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Genre "Docudrama" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 89 total)

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12 Days of Terror (2004) Genre: Horror, Natural Horror, Docudrama. Director: Jack Sholder. Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Colin Egglesfield, Jamie Bartlett, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison. Storyline: A vicious shark terrorizes the New Jersey shore in this tale of terror at the beach starring Colin Egglesfield and John Rhys-Davies and based on the actual events that inspired Peter Benchley's Jaws. The year was 1916 and the citizens of New Jersey dared not step in the water for fear of meeting a grim fate in the jaws of a great white shark. For 12 days, the bloodthirsty beast would stalk the nor ...

A Cry In The Dark (1988) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Courtroom Drama. Director: Fred Schepisi. Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Bruce Myles, Sam Neill, Nick Tate, Neil Fitzpatrick, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Maurie Fields, Dorothy Alison, Matthew Barker, Burt Cooper, Mervyn Drake, Vince Gil, Ian Gilmour, Sandy Gore, Frankie J. Holden, Jim Holt, Peter Hosking, John Howard, Brion James, Debra Lawrence, Mark Little, Bill McCluskey, Kevin Miles, Dennis Miller, Tim Robertson. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

A Mighty Heart (2007) Genre: Drama, Docudrama. Director: Michael Winterbottom. Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Gary Wilmes, Mohammad Afzal, Mushtaq Ahmed, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Arif Kahn, Tipu Taheer, Amit Dhawan, Saira Nasir Khan, Alya Khan, Sarah Mone, Bushra Parwani, Afar Zarachiwala, Danish Iqbal, Ali Tejani, Azfar Ali, Ahmed Jamal, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Alyy Kahn, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah Murad Aliani, Imran Paracha, Imran Patel, Jean-Jacques Scaerou, Veronique Darleguy, Jillian Armenante, Demitri Goritsas, Zach Coffin, Sajid Hasan, Farooq Khan, Mikail Lotia, Baba Shaikh, Amy Shindler, William Hoyland, Bilal Saeed, Sean Chapman, Holly Goline, Amy Rosenthal, Nour Ayad, Lynn Blades, Ikram Bhatti, Fahad Hussain, Taj Khan, Hasan Ali, Naeem Sogay, Sujata Humane, Dr. Sayed Masood, Imran Hasny, Chad Chenouga, Mike Rosen, Jenni Lee, Elizabeth Danheim, Tom Spencer, Qasim Iqbal, Fabienne Khaldi, Gigi Ledron, Aimee Matimbia, Harvesp Viraf Chiniwala, Nassim Benbrik, Barney Welch. Storyline: Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in director Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Mariane's memoir recounting the abduction and murder of her husband (played in the film by Dan Futterman) by Pakistani militants. It was on January 23, 2002, that Mariane Pearl's life took a grim and unanticipated turn that no one could have seen coming. The South Asia Bur ...

All the President's Men (1976) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Political Drama. Director: Alan J. Pakula. Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr., Jane Alexander, Stephen Collins, Ned Beatty, Penny Fuller, John McMartin, Robert Walden, Frank Wills, Allyn Ann McLerie, F. Murray Abraham, David Arkin, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Henry Calvert, Dominic Chianese, Bryan Clark, Stanley Clay, Nicolas Coster, Lindsay Crouse, Valerie Curtin, John Devlin, Gene Dynarski, Nate Esformes, John Furlong, David Gilbert, Richard Herd, Basil Hoffman, Polly Holliday, Jamie Smith Jackson, James Karen, Paul Lambert, Frank Latimore, Gene Lindsey, Jeff MacKay, Anthony Mannino, Christopher Murray, James Murtaugh, John O'Leary, Jess Osuna, Neva Patterson, George Pentecost, Penny Peyser, Louis Quinn, John Randolph, Joshua Shelley, Sloane Shelton, Richard Venture, Ralph Williams, Wendell Wright, George Wyner. Storyline: Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green Washington Post reporters/rivals Woodward (Robert Redford, who also ...

Alpha Dog (2006) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Docudrama. Director: Nick Cassavetes. Actors: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Ben Foster, Anton Yelchin, Alex Kingston, Harry Dean Stanton, Alex Solowitz, Fernando Vargas, Olivia Wilde, Shera Danese, Lukas Haas, Shawn Hatosy, Vincent Kartheiser, Vincent Laresca, Christopher Marquette, Dominique Swain, David Thornton, Heather Wahlquist. Storyline: A drug dealer moves on to bigger crimes in an effort to settle a score with disastrous results in this drama inspired by actual events. Though barely out of his teens, Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) has already built a lucrative career for himself selling drugs — he has his own home, a luxury car, and posse of friends who do double duty as his crew, including Elvis (Shawn Hatosy), Franki ...

