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Synopsis: Not so far back, an iconoclastic geologist began theorizing - in the face of hundreds of skeptics - that two million years ago, a titanic flood carved out the majority of present day Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho. His contemporaries turned their noses up and scoffed - until evidence Read More
Actors: Alicia Silverstone, Eion Bailey, Annabeth Gish, Matthew Knight, Polly Bergen, James Rebhorn
Synopsis: Based on the 1999 bestseller by K.C. McKinnon, this touching Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation stars Alicia Silverstone as Dee Dee, a single mom and professional candlemaker who returns to her Maine hometown after a lengthy absence. Having left town with a somewhat sullied reputation, she returns Read More
Synopsis: NOVA reconstructs and dissects a decades-old unsolved mystery in this 60-minute special from 2005. Proclaimed for years as the apotheosis of evolutionary theory and the final proof of a link between homo sapiens and primates, the "Piltdown Man" -- a series of bones excavated from Piltdown, England Read More
Synopsis: It was undoubtedly the most ingenious and brilliant act of self-liberation in contemporary history, rivaling anything undertaken by Henri Charrière or Harry Houdini and making any fictional prison escape accounts look broadly drawn and crude by comparison. It was an undertaking of humanistic Read More
Actors: Frances Fisher, Derwin Jordan, Kandyse McClure, David Christofel, John MacLaren
Synopsis: Spinsterish New England college professor Gwen Barry (Frances Fisher) takes advantage of a prison work furlough program by hiring soon-to-be-released convict Dalton Roy (Derwin Jordan) as a handyman. As time goes by, Gwen falls in love with Dalton, and he reciprocates. Upon his release, however Read More
Actors: Ben Rose-Davis, Richard Donat, Gabriel Hogan
Synopsis: Gabriel Hogan, Richard Donat, and Ben Rose-Davis star in this drama about a young boy growing up in a coal mining community in Nova Scotia near the dawn of the 20th century. The boy learns many valuable lessons when he makes a new friend -- a wild horse captured and trained to work in the mines. Read More
Actors: Brooke Johnson, Sara Botsford, Patricia Gage, Jayne Eastwood, Robert Joy
Synopsis: In 1988, Marlene Moore, the first woman to be designated a "dangerous offender" by Canada's legal system -- even though she had never committed a serious crime -- killed herself in a Kingston, Ontario federal woman's prison. The Canadian TV movie seeks to explain the circumstances that brought the Read More
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Boxleitner
Synopsis: In Secret, a Cape Cod businessman (Kirk Douglas) plans to run for political office until his grandson's battle with dyslexia force him to acknowledge that he suffers from the same disorder. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Simon Reynolds, Jaimz Woolvett
Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was first seen in the United States on February 2, 1992. Simon Reynolds plays Bruce Curtis, teenaged product of a troubled Canadian home. When Bruce's parents turn up murdered, the evidence trail leads to the boy's closest friend, Scott Franz (Jaimz Woolvett). The question Read More
Actors: Charles Miller, Charlton Heston, Leo Wheatley
Synopsis: 1990's Little Kidnappers was a remake of the 1954 British film of the same name. Two Canadian orphans (Leo Wheatley and Charles Miller) are starved for affection. Their cantankerous, self-absorbed grandfather (Charlton Heston) pays very little attention to them. The boys "borrow" a baby so they Read More
Actors: Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Jason Blicker, Michelle Bardeaux
Synopsis: This semisweet backwards glance at 1960s impulsiveness stars Margaret Langrick as a Canadian college freshman. She undergoes a bit of a culture shock when her white-bread values are challenged by her new hippie friend Liisa Repo-Martell. With a trio of her new and old chums, Langrick heads to Read More
Actors: Margaret Langrick, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, T.J. Scott
Synopsis: Set in the late '50s, the life of a young Canadian girl (Margaret Langrick) is plagued by boredom until her older California cousin Butch (John Wildman) visits her house. With a healthy dose of James Dean rebelliousness, Butch introduces her to rock & roll and chewing gum, among other things. The Read More
Actors: Saul Rubinek
Synopsis: Suicide Murders was filmed for Canadian television in 1985. Saul Rubinek stars as a klutzy private eye in a small, peaceful village, where clients are virtually nonexistent. When several mysterious suicides occur in the village, Rubinek senses that there's dirty work afoot. He stumbles around town Read More
Actors: Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry, Karen Black
Synopsis: This is a tepid film aimed at youngsters and focusing on the warped Martin Steckert (Richard Harris), an escaped convict, and little Martin (Justin Henry), the boy he takes hostage. Steckert uses a ruse to escape from prison when his parole is denied, and once safely on the outside, he kidnaps Read More
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Sandee Currie
Synopsis: When the money-hungry Duke Stuyvesant (Sterling Hayden) orchestrates a phony gas shortage, chaos ensues in a small Midwestern town. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux
Synopsis: The victim of lifelong abuse at the hands of his drunken father, surly 17-year-old Tod Dortmunder (Timothy Wead) comes to live with his grandparents in Walnut Grove. Wasting no time getting into trouble, Tod soon faces a jail term for stealing Charles' watch. Rather than heap more punishment on Read More
Actors: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, James Franciscus
Synopsis: City on Fire, a disaster thriller filmed in Canada with dialogue in both French and English, tells the story of an oil-refinery explosion in a small town. Dr. Frank Whitman (Barry Newman) and his co-workers, including Nurse Harper (Shelley Winters) and Dr. Matwick (Donald Pilon), fight bravely to Read More
Actors: Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Stephen McHattie
Synopsis: This police melodrama is set in a coastal resort where a young man becomes insanely jealous after learning that his girl has been with another. He takes her hostage in the town hotel and threatens to kill her. Now a hot-tempered police chief and his peace-loving lieutenant must somehow team-up to Read More
Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards
Synopsis: William Fruet directed this tense Canadian rape-revenge thriller which attempted to capitalize on the success of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left (1972). The film concerns a vacationing couple, Harry and Diane (Chuck Shamata and Brenda Vaccaro), who are terrorized in a remote house on a Read More
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