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- DirectorJohn KramerStarsGreg EllwandKenneth WelshFrank BlanchOn April 4, 1957, Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, leapt to his death from a Cairo rooftop. During his remarkable life, Norman helped set the course of post-war Japan and played a key role during the Suez crisis. But with all of his talents and achievements, there was something haunting Herbert Norman and following him to every corner of the globe: the accusation that he was a Soviet spy. This documentary takes us back to a time when the Cold War was heating up and when the mere accusation of communist sympathies could destroy a man's career. Using de-classified documents, interviews with key players and dramatizations filmed around the world, the film reconstructs the ordeal that Norman endured for seven long years, as a US Senate subcommittee relentlessly probed his past beliefs and current loyalties. During his meteoric rise and fall, Norman crossed paths with some of the greatest personalities of his time: Nobel-prize winning Canadian diplomat and politician Lester B. Pearson; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, whose organization had an 800-page security file on Norman; General Douglas MacArthur, to whom Norman was a trusted aide; and charismatic Egyptian leader Gamel Abdul Nasser.
- DirectorBrian DennehyStarsBrian DennehyKevin DunnCharles S. DuttonJack Reed is sent to investigate a strange drive-by shooting which doesn't resemble a gang m.o.. The attacks continue, seemingly randomly, but Jack is determined to find out how deep the rabbit hole of violence and corruption really is.
- DirectorLee BernhardiStanley KramerStarsPhilip AhnPhilip BrunsWilliam DevaneDramatization of the trial of General Yamashita when he was tried for his actions in the Philippines during World War 2 that resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. And of how the lawyers assigned to defend him tried to.
- DirectorLee BernhardiStanley KramerStarsAllan ArbusHerschel BernardiBarbara ColbyJulius and Ethel Rosenberg go from feeding the poor during the Depression to embracing the ideals of Communism. However, after WWII, the USSR is no longer a U.S. ally and the Rosenbergs' political activities become dangerously subversive.
- DirectorPhil GalloStarsFrank VincentGian DiDonnaGloria DarpinoTom, an ex-cop who supervises the destruction of old bank bonds at a Jersey City bank, creates a seemingly fool proof scheme to skim some of the bonds prior to their destruction.
- DirectorJeffrey ChernovStarsJon BernthalBruce McGillMark NassarA human story unfolds when detectives aggravated by a major bust gone wrong are forced to deal with a tormented man thrown into the cage after urinating on the Mayor's limo. The explosive combination of character and situation balances intense drama with laugh out loud comedy.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsKevin BaconDustin Lance BlackDavid BoiesLive chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
- DirectorDavid Burton MorrisStarsJoanne WhalleyTim MathesonTom SkerrittCheck Running Time Is 4 Hours
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsTumisho MashaKhaled BenaïssaHenok BerihuneSet in 1962 MANDELAS GUN is a political thriller, based on Mandelas African Odyssey. As Commander-in-Chief of the Liberation Army Umkhonto we Sizwe (the MK) he undergoes military training in Algeria and Ethiopia while surviving assassination attempts and betrayal. In South Africa he is finally arrested with the connivance of the CIA In the crucible of the surging African Liberation Movements of the early 60s not only does he study the art of war but also leadership and political survival. MANDELAS GUN is a thrilling biopic, supported by eyewitness accounts from Mandelas advisors and comrades. Mandela the Man is portrayed as a brilliant but complex warrior. The film celebrates a national and global icon a man who is dedicated to the overthrow of an infamous racist regime; also a man whose impetuosity and vanity are tempered by compassion, self doubt and a relentless belief in justice for all South Africans, regardless of race. MANDELA'S GUN reveals a man the world barely knows and how in 1962, in the final moments of his freedom, Mandela played a pivotal role in the fate of a nation
- DirectorSonny LandhamStarsCharles NapierSonny LandhamFrank StalloneAn honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy turns the table on the assassin.
- DirectorYusaku MizoguchiStarsKatrina LawFiona DourifCarmen ArgenzianoRevenge proves a catalyst for Sam, a young woman out to avenge the murder of her parents. Things turn dicey when Sam learns her true identity and her unlikely link to the man she's targeted for death...
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsDavid JanssenJoyce TaylorFrank GorshinIn the 1960s Oregon, two sheriff deputies arrest three teenagers for robbery but are overpowered and taken hostage while forest fires rage all around them.
- DirectorVeena SudStarsJamie Anne AllmanDiarra KilpatrickJohn Davis WalkerA Driver hits someone on a remote desert road -- animal or human, but more importantly did she kill it? In a panic, she drives off instead of checking. A Hitchhiker, a witness, blackmails her for a ride. Thus begins the odyssey of two troubled women fleeing through a land as broken and in need of redemption as they.
- DirectorMark AminStarsJames CromwellBruce DernMykelti WilliamsonAn escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsBenito MartinezNico TortorellaCourtney LoveThis film explores the inner lives and motivation behind the murders of entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty at the hands of their sons Lyle and Erik in 1989.
- CreatorDrew DowdleJohn Erick DowdleStarsMichael ShannonTaylor KitschAndrea RiseboroughThe FBI and ATF seize religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993.
- CreatorRobert L. CollinsStarsDavid BirneyTom AtkinsNick CorelloFrank Serpico was a maverick New York City detective who, after turning in a large number of "bad" cops and later being shot in the face, often went undercover to expose corruption in the city. The scruffy-looking, long-haired officer used unorthodox means to get results, and reported to Lieutenant Sullivan.
