The American film industry took it upon itself to act as a cheerleader for United States and Allied military interests during...
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2008
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James Dean starred in only three motion pictures before he died in an auto accident at the age of 24, but he created such an...
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2005
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A small-time pool shark with dreams of the big time seeks revenge against the mentor who did him wrong in this drama. Johnny...
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Nick
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2003
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2003
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2001
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A small town baseball announcer embarks on the journey of a lifetime after facing the prospect of being placed in a...
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2001
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In this bizarre comic fantasy, Duke Osso (Rod Steiger) is the leader of a strange underground nation. Osso's spouse Hera...
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2001
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Frozen in Fear stars Eric Roberts as Sean, a deeply disturbed but talented artist. When an East Coast art dealer...
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2001
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The Last Producer stars Burt Reynolds (who also directed) as burned-out Hollywood movie mogul Sonny Wexler. Once the...
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2000
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In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a top-ranked middleweight boxer whom many fight fans expected to become world champion....
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1999
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1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under...
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Father Kovak
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1999
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Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter...
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Judge Mead
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1999
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The adventures of a boy and his beagle continue in this sequel to 1997's Shiloh. Marty Preston (Zachary Browne, replacing...
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1999
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In Journey into Amazonia, Episode 2: The Land Reborn, Harry Marshall and his intrepid team record the cycles of the...
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1999
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This three-part series is the result of a three-year adventure in the rivers, forests, and canopy of the rainforests of...
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1999
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Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father,...
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1999
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Almost half the world's species lives in Amazonia, where conditions are nearly perfect for their continuing survival. Food...
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1999
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A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a...
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1998
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1998
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It was officially called Alcatraz, and more popularly known as "the Rock." But this impenetrable prison fortress perched on...
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1998
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Former boxing great Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini brings years of experience in the ring to his role in this drama. Charlie...
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1998
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David Hasselhoff trades the beach for the battlefield in this drama, in which he plays Jack Scott, a photojournalist...
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1998
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European locations (UK, France, Netherlands) highlight this romantic thriller set in the art world. In New York, top forger...
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1997
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Rod Steiger stars in this story about Jimmy, a young man who has both talent and enthusiasm for boxing, and an elderly...
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Harry
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1997
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Tony Vago
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1997
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Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about...
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Fontina
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1997
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Meet some of history's most famous escapees from some of the world's most impenetrable--and "escape-proof" prisons. Casanova...
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1997
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1997
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Originally produced for the Discovery Channel in 1997, the 50-minute documentary Breakout: Island Escapes examines daring...
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1997
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This action-packed crime drama features one of the more interesting motives in the genre: the crooks plan a $1million caper...
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1996
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Franklin Lazlo (Tom Arnold) is desperate. His carnival is on the skids and he hasn't got the money to make his next payroll....
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Mr. Hammerman
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1996
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This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for...
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1996
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Based on the Newberry Award-winning novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog reaches for...
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Doc Wallace
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1996
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Farrah Fawcett delivers a dramatic tour de force in the title role of the made-for-TV Dalva. As a teenager, Dalva had fallen...
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John Wesley Northridge II
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1996
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Rod Steiger invites viewers to join him as he provides a tour of Beijing in Forbidden City: The Great Within. This intriguing...
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Narrator
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1995
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Actor Ken Olin directed this real-life story of five American Calvary soldiers who took a stand against General Douglas...
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1995
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1995
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1995
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An innocent prank involving a stolen atomic bomb turns three mischievous teens into national criminals. This being a zany...
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1995
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A photographer becomes famous overnight for a photo he didn't take himself in this satiric comedy. Delbert Mosely (Bill...
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1995
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Dana Delany stars in this made-for-TV movie as Margaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for...
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Anthony Comstock
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1995
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1995
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Another Tom Clancy political thriller is put to film with this made-for-television movie. Harry Hamlin stars as Paul Hood,...
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Boroda
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1995
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This Italian comedy was filmed in Sarasota, Florida and features the exploits of a would be gigolo and a violinist. Dodo, a...
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Benjamin
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1994
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Joe Leon
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1994
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A virulent strain of gonorrhea is loose in New Zealand and it is up to a nurse to find the carrier in this Kiwi thriller set...
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Gen. Frank Zane
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1994
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Find out how celebrity parties and dinners differ from those attended by most people. Hosts Bernard Erpicum of Spago and...
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1993
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This exhaustive treatment of the roots of environmental destruction in the modern world has come in for scathing criticism...
