Join the action-packed adventure of a group of dinosaurs overcoming enormous challenges through courage, loyalty, and hope in Disney's DINOSAUR, a special effects phenomenon! Set 65 million years ago, DINOSAUR tells the compelling story of an iguanodon named Aladar, who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs, including the wisecracking Zini and the compassionate Plio. When a ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Alfre Woodard, Ossie DavisDirected By: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Robert Downey Jr. has never been more charming than in this comedy about a yuppie who is revisited in adulthood by the spirits of four people who had been his friends as a child. The ghosts (Kyra Sedgwick, Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Tom Sizemore) all have unfinished business in this world before they can move on to the next, and Downey's character agrees to let them inhabit his body while they ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom SizemoreDirected By: Ron Underwood
Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you're a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ...
Manufacturer: ParamountStarring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bob GoldthwaitDirected By: Richard Donner
"What I liked was the promise of a happy, classless society in the future, in which everyone would enjoy all the good created by society." - Ella Shistyer; student and electrical engineer, Russia, summing up the promise of Communism. When Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, they did so in the name of a new ideology. Millions were drawn by its promise. In Red Flag, the ...
Manufacturer: Wgbh BostonStarring: Sean Barrett, John Forsythe, Alfre WoodardDirected By: Angus MacQueen
Last Oasis takes viewers to India, China, Mexico, the U.S., and the Middle East to investigate a new era of water scarcity and the future of water conservation and recycling.
Manufacturer: Homevision / KTEH / PBS / ColumbiaStarring: Alfre Woodard, David Brower, Floyd Dominy, Barry Goldwater, Robert TowneDirected By: Jon Else, Linda Harrar
A century before Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X, there was Frederick Douglass, arguably the most important and the earliest African American activist in United States history. This informative, inspiring documentary traces Douglass's heroic life and work. Born into slavery, Douglass was separated from his mother as a small child and forced into field labor on one of the largest plantations ...
Manufacturer: Pbs Home VideoStarring: Alfre WoodardDirected By: Orlando Bagwell
So many slaves escaped into freedom along a route that could not be ascertained that the slave owners said there must be an underground railroad under the Ohio River and on to the North." Abolitionist William Cockrum, 1854. Join descendants and scholars as we tell the story of America's first civil rights movement.
Manufacturer: A&E Home VideoStarring: Alfre Woodard
This informative look at water politics traces the fierce battles that raged around the transformation of California's Central Valley from semiarid desert into the most environmentally altered agricultural region in history.
The only one of August Wilson's plays to be filmed (and for television, at that), this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winner is an amazing piece of work. Adapted by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards, who staged it on Broadway, the play deals not just with racism and its effects but with the ongoing legacy and curse of slavery on modern blacks. Set in 1920s Pittsburgh, the story deals with the arrival of ...
Manufacturer: HallmarkStarring: Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Tommy Hollis, Lou MyersDirected By: Lloyd Richards
Director John Kent Harrison's imaginative film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1963 A Wrinkle in Time may not be able to fully satisfy the immense expectations of those decidedly loyal to L'Engle's book, yet delivers a family thriller impressive enough to stand on its own merits. Katie Stuart plays Meg Murry, the introverted, intelligent oldest child of Dr. Jack Murry, an astrophysicist ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home EntertainmentStarring: Katie Stuart, David Dorfman, Gregory Smith, Chris Potter, Kyle SecorDirected By: John Kent Harrison