- StarsBob PrinceNan CubaHugh AynesworthHenry Lee Lucas was known as America's most prolific serial killer, admitting to hundreds of murders, but, as DNA results contradict his confessions, will they expose the biggest criminal justice hoax in U.S. history?
- DirectorEdmund CoulthardStarsDavid MorrisseyMichael ColganChris O'Dowd1974-1975 - a year of terrorism across London. Adapted for the screen from the book 'Timebomb.'
- DirectorNorma BaileyStarsAdam BeachEric SchweigCurrie GrahamJ.J. Harper, a First Nations chief, is gunned down by police constable Robert Cross on his way home one snowy night in downtown Winnipeg.
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsMichele AdamsStephen R. AlfredElizabeth AshleyA Los Angeles lawyer (Woodard) has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen (Williams).
- StarsHeather ThomasRobert PineJack WardenThis is the story of feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him. From the day John Kennedy was elected President until Bobby was assassinated.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsClifton DavisLois ChilesNorthern CallowayA Black radical activist and a young White woman find themselves drawn to one another during the politically and racially-charged atmosphere of early 1970s America.
- StarsYesse RodriguezCaleb J. SpivakBeth KarasInvestigators are puzzled by the brutality of Travis Alexander's murder. Explicit audio and video recordings reveal the scandalous details that sparked public outrage and turned Jodi Arias into the most hated woman in America.
- DirectorCedric SundstromStarsGillian GarlickSandra PrinslooCarl BeukesThe true story of Helen Joseph, the first woman to be put under house arrest in South Africa. This drama is about a country in conflict,a woman of courage and her struggle for freedom.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsJohn BealLloyd BridgesMarc ConnellyThis movie was based on Quintin Reynolds' lawsuit against Westbrook Pegler. Pegler was a character assassin of the first order. Pegler claimed that Reynolds was a Communist and a coward. Reynolds defended himself, sued, and won big. Reynolds was exonerated and continued writing. Pegler, like most other people like him, eventually imploded.
- DirectorJohn Edward LeeStarsDanny TrejoEd O'RossShelby DeekinsThe true story, based on a Deathbed Confession, about what really happened to Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers who escaped from Alcatraz Prison in 1962. They made it- but what happened next is shocking. Investigated by the US Marshals.
- DirectorBrian GilbertStarsBrendan CoyleRichard EvansBrian GilbertThe story of the meeting between the Irish Republican Michael Collins and Winston Churchill at Churchill's private residence where over a tempestuous first meeting they form an unlikely friendship which helps decide the fate of two warring nations.
- DirectorLiana MarabiniStarsChristopher LambertGiancarlo GianniniRemo GironeThe Pope's reputation is now being rehabilitated in a film based on 100,000 pages of documents and testimonies concerning the underground work done by Pius XII to help Jews.
- CreatorShaun CassidyStarsPeter DobsonMelora HardinCameron RichardsonAn FBI Agent solves cases and goes undercover with his wife and kids as his partners and backup.
- DirectorDavid S. Cass Sr.StarsAnne ArcherRobert UrichMichael Shamus WilesA woman finds herself trapped in the woods with the one animal she fears most--the wolf. As an alliance with the wolf grows, so does her will to survive.
- DirectorTom CollinsStarsRachael DowlingPeter MullanSean McGinleyIn 1958 Ireland, family problems force a Donegal woman to the city of Derry; a city in turmoil as the Irish nation suffers and revolts from the brutal British invading forces.
- DirectorKari SkoglandStarsHenry CzernyTorri HigginsonAlexia Fast"The Cult"centers a family in which the daughter has vanished. She should be enrolled in first year English, but vanished a month after classes began. As parents go, Nathan and Evelyn have been lousy ever since their marriage went south and right now, they're too self-obsessed to notice just how far off course their daughter has flown. Late one night while watching TV, Nathan notices their estranged daughter in an infomercial. Meet Rachel. Something's wrong - it's quickly determined that she's in a cult. In fact, she's the centre of it. The party ends for Nathan and Evelyn. It's their daughter. In order to get her back, Nathan goes underground and enters the cult. Evelyn remains on the outside as the only one who knows where Nathan and Rachel are.
- DirectorBilly J. ParrottStarsHoward E. Rollins Jr.Fred PerronWalter FranksThis drama focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against segregation and become a leader in the civil rights movement.
- CreatorChris BrancatoPaul EcksteinStarsForest WhitakerIlfenesh HaderaLucy FryA gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s. A TV prequel to the 2007 film, 'American Gangster', which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas.
- DirectorFrancis DambergerStarsTina KeeperTom JacksonPeter Kelly GaudreaultThey say blood is thicker than water, unfortunately when RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi discovers her brother as the main suspect in a fatal case of arson she's put to the test. Above all else, the only thing that matters is the truth. As the evidence accumulates, Michelle tries to defend Peter but comes to realize he's been deceptive all along. Torn between family loyalty and her sense of duty, she'll use her resourcefulness to find the truth - regardless of the cost.
- DirectorJason LapeyreStarsEion BaileyJulia CampbellMichel GillThis Lifetime Original Movie revisits the infamous murder of pint-sized beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and the lurid details that captivated the nation.
- DirectorDonna DeitchStarsJoan SeveranceTony DenisonJohn Allen NelsonA homicide detective begins a torrid affair with a senator's son who is a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsJohn RitterMarg HelgenbergerMegan GallagherA woman believes that her seemingly all-American ex-husband murdered an earlier wife of his, and she is desperate to prove it.
- DirectorAndrew RobinsonStarsKelly BlatzDaryl SabaraJanel ParrishAfter a school shooting leaves 14 people dead, survivor Sean Ryan is forced to come to terms with loss.