Richard Donat

Alex vive en Inglaterrra, trabaja arreglando aparatos eléctricos en una empresa que no va bien económicamente, se acuesta con mujeres casadas y bebe alcohol como si no hubiera mañana. Su vida es un completo desastre hasta que un día, su tío Raymond le propone pagar todas sus deudas a cambio de irse a vivir al extranjero durante un año, en concreto, a Nueva Escocia. Una vez allí, el joven intenta buscar trabajo en la pequeña localidad en la que vive y descubre que tiene el don de curar a las personas, pero ni siquiera cree en su propia habilidad. En su lucha por comprender su nueva realidad, una adolescente con cáncer le mostrará el camino.

Amelia Earhart fue una legendaria aviadora estadounidense que desapareció en 1937 mientras sobrevolaba el Océano Pacífico cuando intentaba dar la vuelta al mundo. El gran amor de Amelia fue el padre del escritor Gore Vidal (McGregor).

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.

The Channeled Scablands in Washington state defied conventional explanations for their formation for decades. Little by little evidence mounted for an old theory that was rejected by the scientific establishment. It involved glaciers, volcanoes, a relatively minor river and a prodigious amount of water. Originally aired as an episide of NOVA.

Basada en la exitosa novela de James Patterson, 'El diario de Susan' cuenta la historia de Kate Wilkinson (Kathleen Rose Perkins, 'La isla'), una editora de vídeos que lo tiene todo hasta que su novio Matt Harrison (Johnathon Scaech, 'The wonders') corta la relación sin previo aviso. Con el corazón roto, recibe un paquete de Matt que contiene el diario de su última mujer, Suzanne (Christina Applegate, 'Matrimonio con hijos'). El diario contiene los detalles que explican el abrupto fin de la pareja. A medida que se desarrolla la trágica historia del primer amor de su ahora ex novio, Kate comienza a reflexionar sobre la relación.

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was still thrilling in every way. This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.

Martha Kostyra, siempre supo que quería ser una mujer de éxito, rica y famosa. Todo lo alcanzó (libro, revista, su propio programa de televisión) llegando a ser mundialmente conocida como Martha Stewart pero, un día, su golpe de suerte acaba: su matrimonio se rompe y una acusación de fraude le pone en el punto de mira.

An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.

Una mujer sufre una afección cardiaca que le impide hacer una vida normal. A pesar de los cuidados que recibe de su única hija, su vida se apaga cada día más. Pronto recibe el ansiado transplante que le devuelve a la vida con un inesperado espíritu juvenil, tan sorprendente que parece que madre e hija han intercambiado su rol familiar.

The story of Gloria, a worldly but crabby teen-boy-band manager and Sherman, a morose rural man as they escape from their lives, experience life-changing travel, and against their will, cling to one another. When they fall in love for the first time, it's an impossible situation, because you can't just change your life overnight. Can you?

Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".

Una fotógrafa llega a una isla acompañada de su novio, su cuñado y la novia de éste, con el fin de realizar un reportaje sobre un crimen ocurrido un siglo antes en ese lugar.

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.

Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.

Canadá, años 20. Antes de morir, el ranchero Bennett nombra tutor de su hijo y encargado de su hacienda al capataz Leckner. Pero el interés que muestran los bancos por las tierras del rancho colocan a Leckner en una difícil situación. Sin embargo, la desinteresada ayuda de una joven británica le ayudará a solucionar los problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)

James de 18 años (James Pfeiffer) abandona la universidad y decide convertirse en un pescador como su padre. Margaret y Russell sus padres, estan muy molestos con la decisión de su hijo. Tenían un montón de esperanzas para él, terminando la escuela de derecho y, al igual que su hermano mayor, José, hacer una vida decente en vez de dedicarse al peligro de la mar. James sueña con tener su propio barco .

Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.

This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink's office that she has no time to listen to the doctor's advice.

The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.

Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.

A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were charged with their murder. Scott confesses to deliberately shooting his stepfather Al, but Bruce insists that his shooting of Rosemary was accidental.

Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...

Sandy es una adolescente que vive con sus padres y sus dos hermanas pequeñas en un idílico rancho en Canadá. No obstante, ella no es feliz: sus padres la tratan como a una niña. Una noche recibe la visita de su primo Buck, un joven californiano, que llega en un precioso cadillac rojo.

Drama histórico sobre la rebelión en el Alto Canadá de 1837.

The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.

Una ciudad americana de un millón de habitantes despierta de su sueño. Las chimeneas lanzan el humo al aire de la mañana, los trabajadores fichan en la refinería de petróleo Manson, las sillas de madera se preparan frente al escenario donde se va a emitir un programa de televisión. Parece que va a ser un día normal, pero una alarma suena en el parque de bomberos y éstos se dirigen rápidamente hacia Birchwood Avenue.

Al volver de un viaje de negocios, Frank descubre que su novia Janie está trabajando en un nuevo complejo hotelero donde el dueño le ha dado un departamento, así como otros regalos a cambio de sus afectos. Las tensiones entre Frank y Janie escalan fuera de control hasta que la toma como rehén en un enfrentamiento con la policía.

Un rico dentista playboy invita a su novia modelo a pasar un fin de semana en su apartada casa de campo en Ontario, donde serán atacados por una banda de locos maleantes.