And the Band Played On (1993) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Social Problem Film, Gay & Lesbian Films. Director: Roger Spottiswoode. Actors: Walter Addison, Jill Andre, Alan Barry, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye, Christopher Carroll, Reg E. Cathey, Christian Clemenson, David Clennon, Phil Collins, Bud Cort, Alex Courtney, John del Regno, David Dukes, John Durbin, Mogens Eckert, Carey Eidel, Richard Fancy, Christopher John Fields, Dave Florek, Patrick Gorman, David Marshall Grant, James Greene, Ronald Guttman, Glenne Headly, Laura Innes, Ken Jenkins, Richard Jenkins, Tchéky Karyo, Michael Kearns, Jack Kenny, Thomas Kopache, Swoosie Kurtz, Clyde Kusatsu, Rob La Belle, Jack Laufer, Neal Lerner, Rene LeVant, Donal Logue, Richard Masur, Dakin Matthews, Ian McKellen, Peter McRobbie, Matthew Modine, Lawrence Monoson, Rosemarie Murphy, Jeffrey Nordling, Angela Paton, Sierra Pecheur, Miguel Perez, Martin Raymond, Valeri Ross, Saul Rubinek, Tom Schanley, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen Spinella, William Wintersole, Michael Winters, B.D. Wong, Alan Alda, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin. Storyline: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and with marked hostility toward one another, an American and a French research team manage to identify an ...

Antarctica (1984) Genre: Adventure, Docudrama, Animal Picture. Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara. Actors: Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Masako Natsume, Takeshi Kusaka, Shigeru Koyama, Shin Kishida, Keiko Oginome, So Yamamura. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Archer's Adventure (1985) Genre: Action, Adventure, Children's/Family, Docudrama. Director: Denny Lawrence. Actors: Tony Barry, Paul Bertram, Brett Cimino, Brett Climo, Robert Coleby, John Flaus, Ned Lander, Anna Maria Monticelli, Nicole Kidman. Storyline: Not to be confused with the like-vintage "sword and sorcery" TV pilot of the same name, director Denny Lawrence's Archer's Adventure was lensed in Australia. Brett Climo plays Dave Power, a young and ambitious caretaker of a racehorse named Archer. In order to get Archer to the 1861 Melbourne Cup, where the horse must compete, Power takes him on a 600-mile Outback odyssey, fraught with e ...

Awakenings (1990) Genre: Drama, Medical Drama, Psychological Drama, Docudrama. Director: Penny Marshall. Actors: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Alice Drummond, Waheedah Ahmad, Mary Alice, Tanya Berezin, Oliver Block, Adam Bryant, Yusef Bulos, Linda Burns, Chris Carolan, Keith Diamond, Le Chance DuRand, Rico Elias, Laura Esterman, Gwyllum Evans, Howard Feller, Shane Fistell, Dexter Gordon, Mel Gorham, Gloria Harper, Jayne Haynes, Tiger Haynes, Barton Heyman, Christina Huertes, Michael Hyde, Judy Jacksina, John Jones, Charles Keating, Debra Kovner-Zaks, Richard Libertini, Joan E. MacIntosh, Judith Malina, George Martin, Anthony McGowen, Anne Meara, Harvey Miller, Paul Montgomery, Anthony J. Nici, Tomislav Novakovic, Vincent Pastore, Max Rabinowitz, Steve Randazzo, Max Raven, Buck Smith, Peter Stormare, Gary Tacon, Leonard Tepper, Libby Titus, Byron Utley, Steve Vinovich, Max von Sydow, Gordon Joseph Weiss, Bradley Whitford, Mary Catherine Wright. Storyline: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of ...

Band of Brothers (2001) Genre: War, War Drama, Docudrama. Director: Actors: Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Matthew Settle, Rick Warden, Frank John Hughes, Scott Grimes, David Schwimmer, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Colin Hanks, Ross McCall. Storyline: Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose. The series dramatically re-creates the path of Easy Company, an elite paratrooper unit, from their basic training at Camp Toccoa in Georgia in 1942, to D-Da ...

