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Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
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That Certain Summer
That Certain Summer is a 1972 American television movie directed by Lamont Johnson. The teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link was the first to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Produced by Universal Television, it was broadcast as an...
Raid on Entebbe
Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 TV movie directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda on July 4, 1976. It was the last movie to be released featuring...
Tail Gunner Joe
Tail Gunner Joe is a 1977 television movie dramatizing the life of U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican who investigated communist infiltration of the U.S. government during the 1950s. The film was broadcast on NBC-TV. It was...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977) is a made-for-television movie that was a sequel to the previous year's Eleanor and Franklin. Originally airing on March 13, 1977, it was part of a two-part biopic directed by Daniel Petrie based on...
Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 Anglo-Italian television miniseries dramatizing the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament Gospels.
The miniseries was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and...
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Verna: U.S.O. Girl
Verna: USO Girl is a teleplay by Albert Innaurato.
Based on a Paul Gallico story, it focuses on untalented singer-dancer Verna Vain, who fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas will put her on the road to superstardom. Although she's more...
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
The Defection of Simas Kudirka is a 1978 television movie based on actual events, featuring Alan Arkin as Simas Kudirka, a Lithuanian merchant seaman in Soviet-era 1970 who attempts to defect to the United States by jumping onto a U.S. Coast Guard...
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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...
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...
Attica
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Flesh and Blood
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Masada
Masada was an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981. Advertised by the network as an "ABC Novel for Television," it was a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel by legions of the Roman Empire in...
Shōgun
Shōgun is an American television miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. As with the novel, the title is often shown as Shōgun in order to conform to Hepburn romanization. The miniseries was broadcast over five nights, between...
Murder In Texas
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Inside the Third Reich
Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's main architect before this period. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the workings and...
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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...
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,...
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...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a 1982 television miniseries adapted from the Charles Dickens novel of the same title.
The Day After
The Day After is an American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC Television Network.
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange...
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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...
Chiefs
Chiefs was a miniseries based upon the novel of the same name by Stuart Woods. It was broadcast on CBS over three nights in November 1983. It was directed by Jerry London, and stars Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Danny Glover and...
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The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered Dansville, Michigan housewife, Francine Hughes. After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband James Berlin ("Mickey") Hughes, she set fire to the bed he was...
The Atlanta Child Murders
The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Between the summer of 1979 and the...
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Fatal Vision
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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...
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman (German: Tod eines Handlungsreisenden) is a 1985 made for television film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, based on the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang...
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,...
Lost Empires
Lost Empires is a 1986 television adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel of the same name, and starred Colin Firth, John Castle and Laurence Olivier. It was shown as a miniseries, and premiered on UK TV in October 1986.
A young man (Firth) joins a...
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My Name is Bill W.
My Name Is Bill W. is a 1989 CBS television movie directed by Daniel Petrie, starring James Woods and James Garner. The movie is based on the true story of Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. James Woods won an Emmy for his portrayal of...
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is a six-part BBC television drama made in 1973, in which the case of the Jack the Ripper murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Inspectors Barlow and Watt (Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor, respectively). These...
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Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a television miniseries about two former Texas rangers who decided to move cattle from the south to Montana. It won a Peabody Award in 1989.
By Dawn's Early Light
By Dawn’s Early Light is an HBO Original Movie, aired in 1990 and set in 1991. It is based on the 1983 novel Trinity's Child, written by William Prochnau. The film is one of the last films to depict the events of a fictional World War III before the...
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a 1989 British miniseries based on Charles Dickens' novel of the same title.
Jean Simmons, who played the role of the young Estella in the 1946 movie, played Miss Havisham in the 1989 version. Other key roles include John Rhys...
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A Killing in a Small Town
A Killing in a Small Town is a 1990 television movie directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and starring Barbara Hershey
A small town is shocked by the brutal ax murder of a woman. However, they are even more shocked when a reserved neighboring woman ...
