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A television movie (also known as a television film, TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, made-for-television, original movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, or telefilm) is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by...
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The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman, who also cinematically adapted it in 1968 for the film directed by Anthony Harvey and a 2003 film by Andrei Konchalovsky.
The play's premier was in the Ambassador Theatre, New York City on...
Initial release date:
- Dec 26, 2003
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- 167 min (100 hs )
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Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous short story A Christmas Carol. It was the first animated holiday special ever produced specifically for television (1962), and the only one until Rudolph the Red-Nosed...
Initial release date:
- 1962
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Runtime:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Shoah
Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). Though Shoah is conventionally classified as a documentary film, director Lanzmann considers it to fall outside of that genre, as, unlike most historical...
Initial release date:
- 1985
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Runtime:
- 544 min (326 hs )
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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...
Initial release date:
- Nov 30, 2003
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Hysterical Blindness
Hysterical Blindness is a made-for-HBO movie by Mira Nair and starring Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Ben Gazzara. The movie premiered on HBO on August 21, 2002. The film was directed by Mira Nair. In 2003, Uma Thurman won a Golden...
Initial release date:
- 2002
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Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
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An American Rhapsody
An American Rhapsody is a 2001 movie that tells a story of 15-year-old girl from a Hungarian-American family. The film is based on the true story of the director, Eva Gardos, who also wrote the script.
The film stars Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett...
Initial release date:
- 2001
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Victory at Sea
Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally aired by NBC in the USA during 1952-1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. The music soundtrack, by Richard Rogers and Robert Russell Bennett...
Initial release date:
- 1952
Drake & Josh
Drake & Josh is an American sitcom that premiered on the Nickelodeon television network on January 11, 2004, which follows the lives of two stepbrothers, Drake Parker (Drake Bell) and Josh Nichols (Josh Peck). Both actors had played roles in The...
Initial release date:
- Aug 3, 2007
Runtime:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch is a 1974 biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, written and directed by Peter Watkins. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television...
Initial release date:
- 1976
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The 10th Kingdom
The 10th Kingdom is an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by screenplay writer Simon Moore and released by Hallmark Entertainment. It depicts the adventures of a young woman and her father after they are transported from Manhattan, New York...
Initial release date:
- Feb 27, 2000
Runtime:
- 480 min (288 hs )
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...
Initial release date:
- 1985
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding is a 2003 made-for-TV Film which was a reunion movie for the series Baywatch.
Mitch Buchanon (David Hasselhoff) was believed to have died in a boating accident at the end of the 10th season of Baywatch. However, it turns...
Initial release date:
- Feb 28, 2003
Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel Anne of Green Gables by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released...
Initial release date:
- Dec 1, 1985
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Runtime:
- 199 min (119 hs )
Eyes on the Prize
Eyes on the Prize is a 14-hour documentary series about the African-American Civil Rights Movement. The series was produced in two-stages: Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954–1964 consists of the first six episodes covering the time...
Initial release date:
- 1987
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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...
Initial release date:
- 2003
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- 110 min (66 hs )
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Saraband
Saraband is a 2003 Swedish telemovie by film director Ingmar Bergman and his last theatrically released work. The film is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back to the screen the characters of Johan and Marianne, played...
Initial release date:
- Dec 1, 2003
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
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Love Among the Ruins
Love Among the Ruins is a 1975 television film (1975) directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier.
Set in Edwardian England, Love Among the Ruins tells the story of Jessica Medlicott (Hepburn), an aging grande...
Initial release date:
- Mar 6, 1975
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Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
Jump Britain
Jump Britain is a 2005 documentary about free running. Directed by Mike Christie and produced by Carbon Media, it is a sequel to Channel 4's Jump London. Two of the three free runners from Jump London, Sebastien Foucan and Jerome Ben Aoues, appear...
Initial release date:
- Jan 6, 2005
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Jump London
Jump London is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, Jump Britain that first aired in January 2005. Both...
Initial release date:
- Sep 2003
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The Crossing
The Crossing is a 2000 A&E; film based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington. Also appearing in the film are Roger Rees as Hugh Mercer, Sebastian Roche as John Glover and Steven McCarthy as Alexander...
Initial release date:
- 2000
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Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
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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...
Initial release date:
- Apr 30, 2005
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Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Sniper 2
Sniper 2 is an American film shot in Hungary in November 2002 and released in early 2003. It stars Tom Berenger, Bokeem Woodbine, Erika Marozsán and Tamás Puskás, and was directed by Craig R. Baxley. Sniper 2 is the second movie of a trilogy,...
Initial release date:
- Mar 18, 2003
Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
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Brian's Song
Brian's Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week, recalling the details of the life of Brian Piccolo (played by James Caan), a white football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with black Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro...
