Joseph Sargent

The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.

Una pareja de sordos se plantea la posibilidad de que su hijo reciba un implante que le permita oír. Una producción original para televisión producida por Hallmark, que recibió buenas críticas por las actuaciones de los protagonistas y la sensibilidad con que trata el tema del orgullo en las personas que desarrollan aptitudes diferentes a las de la mayoría.

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

En Baltimore, en los años 40, el doctor Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) y su ayudante Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) trabajaban para encontrar una técnica revolucionaria que garantizaría el éxito de las operaciones de corazón en "bebés azules". A pesar de ser colegas, pertenecían a mundos muy distintos: Blalock, blanco y rico, era el jefe de cirugía del Hospital Johns Hopkins; Thomas, en cambio, era un hábil carpintero, negro y pobre. Mientras estos hombres abrían nuevos y espectaculares caminos en el campo de la medicina, las presiones sociales amenazaban con destruir tanto su trabajo como su amistad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), una judía húngara, deja su pueblo para iniciar una prometedora carrera como ginecóloga; pero sus proyectos se frustran cuando los nazis la deportan a Auschwitz. Después de sobrevivir a esa pesadilla, Gisella consigue la ciudadanía americana, pero los jueces estadounidenses la acusan de haber sido ayudante del doctor Mengele en los campos de exterminio. Tendrá entonces que revivir sus horribles experiencias para explicar la difícil decisión moral que, durante años, la mantuvo con vida en Auschwitz. (FILMAFFINITY)

En 1692 el terror se apoderó de Salem (Massachussets), que vivió uno de los capítulos más negros de la historia. Cuando varias jóvenes de la comunidad puritana empiezan a sufrir convulsiones, los vecinos de la ciudad, bajo la influencia del reverendo Samuel Parrish, padre de una de las afectadas, llegan a la conclusión de que se trata de un caso de brujería. En diez meses, 19 personas inocentes fueron acusadas de brujería, juzgadas y condenadas a muerte.

The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.

In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. Dutton as Dizzy Gillespie and José Zúñiga as Paquito D'Rivera, this gripping jazz biopic is at once a detailed portrait of a musician and a stinging critique

by joseph sargent

En los años cuarenta, en el estado sureño de Louisiana, un joven negro es injustamente acusado del asesinato de un tendero blanco. Durante el juicio, su abogado, también blanco, lo equipara con un puerco leal, para indicar que no tenía conciencia de lo que hacía. Tras ser condenado a muerte, su madre y su tía piden al maestro del pueblo que lo visite diariamente para convencerlo de que no es un animal sino un hombre lleno de dignidad.

Rodia es un joven y brillante estudiante. Su inteligencia es extraordinaria, y cree conocer a fondo la naturaleza humana. Entre sus teorías, sostiene que cualquier hombre tiene derecho a cometer un crimen si piensa que es por el bien de la sociedad. Pero cuando él mismo asesina a un odioso prestamista, su teoría es puesta a prueba y él no sale bien parado, pues no puede evitar un enorme sentido de culpa.

Rodia es un joven y brillante estudiante. Su inteligencia es extraordinaria, y cree conocer a fondo la naturaleza humana. Entre sus teorías, sostiene que cualquier hombre tiene derecho a cometer un crimen si piensa que es por el bien de la sociedad. Pero cuando él mismo asesina a un odioso prestamista, su teoría es puesta a prueba y él no sale bien parado, pues no puede evitar un enorme sentido de culpa.

The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.

On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Carolyn McCarthy, a woman whose husband is killed and her 26 year old son is severely wounded in the massacre. The result is she is forced out of her comfortable suburban existence and she becomes an out-spoken crusader against assault weapons. The film shifts from her perspective to the mind of the killer and finally to the media frenzy that surrounds both.

La historia real de los Experimentos de Sífilis de Tuskeegee de 1932 del Gobierno de los EE. UU., En los que se permitió que muriera un grupo de sujetos de prueba negros, a pesar de haberse desarrollado una cura.

En 1964, en Pretoria (Sudáfrica), Nelson Mandela fue encarcelado debido a su valiente lucha contra la segregación racial (apartheid). Su esposa Winnie buscó entonces el apoyo de la población negra para liberar a su marido, objetivo que alcanzó 18 años después, gracias a la colaboración del líder De Klerk.

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

Esta apasionante dramatización de la vida de Abraham, el siervo de Dios más probado y el padre del judaísmo, abarca desde la búsqueda del patriarca de la Tierra Prometida hasta el sacrificio de su hijo, Isaac.

