Richard Donner

biography:
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930 – July 5, 2021) was an American filmmaker. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters", Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s. His career spanning more than six decades crossed genres and influenced trends among filmmakers across the world.

Donner began his career in 1957 as a television director. In the 1960s, he directed episodes of the series The Rifleman, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Banana Splits, and many others. Donner made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama X-15 in 1961, but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film The Omen in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film Superman in 1978, which provided an inspiration for the fantasy film genre to eventually gain artistic respectability and commercial dominance. Donner later went on to direct films in the 1980s such as The Goonies and Scrooged, while reinvigorating the buddy cop film genre with the Lethal Weapon series.

Donner and his wife, Lauren, owned a production company, The Donners' Company, which is most successful for producing the Free Willy and X-Men film franchises. Donner also produced Tales from the Crypt and co-wrote several comic books for Superman publisher DC Comics. In 2000, Donner received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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E! True Hollywood Story

overview: E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.

original_name: E! True Hollywood Story

Eli Roth's History of Horror

overview: An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.

character: Self

original_name: Eli Roth's History of Horror

Tales from the Crypt

overview: Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

character: Man at Bar (uncredited)

original_name: Tales from the Crypt

Reunited Apart

overview: Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.

original_name: Reunited Apart

Cursed Films

overview: A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?

character: Self - Director, The Omen

original_name: Cursed Films

HBO First Look

overview: HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.

original_name: HBO First Look

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

overview:
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.

Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly.

Together  they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club.

This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E.

United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

character: Inebriate

original_name: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Lassie

overview: Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.

character: Clay Braddock

original_name: Lassie

Sam Benedict

overview:
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman.

Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.

character: Grover Stann

original_name: Sam Benedict

Superpowered: The DC Story

overview: This docuseries takes an unprecedented look at the enduring and influential legacy of DC, allowing fans to rediscover the universe of characters, as well as the iconic comic book company’s origins, its evolution and its nearly nine-decade cultural impact across every artistic medium.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_name: Superpowered: The DC Story

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

job: Director

department: Directing

The Twilight Zone

overview: An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

original_name: The Twilight Zone

Kojak

overview: A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

original_name: Kojak

The Interns

overview: The Interns is an American medical drama series that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1971. It was based on the 1962 film The Interns and the 1964 sequel The New Interns.

original_name: The Interns

The Eleventh Hour

overview: The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.

original_name: The Eleventh Hour

Gilligan's Island

overview: The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.

original_name: Gilligan's Island

The Fugitive

overview: Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

original_name: The Fugitive

Perry Mason

overview: The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

original_name: Perry Mason

Route 66

overview: After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.

original_name: Route 66

Combat!

overview: Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

original_name: Combat!

Felony Squad

overview: Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

original_name: Felony Squad

The Wild Wild West

overview:
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States.

The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.

original_name: The Wild Wild West

The F.B.I.

overview: The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

original_name: The F.B.I.

Have Gun, Will Travel

overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

original_name: Have Gun, Will Travel

Sarge

original_name: Sarge

Banyon

overview: The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon.

original_name: Banyon

Get Smart

overview:
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track.

The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.

Petrocelli

overview: Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.

Cannon

overview:
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones.

Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

Ironside

overview: When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

The Streets of San Francisco

overview: Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

overview: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American western television series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Robert Lewis Taylor. The show aired on ABC in the 1963-1964 television season and was produced by MGM Television. The series introduces Dan O'Herlihy as a charming Scotsman of the frontier, Dr. Sardius McPheeters. As with many such charmers, Doc is missing something commonsense-wise. Fortunately his 12-year-old son, Jaimie (Kurt Russell), makes up for it by being as sharp as Daddy is gullible. The production is slick, authentic and brisk.

It's About Time

overview: It's About Time is an American fantasy/science-fiction comedy TV series that aired on CBS for one season of 26 episodes in 1966–1967. The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, and used sets, props and incidental music from Schwartz's other television series in production at the time, Gilligan's Island.

Wanted: Dead or Alive

overview:
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television.

The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.

The Rifleman

overview: The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

12 O'Clock High

overview: This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.

Mr. Novak

overview: Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

overview: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.

The Lieutenant

overview: Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike.

The Detectives

overview: The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television. Captain Matt Holbrook (Robert Taylor) is head of the detective division of a large metropolitan police force—a man whose devotion to duty, professional brilliance, and quick judgment are reflected in his 20-year career on the force. His aides, Lt. Johnny Russo (Tige Andrews), Lt. Otto Lindstrom (Russ Thorson), and Sgt. Chris Ballard (Mark Goddard) form a team that is both proficient and warmly human. The stories stress the interrelationships between the men as well as the solutions to crimes and the apprehension of criminals, adding a dimension of human drama to the excitement, action, and suspense inherent in each story of the detectives' difficult, sometimes thankless, and frequently dangerous assignments.

Jericho

overview: Jericho is an American espionage series set during World War II. The series stars John Leyton, Don Francks and Marino Masé as secret agents, and aired on CBS from September 1966, to January 1967.

Ghost Story

overview: Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. By mid-season, low ratings led to a shift -- for the most part -- away from paranormal themes and a title change to Circle of Fear.

Letter to Loretta

overview:
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes.

Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.

Bronk

overview:
Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, California.

