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- DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsJean SmartRobert PastorelliDennis BoutsikarisMargaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She must prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsTimothy BottomsEva Marie SaintArthur HillA recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsJames FranciscusMartine BeswickBradford DillmanThe pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. The story of Michael Longstreet, an insurance investigator recovering from an explosion that killed his wife and took his sight. He decides to remain an investigator and find those responsible for his wife's death and his blindness.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsDoug McClureRene AuberjonoisRichard BasehartDuring World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in a high alpine castle on the German-Swiss border. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity. Cook convinces the other prisoners to build a two person glider that can fly to Switzerland. The race is on to complete the glider before the German guards discover the plane, and the Gestapo catch up with Cook and the scientist.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsLee MarvinAngie DickinsonJohn CassavetesSurprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
- DirectorBill BixbyStarsBill BixbyLou FerrignoMarta DuBoisWhen Banner is held as a witness to a violent crime linked to the Kingpin, the fugitive is helped by lawyer Matt Murdock who is also the superhero, Daredevil.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsMilton BerleSean GarrisonDina MerrillBased on the Leonard Bishop's novel Against Heaven's Hand. Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsJames CaanBilly Dee WilliamsJack WardenBased on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsEd FlandersKathryn WalkerRoxanne HartA TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own if their demand isn't met.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsSteve GuttenbergRandy QuaidMark L. TaylorThe story of Harold Krents, who became totally blind at nine years old, but graduated Harvard and Oxford and became a lawyer.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsElizabeth MontgomeryWilliam DanielsCliff PottsWhen she was raped, Ellen Harrod thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse was the treatment by the hospital staff, police, and the court system when she reported it and the aftermath of the culprit's apprehension.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRalph BellamyPolly BergenTheodore BikelLeft in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 - and the warning's received a day early.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsRobert StackVera MilesL.Q. JonesA family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJack KlugmanElizabeth AshleyJames FranciscusDaniel Corban's wife Elizabeth disappeared after they had a fight. Then she shows up, yet he insists that the woman isn't actually his wife.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsLeif EricksonDoug McClureRoddy McDowallOn a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisioning and become incapacitated. To save the aircraft, the cabin crew locate a passenger with flying experience. He is coached by an experienced pilot on the ground.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsBen JohnsonBen MurphyEd NelsonA group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsBarbara AndersonBert ConvyPeter GravesOn its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu on-board.
- DirectorJoseph SargentRichard CarpenterStarsCynthia GibbMitchell AndersonPeter Michael GoetzStory of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsRobert CulpMartin MilnerBarbara HersheyAfter several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is ready to burst. But the town's mayor refuses to open its gates - paving the way for disaster.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsErnest BorgnineVera MilesPatty DukeA convict starts a fire in a forest to cover his escape, but the fire goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community.
- DirectorRon MaxwellStarsHayley MillsTom SkerrittCarrie Kei HeimTwo best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York City.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsGlynnis O'ConnorArmand AssanteCraig WassonLeola Mae Harmon, a pregnant military nurse, is the victim of a drunk-driving accident. She loses her unborn child and is severely disfigured, her husband can't cope with the situation, and she sinks into depression. Her life slowly begins to get back on track when Dr. James Stallings takes an interest in reconstructing her face.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsMare WinninghamKeith CarradineSandy McPeakA blind couple's long and tiresome legal battle to be allowed to adopt a child.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsBen MurphyBonnie BedeliaLew AyresThe residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsJohn RitterCarrie FisherBuddy EbsenPaul is injured while playing polo, then learns that he's paralyzed from the waist down. Feeling despondent, he decides to go to his grandfather's ranch, where he meets horse-trainer Marnie. She decides to help him get his head out of the sand he'd placed it in since his accident. They start falling for each other, but he tries to resist because he fears he could be impotent.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsBeau BridgesRobert PowellSimon WardWhen British Lieutenant Faversham resigns his commission rather than fight in the 1882 Sudan war, his army pals present him with the four white feathers of cowardice.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMike ConnorsKent McCordMichael ColeThree disabled men--one blind, one with no legs and one with no hands--get together to pull off a museum robbery.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsCliff PottsCarrie SnodgressJane SeymourA young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub singer who befriends him.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsDavid JanssenDon MeredithChristopher GeorgeThe co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne until it can reach an open airfield after a killer aboard the plane fires a gun at an engine and pilot of the plane.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsGeoffrey DeuelPatrick WayneDavid SoulA race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.
- DirectorSteven SchachterStarsMark HarmonMary McDonnellCatherine HicksA man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the 19th Century.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsDennis WeaverKurt RussellMare WinninghamA drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
- DirectorMichael MillerStarsJustine BatemanMax GailJason BatemanA young blind woman struggles for independence.
- DirectorRichard IrvingStarsLee MajorsBarbara AndersonMartin BalsamAfter an astronaut and test pilot is catastrophically mutilated in a test plane crash, he is rebuilt and equipped with nuclear powered bionic limbs and implants.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsMare WinninghamCloris LeachmanSid CaesarMargaret Ryder has always looked after her deaf parents, Janice and Abel. Long the only contact her folks have had with the speaking world, Margaret struggles with whether she should strike out on her own or not. When Margaret decides to make a change and ends up getting married, her parents interpret the move as a betrayal -- and Margaret is forced to figure out a way to bridge her old life with her new one.
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganIn the closing days of the Korean War, the staff of the 4077 M*A*S*H Unit find themselves facing irrevocable changes in their lives.
