Donald M. Morgan

The life of Donald M. Morgan, one of Hollywood’s most prolific artists, is a unique, rags-to-riches story about a man who’s had a life-changing effect on the people around him, both personally and professionally. By sharing stories of his lengthy career, working with filmmakers like Robert Zemeckis, John Carpenter and Joseph Sargent, Morgan recounts pivotal moments in the art of filmmaking for over four decades, through interviews with fellow greats Owen Roizman (The Exorcist) and Jack N. Green (Unforgiven). But at the heart of the film is an emotional journey along the road to recovery in an industry that is ripe with dysfunction and addiction. Inspiring, heartbreaking, and funny, “Cinematographer” shares the story of one of the film industry's finest human beings.

Ivory centers on a young man's struggle between success versus fulfillment, and chronicles the exploration of an artist: the passion, dedication, and the immovable faith in one's talents. Andreas must train with a Russian piano teacher to win a piano competition.

A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.

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.

Quando um jovem contador fica devastado após descobrir que sua bela namorada o trai, seu melhor amigo, casado com uma garota a qual não ama, o convence a partir numa aventura e dormir com todas as mulheres possíveis para aliviar seu coração partido.

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

Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife's bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda's new job. She's the first graduate in her family and eagerly accepted a posting as medical officer in a coldly-greedy medical insurance company. Bening confronted with the medically unacceptable consequences of technically denied treatments, she rebels and finds even payments she approved were often withheld anyway.

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

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers.

Há vinte e três anos a telecinética Carrie White foi humilhada em um baile no seu colégio. Carrie foi tomada de um ódio tão intenso que imaginou que todos debochavam dela, quando na verdade apenas alguns a estavam humilhando. Usando seus poderes paranormais, ela fechou as portas e incendeou o ginásio, matando todos, com exceção de Sue Snell (Amy Irving). Em 1999, a situação começa a se repetir, quando Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl), a meia-irmã de Carrie que também telecinética e menosprezada por seus colegas, está prestes a ir em um baile sem que ninguém tenha idéia de seus poderes. Entretanto, Sue Snell, que agora conselheira da escola, desconfia que Rachel tem o mesmo dom de Carrie e teme que uma tragédia similar possa acontecer, tentando inutilmente advertir Rachel sobre isto. Paralelamente, alguns alunos do colégio planejam para a noite do baile algo que Rachel nunca vai esquecer, sem imaginar que eles vão morrer antes que esta mesma noite termine.

Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby), coupled with her recent nightmares and searing headaches (one of which has prompted a spectacular collapse at her local grocery store), lead Lynn to the inescapable conclusion that she is an amnesiac--and that she might be Abbie Stewart, who has another family in Fillmore County. Journeying to Abbie's hometown to learn the truth, our heroine is put off somewhat by the curiously mixed reaction of the man who might be her "other" husband, school principal Chase Stewart (Bruce Davison). The key to mystery may not be the surrealistic dreams experienced by Rebecca/Abbie, but instead that painful-looking gash in her head.

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.

FBI Special Agent Travis is trying to catch a deranged serial killer and is doing his best despite having a new and unexperienced partner in the form of Kelly McCord. It turns out that the serial killer is an entire army of disgruntled CIA mercenaries from Vietnam.

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.

Somerset é um detective a uma semana da reforma. Mills é um detective jovem e ansioso por tomar o seu lugar. No entanto, ambos vão acabar juntos a resolver o caso de um «serial killer» meticuloso que mata as suas vítimas de acordo com os sete pecados mortais.

Rick Heller é um delinqüente juvenil, que sempre arruma problemas. Margaret Heller, sua mãe, tentando evitar que Rick se meta novamente em encrencas, o põe para trabalhar limpando a jaula de Katie, uma gorila que está ensinando a se comunicar através da quirologia, que é a arte de conversar por meio de sinais feitos com os dedos. Até que Gus Charnley a leva para ser exibida no lugar de Bobo, um gorila que faleceu. Vendo que Katie está triste, Rick invade o lugar à noite e a liberta do cativeiro. Ele pede ajuda a Lacey Carr, uma jovem amiga que defende os direitos dos animais, com quem planeja levar Katie para o Canadá, pois assim ela ficaria livre. Lacey então sugere que Rick procure Max Carr, seu tio, em Washington, que irá ajudá-los. Porém fazer uma gorila atravessar a fronteira enquanto são procurados pela polícia não é nada fácil.

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..

Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she plans too adopt her -- but suddenly Annie's mother reappears and demands her back. And under the law, Susan, as foster-mother, has no claim to the child.

The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.

A failed pilot about a rich Virginia plantation owner and his family caught up in the American Civil War. He has a slave for a mistress, his older son is to marry a working class Irish girl and his younger son promotes the Confederacy.

Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sale, a shootout ensues, and one of Terry's fellow officers gets away with $3 million of Sal's money. Suspecting Terry took the cash, the mobster sends his men to kill Terry's brother, Dylan, and partner, Frankie Hawkins. Furious, Terry sets out to take his revenge by any means necessary.

The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.

Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and decided to turn over and help the DEA break the cartel. However, he got caught in the middle of the Reagan/Bush administration efforts to topple the Nicaraguan government in the '80s, in which Nicaraguan rebels called "contras" were allowed to smuggle cocaine into the US in exchange for their fighting against the leftist Nicaraguan government. Eventually Seal was murdered by his former Medellin employers, and some critics say it was with the tacit, if not implicit, connivance of the US administration.

Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, the pressure mounts on the FBI - even from the White House - for his capture

A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.

Tendo colidido na Terra após sua nave espacial ser atingida por caças americanos, um viajante extraterrestre tem que assumir uma identidade humana para que não seja preso pelas autoridades. O alienígena escolhe ter a aparência de Scott, o marido de Jenny Hayden, que faleceu recentemente. Após o choque inicial, Jenny se amedronta diante de seu "convidado", mas gradualmente ele ganha sua confiança. O "homem das estrelas" veio para a Terra com uma mensagem de paz, em resposta à mensagem mandada pela sonda espacial Voyager One, em 1977. Ele pede que Jenny o ajude, levando-o até o deserto de Nevada, onde encontrará seus amigos que o levarão de volta ao seu planeta. Eles se unem contra o Conselho de Segurança Nacional, comandado por George Fox, que pretende deter e, se possível, exterminar "Scott". Paralelamente ele aprende a ser mais humano e assume cada vez mais as qualidades do marido de Jenny, enquanto ela se apaixona pelo alienígena, pois vê nele Scott.

Arnie Cunningham compra um Plymouth Fury 1958, que ele chama de Christine. Ele então desenvolve uma obsessão doentia pelo carro, para o desespero de seu amigo atleta, Dennis Guilder. Depois do valentão Buddy Repperton desfigurar Christine, o carro se restaura perfeitamente e começa a matar Buddy e seus amigos. Determinado a acabar com as mortes, Dennis e a namorada de Arnie, Leigh Cabot, decidem destruir Christine.

Mike and Terry DeBray are a happily married couple whose lives change when the young daughter that Tony fathered out of wedlock suddenly appears and comes into their lives.

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.

Dramatization of the sensational Texas court case of the late '60s involving a noted Houston plastic surgeon accused of doing away with his socially prominent first wife in order to marry someone else.

The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huckaby, one of the teachers and girls' vice principal.

Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell), um vendedor de carros usados, necessita de dinheiro para concorrer ao Senado. Assim fala com Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), seu chefe, que concorda em lhe arrumar os 10 mil dólares que ele precisa. Entretanto, um "acidente" elaborado por Roy Fuchs (Jack Warden), o irmão gêmeo de Luke e ferrenho rival nos negócios, mata Luke. Roy também tem uma revenda de carros usados do outro lado da rua e está esperando o momento para reivindicar a propriedade para si. Os empregados de Luke escondem a sua morte, para impedir que Roy herde o negócio. É quando aparece então Barbara (Deborah Harmon), a filha de Luke.

A teenage runaway attempts to readjust to home and family life in Minnesota after returning home after years of working on the streets of New York City as a hooker and tries desperately to regain her parents' understanding and love.

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.

Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.

A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.

A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings, agrees to assist his former professor in a cloning experiment in which a duplicate of himself is created -- and which then, with a mind and will of its own, falls in love with the biologist's wife.

"Elvis Não Morreu" é um filme biográfico produzido para a televisão nos Estados Unidos em 1979, escrito por Anthony Lawrence e dirigido por John Carpenter, com Kurt Russell no papel do Rei do Rock, Elvis Presley.

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

The unfulfilled dreams of his parents and the tensions created at home cause life to become a nightmare for a youngster who seeks release in a withdrawal to his own world.

O ano é 1964. Os Beatles estão prestes a chegar nos Estados Unidos, e os jovens americanos estão completamente loucos. Esperançosos em fazer parte deste momento histórico estão seis adolescentes histéricos de Nova Jérsia que não desistirão de verem o quarteto em pessoa. Embarcando na primeira viagem de suas vidas, os amigos chegam a Nova Iorque, onde eles estão determinados a superarem suas chances e ver a banda em sua primeira aparição no The Ed Sullivan Show.

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.

Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's scholarship.

This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the police department.

Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate.

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) they invariably lose. One day they hit upon a scheme to steal one of the track's betting machines, so that they'd be able to print winning tickets and recoup the money they've lost over the years. However, things don't go exactly as planned.

Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.