Initial release date:
- 1971
Runtime:
- 73 min (44 hs )
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Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story is a Canadian television movie, which aired on CTV in 2004. The film is about Marc Hall, a gay Canadian teenager whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his Catholic high school prom made headlines in 2002.
In...
Initial release date:
- 2004
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Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
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Miracle Landing
Miracle Landing is an Emmy-winning 1990 made-for-TV movie based on an in-flight accident aboard Flight 243 that occurred in April 1988. The Boeing 737-200 was flying from Hilo, Hawaii to Honolulu, Hawaii, when it experienced rapid decompression when...
Initial release date:
- Feb 11, 1990
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Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
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Legend of Earthsea
Legend of Earthsea is a miniseries (later shortened to Earthsea), a loose adaptation of the award-winning Earthsea novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. It premiered as a two-night television event on the Sci-Fi Channel in December 2004.
This fantasy follows...
Initial release date:
- Dec 13, 2004
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Alien Lockdown
Alien Lockdown is a television movie that premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on March 1, 2004. The movie was directed by Tim Cox. On SciFi UK the film was shown under the title Creature.
When an ancient alien life force that has lain dormant for...
Initial release date:
- Mar 2, 2005
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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Walkout
Walkout is a 2006 Home Box Office film based on a true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts. It premiered March 18, 2006 on HBO.
Student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo (played by Alexa Vega), tired of being treated unequally, decides...
Initial release date:
- Mar 18, 2006
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
Game Over
Game Over is a 2003 direct to video film starring Yasmine Bleeth, Walter Koenig, Woody Jeffreys and Dominika Wolski. It is notable for incorporating footage originally shot for several video games released by Digital Pictures.
When a super computer...
Initial release date:
- Jun 23, 2003
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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The Magic 7
The Magic 7 is an animated TV movie written and directed by Roger Holzberg. It centers on the adventures of two children and a dragon as they fight the arch-enemies of Earth. It was originally slated to air on Earth Day (April 22) in 1997, but was...
Initial release date:
- Dec 19, 2008
The Proud Family Movie
The Proud Family Movie is a 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on August 19, 2005. It also marked the end of The Proud Family animated Disney series.
Penny Proud is celebrating her 16th birthday. She and her friends are excited to be...
Initial release date:
- Aug 19, 2005
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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Riding the Bus with My Sister
Riding the Bus with My Sister is a memoir by Rachel Simon, published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin about the time she spent with her mentally challenged sister Beth, whose lifestyle centers around riding buses in her home city.
In 2005, the book was...
Initial release date:
- 2002
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Pride
Pride is a 2004 live action television movie about two lion cubs as they grow up and face the harsh realities of adulthood. Produced by the BBC and shown on A&E; in the U.S., the film features the voices of numerous British actors and uses CGI...
Initial release date:
- 2004
Genesis II
Genesis II is a 1973 American TV film created and produced by Gene Roddenberry and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.
It opens with the suitably melodramatic line, "My name is Dylan Hunt. My story begins on the day on which I died." It is the story...
Initial release date:
- 1973
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Runtime:
- 74 min (44 hs )
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Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights is a three-hour, two-part miniseries that was made by Hallmark Entertainment, originally shown over two nights on April 30, and May 1, 2000 on ABC in the United States and BBC One in the United Kingdom.
The series was written by Peter...
Initial release date:
- Apr 30, 2000
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Runtime:
- 175 min (105 hs )
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Unknown Chaplin
Unknown Chaplin is an acclaimed three-part 1983 British television documentary about the career and the methods of the film luminary Charles Chaplin using previously unseen film for illustration.
The film was directed and written by film historians...
Initial release date:
- 1983
Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart
Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart is a 2003 NBC TV movie starring Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart in which the life of Martha Stewart is outlined starting from her life in New Jersey to the scandal behind her arrest. The film was shot in...
Initial release date:
- 2003
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
School of Life
School of Life is a film about a teacher who moves to a town and shakes the old school ways up a bit.
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or...
Initial release date:
- Feb 19, 2005
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Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Dangerous Child
Dangerous Child is a 2001 made-for-TV movie starring Delta Burke and Ryan Merriman. Merriman won a Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie or Special - Leading Young Actor" for his role in the film. The film also a appearance by Asia...
Initial release date:
- 2001
Balseros
Balseros (Rafters) is a Spanish word meaning rafters. It is the name applied to Cubans who leave Cuba on fragile rafts and small boats. It is also the title of a 2002 Spanish documentary co-directed by Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech about...
Initial release date:
- 2002
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The Triangle
The Triangle is a three part (roughly four hours) science fiction miniseries concerning the Bermuda Triangle, which first aired on Sci-Fi Channel from December 5 to December 7 2005. It was developed by Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin and is owned by...
Initial release date:
- Dec 5, 2005
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Runtime:
- 360 min (216 hs )
Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy is a television miniseries based upon Homer's story of the Trojan War, as recounted in the epic poem, Iliad. This TV miniseries also shares the name with a 1956 movie starring Stanley Baker. It stars Sienna Guillory as Helen, Matthew...
