Adapted from Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, this $14-million TV docudrama, re-creating the Vietnam
War with convincing combat footage, was the most expensive two-hour movie ever produced by HBO Pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton) spends ten ...
Inspired by an incredible true story, the CBS Films docudrama portrays one father's desperate quest
to save his children from succumbing to a rare life-threatening genetic disorder. Working-class father John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) is finally on the fast track to ...
As produced by Henry Hampton via Blackside and originally broadcast in 1987 via PBS, the
TV documentary series Eyes on the Prize incisively chronicles the struggle for civil rights in America's South, spanning the years 1954-1965. The program bore a ...
Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen
with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time ...
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1995 Rum Punch, switching the
action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with ...
Archival U.S. government footage re-creates the early days of the Korean War, with particular emphasis
on the first 40 days. Clips of soldiers fighting on the front lines capture the dangers posed by major wars. The advance on the Manchurian ...
Join Columbia University Physics and Mathematics Professor Brian Greene as he explores the controversial string
theory of the universe in this visually beautiful and intellectually stimulating release from WGBH Boston Video. Presented in 1.33:1 full-frame and offering audio rendered in ...
The acclaimed Tony Palmer helmed this 1984 biopic on 19th and early 20th century Italian
composer Giacomo Puccini, here portrayed by Robert Stephens. Palmer opts to focus not on the whole gestalt of Puccini's life, but on a devastating scandal ...