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

Rose White is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust wiped out her family, she is stunned to learn her older sister somehow survived the horror and is coming to America. The sisters' reunion is complicated by Lusia's memories of her struggles to survive and the revelation of past family secrets.

Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and she is a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts. When challenged by a hate group to prove that Jews were actually gassed at Auschwitz, Mel Mermelstein rises to the occasion with the support of his wife and children, in spite of the dangers to himself, his business, and his family. William John Cox (Dabney Coleman) provides legal help (pro bono) as a lawyer, originally a Roman Catholic from Texas.

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bishop (Prosky). As a result she retires and moves to Ireland where she seeks an admirer (Elliott) with whom she has been corresponding for five years.

Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists.

Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists.

Catorce años después de haber sido dada por muerta en un accidente aéreo, una mujer reaparece afirmando que es la hija de un hombre rico. Asegura que nunca subió al avión y que se sirvió del accidente para escapar y vivir a su manera, pero que ahora ya está preparada para reintegrarse a la familia. Todos se muestran escépticos porque aparece justo a tiempo para heredar la fortuna de la abuela; sólo su padre cree que es su hija Caroline.

Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.

El físico hungaro Leo Szilard deja Europa y llega a Estados Unidos. Con la ayuda de Albert Einstein convence al gobierno americano para construir la bomba atómica. El General Leslie Groves elige a Robert Oppenheimer para dirigir el laboratorio de Los Alamos en Nuevo Mexico, donde se construye la bomba.Según la II Guerra Mundial se acerca a su final, se debate sobre el uso de la bomba y cuando y donde utilizarla.

Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie is the authorized version of the life of Karen Carpenter and was made with the approval of Richard Carpenter and the Carpenter family.

Ellen Brody aún vive en el pueblecito isleño de Amity, pero sus hijos Sean y Michael ya no trabajan en el Sea World y hace tiempo que su marido Martin falleció de un ataque al corazón debido a su miedo a los escualos. Sean es ahora policía del pueblo. Una noche de Navidad tiene que acudir a una llamada para desenredar un tronco de una boya y es devorado por un gran tiburón blanco. Su madre piensa que fue una venganza personal contra su familia, por lo que su hijo Michael decide llevársela con su mujer y su hija lejos de Amity.

Ellen Brody aún vive en el pueblecito isleño de Amity, pero sus hijos Sean y Michael ya no trabajan en el Sea World y hace tiempo que su marido Martin falleció de un ataque al corazón debido a su miedo a los escualos. Sean es ahora policía del pueblo. Una noche de Navidad tiene que acudir a una llamada para desenredar un tronco de una boya y es devorado por un gran tiburón blanco. Su madre piensa que fue una venganza personal contra su familia, por lo que su hijo Michael decide llevársela con su mujer y su hija lejos de Amity.

A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.

The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father.

A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her job in NYC to investigate what happened to her son Mark (Browning) in Germany. Her persistence uncovers perplexing details that lead to the discovery of some very unsettling, and dark personal memories!

A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her job in NYC to investigate what happened to her son Mark (Browning) in Germany. Her persistence uncovers perplexing details that lead to the discovery of some very unsettling, and dark personal memories!

Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.

A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.

A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.

Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.

Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.

An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.

Película dividida en 4 historias... 1) Terror en Topanga: Una mujer sale de su casa por la noche para comprar cigarrillos, sabiendo que fuera hay un peligroso asesino. 2) El Amo de la Batalla: Un joven se obsesiona hasta tal punto con un videojuego, llamado El Amo de la Batalla, que una noche llega a forzar la puerta del local de juegos, para conseguir llegar al Nivel 13. 3) La Bendición: Un cura, que pierde la fe y abandona el sacerdocio, se ve perseguido por una misteriosa camioneta negra. 4) La Noche de la Rata: Para librarse de una rata, una familia pone una trampa y la atrapa, pero el problema sólo empeorará.

The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.

Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.

Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a debt-ridden truck driver. Madie and Charles eventually fall in love while evading an assortment of bad guys including a pair of thugs hired by Madie's husband to prevent her from returning to California, and a repo man sent to reclaim Charles' truck

Retrato de la vida, sentimientos y estados de ánimo de dos prisioneras en el campo de concentración de Auschwitz, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945): miedo, degradación, odio e incluso horror a seguir viviendo.

A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.