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1993
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This low-key Canadian thriller stars Rod Steiger as Myron Hatch, a deranged gynecologist who has an unhealthy obsession with...
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Myron Hatch
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1993
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Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted...
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1992
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A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This...
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1992
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Developed by Tina Sinatra and approved by Frank himself, Sinatra is a made-for-television mini-series following the life and...
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1992
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This program is part of a series that chronicles some of the most important events and people in the history of World War...
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1992
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Well-known science fiction novelist and playwright Ray Bradbury has a career that spanned more than five decades, and this...
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1992
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By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on...
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1992
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President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The...
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1992
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Sam Irvin's black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a self-styled vigilante who builds his very own electric chair in order to...
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Ben Kallin
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1992
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This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days...
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1992
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Charlie D'Amico
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1991
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Rev. Willin
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1991
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That Summer of White Roses is a World War II drama about a lifeguard at a Yugoslavian summer resort who falls in love with a...
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Martin
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1990
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The second In the Line of Duty fact-based TV movie of the 1990-1991 season, In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas stars...
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Gordon Kahl
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1990
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This offbeat police thriller with heavy doses of humor was written by John Patrick Shanley, the former playwright who wrote...
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1989
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The ideas that non-Southerners have about the American south don't bear thinking about for too long. It seems that just about...
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1989
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The four-hour TV movie Passion and Paradise traces the rise and fall of real-life British playboy Alfred de Marigny...
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Sir Harry Oakes
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1989
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This eccentric, amusingly sick Canadian production involves a group of annoying yuppies who charter a plane for a camping...
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Pa
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1988
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Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge was the third in a sporadic series of TV westerns centered around fugitive do-gooder...
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Silas Slaten
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1988
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A San Francisco narcotics officer goes undercover to South America in an attempt to bust a drug lord and his operation. Of...
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Jason Hannibal
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1987
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A scientist discovers that he isn't an only child in this effects-laden creature feature whose cast includes screen veterans...
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Dr. Phillip Lloyd
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1987
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In this violent drama, an artistic hitman must kill his best friend and finds he cannot bring himself to do it. He is then...
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1986
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In the made-for-cable thriller Sword of Gideon, a team of anti-terrorist commandos, led by Steven Bauer, sets out to avenge...
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Mordechai Samuels
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1986
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Based on the novel by Jackie Collins, the steamy ABC TV minseries Hollywood Wives began its three-evening run on February 17,...
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1985
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Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own novel. A visiting Israeli...
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1984
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In this fast-paced, often complex murder mystery, a psychiatrist's patient and later his secretary are killed, yet the police...
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Lt. McGreavy
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1984
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1984
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Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of...
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Robert E. Peary
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1983
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Hans Castrop (Christoph Eichhorn) goes to visit a cousin in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, intending to stay for about...
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Mynheer Peeperkorn
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1982
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1982
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This offbeat and atmospheric western is set in 1893, as a gang led by longtime outlaws Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) and Bill...
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Tilghman
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1981
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The overemphatic acting of Robby Benson was something of an endurance test to certain critics of the 1980s, but even these...
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Reb Saunders
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1981
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Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian...
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Benito Mussolini
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1981
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This well-wrought family comedy-drama by director Max Fischer is set in Holland during World War II. Young David (Brett Marx)...
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Col. Gluck
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1980
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"For God's sake, GET OUT!" was the ad campaign for the 1979 shocker The Amityville Horror. The film was based on the...
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Father Delaney
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1979
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Jeff East stars as writer Jack London in this fictional adventure account that takes place during the Alaskan gold rush....
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Soapy Smith
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1979
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Joe Bomposa
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1979
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Not only does star Rod Steiger bypass The Honor Guard on his resume; it is also ignored by virtually every chronicler of...
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Charlie
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1979
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Also released as Sergeant Steiner, Breakthrough is a German war flick helmed by western specialist Andrew McLaglen. Richard...
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Gen. Webster
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1978
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F.I.S.T. is author Norman Jewison's chronicle of an innocent and idealistic young man corrupted by power and success as seen...
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Sen. Andrew Madison
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1978
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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Pontius Pilate
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1977
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A painter doubles as a hitman and is hired to kill Jim Buck (Jack Palance). But he can't do it: Palance once saved his life....
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1977
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W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W....
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W.C. Fields
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1976
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In this crime drama, a philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. It all goes...
