Direction: Robert Markowitz

Direction Steven Spielberg · Lesli Linka Glatter · Phil Joanou · Paul Bartel

Cast Priscilla Pointer · Brad Bird · Douglas Seale · JoAnn Willette

Synopsis TV Series (1985-1987). 2 Seasons. 45 Episodes. Television series created, produced, and twice directed by Steven Spielberg. Truly amazing, and sometimes odd stories are narrated. Many famous actors and actresses made guest appearances. Steven Spielberg's mid-'80s foray into television, Steven...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Timothy Hutton · Brenda Vaccaro · Rosanna Arquette · Paul Regina

Synopsis Many years after being abandoned by his parents, Donald sets out in search of his siblings. His biggest challenge is cutting through layers of bureaucratic red tape. He happens upon a helpful counselor who offers her assistance in locating his...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Jack Palance · Amy Irving · Patrick Bergin · James Earl Jones

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Nathaniel Parker · Jonathan Pryce · Leonard Nimoy · Sheryl Lee

Synopsis The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Laurence Fishburne · Allen Payne · Malcolm-Jamal Warner · Courtney B. Vance

Synopsis During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast M. Emmet Walsh · Taliesin Jaffe · Caren Kaye · Jeff Cohen

Synopsis Marky adores hearing his grandfather tell wondrous tales of hitchhiking through the universe and playing baseball with him on Saturdays. So when old "Stormin' Norman" takes ill, the boy invokes a magic spell to play one last magical ball game.

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Juliette Lewis · Brad Pitt · Michael Tucker · Alan Fudge

Synopsis A 14 year old trailer trash Amanda Sue Bradley (Juliette Lewis) was raped by her stepfather, dumped by her mother and now abandoned by her teenage husband. Amanda finds herself penniless, hungry and alone in an Oklahoma town. There, she...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Peter Horton · Nathaniel Parker · Richard Jenkins · Christopher McDonald

Synopsis An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Mira Sorvino · Toby Stephens · Paul Rudd · Martin Donovan

Synopsis F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, often regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century, is brought to the screen in this made-for-TV feature, produced in collaboration with the A&E Cable Network in the United States, and Granada...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Don Johnson · Jeanne Tripplehorn · Sharon Lawrence · John Heard

Synopsis Don Johnson plays Ben Tyson, a brilliant corporate executive and family man who finds his world threatened when he is accused of participating in a hospital massacre that occurred 30 years earlier, when he was an Army lieutenant during the...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Sam Elliott · Timothy Hutton · Jamie Bartlett · David Hayman

Synopsis AVENGER tells the story of Cal Dexter (Sam Elliott), whose duty during the Vietnam War was to locate and destroy the jungle hideouts of the enemy. But today he's nothing more than a simple attorney in Washington D.C. Or so...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Melanie Griffith · Esai Morales · Gregg Henry · David Jensen

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Loni Anderson · Paul Sorvino · Amanda Wyss · James Sutorius

Synopsis 16-year-old Tobi has just lost her father, with whom she lived. She finds her mother's address in his papers and builds up a fantasy of what her mother, Ellen Blake, must be like. But when she goes to see her,...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Christine Lahti · Campbell Scott · Alison Pill · Kirsty Mitchell

Synopsis Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline for whom he was a pilot. She starts however to uncover information which leads to her arrival in London for further investigation...and further...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Tom Conti · Lisa Eichhorn · Gerald Hiken · Rachel Roberts

Synopsis A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast James Garner · Judith Ivey · Ruby Dee · Bill Cobbs

Synopsis A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Joe Mantegna · Marcia Gay Harden · Shiek Mahmud-Bey · Marcia Bennett

Synopsis Rita Fiore hires Spenser to determine if two-time loser Ellis Alves really did kill a college coed. Soon everybody wants him off the case--from the investigating officer to the parents of the dead girl's boyfriend--wants him off the case, and...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Michael Ontkean · Amy Irving · Alex Rocco · Barry Miller

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Nancy McKeon · Dale Midkiff · Graham Jarvis · Yvette Heyden

Synopsis Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Clancy Brown · Sheryl Lee · Moira Kelly · Tom Bower

Synopsis This movie, based on the true story, begins with the murder of a housewife. When troubled teenage daughter confesses the crime, it looks like a solved case. But, the investigators are suspicious because of the lack of motive and spend...