Martin Sheen
Date of Birth: Aug 3, 1940
Country: USA
Biography: Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American actor known for his performances as Kit Carruthers in Terrence Malick's Badlands and Captain Willard in Francis Coppola's Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now. He's also known for playing Robert E. Lee in the film Gettysburg, President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing, and as the voice of The Illusive Man in the video game Mass Effect 2...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 149 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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The story of Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, and his fateful betrayal by FBI informant William O'Neal. (imdb)
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1979 Vietnam War epic was previously expanded in 2001 into Apocalypse Now Redux by adding back 49 minutes of excised footage. This 2019 version of the film clocks in midway between the two prior releases by including just some of that added footage. In addition, the entire film has been remastered in 4K.
The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row. (imdb)
A psychotic oil matriarch leaves the whole industry exposed when she attempts to outfight a bullish farmer whose water has been poisoned. (imdb)
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell. (imdb)
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence (2017) - TV Mini-Series
A six-part series that explores new theories and never-before-seen evidence in the high-profile case. (Investigation Discovery)
A story centered on an affair Howard Hughes had in the late years of his life with a younger woman. (imdb)
Anne of Green Gables (2016) - TV Movie
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead. (imdb)
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten. (imdb)
Grace and Frankie (2015) - TV Series
Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last 20 years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together. (imdb)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years. (Nation Earth)
Two narcotics detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust. (imdb)
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. (imdb)
Martin Luther King, Lyndon Baines Johnson and the civil rights marches that changed America. (imdb)
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost secrets. Eventually, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge. (imdb)
Four children set out on a journey to find a new home. (imdb)
Interwoven stories of people in India and US as they face dilemmas of life time in the months leading to the biggest Industrial disaster in human history that claimed 10,000 innocent lives within a few hours. Inspired by real events. (imdb)
An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
Making 'Badlands' (2013) - Direct-to-Video
In this forty-two minute documentary, actors Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek and production designer Jack Fisk discuss the production of "Badlands" and the role it played in their subsequent careers. They were interviewed by the Criterion Collection in the fall of 2012. (Criterion Collection)
After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan. (imdb)
Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. (imdb)
A small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood and a man and his conscience.
An acclaimed documentary feature exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuther brothers - Walter, Roy, and Victor - prolific labor statesman whose social justice movement, under the banner of the United Auto Workers union, transformed the landscape of a nation.
A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
An American father travels to France to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the Route Napoleon. (imdb)
The Kennedy Detail (2010) - TV Movie
Based on the book by Gerald S. Blaine With Lisa McCubbin "The Kennedy Detail", this documentary interviews the men who served on President JFK's Secret Service Detail and their memories of the man, president, and perceptions of Camelot. Some of these men were there on the fateful day when life changed on the streets of Dallas, TX in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963.
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth -- then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
A financial executive (Murphy) who can't stop his career's downward spiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await. (imdb)
About a widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.
Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the punches we throw in life. (imdb)
The film deals with the issue of space weapons and their politics, featuring interviews with several key United States military personal, academics and others.
Paris seeks the advice of the most esteemed fake President of our generation.
In the mid-to-late 1960's, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig... (imdb)
Flatland: The Movie (2007) - Short Film
Based on Edwin Abott's book "Flatland", this is an animated film about geometric characters living in a two-dimensional world. When a young girl named "Hex" decides to "think outside the box" (in a world where such thought is forbidden), her life becomes in danger and it is up to her grandfather to save her life. (imdb)
This documentary chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. (Sony Pictures Classics)
The lives of two cops: Colin Sullivan, smart and ambitious, appears to be on the fast track in the Massachusetts State Police Department, whose prime target is powerful Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Billy Costigan, street-smart and tough, is purported to have a violent temper that costs him his badge...
Tuesday, June 4, 1968: the California presidential primary. As day breaks Robert Kennedy arrives at the Ambassador Hotel; he'll campaign, then speak to supporters at midnight. To capture the texture of the late 1960s, we see vignettes at the hotel: a couple marries so he can avoid Vietnam, kitchen staff discuss race and baseball, a man cheats on his wife, another is fired for racism, a retired hotel doorman plays chess in the lobby with an old friend... (imdb)
Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger. (imdb)
Hidden in Plain Sight (2003) - Direct-to-Video
This documentary takes a bold, unflinching look at the nature and consequences of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. (Raven's Call Productions)
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. (imdb)
Frank W. Abagnale (DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 21st birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud had netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks) has made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase. (DreamWorks)
A sweeping and compelling look at the struggle of the Tibetan people for freedom over the course of more than five decades. (Artistic License Films)
Actors and other crew members discuss their experiences while making Terrence Malick films.