Battle for Haditha (2007) Genre: Drama, Ensemble Film, Docudrama, War Drama. Director: Nick Broomfield. Actors: Elliot Ruiz, Falah Abraheem Flayeh, Yasmine Hanani, Andrew McClaren, Eric Mehalacopoulos, Duraid A. Ghaieb, Oliver Bytrus, Aya Abbas, Matthew R. Knoll, Manar Abdallateef, Sabiha Abdullah, Deyana Adill, Zuher Alessa, Nadeer Ali, Marie Ali, Norhan Ali, Esra Ali, Ahmad Alshamiri, Daweh Amer, Ghassan Amjad, Tayebeh Amjad, Ban Amjad, Aws Asaad, Salah Fozi, Ali Gies, Majid Hameed, Sam Hameed, Yasin Hasim, Yousef Hasim, Madeeha Hassan, Safa'a Hussein, Mayas Issa, Raj'a Jabbar, Adeeb Jameel, Wesal Kamil, Majd Kareem, Oday Kathem, Ali Kathim, Samir Al Khaldi, Dhia'a Khalil, Idair Khoshaba, Nabeel Koniy, Sezar A. Mahammed, Falah Mahdi, Mana Mohammed, Fatima Najm, Ghazwan Nayem, Adel Odebat, Salamih Oudih, Zamil Ouef, Abdulsallam Oulwan, Azez Ourieb, Rafa'at Raed, Forat Reda, Rami Rfi, Moyad Sa'ad, Fatimah Saeb, Samir Salah, Jabbar Saleh, Raji Salih, Waed Salim, Muhnnad Salim, Yousef Shamshoon, Laith Sobne, Saqar Soudi, Wijdan Taha, Ala'a Tahseen, Sandi Thaer, Ali Thahb, Abdullah Yaser, Hellen Zamil, Nathan De La Cruz, Jayse Willette, Thomas Hennessey, Jr., Tony Spencer, Vernon Gaines, Antonio Tostado, Ali Adill Aj-Kaa, Siham Rashid, Ibrahim Fuad, Majd Hijjawi, Juliet Koshaba, Jeffery Nabil, Rita Nabile, Murtada Namir, Fahed Borhan, Adnan Ahmad, Shala'a Ghali, Huda Jaseb, Ali Salem, Rafic Ali Ahmad, Nabil Emmanuel, Muna Jaseb, Doa'a Jaseb, Nick Shakoor, Danny Martinez, Joe Chacon, Fuad Ismail, Ilham Talib, Yehyea Fuad, Adra'a Fuad, Hakim Fuad, Hikmat Fuad, Hussain Fuad, Raheem Majid, Abbas Ghanim, Iman Razza, Hanneen Abbas, Ibtisam Shamarie, Hameed Sahy, Shukrieh Hameed, Bahram Sahy, Munther Jabbar, Sundus Munther, Rafl Munther, Revan Munther, Rania Munther, Rosanna Munther, Ali Majid, Alhashmy, Suad Hatas Ali, Noor Hussain Ali, Aram Ali, Saidar Ali, Zamily Lafta, Sabeeha Flefel, Mokhlis Zamil, Soa'ad Mokhlis, Mazen Zamil, Helen Zamil, Maher Zamil, Marzan Mokhlis, Hamzeh Zedan, Aseel Zedan, Laith Zedan, Hanan Sami, Huthaifa Albnna, Ayham Baha'a, Hussam Karim, Sam Yehya, Naseem Baha'a, Nazar Khalid, Ali Odebat, Yasser Yehya, Kibril Hambel, Wil Wright, Guss K.H. Abu Khurmah, Abdullah A.N. Irshaid, Hassan M. Al Amiri, Adnad Alaker, M.F. Abdallah, Omar M.S. Suleiman, Yazeed H.M. Abdul Hakmeh, Mohammed Abdul Qader, Rafeq Asfour, Amma Theyab, Ahmad Ala'a, Sabah Abed, Salah Abd Al Amir. Storyline: The fate of two cultures becomes locked on a tragic collision course in director Nick Broomfield's dramatization of the events that led to the massacre of 24 Iraqi men, women, and children by American Marines. A squadron of American soldiers goes speeding across the Iraqi desert in a convoy of armored Humvees, eventually stopping at a local store where the soldiers jump out to stretch and browse t ...

Beaufort (2007) Genre: War, Docudrama, War Drama, Combat Films. Director: Joseph Cedar. Actors: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman, Ohad Knoller, Alon Aboutboul, Arthur Faradjev, Gal Friedman, Danny Zahavi, Itai Szor, Daniel Bruk. Storyline: The title of Joseph Cedar's war drama Beaufort refers to the name of a fortress held by Israeli troops, during that country's contentious occupation of Lebanon from 1982-2000 — an effort that Israel roundly lost. The film itself opens at the tail end of that occupation. It follows Liraz Liberti, the then-22-year-old leader of troops occupying Beaufort, as he and his subordinates come fac ...

Black August (2007) Genre: Drama, Docudrama. Director: Samm Styles, TCinque Sampson. Actors: Gary Dourdan, Darren Bridgett, Ezra Stanley, Tina Marie Murray, Leith M. Burke, Vonetta McGee, "Big" Leroy Mobley, Elisabeth Nunziato. Storyline: Filmmakers Samm Styles and TCinque Sampson collaborate to explore the life and death of prison rights activist George L. Jackson in this biographical drama starring CSI's Gary Dourdan as the Soledad Brother author who took up the cause of prisoners' rights in the 1960s, and whose incendiary philosophy sparked the most militant civil rights movement in United States history. Enraged at the inhuman ...