Initial release date:
- 2003
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Runtime:
- 177 min (106 hs )
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Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
Disney's Kim Possible Movie: A Sitch in Time is the first feature-length animated movie of the Kim Possible series. This movie includes a mix of traditional animation and computer-generated imagery. The movie premiered November 28, 2003 on the...
Initial release date:
- Nov 28, 2003
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Runtime:
- 66 min (40 hs )
Planet Earth
Planet Earth was a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett (from a story by Roddenberry). It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and starred John Saxon as Dylan...
Initial release date:
- Apr 23, 1974
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Strange New World
Strange New World was a TV pilot based on concepts envisioned by Gene Roddenberry which first aired on March 23, 1975. It starred John Saxon as Captain Anthony Vico (PAX team leader), Kathleen Miller as Dr. Allison Crowley (team navigator and...
Initial release date:
- Mar 23, 1975
The Stand
The Stand is a 1994 television miniseries based on the novel The Stand by Stephen King. King also wrote the teleplay. It was directed by Mick Garris and stars Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald and Jamey Sheridan.
The miniseries closely parallels the...
Initial release date:
- May 8, 1994
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Runtime:
- 366 min (220 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 28,000,000 (US$)
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Sex Traffic
Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian television 2-part drama production about the trafficking of women first shown in the UK and Canada in October 2004.
It was written by Abi Morgan, directed by David Yates and stars Anamaria Marinca and John Simm. It...
Initial release date:
- 2004
Going to the Mat
Going to the Mat is a 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie. It debuted on Disney Channel on March 24, 2004 at 8:00 and had 1.15 million viewers placing 9th in its cable slot. It was last shown on Disney Channel on November 22, 2009.
Jason "Jase"...
Initial release date:
- Mar 19, 2004
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
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Drake & Josh Go Hollywood
Drake & Josh Go Hollywood is a made-for-TV film starring Drake Bell and Josh Peck from the Nickelodeon television series Drake & Josh. The film first aired on January 6, 2006 and was released on DVD on January 31, 2006. According to TV Guide, the...
Initial release date:
- Jan 6, 2006
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Runtime:
- 73 min (44 hs )
Screenplay by:
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights was a modern-day adaptation of the classic novel that aired on MTV in 2003 and was later released on DVD. It stars Erika Christensen, Mike Vogel, Christopher Masterson, Katherine Heigl, John Doe, and Aimee Osbourne. The screenplay...
Initial release date:
- Sep 14, 2003
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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,...
Initial release date:
- 2001
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Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
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Yabancı Damat
Yabancı Damat (literally: The Foreign Groom, Bulgarian: "Брак с чужденец" Brak s chujdenets, English translation of the Bulgarian title: Marriage with a foreigner, Greek: "Τα σύνορα της αγάπης" Ta sinora tis agapis, English translation of the Greek...
Initial release date:
- Nov 12, 2004
Runtime:
- 50 min (30 hs )
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Soupçons
Soupçons (also known as Death on the Staircase and The Staircase) is a 2004 mini-series by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade documenting the trial of Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife.
Following from de Lestrade's Oscar winning Murder on a...
Initial release date:
- 2004
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Runtime:
- 360 min (216 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,500,000 (Euro)
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...
Initial release date:
- Sep 29, 2005
Runtime:
- 223 min (134 hs )
Screenplay by:
Trapped in a Purple Haze
Trapped in a Purple Haze is a TV movie which originally aired on ABC in 2000.
Max Hanson (Jonathan Jackson), is a talented artist who enjoys playing hockey. He dates Molly (Carly Pope) who ends up introducing him to a lifestyle of parties and drugs....
Initial release date:
- Apr 17, 2000
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
These Old Broads
These Old Broads is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite...
Initial release date:
- 2001
Good Fences
Good Fences, starring Whoopi Goldberg , Danny Glover and Ryan Michelle Bathe, is a made-for-TV movie that debuted in 2003. It is about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in 1970s Connecticut. Danny Glover plays the...
Initial release date:
- 2003
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Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
Taylor's Wall
Taylor's Wall is a 2001 television film directed by Craig Ross Jr., written by Cheryl McKay and starring Sam Doumit and Lukas Behnken.
A teenage girl, whose brother was the second victim of two shootings on her campus, starts painting the wall in an...
Initial release date:
- 2001
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Runtime:
- 28 min (17 hs )
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Something the Lord Made
Something The Lord Made is a biopic about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the world famous "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery. Based on the...
Initial release date:
- May 30, 2004
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
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Case of Evil
Case of Evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) as a young adult in his 20s. The story noticeably departs from the style and backstory of the original material.
As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit...
Initial release date:
- Oct 25, 2002
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Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
