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.

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

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

A trajetória de Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) desde que ficou paraplégico devido a uma poliomelite em 1921, aos 39 anos. Após tentar diversas curas "milagrosas", ele experimenta mais uma e vai até Warm Springs, no interior da Georgia, onde soubera que as águas medicinais da região fizeram um garoto andar. Ele chega com Eleanor (Cynthia Nixon), sua esposa, e quase volta na mesma hora, pois o "hotel" estava caindo aos pedaços.

Um ambicioso cirurgião branco e um talentoso carpinteiro negro desenvolvem uma técnica que revoluciona a cirurgia de coração. Embora trabalhem lado a lado no centro cirúrgico, os dois não estão lado a lado diante da sociedade.

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.

1691, Salem. Algumas garotas iniciaram um período de terror enorme quando disseram que padeciam de sofrimentos demoníacos. A comunidade assustada acreditou na explicação das meninas, que diziam que foram "possuídas" por bruxas que viviam dentro na comunidade puritana. O reverendo Samuel Parris (Henry Czerny) e outros líderes comunitários começam uma inumana caça às bruxas. Logo ninguém estava livre de suspeitas, mas só mulheres do povoado foram acusadas. Ann Putnam (Kirstie Alley), seguiu os passos da sua filha, Annie (Katie Boland), que aparentemente foi tomada por visões estranhas e publicamente acusou de bruxaria uns vizinhos. Rebecca Nurse (Shirley MacLaine), uma religiosa fervorosa e uma amável anciã da comunidade, é um das mulheres que foi vítima das acusações de Ann. Entretanto Rebecca não foi a primeira nem seria a última deste tribunal, que agora também condenava homens para serem enforcados, pelo simples fato de terem se oposto aos métodos usados para apurar a 'verdade'.

Biografia do dançarino afro-americano William Bojangles Robinson e sua luta contra o preconceito racial.

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

No sul da década de 1940, um homem afro-americano é injustamente acusado de matar um dono de loja branco. Em sua defesa, seu advogado branco o iguala a um porco humilde, para indicar que ele não teve o bom senso de saber o que estava fazendo. Apesar de condenado, ele é condenado à morte, mas sua madrinha e a tia do professor local convencem o professor a ir à cela do condenado todos os dias para tentar reafirmar a ele que ele não é um animal, mas um homem com dignidade.

Rodya Raskolnikov é um jovem estudante de direito arrogante que acredita que algumas pessoas - incluindo ele - estão acima da lei. Entre alguns infortúnios da vida, Raskolnikov acaba cometendo dois assassinatos a fim de ajudar Sonia, uma prostituta por quem é apaixonado. Chamado pela polícia para depor na investigação, ele consegue se desvencilhar do crime e da punição formal. O problema é que o jovem começa a ser atormentado pela própria consciência, que acaba se tornando sua maior inimiga.

Rodya Raskolnikov é um jovem estudante de direito arrogante que acredita que algumas pessoas - incluindo ele - estão acima da lei. Entre alguns infortúnios da vida, Raskolnikov acaba cometendo dois assassinatos a fim de ajudar Sonia, uma prostituta por quem é apaixonado. Chamado pela polícia para depor na investigação, ele consegue se desvencilhar do crime e da punição formal. O problema é que o jovem começa a ser atormentado pela própria consciência, que acaba se tornando sua maior inimiga.

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.

No sul dos Estados Unidos, em 1932, a sífilis havia se tornado uma epidemia entre as comunidades afro-americanas. Preocupado com a rapidez com que a doença se espalha pela região, o governo decide criar um programa de tratamento no único hospital negro da localidade. Infelizmente, o tratamento acaba perdendo seu apoio financeiro e é fechado. A partir daí, tem início uma das mais horríveis traições da história da humanidade. Um grupo de doutores cria um novo programa médico que apenas finge estar tratando a doença. Na verdade, eles estão realizando um estudo sobre o efeito da sífilis em homens negros, para comprovar se eles são biologicamente iguais ou diferentes dos brancos. Durante anos, 600 homens foram submetidos a essa humilhação, iludidos com uma cura que nunca chegaria.

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.

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

Deus decide fazer uma nova promessa à humanidade depois das calamidades que culminaram no desastre da Torre de Babel. Abraão é escolhido para torna-se o "Pai das Nações" e a história da redenção se inicia.

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.

Escritor americano investiga o desaparecimento de amiga no Quênia. É ajudado por uma pesquisadora e, mantendo sua identidade sob sigilo, acaba descobrindo que perigosos caçadores de marfim estão entre os responsáveis pelo sumiço de sua amiga.