Bloody Sunday (2002) Genre: Drama, Political Drama, Docudrama. Director: Paul Greengrass. Actors: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds, Carmel McCallion, Declan Duddy, Joanne Lindsay, Simon Mann, Christopher Villiers, Mike Edwards. Storyline: Paul Greengrass (The Theory of Flight) wrote and directed this powerful look at January 30, 1972 — better known as "Bloody Sunday." Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) attempts to organize a peaceful protest after Protestant leaders imprison Catholics without a trial. His actions conflict with hard-line IRA members who have no interest in a "peaceful" response, as well as the ...

Boxcar Bertha (1972) Genre: Crime, Road Movie, Crime Thriller, Docudrama. Director: Martin Scorsese. Actors: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey, John Carradine, Victor Argo, Marianne Dole, "Chicken" Holleman, Ann Morell, Harry Northrup, David R. Osterhout, Grahame Pratt, Gayne Rescher, Joe Reynolds, Martin Scorsese. Storyline: Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. Running afoul of anti-union forces, Bertha and Carradine are forced into a life of crime. Whereas Bonnie ...

Boys Don't Cry (1999) Genre: Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films, Docudrama, Psychological Drama. Director: Kimberly Peirce. Actors: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton, Jr., Alison Folland, Alicia Goranson, Matt McGrath, Rob Campbell, Jeanetta Arnette. Storyline: Based on a true story, this drama was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result. In 1993, 20-year-old Brandon (Hilary Swank) leaves Lincoln, Nebraska for the nearby community of Falls City, where she sports a crew cut, favors jeans and boots, and is regarded as a man by most of the people in ...

Brave New World (1980) Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Docudrama. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff. Actors: Jonelle Allen, Jeanetta Arnette, Reb Brown, Tara Buckman, Lee Chamberlin, Valerie Curtin, Aron Kincaid, Carole Mallory, Ron O'Neal, Tricia O'Neil, Victoria Racimo, Marcia Strassman, Julie Cobb, Bud Cort, Keir Dullea, Kristoffer Tabori, Dick Anthony Williams. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Breach (2007) Genre: Spy Film, Docudrama, Unglamorized Spy Film. Director: Billy Ray. Actors: Mary Jo Deschanel, Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Cole, Caroline Dhavernas, Bruce Davison, Kathleen Quinlan. Storyline: Shattered Glass director Billy Ray directs Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe in this fact-based drama concerning the FBI traitor who carried out what many historians refer to as the most notable national security breach in U.S. history. A key member of the FBI's elite Soviet Analytical Unit, Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) would, for 15 years beginning in 1985, sell thousands of pages of classified doc ...

Brubaker (1980) Genre: Drama, Prison Film, Docudrama. Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Jon Van Ness, M. Emmet Walsh, Albert Salmi, Linda Haynes, Everett McGill, Val Avery, Don Blakely, Wilford Brimley, Ritch Brinkley, Kent Broadhurst, Alex Brown, Allison Caine, Jane Cecil, John Chappell, James Dukas, Ronald C. Frazier, Rob Garrison, Nathan George, Hazen Gifford, John Glover, David Harris, Brent Jennings, James Keane, Jerry Mayer, John McMartin, Bill McNulty, William Newman, Jack O'Leary, Vic Polizos, Roy Poole, J.C. Quinn, Lee Richardson, Konrad Sheehan, Ebbe Roe Smith, Joe Spinell, Noble Willingham. Storyline: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker reveals to the guards and administrators that he's not a criminal at all, but the new warden, assigned ...

Buddy (1997) Genre: Comedy Drama, Docudrama, Biography [feature], Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture. Director: Caroline Thompson. Actors: Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, Peter Anthony Elliott, Paul Reubens, Lynn Robertson Bruce, Peter Hurst, Mark Sealey, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, Star Townshend, Rob Tygner, Mak Wilson. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Genre: Drama, Political Drama, Docudrama. Director: Mike Nichols. Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty, Emily Blunt, Om Puri, Ken Stott, John Slattery, Denis O'Hare, Jud Tylor, Peter Gerety, Brian Markinson, Christopher Denham, Tracy Phillips, Wynn Everett, Mary Bonner Baker, Rachel Nichols, Shiri Appleby. Storyline: Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking Afghanistan eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union while simultaneously fueling the rise of radical Islam. In the early 1980s, a hastily assembl ...

Citizen X (1995) Genre: Crime, Mystery, Docudrama, Police Detective Film, Crime Drama. Director: Chris Gerolmo. Actors: Joss Ackland, Andras Balint, Geza Balkay, Ion Caramitru, Jeffrey DeMunn, Murray Ewan, Zoltan Gera, Chris Gerolmo, Simon Gevai, Czeslaw Grocholski, Istvan Hunyadkurthy, Gyorgy Miklosy, Ralph Nossek, Tusse Silberg, Imelda Staunton, Mihaly Szabados, Miklos B. Szekely, Denes Ujlaky, Max von Sydow, John Wood, Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland. Storyline: Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the assignment takes its toll on Burakov's personal life, as he tracks the killer for years despite the red-tape a ...

