This program from PBS takes a look at the Chautauqua Institution's history and unique place in American culture, and...
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Narrator
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2011
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A frustrated architect tries his hand at being a playwright when his life hits a disheartening plateau. New York City, 1979:...
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Pamela
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2010
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A successful businesswoman (Alyssa Milano) engaged to a handsome actor is visited by her imaginary friend (Eric Winter) from...
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Vivian
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2010
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This nature documentary from NOVA follows the epic migration of the monarch butterfly over 2000 miles, providing a...
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Narrator
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2008
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Golden Globe nominated actor Leiv Schreiber narrates this feature-length documentary taking viewers on a remarkable...
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Bible readings
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2008
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Three stories, which offer differing perspectives on the AIDS pandemic, are featured in this anthology-drama. Sister Clara...
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Olive
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2006
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Academy Award nominees Stockard Channing and Bob Hoskins co-headline the British romantic comedy Sparkle, the third outing by...
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Sheila
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2006
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A woman finds herself drafted into the battle of finding the perfect man in this romantic comedy. Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is...
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2005
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As three bomb-toting Muslim fundamentalists hold the citizens of a London restaurant hostage, the revelation that one of the...
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Penelope
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2005
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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paola di Florio directs Home of the Brave, a documentary about the impact of Viola Liuzzo's...
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2004
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The crises facing the various members of the Bartlet administration at the outset of The West Wing's sixth season include the...
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Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet
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2004
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2004
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Take a closer look at "Camelot" in this release that seeks to explore the Kennedy mystique through rare images, little-seen...
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2004
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This documentary takes a look at diamonds, from their origin to the mining and sale of the precious gems. The program gives...
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2004
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A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic...
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Paula
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2003
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Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for...
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Margreeve Walker
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2003
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Academy Award nominee Stockard Channing narrates this musical documentary from Video Artists International that explores one...
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2003
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The administration of President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is still technically in charge of the United States as...
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Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet
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2003
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Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based...
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Julia
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2003
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An adolescent who is sorting out his new sexual feelings is less than comforted by the example of his immediate family in...
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2003
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British actor Robert Carlyle stars as the 20th century's most infamous dictator in this two-part TV biopic. The film covers...
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Klara Hitler
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2003
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An egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this...
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Deborah Connors
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2002
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Narrator
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2002
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Once the fourth season of The West Wing gets past its semi-serious two-part opener, in which White House staffers Toby...
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Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet
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2002
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This fact-based TV movie explores the story behind the infamous Matthew Shepard gay-bashing case, in which a Laramie, WY,...
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Judy
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2002
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First aired on the Discovery Channel on March 8, 2001, New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11 focuses on the...
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2002
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Based on the (somewhat darker) novel by Gregory Maguire, the made-for-TV movie Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister offers a...
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2002
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Two women on different ends of the spectrum of corporate power come together with explosive results in this drama. Julie...
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Julie Styron
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2001
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Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet
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2001
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A teenager going through the typical traumas of adolescence has to confront an especially big hurdle in this made-for-TV...
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Janice
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2001
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Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life...
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Dr. Beth Noonan
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2001
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While all but forgotten today, between 1926 and 1935, William Haines was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, an affable...
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Narrator
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2001
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Pregnant 17-year-old Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) runs away from her Tennessee home toward the bright lights of...
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Sister Husband
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2000
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Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off...
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Florence Maybelle
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2000
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Dan McCormack spins this yuppie nightmare about lost identity, lost love, and New York. Phil (David Aaron Baker) and Anna...
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Dr.Grover
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2000
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Serious health problems befall the White House as President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) passes out while preparing for the State...
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Abigail Bartlet
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2000
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Abigail Bartlet (Stockard Channing) makes some bold statements concerning policy during an appearance on a talk show, causing...
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Abigail Bartlet
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2000
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This three-part PBS series examines the different ways that American teachers have contributed to society since the 1830s....
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2000
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This three-part PBS series examines the different ways that American teachers have contributed to society since the 1830s....
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2000
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Such formidable villains as Shriek, Inque, the Jokerz and the Royal Flush gang continue to make like difficult for the "new"...
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Comm. Barbara Gordon
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2000
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This three-part PBS series examines the different ways that American teachers have contributed to society since the 1830s....
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2000
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In the decaying, crime-ridden Gotham City of the future, embittered millionaire Bruce Wayne is persuaded to pass along the...