24 episodes were aired from September 21, 1975 to March 28, 1976 on CBS. The series lasted only one season.

The Trials of O'Brien

overview:
The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife.

The series ran for only 22 episodes.

Among its guest stars: Milton Berle, Robert Blake, David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Tammy Grimes, Buddy Hackett, Gene Hackman, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Estelle Parsons, Joanna Pettet, Brock Peters, Tony Roberts and Martin Sheen.

Falk often said that he actually liked this financially unsuccessful series much better than his later smash-hit Columbo.

The Tall Man

overview: The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.

Free Willy

overview:
Free Willy is an animated television series, inspired by the 1993 film of the same name.

This television series was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Regency Enterprises and the Canadian company Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. The show, which aired for one season on American Broadcasting Company, continues the adventures of the orca Willy and Jesse, the boy who freed him from captivity as shown in the film. In retrospect, the series also anticipates multiple plot elements of the film sequel, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, released the following summer. The overarching conflict is reminiscent of Moby-Dick: a powerful oil baron, known to the main characters only as a cyborg called "The Machine" until the final episodes, loses his arm and part of his face to Willy while committing an environmental atrocity and wants revenge upon "that rotten whale... and his boy".

Perversions of Science

overview:
Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997.

It is a spin-off of popular horror series Tales from the Crypt also shown on HBO, and its episodes are based on EC's Weird Science comic book series.

The format of Perversions of Science is very similar to Tales From The Crypt, the show was introduced by a sexualized female robot named Chrome and then an individual episode would start. After the episode was complete, Chrome would conclude Perversions of Science.

Most episodes focused on a part of science fiction such as alien invasion or space/time travel.

The show featured a mix of established talent and young up-and-comers. "Panic", for instance, starred a young Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy opposite Harvey Korman.

As of 2011 the series has not been released on DVD in the US. However in 2001 it was released in Japan by Pioneer Entertainment where it has since gone out of print subsequently becoming sought after by collectors.

Bearcats!

overview:
Bearcats! is an American television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the Fall 1971 television season. It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before America entered World War I.

Bearcats! was produced by Filmways Inc.. It was co-produced by Rodlor, Rod Taylor's production firm.

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

overview: The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.

Wagon Train

overview:
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.

The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Sons and Daughters

overview: The lives, loves, and struggles of a group of high school students at Southwest High in the mid-1950s, centering on the trials of Jeff (Gary Frank) and Anita (Glynnis O’Connor), as they navigate family turmoil and growing up in post-war America.

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Richard Donner

biography: Richard Donald Schwartzberg war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur und Produzent. Als Regisseur von Filmen wie Das Omen, Superman, Die Goonies und Zwei stahlharte Profis galt er von Mitte der 1970er- bis in die 1990er-Jahre als einer der führenden Regisseure von Hollywood-Blockbustern.

biography: Richard Donner (eigentlich Richard Donald Schwartzberg; * 24. April 1930 in New York City; † 5. Juli 2021 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Regisseur, Produzent und Schauspieler. Als Regisseur von Filmen wie Das Omen, Superman, Die Goonies und Lethal Weapon – Zwei stahlharte Profis galt er von Mitte der 1970er- bis in die 1990er-Jahre als einer der führenden Regisseure von Hollywood-Blockbustern.

Français

biography:
Richard Donald Schwartzberg, dit Richard Donner, né le 24 avril 1930 à New York (État de New York), et mort le 5 juillet 2021 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un réalisateur, producteur et acteur américain.

Fils d'un fabricant de meubles de Manhattan, Richard Donner suit des études commerciales et théâtrales à l'Université de New York avant de débuter comme acteur de complément dans des spectacles expérimentaux. Il joue dans la pièce de Martin Ritt Of human bondage, mais abandonne rapidement la comédie pour la réalisation. Après avoir collaboré à divers programmes de télévision new-yorkais, il s'installe à Los Angeles en 1958, où il remporte son premier grand succès en dirigeant Steve McQueen dans la série Au nom de la loi. Suivent d'innombrables épisodes de feuilletons policiers (Sur la piste du crime, William Conrad, Kojak, Perry Mason, Les Rues de San Francisco).

C'est en 1976 que Richard Donner s'impose à Hollywood avec le film fantastique La Malédiction avant de porter à l'écran les aventures du célèbre justicier volant Superman (1978), un des plus grands succès de l'histoire du septième art. Alliant divertissement et efficacité, il s'essaie à des genres aussi divers que la comédie (The Toy avec Richard Pryor, Fantômes en fête) et le film d'aventure (Les Goonies, Ladyhawke, la femme de la nuit à l'occasion duquel il rencontre sa femme et collaboratrice Lauren Shuler Donner).

En 1987, il donne ses lettres de noblesse au buddy movie avec L'Arme fatale, premier opus d'une tétralogie dont les recettes cumulées des quatre épisodes avoisinent le milliard de dollars. Richard Donner dirige à nouveau son acteur-fétiche Mel Gibson dans le western Maverick (1994) et le thriller Complots (1997) aux côtés de Julia Roberts. Brillant spécialiste du cinéma d'action, il met en scène la confrontation des tueurs à gages Sylvester Stallone et Antonio Banderas dans Assassins (1995) et, après la parenthèse médiévale de Prisonniers du temps (2004), la cavale du flic Bruce Willis et du témoin Mos Def dans les rues de New York pour les besoins de 16 blocs (2006).

