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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
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Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens is a Primetime Emmy Award winning HBO film about the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale/"Little Edie", played by Drew Barrymore, and her mother Edith Ewing Bouvier/"Big Edie", played by Jessica Lange. Co-stars include Jeanne Tripplehorn as...
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel (2008) is a television film directed by Christian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri. It stars Shirley MacLaine as (the older) Coco Chanel, the pioneering French fashion designer.
The film was broadcast...
Prayers for Bobby
Prayers for Bobby (2009) is a television movie that premiered on the Lifetime network on January 24, 2009. Nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards (Outstanding Made for Television Movie; Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie -...
Accidental Friendship
Accidental Friendship is a 2008 Hallmark Channel original film written by Anna Sandor, an award-winning screenwriter. It is based on a true story.
Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell (Chandra Wilson) is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost...
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John Adams
John Adams is an 2008 American television miniseries, chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. The role of John Adams is played by Paul Giamatti. It was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk...
Bernard and Doris
Bernard and Doris is a 2007 American television movie directed by Bob Balaban. The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self...
An American Crime
An American Crime is a 2007 crime-drama film based on the true story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude Baniszewski. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to controversy amongst the critics, most...
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a 2008 television movie directed by Kenny Leon. The teleplay by Paris Qualles is based on the award-winning 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry. The film debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was...
Cranford
Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's...
Life Support
Life Support is a 2007 film starring Queen Latifah. It is loosely based on the real life story of Andrea Williams, an HIV-positive woman.
The film premiered January 26, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and premiered on HBO on March 10, 2007....
The Starter Wife
The Starter Wife is a 2007 USA Network television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name by Gigi Levangie Grazer. Its title is derived from the concept of a starter marriage. Filmed over four months in Queensland, Australia, the plot...
What If God Were the Sun?
What If God Were the Sun? is a 2007 American television movie directed by Stephen Tolkin. The teleplay by Janet Dulin Jones and Jamie Pachino, based in part on a novel by John Edward, explores the relationship between a grieving nurse and her...
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A Little Thing Called Murder
A Little Thing Called Murder is a 2006 drama film starring Judy Davis and Jonathan Jackson and directed by Richard Benjamin. This film made for television, by Stonemade Entertainment for Lifetime TV, was based on a true story, as told in the book...
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Ambulance Girl
Ambulance Girl is a 2005 made for television movie. It premiered in the United States on September 12, 2005 on the Lifetime network. The film stars Kathy Bates and Robin Thomas.
The film is based on the memoir by Jane Stern, Ambulance Girl: How I...
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Bleak House
Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, which was originally published in 1852–53. Produced with an all-star cast, the serial was shown on BBC One from October to December 2005, and...
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I is a 2005 British television miniseries directed by Tom Hooper. The teleplay by Nigel Williams concentrates on the last 25 years of the nearly 45-year-long reign of Elizabeth I of England.
The series originally was broadcast in the UK in...
Mrs. Harris
Mrs. Harris is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Phyllis Nagy. The teleplay, based on the book Very Much a Lady by Shana Alexander, focuses on the tempestuous relationship between Herman Tarnower, noted cardiologist and author of...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 2005 television movie based upon Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Darnell Martin and produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions (Winfrey served as the host for the...
Dawn Anna
Dawn Anna is a television movie that premiered on Lifetime in 2005 that is based on real events.
The movie depicts the life of Dawn Anna, a teacher and single mother of four children. Soon after meeting her eventual husband, she is diagnosed with a...
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Lackawanna Blues
Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson in 2001. It was later made into a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna,...
Warm Springs
Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his...
Angels in America
Angels in America is a 2003 HBO miniseries adapted from the play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Kushner adapted his original text for the screen, and Mike Nichols directed.
HBO broadcast the film in various formats: two three-hour chunks that...
The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter is a 2003 made-for-television remake of the 1968 film.
A television production of The Lion in Winter was first shown on 26 December 2003 in the U.K.. It starred Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close, and was directed by Andrei...
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The Reagans
The Reagans is a 180-minute television movie about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family which CBS had planned to broadcast in November 2003 during fall "sweeps", but was ultimately broadcast on November 30 of that year on cable channel...
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story is an American TV movie directed by Peter Levin. It was first released on April 7, 2003 in the United States.