Escritor americano investiga o desaparecimento de amiga no Quênia. É ajudado por uma pesquisadora e, mantendo sua identidade sob sigilo, acaba descobrindo que perigosos caçadores de marfim estão entre os responsáveis pelo sumiço de sua amiga.

Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly physically and mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really 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.

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

A trágica história da cantora Karen Carpenter, de sua meteórica ascensão com o grupo The Carpenters, que formou ao lado de seu irmão Richard, às graves crises provocadas por distúrbios alimentares, que acabariam lhe custando a vida.

Mais uma vez a paz da cidade de Amity e as vidas da família Brody são sacudidas por um tubarão sedento de sangue, neste extraordinário suspense, sequência do clássico original de terror. A agora viúva Ellen Brody está revivendo os horrores do passado quando um enorme tubarão tira a vida de seu filho. Aterrorizada, ela viaja para as Bahamas, onde é acolhida pelo piloto Michael Caine. Mas o terror das profundezas retorna, e Ellen terá que se preparar para um confronto de vida ou morte.

Mais uma vez a paz da cidade de Amity e as vidas da família Brody são sacudidas por um tubarão sedento de sangue, neste extraordinário suspense, sequência do clássico original de terror. A agora viúva Ellen Brody está revivendo os horrores do passado quando um enorme tubarão tira a vida de seu filho. Aterrorizada, ela viaja para as Bahamas, onde é acolhida pelo piloto Michael Caine. Mas o terror das profundezas retorna, e Ellen terá que se preparar para um confronto de vida ou morte.

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.

Quatro episódios: a ameaça de um psicopata não impede viciada de sair para comprar cigarros; garoto enfrenta força maligna num videogame; padre em crise viaja pelo deserto e tem experiência sobrenatural; família obcecada pela ciência passa por maus momentos.

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

Duas mulheres formam um conjunto de cordas no campo de concentração de Auschwitz e, graças à qualidade de sua música, são poupadas das câmaras de gás durante muito tempo pelos nazistas. Vanessa Redgrave está excepcional no papel da judia Fania Fénelon, uma musicista de talento, figura humana de extrema dignidade e sensibilidade, que orienta e presta apoio à mais jovem, esta inconformada com a situação e frágil diante da fome. Num cenário de horrores, uma visão concreta das duas faces da moeda da moral humana: A essência e a barbárie.

Agricultor rude acostumado às dificuldades da vida no campo contrata um ex-modelo novaiorquino que ficou desfigurado por um acidente. No início a antipatia é mútua, mas as coisas vão mudando com o aprendizado do trabalho.

A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.

A história do General do Exército Douglas MacArthur, comandante supremo dos aliados durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e o comandante das Nações Unidas para da Guerra da Coréia. "MacArthur, O General Rebelde" começa em 1942, após a queda do Filipinas, e cobre a carreira notável desta lenda militar até e incluindo-se a Guerra da Coreia e os dias de MacArthur na aposentadoria forçada após ser demitido de seu cargo pelo Presidente Truman.

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.

Em um dia aparentemente comum, o policial Zach Garber, responsável pela segurança no metrô de Nova York, é surpreendido pelo sequestro da composição Pelham 1:23 PM por um bando misterioso. Os quatro criminosos, liderados por Blue e fortemente armados, exigem US$ 1 milhão para libertar os dezessete reféns com vida. Comandando a negociação, Garber tem uma hora para encontrar uma solução para o impasse. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Uma jovem que vive na floresta com a filha e o marido, um músico em dificuldades, descobrem que ela tem câncer terminal. Ela começa a gravar em um diário o tempo que lhe resta. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Um ex-presidiário se une com agentes federais para derrubar uma rede de fabricação clandestina de bebidas alcóolicas em uma região rural dos Estados Unidos.

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.

Forbin é o projetista de um computador incrivelmente sofisticado que executará todas as defesas nucleares dos EUA. Pouco depois de ser ligado, ele detecta a existência de Guardian, a contraparte soviética, anteriormente desconhecido pelos estrategistas dos EUA. Ambos os computadores insistem em que eles estejam ligados, e depois de implantarem salvaguardas para preservar material confidencial, cada lado concorda em permitir que sejam ligados. Assim que o link for estabelecido, os dois se tornam um novo Super Computador e ameaçam o mundo com o lançamento imediato de armas nucleares se forem desligados. Colossus começa a criar seus planos para a gestão do mundo sob sua orientação. Forbin e os outros cientistas formam uma resistência tecnológica ao Colossus, e devem operar escondidos. Na era de Colossus a paz é obrigatória, a liberdade é proibida, e a maior invenção do homem pode ser o maior erro do homem.

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.

In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.

"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.

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.

The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greatest crimes.

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.

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.