Robert Schenkkan

Mark (Christian Slater) runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. (imdb)

Boy meets scientist. Boy breaks into lab. Boy steals plutonium. Boy builds nuclear device. Scientist becomes mildly alarmed. Boy enters bomb in Science Fair. For the rest of the saga, you just have to see it to believe it. (imdb)

Ethical dilemma for a superstar newscaster who gets a story wrong resulting in the death of an innocent man.

A county sheriff goes after the richest man in the county, who has committed murder and considers himself to be rich enough and powerful enough to get away with it. (imdb)

Fact-based story about the corruption that occurred during the United Mine Workers' 1969 presidential elections. Jock Yablonski was a loyal follower of then chief Tony Boyle. That all changed after 80 men are killed in an unsafe West Virginia coal mine and Boyle defended the mine owners. At his wife's urging and in fear of his life, Yablonski launched his campaign. And in fact, he became the target of assassins. (imdb)