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Comm. Barbara Gordon
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1999
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In this pilot film for the Batman Beyond television series (which aired as a two-part episode), Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy)...
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1999
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In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper)...
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1999
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While a gala state dinner for the leader of Indonesia is prepared for and transpires, the president (Martin Sheen) and his...
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Abigail Bartlett
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1999
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Aunt Frances
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1998
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Verna
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1998
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For this TV movie, writer-director Jane Anderson adapted her own play contrasting biological and adoptive mothers....
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Rachel Luckman
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1998
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A young man must deal with several generations of madness and familial intrigue in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed...
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Lily Kilworth
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1998
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1997
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A USA original movie, this drama centers on a woman faced with a series of life-altering surprises. First her niece and...
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1997
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Man Ray, famed Dada artist, expatriate, and innovator, is the subject of this PBS American Masters Series episode....
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1997
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A production of Hallmark Hall of Fame that originally aired on the Showtime Cable Network, this family drama tells the moving...
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1996
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An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences as a prostitute in this period...
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Mrs. Allworthy
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1996
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A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and...
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Marcia McGrath
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1996
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Grumpy, chain-smoking prosecuting attorney Ingrid Maynard (Stockard Channing) hasn't accepted a case since the accident that...
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1996
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In this drama, a career woman is forced to re-evaluate her fast-track life after her sister's young children come to live...
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1996
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Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie...
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1996
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In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married...
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Pen "Penelope" Chandler
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1996
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A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several...
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1995
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Carol Ann
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1995
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Kirstie Alley earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in this moving made-for-TV drama. She plays Sally Goodson,...
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1994
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1994
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Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each...
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Iris Morden
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1993
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Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this...
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Ouisa Kittredge
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1993
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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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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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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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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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A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of...
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1992
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The Applegates is the video title for the darkly satirical comedy Meet the Applegates. The titular family, for all intents...
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Jane Applegate
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1991
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Nancy Trainer
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1989
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The Perfect Witness is New York restaurant owner Aidan Quinn. After witnessing a mob murder, Quinn does his civic duty by...
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Liz Sapperstein
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1989
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Margaret Larraneta
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1988
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Based on the play by actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein, this drama is about a man (played by Fierstein) whose companion dies...
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Marion
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1988
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Based on cop-turned-author Joseph Wambaugh's factual chronicle of a 1979 murder investigation in Pennsylvania, this crime...
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1987
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More a series of ragged comic anecdotes than a unified whole, the made-for-TV The Room Upstairs top-bills Stockard Channing...
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Leah Lazenby
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1987
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1986
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Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "à clef"...
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Julie
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1986
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The endurance of an upper-middle-class family is put to the test in this well-made television drama about drug abuse. Based...
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Helen Bower
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1985
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1984
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Young divorced mother Kate Nelligan refuses to go into a panic when her six-year-old son disappears. She manages to maintain...
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Jocelyn Norris
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1983
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In this often comical adventure, a retired stunt man goes to Africa to participate in a transcontinental road rally in hopes...
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J.J. Dalton
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1982
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When Stockard Channing agreed to co-produce the made-for-TV Gun in the House, she fully intended to play the leading role of...
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Producer
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1981
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1980
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The made-for-television Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neill Story is a true story about a woman (Stockard Channing) who...
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1979
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The "fish" in the title of this picture refers to the astrological sign Pisces. Not all of Pittsburgh is due to be saved, but...
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1979
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"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California,...
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Rizzo
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1978
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1978
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Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou...
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Bess
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1978
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Lucan is the pilot film for a late 1970s TV adventure weekly. The story begins in 1967, when a group of Minnesota hunters...
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1977
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The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a...
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Kitty Baxter
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1976
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Sweet Revenge was originally shipped out as Dandy, the All-American Girl. The multitalented Stockard Channing plays a car...
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Vurrla Kowsky
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1976
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Three's a crowd in Mike Nichols's period caper comedy -- or is it? To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women...
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Freddie
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1975
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This TV movie stars Stockard Channing as an "ugly duckling" who is dumped on by everyone with whom she comes in contact....
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Miriam
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1973
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Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist...
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1972
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1971
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In this Claymation adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Truths We Live By, Michael the Visitor tells the story of a shoemaker named...
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