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaGlynnis O'ConnorRobert ReedThe girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsJames MacArthurNick AdamsJack GingA young Private in the Confederate Army, Willie Prentiss, is assigned to guard a remote river outpost during the American Civil War. Lonely Willie becomes pals with his Union army counterpart, Corporal Jenkins. They hold shooting contests, and trade tobacco for coffee. One day Willie accidentally shoots his own commander, Lt. Mosby, and the Corporal helps him escape court martial by disguising him as an injured Yankee. Willy is shot sneaking home, but manages to make it. He lands up joining the marauders in one exciting caper after another and rejoins Mosby in trying to capture a Union General. Corporal Jenkins is captured, and is soon in love with Willie's cousin.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellShelley WintersBing RussellBiographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsLloyd BridgesRaymond BurrRobert FullerA vengeful employee of a computer-controlled railway arranges a head-on collision of passenger trains. Can it be stopped?
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsJames FarentinoRoddy McDowallCraig StevensA claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing his latest job, is trapped along with group of people in a jammed elevator in a high-rise building.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsLarry HagmanMartin MilnerJessica WalterTwo hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
- DirectorWard KimballStarsKurt RussellSpencer QuinnJesse WhiteA live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must face on the path to being able to drive. Surviving the driver's education class is only the first step, as the teenager must then pass his driving test, and then finally get permission to borrow the family car.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsRod TaylorDina MerrillKristoffer TaboriDuring a flight from San Diego to Guaymas, Mexico, the Carlyle family from Florida is surprised by a weather front in the Rocky Mountains and must do an emergency landing in a Mexican desert with their plane damaged. Latent tensions in the family interfere with the efforts to solve their desperate situation.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsClaude AkinsPatty DukeLen BirmanThe passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsJack LordEdmond O'BrienKatherine CrawfordA bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsJames FranciscusShirley KnightLeslie NielsenA corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsMare WinninghamJameson ParkerJeffrey DeMunnTwo young women's lives are changed forever in one moment. A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful woman's brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Jane's husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful woman's husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
- DirectorStan HarrisStarsJohn WayneAnn-MargretLucille BallJohn Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyCharles S. DubinStarsGil GerardBerlinda TolbertPat CrowleyManager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverKaren GrasslePamela BellwoodA real-estate salesman with career and marriage problems gets hooked on cocaine and finds that not only does it not help him cope, but it makes those problems much, much worse.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsJames GarnerJudith IveyRuby DeeA grumpy man must rejoin his community when his godchild gets in trouble and a childhood friend refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
- DirectorDwight HemionStarsEkaterina GordeevaKurt BrowningJosée ChouinardA musical holiday special aired on CBS.
- StarsTai BabiloniaLinda FratianneRandy GardnerThe Nutcracker is the story of Clara, a young girl who receives a nutcracker doll as a Christmas present from her godfather. Through magic, the doll comes to life in her dreams and takes her on a magical journey. The Nutcracker Prince rescues Clara from the Mouse King, her would be kidnapper and takes Clara to the enchanted land of the Snow Queen, "Snowflakes and Candyland." There she meets the Sugar Plum Fairy and the beautiful Waltzing Flowers. Clara awakens from her dream on Christmas Day. Don't miss this classic brought to life by the world-famous figure skating team of Randy Gardner and Tai Babilonia and many other stars.
- DirectorRichard WellsStarsOksana BaiulNicole BobekTodd EldredgeClara is a young girl who receives a nutcracker doll as a Christmas present from her godfather. Through magic, the doll comes to life in her dreams and takes her on a magical journey. World-famous figure skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner bring this classic to life.
- DirectorDarnell MartinStarsJennifer Love HewittBetty WhiteSean FarisLucas Thomas's grandmother Caroline returns every Valentine's Day to the station where, at their first wedding anniversary, she waved off to the Pacific Theater of War in 1944 her husband Neill, a US Navy pilot who is still officially missing in action. Lucas, a former baseball star and reputable physiotherapist about to publish, tells the story to a station manager who assigns the item to Susan Allison. She gets involved and befriends Caroline, but resists her crush on Lucas on account of an already soulless engagement with international reporter Andrew Hawthorne. Caroline's mild cardiac crisis seems to ruin everything.
- DirectorPaul ZillerStarsKate JacksonEd MarinaroErik EstradaThe cockpit of a Boeing 747 is struck by lightning during takeoff for a flight to Europe, fatally injuring the flight crew. Laurie, the senior flight attendant, enlists the aid of passenger Brett Young. They determine that the autopilot can bring the plane in for a landing, but soon learn that the autopilot is locking onto the transponders of airfields at random, including signals from small airports with runways too short to accommodate the jumbo jet. Meanwhile, federal officials on the ground who have lost radio contact with the jet debate whether the plane should be shot down to prevent a more disastrous crash in a heavily populated area.
- DirectorChristopher CainStarsJennifer GarnerJeffrey D. SamsZak OrthIn the late 1800s, four young, New York City street kids save an abandoned baby girl and move to Montana to start a new life. Stars Jennifer Garner. From the Hallmark Hall of Fame Collection.
- DirectorMichael PressmanStarsCarla GuginoKathy BakerDavid ConradForced to take charge of her niece and nephew, Emilie Thompson needs a miracle to keep their family together.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsCampbell ScottJennifer Jason LeighDavid Dukes20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsEmily VanCampSteve TalleyTimothy BusfieldA 24-year-old first-time teacher overcomes her initial fears and prejudices and makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter's makeshift classroom.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsAnne HecheTate DonovanMichael MitchellManhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsGlenn CloseChristopher WalkenLexi RandallA single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsJesse MetcalfeAutumn ReeserLaura MennellSparks fly when an engaged country music singer reconnects with a childhood friend.