Moon, narrates this History Channel series that examines human biology, art, humor, and attitudes regarding sex down through the ages. Directed by Melissa Peltier, this fourth of five episodes examines the greatly varying sexual mores Read More

The History of Sex, Part 2: The Eastern World

Synopsis: Boy meets girl -- it's still the same old story. As this program reveals, some of the world's earliest and greatest literature is about sex. Actor Peter Coyote, of Roman Polanski's dark sex comedy Bitter Moon, narrates this History Channel series that