A contemporary retelling of "Othello," Shakespeare's timeless tale of treachery and jealousy, set in an elite private school located deep in the American South. (Lions Gate Films)
A comedy about finding your true love at any price, even if it involves a little dognapping along the way. (Warner Bros.)
Storm (1999) - Direct-to-Video
A top secret government study involving the manipulation of the weather goes awry, leaving L.A. in the path of a destructive hurricane. A meteorologist (Luke Perry) sets out to save the city. (imdb)
D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999) - TV Movie
Three beautiful undercover agents pose as international models in order to stop the threat of anthrax terrorism from taking over the world. (imdb)
The West Wing (1999) - TV Series
Inside the lives of staffers in the west wing of the White House. (imdb)
Forget Me Never (1999) - TV Movie
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. (imdb)
In Texas in the late '60s, the Whit family meets for the funeral of grandfather Sparta. This, however, is no normal funeral, and the Whits are no normal family. (imdb)
A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for the minister when he becomes accused of the murder of a young woman he had given shelter. (imdb)
A slice-of-life set in a deteriorating section of Junction City, Kansas known as "Junk City". In the '40s, the town was a swinging stop for the legends of jazz; in 1968, the residents mourn and grouse amidst strip clubs, juke joints, and young mean shipping off to Vietnam.
Sheen is a gunfighter who is out to avenge the unjust murders of his townspeople. When the outlaw abducts the gunfighter's girlfriend, the quest for revenge becomes even more personal. (movies.com)
A small time hoodlum is divided between his conscience and loyalty to his boss when his cousin is murdered. (imdb)
A cop (Charlie Sheen), his partner (Dacascos), and his father (Martin Sheen) uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Pheonix, Arizona. (imdb)
Walrus-like warden Sven "Swede" Sorenson runs the prison, murders convicts who escape, and has the FBI on his trail. Swede's twins tell their father they're pregnant (they aren't), so he pushes their dim boyfriends, Bud and Larry, into shotgun marriages. He also turns his sons-in-law into slave labor, so Bud hatches an escape plan: to rob a train carrying old bills to the mint for burning. (imdb)
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. (imdb)
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) - TV Movie
A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them. (imdb)
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law. (imdb)
Voyage of Terror (1998) - TV Movie
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew. (imdb)
The last "nuclear family" in America is an endangered species, held in captivity at The National Zoo. (imdb)
A mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil. (imdb)
A drug deal goes wrong causing a foursome, led by a lunatic killer, to go on the run. A couple in a recreational vehicle are initially kidnapped, but soon the male hostage is emulating his kidnappers and wants to stay involved in the chase. (imdb)
Hostile Waters (1997) - TV Movie
In October 1986, a Russian submarine carrying nuclear missles collides with an American nuclear submarine off the coast of Bermuda. (imdb)
Project: ALF (1996) - TV Movie
Captured by the Alien Task Force, ALF was rescued by two officers who found out that the project shall be canceled - and also ALF. (imdb)
Taking destiny into his own hands, a wannabe screenwriter traps a successful producer in an elevator and pitches him four strange scripts. A portmanteau movie in which nothing is as it seems.
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed. (imdb)
The world's most powerful man has met his match! Michael Douglas is the widower President wooing environmental lobbyist Annette Bening in this romantic hit by Rob Reiner. (Warner Bros.)
A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed. (imdb)
Nick Irons, a former tennis pro (Van Patten) who has been banned from the tour, coaches a bookie's (Sheen) son (Jorgensen) with improbable dreams of turning pro.
Dillinger and Capone (1995) - Direct-to-Video
July 22, 1934 - outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, a barrage of FBI bullets brings down John Dillinger. As the body of Public Enemy Number one crumbles to the ground, one of the strangest, most riveting stories in the history of crime begins to unfold. It seems that J. Edgar Hoover's boys have unknowingly blown away the wrong Dillinger -- not John, but his brother. (imdb)
A Croatian priest in then Yugoslavia has to decide what to do when 6 children claim to see a daily vision of "Gospa", the Virgin Mary, which brings crowds and communists to his small parish.