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理查德·唐纳

biography: 理查德·唐纳（生于理查德·唐纳德·施瓦茨伯格;1930 年 4 月 24 日 - 2021 年 7 月 5 日）是一位美国电影导演、制片人和偶尔的漫画作家。制作公司 The Donners' Company 由 Donner 和他的妻子、制片人 Lauren Shuler Donner 拥有。在执导恐怖片《预兆》（1976 年）后，唐纳因创作第一部现代超级英雄电影《超人》（1978 年）而闻名，该片由克里斯托弗·里夫主演。这部电影的影响最终帮助将超级英雄概念确立为一种受人尊敬的电影类型。唐纳继续执导了诸如“傻瓜”（1985 年）、“守财奴”（1988 年）和“致命武器”系列（1987-98 年）等经久不衰的热门影片。

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李察·當納

biography: 李察·當納（英語：Richard Donner，1930 年 4 月 24 日 - 2021 年 7 月 5 日）是一位美國電影導演、製片人和偶爾的漫畫作家。製作公司 The Donners' Company 由 Donner 和他的妻子、製片人 Lauren Shuler Donner 擁有。在執導恐怖片《兇兆》（The Omen）（1976 年）後，當納因創作第一部現代超級英雄電影《超人》（Superman）（1978 年）而聞名，該片由基斯杜化·裏夫（Christopher Reeve）主演。這部電影的影響最終幫助將超級英雄概念確立為一種受人尊敬的電影類型。當納繼續執導了諸如《小靈精》（The Goonies）（1985 年）、《衰鬼波士》（Scrooged）（1988 年）和《轟天炮》（Lethal Weapon）系列（1987-98 年）等歷久不衰的熱門影片。

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リチャード・ドナー

biography: 本名はRichard D. Schwartzberg。ＮＹ大学で演劇を専攻、俳優を志して舞台やテレビなどに出演するが芽が出ず、やがてテレビ・ドラマを演出していたマーティン・リット監督のアシスタントとなる。そこで演出術を学び、TVシリーズの「拳銃無宿」、「ミステリー・ゾーン」などのエピソードを演出。60年代頭より劇場用映画に進出するがヒット作にめぐまれずテレビ演出でお茶を濁していたが、76年の「オーメン」が大ヒットして一躍脚光を浴び、以後「スーパーマン」、「グーニーズ」、「リーサル・ウェポン」シリーズとヒットメーカーの道を驀進する事となった。監督業のかたわら、プロデュース業にも力を入れ、こちらでもヒット作を輩出。プロデューサーでもあるローレン・シュラー＝ドナーと85年に結婚した。21年7月、91歳でこの世を去った。

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Richard D. Schwartzberg
Richard D. Donner
R.D. Donner
Dick Donner
Richard Donald Schwartzberg

title: Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

overview: The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.

original_title: Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

title: No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

overview: The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As refugees they struggle in Hollywood, finally breaking into the mainstream with their pivotal contribution to the "American New Wave."

title: Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

overview: A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.

title: Davi's Way

overview: Actor/singer Robert Davi gives himself one year to recreate Frank Sinatra's fabled 'Main Event' concert in Madison Square Garden to celebrate the centenary of Sinatra's birth.

title: 666: The Omen Revealed

overview: Documentary about the making of The Omen, featuring interviews with Richard Donner, Harvey Bernhard, David Seltzer and others.

title: Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

overview: Actors, crew and executives who worked at Warner Bros. Pictures recall their days at the studio.

title: Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

overview: A documentary detailing the epic Rogues' Gallery of DC Comics from The Joker and Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Darkseid and more, this documentary will explore the Super Villains of DC Comics.

original_title: Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

title: Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith

overview: A limited DVD (1500 copies) of "Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith" was released in June 2005. Bonus features included extended interviews and 60 minutes of scoring session footage of Mr. Goldsmith working on The River Wild.

title: Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

overview: Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.

title: Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

overview: From superheroes to superstars, Hollywood has always turned to comic books for imagination and inspiration. In this Starz Inside documentary, discover the history of comics from page to screen through the evolution and revolutions that have changed entertainment forever. It's a hero's journey of hits, misses and unstoppable powers, featuring the Spider-Man, X-Men, and Batman films (including The Dark Knight), Iron Man, Superman Returns, Hellboy II, Sin City, Incredible Hulk, American Splendor, Wanted, and beyond, plus revealing interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Zak Penn, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Neal Adams, Roger Corman, Avi Arad, Mike Mignola, Paul Pope, Richard Donner, Jim Steranko, and many more.

title: Superman

overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

character: Man in Street (extended version) (uncredited)

title: Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'

overview: A retrospective documentary of the cult classic movie The Goonies. Including interviews with the cast, exploration of the film's locations and unique stories you wont hear anywhere else.

original_title: Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'

title: Scream Greats, Vol.2: Satanism and Witchcraft

overview: Documentary tracks the rise of devil cults, witches and other elements of the "black arts."

original_title: Scream Greats, Vol.2: Satanism and Witchcraft

title: Conspiracy Theory

overview: A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

title: Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

overview: Marc McClure presents a documentary on the making of 'Superman' (1978).

original_title: Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

title: The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

overview: Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.

