Movies: Christopher Reeve

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star actress quickly passing her prime, a male lead with no confidence, and a bit actor that's rarely so...

Jason Kemp, a recently paralyzed architect, lives in a high-tech apartment filled with assistive technology. As a quadriplegic confined to his home, he passes the long hours by spying on his neighbors from his apartment window. His innocent pastime t...

A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the change...

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story....

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script....

A 5-part documentary of the history of Superman in the movies. • Origin - Superman in the media and the challenges the Salkinds faced • Vision - Creating the right script, Choosing the right director and casting the right actors • Ascent - The pro...

A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman....

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder....

Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister....

An ex-convict who is on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works....

Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis....

A thriller directed by Bradford May focusing on a catholic priest dealing with a serial killer's confession and a murder investigation....

In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides....

Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost....

The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on 19 June 1987. It followed the format of It's a Knockout, a slapstick TV gameshow which was broadcast...

An all-star variety special saluting America....

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia....

A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves....

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter....

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews wi...