Screenplay: James Michener

Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Paul Krasny · Harry Falk · Bernard McEveety

Cast Robert Conrad · Raymond Burr · Barbara Carrera · Lynn Redgrave

Plot 12 Episodes. An epic miniseries about the making of America -- the most ambitious project ever filmed for television -- this filming of James Michener's 1,100-page saga that spanned the...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Marlon Brando · Miiko Taka · Red Buttons · Miyoshi Umeki

Plot Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Julie Andrews · Max von Sydow · Richard Harris · Gene Hackman

Plot George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) directed this adaptation of James Michener's novel about the history of the 50th state. Max von Sydow plays a zealous missionary...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Jean Simmons · Joan Fontaine · Paul Newman · Piper Laurie

Plot Four sisters in New Zealand fall for Allied sailors en route to World War II. In a courtroom in Wellington, New Zealand, Barbara Leslie listens to testimony about her sister...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Mitzi Gaynor · John Kerr · Ray Walston

Plot It is 1943 and the United States Navy has established several bases in the Solomon Islands, in preparation for an invasion towards New Guinea and the Central Pacific. On one...

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Charlton Heston · Geraldine Chaplin · John Phillip Law · Mako

Plot The Hawaiians is a 1970 American historical film based on the novel Hawaii by James A. Michener.It was directed by Tom Gries with its screenplay by James R. Webb. The...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast William Holden · Grace Kelly · Fredric March · Mickey Rooney

Plot Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Gary Cooper · Barry Jones · Roberta Haynes · Moira Walker

Plot Based on the short story "Mr. Morgan" from "Return To Paradise" (James Michener's sequel to "Tales of the South Pacific"). Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and soldier-of-fortune washes up on...

Direction James Fargo

Cast Anthony Quinn · Michael Sarrazin · Christopher Lee · Jennifer O'Neill

Plot In 1948, Mark Miller, a young diplomat, searches the desert for a politician's runaway daughter and Zuilifigar, her Bedouin lover.

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Van Johnson · Walter Pidgeon · Louis Calhern · Dewey Martin

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Glenn Close · Harry Connick Jr. · Rade Serbedzija · Robert Pastorelli

Plot Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical about war, love, and racial bigotry is adapted for television in ABC’s entertaining version of SOUTH PACIFIC. Based on the novel TALES OF THE SOUTH...

Direction James Goldstone

Cast Jane Fleiss · Charley Lang · Talia Balsam · Keith Gordon

Plot Based on the true story of the student protests at Kent State University in Ohio. This film focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted...

Direction James Michener · Felix E. Feist · Joseph Lejtes · Robert Florey

Cast Gardner McKay · James Holden · Guy Stockwell · Lani Kai

Plot TV Series. 91 episodes. Adam Troy was an American Korean War veteran who stayed in the Pacific after the war. As captain of the schooner "Tiki III", Troy drifted from...

Direction Richard Lang

Cast Patrick Duffy · Maria Conchita Alonso · Benjamin Bratt · Rick Schroder

Plot In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Texas. As the years go by, political conflicts between the settlers and the Mexican...

Direction Lee Philips · Joseph Sargent

Cast Mark Benjamin · James Garner · Susan Anspach · Beau Bridges

Plot A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the...

Direction Lee Philips

Cast Sarah Miles · Stacy Keach · Harris Yulin · Harrison Ford

Plot The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier.