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Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
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Hamlet
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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom is an American television movie directed by Sam O'Steen. It was broadcast by CBS on February 13, 1975. Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, and Charlotte Rae were nominated for an Emmy Award for their performances.
The...
Backstairs at the White House
Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks (with Frances Spatz Leighton). The series, produced by Ed Friendly Productions, is the story of...
Roots: The Next Generations
Roots: The Next Generations is a 1979 television miniseries that continues the story of the family of Alex Haley from the 1880s, and their life in Henning, Tennessee, to the 1960s, with Haley researching his family history and his travels to Africa...
Summer of My German Soldier
Summer Of My German Soldier is a 1978 made-for-TV movie based on the novel of the same name written by Bette Greene. It stars Kristy McNichol as a Jewish-American girl and Bruce Davison as the German prisoner of war who she befriends.
Patty Bergen...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment in full color that was released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky. It is...
Amber Waves
Amber Waves is a made-for-television movie that aired on ABC on March 9, 1980.
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The Bunker
The Bunker is a 2001 horror film directed by Rob Green, written by Clive Dawson and starring Jason Flemyng.
During the last weeks of World War II, several German soldiers take refuge in a reinforced bunker after being pushed back by American troops...
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Playing For Time
Playing For Time is an Emmy Award Winning 1980 television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon.
Playing For Time...
A Woman Called Golda
A Woman Called Golda is a 1982 made-for-television film biopic of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Made by Paramount Television and directed by Alan Gibson, the film stars Ingrid Bergman in the title role. It also features Ned Beatty, Franklin...
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial. The teleplay by John Mortimer is based on the novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh. The bulk of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge, with several sequences filmed by Michael...
Eunice
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The Winds of War
The Winds of War was best-selling novellist Herman Wouk's second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny (1951). Published in 1971, it was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance. Originally conceived as one volume,...
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Little Gloria... Happy at Last is a 1982 television miniseries directed by Waris Hussein.
It stars Martin Balsam, Bette Davis, Michael Gross, Lucy Gutteridge, John Hillerman, Barnard Hughes, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Plummer and...
The Thorn Birds
The Thorn Birds is a television mini-series broadcast on ABC between 27 and 30 March 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, Philip Anglim and Jean Simmons. It was...
Something About Amelia
Something About Amelia is a 1984 TV movie exploring the drama to a family caused by incest.
Starring Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Missy Francis and Roxana Zal. Zal became the youngest prime time Emmy winner in history for her work .
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent is a 1983 made-for-TV movie based on the novel by John Steinbeck.
The story is about a Long Islander named Ethan Allen Hawley (played by Donald Sutherland) who works as a clerk in a grocery store he used to own, but is...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1984 television drama film directed by John Erman. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, it stars Ann-Margret and Treat Williams.
In 1984 the film won four Emmy Awards and in 1985 Ann-Margret won a Best Actress...
George Washington
George Washington is an eight hour minseries televison program.
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A Woman of Substance
A Woman of Substance is a British/American television miniseries, produced in 1984. It is was based on the 1979 book of the same name by the author Barbara Taylor Bradford.
In 1970, Emma Harte is a wealthy, formidable businesswoman. Just about to...
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An Early Frost
An Early Frost was the first major film to deal with the topic of HIV/AIDS. It was first broadcast on the NBC television network on November 11, 1985. It was directed by John Erman and starred Aidan Quinn as Michael Pierson, a Chicago attorney who...
Amerika
Amerika – suggesting a Russified name for the United States – is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987 on ABC. It starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her...
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The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles is a 1985 novel by Dominick Dunne based on the sensational Woodward murder case of 1955. It was made into a television movie in 1987, directed by John Erman, and starring Genevieve Allenbury, Ann-Margaret, Elizabeth Ashley,...
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (Sometimes referred to as Anastasia: The Story of Anna) is a 1986 Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning TV movie, starring Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland and Jan Niklas. The film was loosely based on the story of Grand...
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Promise
Promise is a 1986 Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie that aired on December 21, 1986. The award-winning film is based on a story by Ken Blackwell and Tennyson Flowers, and stars James Garner and James Woods.
When his mother dies, estranged son...
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank is a 1988 TV film directed by John Erman, based on Miep Gies' book Anne Frank Remembered.
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot...
War and Remembrance
War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1978, which is the sequel to The Winds of War. It continues the story of the extended Henry family and the Jastrow family starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 6 August 1945. This...
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place is a TV miniseries that aired on March 19 and 20, 1989 on ABC. The miniseries is based upon the 1982 novel by Gloria Naylor. It was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions with a teleplay by Karen Hall. The...
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Those She Left Behind
Those She Left Behind is a 1989 made-for-TV movie about a father forced to raise his newborn daughter alone after the unexpected death of his wife in childbirth.
The movie stars Gary Cole as Scott Grimes, a man who owns a rising realty business. His...
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A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy, is a BBC miniseries adaptation of John le Carré's spy novel of the same name. It follows the career of the British MI6 spy Magnus Pym from his early days as a schoolboy to his eventual disappearance as a suspected agent of the Czech...
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Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1989 western television miniseries based on the Larry McMurtry novel of the same name. The series stars Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, and Diane Lane. The miniseries was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards and won...
Lantern Hill
Lantern Hill is a 1990 television movie written and directed by filmmaker Kevin Sullivan and based on the novel by L.M. Montgomery Jane of Lantern Hill. The film was co-produced by Sullivan Entertainment, the Disney Channel and CBC.
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