Roswell (1994) - TV Movie
Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947... (imdb)
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story. (imdb)
Guns of Honor (1994) - TV Movie
In 1867, an ex-Confederate general, Jackson Hardin (Martin Sheen), still holds a grudge against the Union. He and his legendary "Floating Outfit" refuse to let the ravages of war dictate how they'll live in the impoverished South. Across the Rio Grande, a French army divides the occupied Mexican nation and casts an avaricious glance on the weakened American states. It's up to Hardin and his "guns of honor" to stave off these would-be occupiers.
A pretty police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child
When Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler sends his friend Peter Kernan and his wife Johanna deep into the jungles of Cambodia to deliver a truck load of medicine, he fails to tell him about true nature of his business. Peter must use his experience and knowledge of South East Asia to get them out of this dangerous mess. (imdb)
One of Her Own (1994) - TV Movie
Toni Stroud is a trainee cop, proud of her job and on the way up. That ends the day she is raped by a fellow officer.On revealing the rape to her superiors, instead of investigating her complaint, her employers fire her. She and her family are subjected to endless harassment by the police. The Department closes ranks against her and rally to the support of the rapist. But with the encouragement of District Attorney, she finally summons the courage to take on the Department in court.
Eyewitness (1994) - TV Series
Natural history series based on the Dorling Kindersley children's books. (imdb)
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams. (imdb)
In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War. (imdb)
Alive: 20 Years Later (1993) - Direct-to-Video
A documentary about the incredible tale of survival by 16 members of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed into the Andes in 1972.
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South. (imdb)
Jillian Shanahan, a deaf woman, becomes the target of a ruthless and corrupt cop. The cop is looking for a stolen coin, which he plans to keep for himself. A journalist briefly acquires the coin and hides it in Jillian's appartment, then his car explodes, now the cop is after her. (imdb)
Queen (1993) - TV Mini-Series
A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Mixed race daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She tries passing for white, but it leads to sorrow in post-Civil War America. Everywhere she goes, she faces obstacles and hardships while searching for happiness and a place to belong.
A filmmaker determines to document the story of a conservationist who is struggling to save wild leopards in Africa from extinction. (imdb)
Fact-based drama telling the harrowing story of a US Marine who spent 14 years in Vietnamese PoW camps - and was then arrested by the Americans on charges of collaborating with the enemy (digiguide.tv)
Touch and Die (1992) - TV Movie
Frank Magenta works as a journalist in Rome for a big American newspaper. Assigned to gather information on the background of Scanzano, the presidential candidate of Italian origin, he quickly finds out that this politician is a man of unquestion-able integrity. There are no scandals or affairs which can endanger his candidacy. Frank decides to give up his investi-gations, much to the delight of his 18-year-old daughter; Emma believes that her father will have more time for her.
A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story (imdb)
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director. (imdb)
Presumed Guilty (1991) - TV Movie
This story of one man's campaign to free his son from a lengthy jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit is based upon a true story. Bobby McLoughlin is the incorrectly jailed man, framed for a murder he didn't commit. His adopted father, Harold Hohne,and mother, Mary Hohne, stage a monumental campaign to clear Bobby's name, but taking on the legal system that incarcerated his son proves to be a sizeable task for Harold. (cduniverse.com)
Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade. (imdb)
This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret. (imdb)
Nightbreaker (1989) - TV Movie
Dr. Alexander Brown (Martin Sheen) arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. (imdb)
A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents. (imdb)
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not (imdb)
American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified. (imdb)
A New York psychiatrist finds that a voodoo cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son. (imdb)
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing. (imdb)
Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory. (imdb)
Apocalypse Pooh (1987) - Short Film
A collage of scenes from Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons overlain with dialogue from Apocalypse Now (1979). (imdb)
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants. (imdb)
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986) - TV Movie
Fact-based story about Mitch Snyder (Martin Sheen), a Washington crusader for the homeless, who took their case to Congress. Working for the Community for Creative Non-violence, Snyder became outraged at the number of homeless people who had been dumped on the Washington streets without shelter from mental institutions and other care facilities. His advocacy drew national attention to the "missing persons" that live among us. (imdb)
The Atlanta Child Murders (1985) - TV Mini-Series
The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over whether he is the actual killer or a scapegoat offered up by the city's mostly black leadership. (imdb)
The Fourth Wise Man (1985) - TV Movie
The story of Artaban, the fourth Magi, who spends his life looking for Jesus his King. (imdb)
Consenting Adult (1985) - TV Movie
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. (imdb)
Out of the Darkness (1985) - TV Movie
"Out of the Darkness" is a gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" - the infamous serial killer who stalked New York City in the 1970s.