title: Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

overview: Documentary on the making of the 1978 film 'Superman.'

title: First Works

overview: It's a mixed bag in the age of illuminating DVD supplements, but First Works effectively demonstrates the early promise of 13 successful filmmakers. Culled from programs originally broadcast on Showtime in 1990, this crude compilation combines student films, early professional work, and interviews with now-famous directors at various stages of commercial and artistic achievement.

title: Life After Flash

overview: A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.

title: Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

overview: Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on making the iconic film.

original_title: Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

title: The Curse of 'The Omen'

overview: The filming of "The Omen" (1976) was plagued by tragedy and bizarre incidents. "The devil was at work and he didn't want that film made" - Producer Harvey Bernhard.

title: Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

overview: In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.

title: The Goonies

overview: Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they run into a family of recently escaped criminals, determined to capture the kids and reach the treasure first.

title: Valerie

overview: A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

title: Superman II

overview: Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.

title: Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

overview: A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

title: Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'

overview: This documentary showcases producer Joel Silver, Donner, Gibson, Glover, Rene Russo and other members of all four films' production teams as they examine the franchise, look at the various social issues each film tackled, attempt to measure the series' cultural impact and, of course, touch on its legacy, for the actors, the filmmakers and audiences the world over.

original_title: Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'

title: Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

overview: Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

title: Inside Moves

overview: After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?

character: Man who closes the ambulance doors (uncredited)

title: Maverick

overview: Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

title: Out Cold

overview: Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to a sleazy land developer, have the staff fired and turn Bull Mountain into 'Yuppieville'.

title: Timeline

overview: A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.

title: 16 Blocks

overview: An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.

character: Man Holding a Birthday Cake (uncredited)

title: Casting By

overview: This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.

title: You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

overview: A 5-part documentary of the history of Superman in the movies.  • Origin - Superman in the media and the challenges the Salkinds faced  • Vision - Creating the right script, Choosing the right director and casting the right actors  • Ascent - The production and launch of a new kind of fantasy film  • Crisis - Complications and conflicts between the creative forces behind Superman II  • Redemption - Criticisms and burnout of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

original_title: You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

title: Superman II: Restoring the Vision

overview: Behind the chaotic history and development of Richard Donner's cut of Superman II.

title: The Omen Legacy

overview: The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This documentary shares spine-tingling information about the the all-too-memorable flick that has terrorized film audiences since 1976.

title: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

overview: Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.

title: The Making Of The Goonies

overview: In this vintage behind the scenes featurette, director Richard Donner and storyteller Steven Spielberg talk about fantasy and realities that went into making Goonies the quintessential adventure classic it is today.

title: The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson

overview: A documentary on the life and career of legendary stuntman Dar Robinson, with clips of some of his more famous movie stunts and interviews with stars he's worked with.

original_title: The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson

title: Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary

overview: HBO behind the scenes special about the making of Lethal Weapon 2.

title: Ladyhawke

overview: Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

title: Ladyhawke

title: The Omen

overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

title: Superman

title: Lethal Weapon

overview: A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.

title: Lethal Weapon

title: Lethal Weapon 2

overview: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

title: Lethal Weapon 2

title: Lethal Weapon 3

overview: Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.

title: Lethal Weapon 3

title: Lethal Weapon 4

overview: With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.

title: Lethal Weapon 4

title: 16 Blocks

title: Radio Flyer

overview: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.

title: The Toy

overview: On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

title: Nightside

overview: The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl. In the pilot episode, Carmine manages to rescue Smitty's night club from being demolition and manages to resurrect a fading star's acting career.

title: The Goonies

title: The Goonies

title: Conspiracy Theory

title: Conspiracy Theory

title: Maverick

title: Maverick

title: Assassins

overview: Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.

title: Assassins

title: Salt & Pepper

overview: After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?

title: Timeline

title: Timeline

title: Any Given Sunday

overview: A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.

title: Scrooged

overview: Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

title: Scrooged

title: X-15

overview: X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.

title: Inside Moves

title: Twinky

overview: A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.

title: Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

overview: Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.

original_title: Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

title: Double Tap

overview: A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

title: Two-Fisted Tales

overview: The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," and "Yellow."  This star-studded telefilm was an attempt to launch a second anthology series in the mold of "Tales from the Crypt."  When the film failed to generate sufficient interest, the three tales were re-edited and shown as "Crypt" episodes.

title: Philbert (Three's a Crowd)

overview: In this live-action sitcom with animated elements, a cartoonist named Griff draws Philbert comics. Philbert has the ability to come to life in the form of a six-inch-tall cartoon character. Philbert tries to cause trouble between Griff and his girlfriend Angela when he overhears her plans to marry Griff.

title: A Shadow in the Streets

overview: An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.

title: Senior Year

overview: Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.

title: Lucas Tanner

overview: A high school teacher's career is threatened because of a student's death when the rumor is spread that his negligence killed the boy. This pilot film led to a short-lived series later the same year.

title: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

overview: Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.

title: Delirious

overview: A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

title: Free Willy

overview: When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.

title: Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

overview: Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

title: The Lost Boys

overview: When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

title: The Marshal of Madrid

overview: A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman.