Coach Carter (2005) Genre: Drama, Sports Drama, Docudrama, Message Movie. Director: Thomas Carter. Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown, Ashanti, Debbi Morgan, Rick Gonzalez, Antwon Tanner, Nana Gbewonyo, Channing Tatum, Texas Battle, Denise Dowse, Adrienne Bailon, Dana Davis. Storyline: The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was once a star player on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond, CA, and years later, after establishing himself in publishing and marketing, he returns to the school and to the team as the new basketbal ...

Conspiracy Of Silence (1991) Genre: Drama, Police Detective Film, Docudrama. Director: Francis Mankiewicz. Actors: Stephen Ouimette, Michael Mahonen, Carl Marotte, Lawrence Bayne, Chris Benson, Richard Blackburn, John Boylan, Michael Caruana, Maury Chaykin, Mary Ann Coles, Roger Dunn, Christopher Earle, John Friesen, Peter Graham, Dawn Greenhalgh, Michelle St. John, Kirsten Kieferle, Francois Klanfer, Bruce McFee, Neil Munro, Nicholas Pasco, Jonathan Potts, Leon Pownall, Richard Sali, Joseph Scorsiani, Ian Tracey. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Death Defying Acts (2007) Genre: Drama, Docudrama. Director: Gillian Armstrong. Actors: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan. Storyline: My Brilliant Career and Oscar and Lucinda director Gillian Armstrong explores the final feat of the greatest illusionist ever to deceive a live audience in this docudrama concerning Harry Houdini's obsessive quest to find proof of an afterlife. The year is 1926, and Houdini (Guy Pearce) is an international superstar. Not only does the illusionist's otherworldly ability to bend reality hold audienc ...

Doomsday Gun (1994) Genre: Drama, Political Drama, Docudrama, Biography [feature]. Director: Robert Young. Actors: Frank Langella, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, James Fox, Tony Goldwyn. Storyline: This HBO docudrama tells the real-life story of Dr. Gerald Bull (Frank Langella), a genius weapons designer whose services were used by the CIA for some highly suspect operations. After these operations were exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge of them and Bull was put in prison; following his release, he began to work with Saddam Hussein to build an extremely dangerous supergun that threatened t ...

Encounter with the Unknown (1973) Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Docudrama, Supernatural Horror. Director: Harry Z. Thomason. Actors: Kevin Bieberly, Gary Brockette, Robert A. Ginnaven, Rosie Holotik, Gene Ross, Rod Serling, Bill Thurman, Annabelle Weenick. Storyline: This film is another amateurish, low-rent pseudo-documentary (of the kind prevalent in the mid-1970s) which marked the unfortunate nadir of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's career. Serling offers intermittent narration to a trio of allegedly true supernatural tales, all of which are purported to be based on actual paranormal case studies by Dr. Jonathan Rankin. The first tale concerns a group o ...

Erin Brockovich (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Docudrama, Feminist Film, Courtroom Drama. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Veanne Cox, Conchata Ferrell, Tracey Walter, Peter Coyote, Scotty Leavenworth, Gemmenne De la Pena, Jamie Harrold. Storyline: Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit, asks her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), if he can help her find a job. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some in ...

Exodus (1960) Genre: Drama, Historical Film, Docudrama, War Drama, Political Drama. Director: Otto Preminger. Actors: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer, David Opatoshu, Jill Haworth, Marius Goring, Michael Wager, Martin Benson, Paul Stevens, Betty Walker, Martin Miller, Victor Maddern, George Maharis, John Crawford, Samuel Segal, Dahn Ben Amotz, Ralph Truman, Peter Madden, Joseph Furst, Paul Stassino, Zipora Peled, Philo Hauser, Alexandra Stewart, Michael Wynne. Storyline: Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of the occupying British government and sail to Palestine on the sea vessel Exodus. Paul Newman, a leader o ...

Fat Man & Little Boy (1989) Genre: Historical Film, Drama, Docudrama, Period Film. Director: Roland Joffé. Actors: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, Natasha Richardson, John C. McGinley, Ron Vawter, Marek Alboszta, Steven Baigelman, Frank Benettieri, Jr., David Brainard, Michael Brockman, Del Close, John Considine, Alan Corduner, Roger Cubicciotti, Franco Cutietta, Jon de Vries, James Eckhouse, Walter Edmiston, Matthew Faison, Todd Field, Nancy Foy, Ronald C. Frazier, Robert Peter Gale, Mary Pat Gleason, Clark Gregg, Peter Halasz, Brent Harrison, Wesley Harrison, Gerald Hiken, Arthur Holden, Stan Jones, Ed Lauter, Donald Mackechnie, Madison Mason, Tom McFarlane, Alan Oppenheimer, David C. Parnes, Christopher Pieczynski, Allen Poirson, David Politzer, Don Pugsley, Logan Ramsey, Bill Rubenstein, Ken Strausbaugh, Walter Sullivan, Fred Dalton Thompson, Jim True, Brian Wandell, John Williams, Barry Yourgrau. Storyline: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of World War II. This elaborately assembled film is the story of the events leading up to the dawn of the atomic age. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, a hard-nosed career soldier who in 1942 finds himself the reluctant "nursemaid&quo ...