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Louis
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1975
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Hennessy
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1975
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Rod Steiger portrays Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in this internationally produced "how the mighty have fallen" biopic....
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Mussolini
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1974
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Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in...
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Gene Giannini
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1973
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A group attempts to embezzle and hide a fortune of 2,000,000 pounds while outwitting the British Intelligence during World...
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Guenther von Lutz
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1973
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Petty jealousies and misunderstandings between two rival families escalate into a tragic outburst of violence in this drama....
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Laban Feather
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1973
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Originally titled Giù la Testa, Duck, You Sucker! is a Mexican-revolution yarn, filmed in Italy by spaghetti Western maven...
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Juan Miranda
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1971
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Based on a play by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Happy Birthday, Wanda June takes us to the Ryan household, where Penelope Ryan...
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Harold Ryan
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1971
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This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated $100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action...
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Napoleon
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1970
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American actor Rod Steiger adopts a British accent to keep apace with his co-stars in Three into Two Won't Go. Steiger plays...
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Steve Howard
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1969
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This science fiction fantasy is taken from the stories of Ray Bradbury. Carl (Rod Steiger) has a tattooed torso of bizarre...
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Carl
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1969
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Long before "don't ask, don't tell," this melodrama made a mishmash of the issue of homosexuality in the military....
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Master Sgt. Albert Callan
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1968
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New York detective Moe Brummell (George Segal) is assigned to track down a serial killer who has been preying on lonely...
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Christopher Gill
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1968
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Set in Italy during WW I, this war drama centers on the off-beat relationship between a Bavarian general an a peasant girl...
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The General
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1967
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small...
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Police Chief Bill Gillespie
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1967
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The Movie Maker relates the last days of an old-fashioned Hollywood mogul. Mike Kirsch (Rod Steiger) built his studio from...
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1967
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It is no doubt extremely difficult to produce a film which is respectful of a world-renowned and widely loved man, recently...
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Intermediary
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1965
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The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...
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Mr. Joyboy
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1965
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the...
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Komarovsky
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1965
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Leo (Rod Steiger) is an aristocrat whose family fortunes have plummeted in this downbeat melodrama. He seeks to reverse his...
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Leo
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1964
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Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration...
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Sol Nazerman
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1964
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A corrupt city councilman seeks a huge profit in a suburban real estate deal. Nottola (Rod Steiger) manipulates corrupt local...
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Nottola
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1963
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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Destroyer Commander
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1962
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Leaning heavily on violence to ostensibly deliver a pacifist message, this standard drama by Philip Leacock looks at the...
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Detective Sgt. Koleski
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1962
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Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks...
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Tiptoes
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1962
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Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered...
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Dr. Edmund McNally
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1961
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While this effective film may ostensibly be a thriller about the robbery of an armored vehicle, considerable black comedy...
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Frank Morgan
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1961
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Discredited professor Edward G. Robinson organizes a seven-person criminal gang. Robinson plans to steal a fortune from the...
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Paul Mason
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1960
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Rod Steiger is the screen's first "method mobster" in the title role of Al Capone. The film traces Big Al's progress from a...
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Al Capone
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1959
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1958
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On a perfectly ordinary day, the management of an airline receives a note demanding a half-million dollars from someone who...
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Paul Hoplin
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1958
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A Graham Greene novel was the basic source for the British psychological melodrama Across the Bridge. Rod Steiger plays Carl...
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Carl Schaffner
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1957
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In this crime thriller a young woman marries a wealthy vintner. Soon afterward, she falls in love with a handsome rodeo...
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Paul Hochen
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1957
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Several film historians, notably the late William K. Everson, have noted the striking resemblances between Run of the Arrow...
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O'Meara
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1957
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Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I....
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Pinky
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1956
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Vasquez
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1956
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An obviously ailing Humphrey Bogart made his final screen appearance in The Harder They Fall. Adapted from a novel by...
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Nick Benko
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1956
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Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the...
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Stanley Hoff
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1955
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which...
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Jud Fry
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1955
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1955
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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Maj. Allen Gullion
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1955
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This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of...
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Charley Malloy
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1954
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Not the 1955 film, but a television version filmed two years earlier, Marty is the story of a lonely New York man (Rod...
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Marty Pilletti
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1953
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In Teresa, director Fred Zinnemann adopts the same quasi-documentary approach he'd used in The Search (1948). Lensed on...
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1951
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The first volume of this series features "Marty" and "A Wind from the South," two live television dramas from the 1950s. ~...
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1950
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