title: Two-Fisted Tales

title: X-Men

overview: Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

title: The Omen

overview: Jack Mann is a writer reporter for the Associated Press. Annalisse Summer is an ER nurse dedicated to help people: Dr Linus is a doctor who has seen what Jack and Analisse have: an evil entity that seeks to destroy and has joined them to help stop it (the entity posses people and controls them to do its bidding).

title: Bordello of Blood

overview: Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.

title: Made Men

overview: A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters and the drug dealers start a shoot-out for unknown reasons and both go gunning for Belushi. Meanwhile an unscrupulous cop is secretly having an affair with the girl friend and planning to make off with the money.

title: Ritual

overview: An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.

title: Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

overview: After seeking to live a normal life after 200 years, Logan sets out to avenge a death by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.

title: Free Willy 3: The Rescue

overview: Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn't really pleased about his father's job, but doesn't have the gut to say so. Along the way, Willy reunites with Jesse.

title: Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

overview: In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series, a psychotic killer dressed as Santa escapes Christmas Eve and terrorizes a middle-class home where murder has already made a holiday appearance: a homicidal wife plunges a fireplace poker into her husband's skull. (It was also adapted in the 1972 British anthology movie Tales from the Crypt). Kirk Douglas stars as a blood-and-thunder World War I general who discovers his son is a coward in the grim "Yellow," the most dramatically acute of the trio. Digital magic morphs Humphrey Bogart into "You, Murderer," a high-concept, rather gimmicky tale of murder, double crosses, and poetic justice as seen through a dead man's eyes. Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Bogie's Casablanca costar Ingrid Bergman) and John Lithgow costar as plotting lovers.

original_title: Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

title: Sam Cade

overview: Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted for assassination when he's scheduled to testify in the trial of a mob kingpin -- what he doesn't know is that the assassin is one of his oldest friends (Darren McGavin), who is romancing another old friend (Loretta Swit) with a troubled past and using Cade's determination and his investigative skills to set him up for a hit. In the second half, directed by Richard Donner, Cade gets a tip that the mob has planned an assassination on a retired crime boss (Edward Asner) living in the county, who is so bull-headed and distrustful of the law that he won't accept any help or provide any information on who the killers might be, even though he's putting his own daughter (Shelley Fabares) at risk.

title: The Final Conflict

overview: Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.

title: W.E.I.R.D. World

overview: Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emotionally unstable scientific geniuses are recruited to develop cutting-edge projects in such fields as virology, time-travel, rejuvenation and robotics.

title: Lethal Weapon 5

overview: The fifth and final installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.

title: Lethal Weapon 5

title: No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

title: Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

title: Davi's Way

title: 666: The Omen Revealed

title: Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

title: Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith

title: Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

title: Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

title: Superman

title: Conspiracy Theory

title: The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

title: Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

title: First Works

title: Life After Flash

title: The Curse of 'The Omen'

title: Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

title: The Goonies

title: Valerie

title: Superman II

title: Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

title: Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

title: Maverick

title: Timeline

title: Inside Moves

title: Out Cold

title: 16 Blocks

title: Casting By

title: Superman II: Restoring the Vision

title: The Omen Legacy

title: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

title: The Making Of The Goonies

title: Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary

title: Ladyhawke

title: Ladyhawke

title: The Omen

title: Superman

title: Lethal Weapon

title: Lethal Weapon 2

title: Lethal Weapon 2

title: Lethal Weapon 3

title: Lethal Weapon

title: Lethal Weapon 4

title: Lethal Weapon 4

title: Lethal Weapon 3

title: 16 Blocks

title: Radio Flyer

title: The Toy

title: Nightside

title: The Goonies

title: Conspiracy Theory

title: Conspiracy Theory

title: The Goonies

title: Maverick

title: Maverick

title: Assassins

title: Assassins

title: Salt & Pepper

title: Any Given Sunday

title: Timeline

title: Timeline

title: Scrooged

title: Scrooged

title: X-15

title: Inside Moves

title: Twinky

title: Double Tap

title: Two-Fisted Tales

title: Philbert (Three's a Crowd)

title: A Shadow in the Streets

title: Senior Year

title: Lucas Tanner

title: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

title: Delirious

title: Free Willy

title: Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

title: The Lost Boys

title: The Marshal of Madrid

title: Two-Fisted Tales

title: X-Men

title: The Omen

title: Made Men

title: Bordello of Blood

title: Ritual

title: Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

title: Free Willy 3: The Rescue

title: Sam Cade

title: The Final Conflict

title: W.E.I.R.D. World

title: Lethal Weapon 5

title: Lethal Weapon 5


David Webb Peoples

biography:
David Webb Peoples (born c. 1940) is an American screenwriter.

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The Real History of Science Fiction

overview: The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact on cinema, television and literature, with the help of filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists. Each episode will explore one of the enduring themes of science fiction: time travel; the exploration of space; robots and artificial intelligence; and aliens.

original_name: The Real History of Science Fiction

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12 Monkeys

job: Original Film Writer

overview: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

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David Webb Peoples

biography: David Webb Peoples (geb. ca. 1940) ist ein amerikanischer Drehbuchautor.