Fire in the Sky (1993) Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery, Docudrama, Alien Invasion Films. Director: Robert H. Lieberman. Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, James Garner, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg, Noble Willingham, Kathleen Wilhoite, Georgia Emelin, Scott MacDonald, Wayne Grace, Gordon Scott, Julie Ariola, Jerry Basham, Sharon Bialy, Robert Covarrubias, Jane Ferguson, Charley Lang, Glen Lee, Debi Manwiller, Richard Pagano, Peter Mark Vasquez, Kenneth White, Bruce Wright. Storyline: One of the most famous real-life UFO abduction cases on record becomes this character-driven drama from sci-fi screenwriter Tracy Torme. D.B. Sweeney stars as Travis Walton, a forestry worker who disappears one night during an encounter with a flying saucer. Authorities treat with skepticism the outrageous story related by the only witnesses to the event, Travis' five co-workers, who include his b ...

Flight 93 (2006) Genre: Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Docudrama. Director: Peter Markle. Actors: Jeffrey Nordling, Brennan Elliott, Kendall Cross, Ty Olsson, Monnae Michaell, Colin Glazer. Storyline: Although al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on September 11, 2001, only three reached their intended targets. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 that departed late from Newark to San Francisco, crash-landed near Pittsburgh instead of becoming a weapon against the White House or the United States Capitol. This speculative cable-TV docudrama imagines how the flight might hav ...

Freeway (1988) Genre: Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Docudrama. Director: Francis Delia. Actors: Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer, Michael Callan, Joe Palese, Clint Howard, Richard Chaves, Janet Cunningham, Julianne Dallara, Gloria Edwards, George Fisher, Laurie Foshay, Steve Franken, Brian Kaiser, Robert Lane, Michael Leopard, Ivan Roth, Kenneth Tobey, Jim Wilkey, Anthony Winters. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Friendly Fire (1979) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, War Drama. Director: David Greene. Actors: Carol Burnett, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Dennis Erdman, Timothy Hutton, Phillip Richard Allen, Bernard Behrens, Steve Bonino, Nicolas Coster, Howard Culver, Charles Cyphers, Michael Flanagan, Mary Gregory, Hilly Hicks, Kevin Hooks, Sherry Hursey, Will Jordan, David Keith, Virginia Kiser, Sierra Pecheur, Jack Rader, Ford Rainey, Fanny Spies, Jenny Sullivan, Mark L. Taylor, Robert Wahler, Vernon Weddle. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Goodbye Bafana (2007) Genre: Drama, Social Problem Film, Political Drama, Docudrama. Director: Bille August. Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Faith Ndukwana, Terry Pheto, Lesley Mongezi, Zingi Mtuzula, Diane Kurger. Storyline: Bille August's inspirational docudrama Goodbye Bafana begins in 1968, with South Africa buried neck-deep in the horrors of apartheid and Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) - then an underground leader of the African National Congress - imprisoned on Robben Island for sedition. As the story opens, the native African population of the country - 25,000,000 in number - buckles beneath the crippling weig ...

Haven (2001) Genre: Drama, Docudrama. Director: John Gray. Actors: Natasha Richardson, Hal Holbrook, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Czerny, Colm Feore, Tamara Gorski, Robert Joy, Daniel Kash, Sheila McCarthy, Sebastian Roche, Jank Azman, Brenda Bazinet, Sharon Bernbaum, Wayne Best, Jeff Clarke, Alyson Court, Philip Craig, Eve Crawford, Gordon Currie, Martin Doyle, Conrad Dunn, Donna Goodhand, Janet-Laine Greene, Ken Kramer, Trent McMullen, Marnie McPhail, Brooke Nevin, Dave Nichols, Joanna Schellenberg, John Watson, Kenneth Welsh, Jonathan Whittaker, Kathryn Winslow, Ned Vukovic, William L. Petersen. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Hoosiers (1986) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Sports Drama, Rural Drama. Director: David Anspaugh. Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons, Brad Boyle, Steve Hollar, Brad Long, David Neidorf, Kent Poole, Wade Schenck, Scott Summers, Marius Valainis, John E. Blazier, Robert F. Boyle, Mike Dalzell, Wil Dewitt, Gloria Dorson, Eric Gilliom, Rich Komenich, Michael O'Guinne, Larua Robling, Chelcie Ross, Michael Sassone, Sam Smiley, Ken Strunk, Robert Sutton, Robert Swan, John Robert Thompson. Storyline: An unexpected late-1986 box-office hit, Hoosiers tells the true story of a group of underdogs who become champions. Set in the 1950s, Hoosiers is about a hard-luck, unemployed college basketball coach (Gene Hackman) who gets a chance to coach a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team. Facing resentment from the community and the team itself, Hackman manages to inspire his young athletes, le ...

