Known for Art
Filmography
36 films, 2 shows


American Tragedy
2000 · 2h 50m · US
Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.


Buffalo Soldiers
1997 · 1h 34m · US
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.


Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996 · 1h 30m · US
The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993.


Riders of the Purple Sage
1996 · 1h 38m · US
Jim Lassister seeks the man responsible for his sister's death. His quest draws him into an insular community ruled by an uncompromising charlatan and his brutal riders.


Awake to Danger
1995 · 1h 28m · US
Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the details slowly come into focus, a killer watches and waits.


The Ascent
1994 · 1h 36m · US
The real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and planting the Italian flag at the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and the two men are locked in a battle of wills, fuelled by honor and their love for the same woman.


For Love and Glory
1993 · 1h 36m · US
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.


Kiss of a Killer
1993 · 1h 33m · US
A rapist stalks a witness endangered by the secret life she has created to escape her mother.


The Last of His Tribe
1992 · 1h 30m
Ishi, the last Yahi Indian of California, must leave his homeland and learn to navigate the world of the white man in order to survive.


Ladykillers
1988 · 1h 36m · US
A female police detective enlists her boyfriend to help her track down a murderer picking off the dancers at an upscale male strip club in Los Angeles.
Fatal Judgement
Fatal Judgement
1988 · 1h 40m · US
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.


A Smoky Mountain Christmas
1986 · 1h 34m · US
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.


This Wife for Hire
1985 · 1h 40m · US
A housewife starts a business hiring herself out as a "wife," to provide various domestic services.


Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
1985 · 1h 35m · US
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.


Where the Boys Are
1984 · 1h 34m · US
Four college co-eds travel to Fort Lauderdale for their Easter week of Spring Break, and become involved in a series of adventures and misadventures


Wishman
1983 · 48m
Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.


Take Your Best Shot
1982 · 1h 36m · US
An actor whose career has gone flat resolves to pursue a more stable occupation while also trying to save his troubled marriage.


Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982 · 1h 22m · US
Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he caught on fire.


Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
1981 · 2h 30m · US
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.


Elvis and the Beauty Queen
1981 · 1h 40m · US
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.


The Silent Lovers
1980 · 1h 40m · US
The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.


The Scarlett O'Hara War
1980 · 1h 38m · US
The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).


This Year's Blonde
1980 · 1h 40m · US
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.


Hot Rod
1979 · 1h 37m · US
A freewheeling drag racer enters a local championship meet and finds himself head-to-head with the tyrannical town boss who has already arranged for his own son to win.


The New Adventures of Heidi
1978 · 1h 38m · US
The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.


Leave Yesterday Behind
1978 · 1h 40m · US
A happy-go-lucky veterinary student, paralyzed for life in a college polo meet, finds love with a young woman who leaves her fiancée to help him overcome his handicap.


Twin Detectives
1976 · 1h 13m · US
Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.


Let's Switch!
1975 · 1h 13m · US
Chaos ensues when two former college friends, one a housewife and the other the editor of a hip women's magazine, decide to swap lifestyles between them.