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona. (imdb)
Andrew and Vicky McGee met while earning money as guinea pigs for an experiment at college. The experiment was shrouded in suspicion and mystery, and seemed to be related to psychic abilities. The two were married and had a daughter Charile, who has the ability to start fires by merely thinking about it. Naturally, the government takes a great interest in Charlie, and operatives from the secret department known as "The Shop" want to quarrantine and study her. (imdb)
The Guardian (1984) - TV Movie
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burglary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work. (imdb)
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability. (imdb)
This Cold War thriller stars Martin Sheen as Alex Holbeck, a CIA agent dispatched to Berlin in order to infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain secrets from the Russian "Enigma" decoder. Holbeck's background as an East German defector helps him get inside, but soon his cover is blown and Holbeck is forced to seek help from an ex-lover, evading the KGB as time is running out and the lives of five Soviet dissidents hang in the balance. (moviesunlimited.com)
A man with a wife and two daughters learns that he has a son. It seems that a few years ago while visiting France, he had an accident and he had an affair with the doctor who treated him. Now he has learned that she just died and is informed of his son. He then tells his wife, she then suggest that they bring him over. While there all sorts of tension begin to arise. How will this affect them? (imdb)
Kennedy (1983) - TV Mini-Series
Biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy. (imdb)
Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the "Plowshares Eight". In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and in an act of protest against nuclear proliferation, poured vials of their own blood onto secret missle plans, burned other files, and damaged nosecones intended for nuclear missles. The direct-to-video production is intercut with clips from actual news coverage of the trial. (Baroque)
Biography of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest. (imdb)
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. (imdb)
In the Custody of Strangers (1982) - TV Movie
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. (imdb)
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults. (imdb)
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. (imdb)
We follow Captain Willard on his mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe (imdb)
Martin Sheen's inexperienced trapper finds himself fighting with Sam Waterston's nonosyllabic Kiowa warrior over the possession of a beautiful white horse, the Eagle's Wing, across a harsh and primitive landscape in a time "before the legends began." (imdb)
This is a suspenseful story of a young girl navigating her adolescence solo. She spends her days hiding from an unloved mother... (imdb)
"Outbreak" meets "The Runaway Train" as a motley group of passengers are quarantined on a train destined to prevent the spread of the disease at the cost of their lives. Government intrigue, international smuggling, and the legend of the Cassandra Crossing add to the suspense. (imdb)
Sweet Hostage (1975) - TV Movie
An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers. (imdb)
The Last Survivors (1975) - TV Movie
After a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon. (imdb)
The Missiles of October (1974) - TV Movie
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. (imdb)
The California Kid (1974) - TV Movie
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death. (imdb)
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) - TV Movie
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. (imdb)
A "man on the run" story that begins when a young boy is locked away by his parents because they believe he has a deadly contagious disease. When he escapes he begins a struggle to remain free for the rest of his life. (ebay.com)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974) - TV Movie
A humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands (imdb)
Letters from Three Lovers (1973) - TV Movie
Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed. (imdb)
Message to My Daughter (1973) - TV Movie
A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence. (imdb)
Pursuit (1972) - TV Movie
A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him. (imdb)
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California. (imdb)
That Certain Summer (1972) - TV Movie
During a summer vacation with his divorced father a teenager learns of his dad's homosexuality.
Mongo's Back in Town (1971) - TV Movie
Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster. (imdb)
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions. (imdb)
The Andersonville Trial (1970) - TV Movie
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia. (imdb)
A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship. (imdb)
The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together. We watch how the different personalities of the passengers react to the situation. (imdb)
Insight (1960) - TV Series
The purpose of the series was to dramatize the deep ethical and spiritual conflicts of modern man in a way that suggests a humanistic solution.... Some subjects explored in the upcoming Insight series included dishonesty in marriage, college agnosticism, psychology of hate, guilt and death, automation, narcotics, spiritual isolation, racism, hypocrisy, morality of warfare, alcoholism, and community-police relations.