Hotel Rwanda (2004) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Political Drama. Director: Terry George. Actors: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Jean Reno, Desmond Dube, Leleti Khumalo, Mothusi Magano. Storyline: Hotel Rwanda tackles one of the most horrifically ugly events in recent history, when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis (who had been given power by the departed Belgian colonists), while the rest of the world looked on and did nothing. Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager at the fancy ...

Human Trafficking (2005) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Crime Drama. Director: Christian Duguay. Actors: Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Robert Carlyle. Storyline: For naïve audiences under the impression that sexual slavery is a thing of the past, director Christian Duguay's Golden Globe-nominated tale of the multi-billion-dollar modern slavery industry proves that even in the 21st century, human life can still be measured in dollars. Four girls from across the world, including a 12-year-old American tourist on vacation overseas, have been kidnapped and thr ...

Identity Theft (2004) Genre: Drama, Docudrama. Director: Robert Dornhelm. Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Shauna Baird, Dean Barrett, Patrick Creery, Linda Darlow, Chris Enright, John Kapelos, Kathryn Kerbes, Tim Koetting, Claire Lapinskie, Jason London, Doug McKeag, Bob Nicholson, Jennifer Sterling, Stephen Strachan, Frank Zotter. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

In Cold Blood (1967) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Docudrama. Director: Richard Brooks. Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, James Lantz, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Vaughan Taylor, Duke Hobbie, Sheldon Allman, Ted Eccles, Raymond Hatton, Mary Linda Rapelye, Ronda Fultz, Al Christy, Stan Levitt, Brenda Currin, Will Geer. Storyline: Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murder a family, based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The film takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members of the Herbert Clutter family are roused from their sleep and brutally murdered. The killers, Perry Smith (Robert Blake ...

In the Name of the Father (1993) Genre: Drama, Courtroom Drama, Docudrama, Political Drama. Director: Jim Sheridan. Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Beatie Edney, John Benfield, Gerard McSorley, Frank Harper, Don Baker, Britta Smith, Daniel Massey, Bosco Hogan, Alan Barry, Anthony Brophy, Saffron Burrows, Peter Campbell, Lou Castel, Fiona Daly, Philip Davis, Tony Denham, Rachel Dowling, Dave Duffy, Martin Dunne, Richard Graham, Aidan Grenell, Jamie Harris, Denys Hawthorne, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Gary Hudson, Joe Jeffers, Tina Kellegher, Philip King, Sean Lawlor, Oliver Maguire, Frankie McCafferty, Darren McHugh, Joe McPartland, Michelle Moffett, Nuala Moiselle, Martin Murphy, Liam O'Callaghan, Jer O'Leary, Penny Peyser, Patsy Pollock, Paul Raynor, Jonathan Ryan, Robert Sampson, Brandy Sanders, Paul Savage, George Shannon, Rob Spendlove, Brenda Swanson, Malcolm Tierney, Stanley Townsend, Jan-Michael Vincent, Julian Walsh, Mal Whyte, Tom Wilkinson, Ronan Wilmot. Storyline: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal interrogation forces him to sign a false confession, Gerry is sentenced to prison, his family is raked over the ...

Into the Wild (2007) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Adventure Drama. Director: Sean Penn. Actors: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook. Storyline: Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature. Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsc ...

Iron Jawed Angels (2004) Genre: Drama, Feminist Film, Docudrama, Biography [feature], Period Film. Director: Katja von Garnier. Actors: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, Patrick Dempsey, Laura Fraser, Brooke Smith, Vera Farmiga, Lois Smith, Margo Martindale, Joseph Adams, Adilah Barnes, Carrie Snodgress, Bob Gunton, Trevor Gagnon. Storyline: German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank plays Alice Paul, an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women's citizenship and the right to vote. She founded the separatist National Woman's Party and wrote the first equal rights amendment to be presented before Congress. Together w ...

Kozara (1963) Genre: Drama, War, Docudrama, War Adventure. Director: Veljko Bulajic. Actors: Bert Sotlar, Mihajlo Kostic, Davor Natolic, Milena Dravic, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic. Storyline: For a long time, virtually the only Yugoslavian-made films to reach American shores concerned the anti-German partisans of World War II. The title Kozara refers to a Yugoslav village where the citizens are forced to uproot and evacuate by the invading Nazis. The partisans must not only sabotage the Germans at every opportunity, but also provide food and supplies for the beleaguered villagers. As u ...