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普通话

大卫·韦伯

biography: 大卫·韦伯（David Webb Peoples，生于1940年）是美国编剧。

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english_name: Mandarin

日本語

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english_name: Japanese

Pусский

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english_name: Russian

普通话

大衞·韋伯

biography: 大衞·韋伯（David Webb Peoples，生於 1940 年）是美國編劇。

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Український

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David Peoples
David W. Peoples
Anthony Able

title: Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

overview: The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.

original_title: Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

title: On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

overview: This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast.  Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget.  There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.

original_title: On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

title: Clint Eastwood's West

overview: An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, John Lee Hancock and many more.

original_title: Clint Eastwood's West

title: Alien Galaxy

original_title: Alien Galaxy

original_language: fr

title: 1982: Hollywood Summer

overview: In the 1980s, Hollywood cinema was revolutionized. Especially the summer of 1982 changed the entertainment cinema with nine grand films forever, as the documentary shows.

original_title: Hollywood 1982 : un été magique au cinéma

title: The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'

overview: A documentary following Terry Gilliam through the creation of "Twelve Monkeys."

character: Self (as David Peoples)

title: All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

overview: 10th Anniversary documentary looking back at Unforgiven (1992)

original_title: All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

job: Screenplay

title: Twelve Monkeys

overview: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

original_title: Twelve Monkeys

title: Blade Runner

overview: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

original_title: Blade Runner

title: Ladyhawke

overview: Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

original_title: Ladyhawke

job: Writer

title: The Blood of Heroes

overview: Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. Now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl, he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.

original_title: The Blood of Heroes

title: Hero

overview: Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.

original_title: Hero

title: The Blood of Heroes

title: Soldier

overview: Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new soldiers land on the planet to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend.

original_title: Soldier

title: How We Stopped the War

overview: This short film follows Country Joe and the Fish on their way to an anti-Vietnam War rally.

original_title: How We Stopped the War

title: The Day After Trinity

overview: Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of the Manhattan Project. The film traces the development and testing of the first atomic bomb and follows Oppenheimer’s later opposition to nuclear proliferation during the early years of the Cold War.

original_title: The Day After Trinity

job: Story

title: Leviathan

overview: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.

original_title: Leviathan

title: Leviathan

title: Unforgiven

overview: An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

original_title: 許されざる者

original_language: ja

title: Unforgiven

overview: William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

original_title: Unforgiven

job: Editor

title: Tricia's Wedding

overview: The world-famous Cockettes enact Tricia Nixon's wedding to Edward Cox on June 11, 1971. Hurtme O. Hurtme, television correspondent, covers the wedding and interviews celebrities in attendance such as Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Jacqueline Onassis, Queen Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Taylor. Coretta King sings. During the reception, Eartha Kitt puts LSD in the punch. All hell breaks loose.

title: Steel Arena

overview: Dusty Russell shows off his talent as the greatest daredevil on the circuit. Later, he awaits the biggest challenge of his career.

overview: Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14 children [12 at the start of filming], some of whom are severely disabled war orphans -- in addition to raising Dorothy's five biological children and Bob's biological daughter. The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1978.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

title: Lucifer's Women

overview: An acclaimed author has developed an interest in satanism and black magic. Hoping to manipulate him to suit his own perverse desire, his publisher convinces him to perform the ultimate black rite: a human sacrifice. Selecting a beautiful burlesque dancer to be their victim, he begins having doubts about his beliefs, as his publisher becomes more and more preoccupied with the black arts, and murder.

title: The Day After Trinity

title: Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

title: On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

title: Clint Eastwood's West

title: Alien Galaxy

title: 1982: Hollywood Summer

title: All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

title: Twelve Monkeys

title: Blade Runner

title: Ladyhawke

title: The Blood of Heroes

title: Hero

title: The Blood of Heroes

title: Soldier

title: How We Stopped the War

title: The Day After Trinity

title: Leviathan

title: Leviathan

title: Unforgiven

title: Unforgiven

title: Tricia's Wedding

title: Steel Arena

title: Lucifer's Women

title: The Day After Trinity


Rena Owen

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Rena Owen is a New Zealand actress in film, theatre and television. She is of Maori and Pakeha (European) descent. Owen is most well known in the lead role of Beth in the cult classic movie Once Were Warriors (1994) directed by Lee Tamahori. The role earned Owen a number of awards including Best Actress at the Montreal World Film Festival and San Diego International Film Festival. Owen has also worked with arthouse director Rolf de Heer, one of Australia's most well known directors, in the film Dance Me to My Song (1998). Owen played the role of Rix in the movie which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the AFI Awards.

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Angel

overview: The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

character: Dinza

original_name: Angel

East West 101

overview: Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.

character: Mere Hahunga

original_name: East West 101

Vegas

overview: A business owner is thrust into New Zealand's dark underbelly after a million-dollar drug deal goes wrong on a blood-stained night, setting off a chain of events between dangerous factions.

character: Rawinia Duncan

original_name: Vegas

Medivac

overview:
Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation. The series was also known as Adrenaline Junkies overseas.

Medivac was set in the emergency department of Brisbane's fictional Bethlehem West Hospital, where a dedicated medical team work in the demanding world of emergency medicine. The team specialises in the evacuation of disaster areas, journeying by helicopter to remote areas inaccessible by ambulance. They also work in the city streets and the suburbs involving themselves with the patients, their families and the police.

original_name: Medivac

Drag Race Down Under

overview: Drag queen contestants compete in an elimination-style contest and strut their stuff in a variety of challenges - all to prove that they’ve got what it takes to be Down Under's next Drag Queen Superstar!

character: Self - Guest Judge

original_name: Drag Race Down Under

origin_country: AU NZ

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

overview: The 'Bad Batch' of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars.

character: Taun We (voice)

original_name: Star Wars: The Bad Batch

The Straits

overview:
Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far  North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly  humorous crime drama.

