Sam Waterston Movies

Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don’t know however that they have more in common than they’d like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.

The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a “Medical Mecca,” the “Supreme Court of Medicine,” and the…

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney’s office…

The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of…

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down – and permanently intertwined – when their husbands leave them for each…

A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, along with a bohemian poetry teacher, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop,…

Coach, mentor, social activist… the life and legacy of Dean Smith, North Carolina’s legendary basketball coach. Who went to 11 Final Fours and and won two National Championships, with players…

In many ways it was the perfect match: Ernest Hemingway whose heroes personified his definition of courage – “grace under pressure” – and Gary Cooper, the man who often portrayed…

The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme…

This highly acclaimed mini series traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the…

Tom Hanks hosts a tribute to acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns that explores the breadth and depth of his work, talks to many of his collaborators, and looks at his filmmaking…

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a…

A white trapper steals a white mustang called Eagle Wing from a Kiowa Indian who pursues him to get his horse back.

A young woman has a perfect love affair with a zealous writer. When she finds out that he’s also a highly manipulative womanizer, it’s too late – she’s already too…

In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as “Biotek”, a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria in the laboratory….

Robert Preston is retired and taking care of his senile wife. He can’t get her to allow him to throw anything out and their house has become unmanageable. He meets…

Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film ‘The Killing Fields’. At the…

A Danish family tries to help their Jewish neighbours escape from the Nazis.

The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in April 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every…

A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in…

Rural Louisiana, summer of 1957, Elvis is King. At 14, Dani is coming of age. Her older sister is beautiful, smart, and off to Duke in the fall; her mom’s…

A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very…

The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets, Whittaker was court-martialed on the grounds that…

Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging ‘The System’ to…

Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel…

The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school…

Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston) are bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle in the wilds of Montana. Jack left his wealthy parents because…

A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is…

The life of a lonely and isolated woman is transformed when she opens herself up to the outside world and to a gentle, romantic relationship.

Charles Brubaker is the astronaut leading NASA’s first manned mission to Mars. Seconds before the launch, the entire team is pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned…

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the…

In Michael Cimino’s bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming, Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun,…

CIA agent Miles Kendig decides to get out of ‘the game’ and to ensure he’s left alone he threatens to send his memoirs to the world’s intelligence agencies. When the…