Serafín, científico y médico neo-nazi, ha desarrollado una fórmula para crear un ser humano superior físicamente. Lo pone a prueba en Goldine, su hija adoptiva. Desde la infancia le ha inyectado vitaminas y hormonas. Ha llegado la hora de probar sus métodos. Declara que su "Goldengirl" participará y ganará tres carreras en los Juegos Olímpicos de Moscú en 1980. Para subvencionar su investigación, vende acciones en el futuro de Goldine a una asociación de empresarios, que envían a su experto Dryden a controlar su inversión. El desarrollo personal y emocional de Goldine, mientras tanto, se deja en manos de una psicóloga: la doctora Lee. Goldine, finalmente, compite en Moscú, con resultados inesperados. (FILMAFFINITY)

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Biografía del famoso general americano Douglas MacArthur, que fue el comandante supremo de los aliados en el Pacífico y, además, comandante de las tropas de las Naciones Unidas en la guerra de Corea (1950-1953). La historia empieza con la derrota americana en la batalla de Corregidor (1942), que supuso la pérdida de las Filipinas, momento en el que pronunció la célebre frase ”Volveré”; y termina cuando es destituido por el presidente Truman por haberse atrevido a desafiar sus órdenes durante la guerra de Corea.

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.

Unos delincuentes armados secuestran un vagón del metro de Nueva York y retienen como rehenes a 17 pasajeros. A cambio de su liberación exigen que, en el plazo de una hora, se les pague un rescate de un millón de dólares; en caso contrario, amenazan con matar un rehén por cada minuto de retraso. Para entretener al inflexible jefe de la banda (Robert Shaw) hasta la entrega del dinero, el teniente de policía Garber (Matthau) tendrá que usar todo su ingenio.

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.

Gator está cumpliendo condena en el penal de Arkansas cuando se entera de que su hermano ha sido asesinado por el despiadado sheriff J.C. Connors. Gator jura vengarse y acepta infiltrarse para obtener pruebas de la culpabilidad de Connors y hacerle pagar por su crimen.

A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.

A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.

The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.

Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.

Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.

A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.

En plena Guerra Fría, el doctor Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) elabora un sistema de seguridad y de comunicaciones muy sofisticado que funciona a través de un potente superordenador llamado Colossus. Su objetivo es garantizar la defensa de los EE.UU, y del mundo entero y preservar la paz prescindiendo de las decisiones humanas. Una vez en funcionamiento, Colossus detecta la existencia de Guardian, un sistema ruso muy similar, y empieza a tomar las decisiones necesarias para evitar el estallido de una guerra nuclear.

A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive. This pilot film preceded the later TV series.

An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.

Orán 1946. La guerra ha acabado y dos pilotos americanos sobreviven haciendo pequeños vuelos comerciales con un C-47. Su suerte parece cambiar al conocer a Lee Harris, contrabandista a gran escala que reside en París junto a una bellísima mujer. Harris les contrata sin sospechar que su amante y uno de los pilotos iniciarán una relacion amorosa, poniendo en peligro el negocio.

El científico nazi Heinrich von Kronen es reclutado por Louis Strago, un alto oficial de la organización TRUSH, para construir una serie de misiles nucleares y lanzarlos cerca del polo norte, alterando de ese modo el clima de todo el hemisferio norte y transformando a Norteamérica en un continente helado.

In Part 1, Gallegher befriends a man on the stagecoach while heading west, only to discover he is a famous outlaw, the Sundown Kid. The sheriff is crooked, too, so it is difficult for Gallegher and his friend, Detective Snead, to capture the Sundown Kid. Gallegher and his colleagues work for the recall of the corrupt mayor of Brimstone, even though the mayor tries to stop them by force. In Part 2, Gallegher buys and trains a horse, then is surprised when a local rancher is accused of murder. The boy is sure it is a frame-up, and he tries to help out. Gallegher continues to help the rancher who has been framed for murder, and after he finds an incriminating watch, he is able to reach the trial just in time to save the day.

Los hombres de U.N.C.L.E. deben encontrar al demente que planea asesinar a un presidente asiático y controlar el mundo.

Avenge In Blood becomes the animal code that staggers the country!

A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.

Un flautista muy especial llega a la ciudad de Hamelín, que está sufriendo una terrible plaga de ratas... Adaptación televisiva del conocido poema de Robert Browning. Dirigido por un experto realizador de Broadway para la NBC, fue una de las primeras TV Movies (películas realizadas para la televisión) de la historia.