The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day  smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia  and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and  loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.

character: Kitty Montebello

original_name: The Straits

Siren

overview: The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore all too true, the battle between man and sea takes a very vicious turn as these predatory beings return to reclaim their right to the ocean.

character: Helen Hubbell

original_name: Siren

The Orville

overview: Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

character: Heveena

original_name: The Orville

Super Giant Robot Brothers

overview: Once the squabbling stops, the battling begins! Robot siblings Shiny and Thunder and their whiz inventor must defend Earth when space monsters attack.

character: Sarge (voice)

original_name: Super Giant Robot Brothers

The Gloaming

overview: When an unidentified woman is found brutally murdered, Detective Molly McGee teams up with fellow cop, Alex O’Connell—with whom she shares a tragic past—to solve the crime.

character: Grace Cochran

original_name: The Gloaming

Longmire

overview: A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.

original_name: Longmire

character: Medicine Woman

Polski

biography: Aktorka teatralna, telewizyjna i filmowa, jedna z dziewięciorga dzieci, urodziła się w Nowej Zelandii. Jej ojciec, to pół Maorys i pół Walijczyk, a matka Europejka. Rena Owen rozpoczęła profesjonalną karierę aktorską w Londynie w 1984 roku, gdzie studiowała częściowo na wydziale aktorskim, otrzymując pierwszą rolę na scenie w Nowej Zelandii w sztuce napisanej i wyreżyserowanej przez Hilary Beaton pt. "Outside In", która prezentowana była na festiwalach teatralnych. Podjęła pracę jako aktorka i autorka scenariuszy dla teatru Clean Break. Tam poznała swoją aktorską i autorską mentorkę Ann Mitchell, która w 1988 roku wyreżyserowała pierwszą sztukę ze scenariuszem Reny "Te Awe i Tahuti". Napędzana przez wewnętrzną siłę swojego dziedzictwa kulturalnego, wróciła w 1989 roku do Nowej Zelandii, gdzie intensywnie pracowała jako aktorka i reżyserka w teatrze w Maori. Grała również w licznych produkcjach telewizyjnych, pracowała dla radia i napisała swoja drugą sztukę pt. "Córeczka tatusia". W 1993 roku zagrała Hitirengę w filmie Kevina Reynoldsa "Rapa Nui", którego producentem był Kevin Costner. Kolejna rola Beth Heke w dramacie "Tylko instynkt" nowozelandzkiego reżysera Lee Tamahori, przyniosła jej wiele nagród filmowych (International Fantasy Film Award, na światowym festiwalu filmowym w Montrealu w Kanadzie, na San Diego International Film Festival w La Jolla, w stanie Kalifornia). Nadal jednak pracowała w Nowej Zelandii, Australii i Południowym Pacyfiku dla teatru, telewizji i filmu jako aktorka. Użyczyła swojego głosu kosmicznemu bohaterowi Taun We w filmie George'a Lucasa "Gwiezdne wojny: Część II - Atak klonów".

iso_639_1: pl

iso_3166_1: PL

english_name: Polish

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

title: Once Were Warriors

overview: In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

character: Beth Heke

original_title: Once Were Warriors

title: Veronika Decides to Die

overview: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

character: Nurse Josephine

original_title: Veronika Decides to Die

title: Nemesis Game

overview: Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an older comic store owner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles. But when the riddles she solves lead to the deaths of those around her, she realizes the riddles are more than a simple game.....

character: Emily Gray

original_title: Nemesis Game

title: All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

overview: A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.

character: Soona Fualaau

title: Dance Me to My Song

overview: The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After the arrival of a mysterious man, Julia begins to question the day-to-day dramas and frustrations she's tolerated for years. An achingly genuine and profoundly moving drama about a woman born with cerebral palsy.

character: Rix

original_title: Dance Me to My Song

title: Roimata

overview: Roimata, a young Maori woman from the East Coast, travels to the city to meet her half-sister Girlie. Introduced to gang members, the scene is set for a major confrontation when Kevin, a young Salvation Army Officer, arrives. Part of the E Tipu Te Rea series.

character: Girlie

original_title: Roimata

original_language: mi

title: Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk

overview: A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

character: Hinekaro (voice)

title: The Last Survivors

overview: In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.

character: Claire

original_title: The Last Survivors

title: Amusement

overview: While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The truth that's dying to come out weaves together three tragic secrets from their past. Two of the girls' boyfriends become unwitting targets in their deadly game.

character: Psychiatrist

original_title: Amusement

title: The Land Has Eyes

overview: Coming of age story about Viki a young pacific islander attempting to escape the stifling conformity of island culture. Inspired by the myth of the Warrior Woman, Viki recovers from the death of her father and fights for justice and freedom for her community.

character: Warrior Woman

original_title: Pear ta ma 'on maf

title: The Dead Lands

overview: Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains led by Wirepa, Hongi’s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden “Dead Lands” and forge an uneasy alliance with a mysterious warrior, a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.