Lorenzo's Oil (1992) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Medical Drama. Director: George Miller. Actors: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Margo Martindale, James Rebhorn, Ann Hearn, Maduka Steady, Mary Wakio, Don Suddaby, Charles R. Altman, Billy Amman, Lamont Arnold, Kathryn Aronson, Becky Ann Baker, Noah Banks, Angus Barnett, Todd Bella, Jeremy Beyer, Eliot Brinton, William Cameron, Amelia Campbell, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Susan Chapek, Nancy Chesney, Raina Clifford, Richard Cordery, Connie Cranden, Daniel W. D'Arcy, Elizabeth Daily, Tia Delaney, Anthony di Leo, Jr., David Doepken, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Dundas, Nora Dunfee, Brad Einhorn, Nona Gerard, Mary Pat Gleason, Sandy Gore, Michael Haider, Mack Hegyes, Zahra Ilkanipour, Justin Isfeld, Aaron Jackson, Rachel Jones, Lianne Kressin, Eric Kunkle, Paul Lazar, Laura Linney, Annie Loeffler, John Lyons, Peter MacKenzie, Keiko McDonald, Ann McDonough, David McFadden, James Merrill, Christine Merriman, April Merscher, John Mowod, Marie Nugent-Head, Michael O'Neill, Lamar Olivis, Ayub Ommaya, Vladimir Padunov, Nicolas Petrov, Carmen Piccini, Barbara Poitier, Matthew Pyeritz, Keith Reddin, Joyce Reehling, Julie Marie Remele, La Tanya Richardson, C. Alex Roberts, Helena Ruoti, David Shiner, Ryonosuke Shiono, Rocco Sisto, Neri Kyle Tannenbaum, Shirley Tannenbaum, Ryan Thomas, William Thunhurst, Jr., Berta Van Zuiden, Colin Ward, Nicholas Wiese, Cristin Woodworth. Storyline: Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte give brilliant performances as parents trying to save the life of their son in George Miller's harrowing and heartbreaking Lorenzo's Oil. Based on a true story, the film begins as bright young Lorenzo (Zack O'Malley Greenburg) is leading a pleasant life on the Comoro Islands. But things start to go wrong with him — he collapses, he raves, and he loses his he ...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) Genre: Comedy Drama, Crime, Crime Drama, Docudrama. Director: Clint Eastwood. Actors: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson, Lady Chablis, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, Paul Hipp, Jude Law, Dorothy Loudon, Anne Haney, Kim Hunter, Geoffrey Lewis, Shannon Eubanks, Rhoda Griffis. Storyline: Clint Eastwood directed this adaptation of John Berendt's non-fiction best-seller about a Savannah, Georgia, murder case. When this film was released, Berendt's book had been on best-seller lists for four years. As the film begins, New York journalist John Kelso (John Cusack), alter ego of author Berendt, arrives in Savannah to do a brief Town and Country article on the annual Christmas party give ...

Mission of the Shark (1991) Genre: Historical Film, Drama, War, Docudrama, War Drama. Director: Robert Iscove. Actors: Vaughn Armstrong, David Caruso, Robert Cicchini, Gordon Clapp, Dale Dye, Eddie Frias, Neil Giuntoli, Tim Guinee, Bob Gunton, Don Harvey, John Hillner, Will Jordan, Stacy Keach Sr., Scott Kraft, Steve Landesberg, Marc Macaulay, Andrew Prine, Carrie Snodgress, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Richard Thomas, Jerry Tondo. Storyline: When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of WWII, it began one of the most scandalous court-martials in the history of the military. For five days the surviving crew members were left in the shark-infested waters, with only half of them surviving to be rescued. Their well-respected Captain accepted the responsibility to keep the scandal to a min ...

Munich (2005) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Period Film, Political Thriller. Director: Steven Spielberg. Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric, Lynn Cohen, Marie-Josée Croze, Makram Khoury, Yigal Naor, Omar Metwally, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mostafa Djadjam, Gila Almagor, Moshe Ivgy, Yvan Attal, Hiam Abbass, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Meret Becker, Brian Goodman, Hicham Nazzal. Storyline: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful drama about the human costs of international terrorism. The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were suppos ...

Nattbuss 807 (1997) Genre: Drama, Police Drama, Docudrama. Director: David Flamholc. Actors: Marta Alvarez, Rolf Andersson, Stina Beck, Jonas Colquist, Fredrik Dolk, Eddy Tara Duarte, Sergio Painemai Escobar, Jonte Hallden, Pekka Hellsten, Jenny Lindroth, David Manns, Christian Moscoso, Pihl, Mats Rudal, Johan Svangren, Tina Wallenius. Storyline: The story is drawn directly from the files of the Stockholm police, and, from three distinct viewpoints, chronicles the racially-motivated and brutal murder of a young immigrant boy. The events leading up to the terrible crime are photographed in color, while the police investigation is filmed with a yellow tint. The murder itself is filmed in gloomy black and white with a shaky hand-held camera. ...

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