In this fact-based cable TV drama, Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, the daughter of a loving but...
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Live from Baghdad
Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener (based on the book of the same title by Wiener). The movie was released during the prelude stage of the currently ongoing...
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My House in Umbria
My House in Umbria is a 2003 HBO made-for-television movie, based on the novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives. The film stars Maggie Smith and was directed by Richard Loncraine....
Normal
Normal (2003) was a made-for-TV movie produced by HBO Films which became an official selection at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Jane Anderson, the film's writer and director, adapted her own play, Looking for Normal, about a midwestern factory...
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone is a 2003 adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, (1961) itself based on his 1958 novella.
The film was first aired in the USA by Showtime Networks on 31 March 2003 and released on DVD by...
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm is a BBC-HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II. The title of the film is the same as the title of the first volume of Churchill's largely autobiographical six...
The Rosa Parks Story
The Rosa Parks Story is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash. It was broadcast by CBS on February 24, 2002.
It tells the story of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks, whose refusal to obey a Montgomery,...
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Wild Iris
Wild Iris (2001) is a drama film starring Laura Linney, Gena Rowlands, Emile Hirsch and Fred Ward. Co - Starrings are Miguel Sandoval, Scott Gibson, Amy Stewart and Lee Tergesen.
Laura Linney won an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a miniseries...
We Were the Mulvaneys
We Were the Mulvaneys was a 2002 TV movie that was based on the book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. It was nominated for three Emmys.
The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (also known as Anne Frank) is a mini-series based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The mini-series was shown on ABC on May 20, 2001.
Controversially, but in keeping with the claim made by Melissa...
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows is a 2001 television film based on the memoirs of Lorna Luft, the daughter of Judy Garland. The production is notable for its meticulous recreations of Garland's films and concerts, and verisimilitudinous...
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells is a 2000 British/American television movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The teleplay by Alan Plater focuses on the efforts of a recent widow to reunite the members of the World War II-era swing band with which...
When Billie Beat Bobby
When Billie Beat Bobby is a 2001 ABC docudrama detailing the historic 1973 tennis match often referred to as The Battle of the Sexes, between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs and what lead up to it. The match between them was filmed at the Great...
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Wit
Wit is a 2001 American television movie directed by Mike Nichols. The teleplay by Nichols and Emma Thompson is based on the 1998 play of the same title by Margaret Edson.
The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 9,...
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1998, the film was aired in the United States on August 21, 1999. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein....
Dash and Lilly
Dash and Lilly is a 1999 Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated television film directed by Kathy Bates and written by Jerrold L. Ludwig.
The lives of Dashiell Hammett (Shepard) and Lillian Hellman (Davis) are set against the golden era of Hollywood...
The Passion of Ayn Rand
The Passion of Ayn Rand is a 1999 film directed by Christopher Menaul. It is based on the book of the same title by Barbara Branden (one of Rand's former associates and Nathaniel Branden's first wife). The screenplay is written by Howard Korder and...
Life Of The Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is a 1999 two-part television miniseries about the 15th century Catholic Saint of the same name. The film stars Leelee Sobieski as Saint Joan. A joint production of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Alliance Atlantis...
Gia
Gia is a 1998 HBO television film about the life of model Gia Marie Carangi starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, Faye Dunaway and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The original...
Snow White: A Tale Of Terror
Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 horror film based on the Snow White fairy tale. It stars Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill. The original music score is composed by John Ottman. The film is marketed with the tagline "The fairy tale is over." The...
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Echo of Thunder
The Echo of Thunder is an Australian family drama movie, released for television in 1998. It is based on the novel Thunderwith by Australian children's author Libby Hathorn.
The movie is a story of a man Larry Ritchie, who lives with his second wife...
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...First Do No Harm
...First Do No Harm is a 1997 television film, directed by Jim Abrahams, about a boy whose severe epilepsy, unresponsive to medications with terrible side-effects, is controlled by the ketogenic diet. Aspects of the story mirror Abrahams' own...
In the Gloaming
In the Gloaming is a 1997 HBO film directed by Christopher Reeve based on a story written by Alice Elliott Dark. Starring Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Sean Leonard. The film borrows its title from the popular 1877 song "In...
Miss Evers' Boys
Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David...