character: Grandmother

original_title: The Dead Lands

title: Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?

overview: It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey to meet the cast and see where they are now.

original_title: Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?

title: When Love Comes

overview: Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig and Sally put perform Marks songs between casual sex with anyone and everyone. Katie is a few-hit wonder who hit rock-bottom in L.A and returns to New Zealand to patch her life back together. Stephen, Mark and Katie branch out for a slumber party at a beach house of their better days. Fig and Sally arrive, and not long after Eddie arrives also (Katies American guy). Mark stops running away from Stephens love, Katie and Eddie get engaged and Fig and Sally ... have sex?

character: Katie

original_title: When Love Comes

title: Maya

overview: When a 15-year old, seeking an escape from her alcoholic mother's abusive boyfriend, is lured into a sex trafficking scheme by a man she met online, she must realize the difference between love and manipulation to return to those who care.

character: Sandy

title: Alyce Kills

overview: After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart… along with anyone else who gets in her way.

title: I'll Make You Happy

overview: Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage "bad girl" who lives and works in a red-light district of Auckland, New Zealand. Just like her fellow streetwalkers, Siggy constantly dreams of leaving "the life" behind. When she learns one day that her pimp is planning a big drug score, Siggy decides to seize the day -- and her future -- by grabbing the loot.

title: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

overview: Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.

title: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

overview: When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.

title: The Crow: Wicked Prayer

overview: After ex-con Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered by a biker gang, he is resurrected by the power of The Crow to avenge their deaths and reunite with her in the afterlife.

title: The Last Witch Hunter

overview: The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

title: Soul Assassin

overview: A security agent at an investment bank uncovers espionage that is linked to his girlfriend's murder. He vows to seek revenge on those responsible.

title: A Mistake

overview: In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner, a nurse at the hospital, turns her back on her.

title: Moana

overview: Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.

title: The Horrible Flowers

overview: Afraid of her imminent success, Bettina, the leader of a threadbare garage band, nearly destroys herself when she returns to Minneapolis to the husband and child she left behind.

title: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

overview: Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.

title: Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

overview: A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey could ever conjure in Orlando, when they meet up with bad guys and a legendary creature

title: Ocean of Pearls

overview: As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. Hiding this decision from his girlfriend and family in Toronto is only the start of a series of compromises Amrit finds himself making as he deals with hospital politics and health care injustices. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.

title: Escape and Evasion

overview: After his men are killed in Burma, a lone soldier returns home in search of solace. Hiding a dark secret and confronted by an unrelenting journalist, he's forced to face the ghosts of his past one last time.

title: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

overview: David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

title: A Beautiful Life

overview: A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.

title: Piece of My Heart

overview: Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenage mothers in 1950s and 60s Aotearoa

title: Spout

overview: A young boy and his grandmother become unlikely serial killers in a quest to eliminate his father's girlfriends, in this boldly original spin on the vampire genre.

title: Without a Body

overview: After moving into a run-down farmhouse with his two daughters, a skeptical author seeks to uncover a sinister past that haunts the house and terrorizes his family.

title: Rapa Nui

overview: Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.

title: Whina

overview: The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed yet resilient, Whina tells the story of a woman formed by tradition, compelled by innovation, and guided by an instinct for equality and justice whose legacy as the Te Whaea o te Motu (Mother of the Nation) was an inspiration to an entire country.

title: Savage Play

overview: During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father who he has never met. While there he falls in love with the daughter of an aristocrat.

title: Absolute Killers

overview: Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. When Anthony Torino, the volatile heir-apparent, turns his deadly sights on the DA prosecuting him for the cold-blooded murder of his own cousin, Johnny is finally moved to act. Despite his role as family accountant, Johnny is quite the marksman. He convinces a reluctant Anthony into letting him eliminate DA Elizabeth Jones. Johnny's plan to simply warn her instead is thwarted by the arrival of a pair of Torino family goons sent to supervise his first hit. The ensuing shootout leaves Elizabeth wounded, one goon dead, and Johnny arrested. Johnny rolls on Anthony and enters the Witness Security Program.

title: Rain of the Children

overview: In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).

title: 9 Across

overview: A story of two prison cellmates, a crossword puzzle, and a dramatic escape.

title: The Mark

overview: When Eden, an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission, pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage, his life is turned upside down. Mistaken for the world's deadliest assassin, Ben becomes the perfect decoy for Eden.

title: Out of the Shadows

overview: A newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the past to save his family.

title: Whina

title: Once Were Warriors

title: Veronika Decides to Die

title: Nemesis Game

title: Dance Me to My Song

title: Roimata

title: The Last Survivors

title: Amusement

title: The Land Has Eyes

title: The Dead Lands

title: Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?

title: When Love Comes

title: Maya

title: Alyce Kills

title: I'll Make You Happy

title: The Crow: Wicked Prayer

title: The Last Witch Hunter

title: Soul Assassin

title: A Mistake

title: Moana

title: The Horrible Flowers

title: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

title: Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

title: Ocean of Pearls

title: Escape and Evasion

title: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

title: A Beautiful Life

title: Piece of My Heart

title: Spout

title: Without a Body

title: Rapa Nui

title: Whina

title: Savage Play

title: Absolute Killers

title: Rain of the Children

title: 9 Across

title: The Mark

title: Out of the Shadows

title: Whina