David Strathairn

David Strathairn

Birthday: 1949-01-26

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Biography: David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He also starred in L.A. Confidential (1997), Godzilla (2014), and the Bourne franchise (2007–2012). Strathairn appeared in supporting roles in many notable films such as A League of Their Own (1992), Sneakers (1992), The Firm (1993), The River Wild (1995), Lincoln (2012), Nomadland (2020), and Nightmare Alley (2021). He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, who is a fellow graduate of Williams College. On television, Strathairn is known for his recurring roles in The Sopranos (2004), Alphas (2011–2012), The Blacklist (2015–2016), Billions (2017–2019), and The Expanse (2018–2019). He received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin (2010).

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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...

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The Feud
The Feud

All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in M...

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L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to u...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is...

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City of Hope
City of Hope

This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most not...

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Sneakers
Sneakers

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of...

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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck.

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...

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Mother Night
Mother Night

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape ...

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Bob Roberts
Bob Roberts

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickl...

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The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation ...

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My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her frien...

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We Are Marshall
We Are Marshall

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of ...

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Cold Souls
Cold Souls

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon ...

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Fracture
Fracture

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case f...

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Matewan
Matewan

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

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Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findi...

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Iceman
Iceman

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. A...

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The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Gra...

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Steel Toes
Steel Toes

Rage and intolerance collide with compassion Academy-Award nominated David Strathairn portrays Danny...

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Harrison's Flowers
Harrison's Flowers

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing...

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The River Wild
The River Wild

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holida...

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Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter ...

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The Brother from Another Planet
The Brother from Another Planet

A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through th...

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Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in hum...

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Silkwood
Silkwood

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highl...

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Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...

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Twisted
Twisted

Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure...

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Heavens Fall
Heavens Fall

Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black m...

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Losing Isaiah
Losing Isaiah

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while hi...

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At Close Range
At Close Range

Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, h...

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Missing in America
Missing in America

A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a ...

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Passion Fish
Passion Fish

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotio...

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The Uninvited
The Uninvited

Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death ...

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Call Me
Call Me

After agreeing to meet an obscene caller at a bar, a young New York reporter witnesses a murder and ...

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The Firm
The Firm

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...

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Limbo
Limbo

Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a...

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The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page

Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensati...

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Lathe of Heaven
Lathe of Heaven

In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is co...

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The Sensation of Sight
The Sensation of Sight

An English teacher sells encyclopedias while searching for the meaning of life....

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The Tempest
The Tempest

An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospe...

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Day One
Day One

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the he...

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In the Gloaming
In the Gloaming

Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share momen...

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Howl
Howl

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts th...

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The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court

It's known as the court of last resort -- the Supreme Court -- where nine judges appointed for life ...

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The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Legacy

New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previ...

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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spen...

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Blue Car
Blue Car

Meg is a gifted but emotionally scarred 18-year-old who finds solace in writing poetry. Mr. Auster, ...

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The Whistleblower
The Whistleblower

Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacek...

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The Giraffe
The Giraffe

Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena'...

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Lovesick
Lovesick

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient....

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Racing Daylight
Racing Daylight

RACING DAYLIGHT is a spooky murder mystery as well as a supernatural love story that transcends time...

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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Los Angeles Plays Itself

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...

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Lincoln
Lincoln

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divide...

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Matadors
Matadors

Two wealthy families in Chicago find themselves in an on-going struggle of pride and power....

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A Map of the World
A Map of the World

School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisco...

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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientifi...

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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks ...

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O Pioneers!
O Pioneers!

A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and...

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Relative Evil
Relative Evil

Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is gre...

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Speakeasy
Speakeasy

After being randomly brought together in a car accident, two strangers develop a friendship based on...

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Love, Marilyn
Love, Marilyn

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with parti...

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A Dangerous Woman
A Dangerous Woman

Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Marth...

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Godzilla
Godzilla

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced...

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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Hemingway & Gellhorn

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn....

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A Good Baby
A Good Baby

A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediat...

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The Climb
The Climb

Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. D...

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Area 51 Declassified
Area 51 Declassified

It's the most famous military installation in the world, yet it doesn’t officially exist. Area 51, ...

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Maladies
Maladies

A former soap star appears to have a narrator stuck in his head. As he moves in with his sister and ...

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Beyond the Call
Beyond the Call

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood...

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Song of Hiawatha
Song of Hiawatha

This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe lea...

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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. ...

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No God, No Master
No God, No Master

A plot to overthrow the United States government is uncovered in New York City in the summer of 1919...

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The American Clock
The American Clock

Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed...

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Inside Area 51's Secrets
Inside Area 51's Secrets

It's the most famous military installation in the world, yet it doesn’t officially exist. Area 51, ...

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Memphis Belle
Memphis Belle

The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids int...

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The Victim
The Victim

She's the bar floozy, he's the stranger. She tries to pick him up but for some reason, he's not game...

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Broken Vows
Broken Vows

When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he beco...

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The Shovel
The Shovel

When weekender Paul Mullin discovers his neighbor digging a hole in the middle of the night, he writ...

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Evidence of Blood
Evidence of Blood

When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...

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Remember This
Remember This

In a virtuoso solo performance, Academy Award nominee David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski in this g...

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Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps ev...

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Lost in Yonkers
Lost in Yonkers

In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their...

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The Debt
The Debt

Set against the backdrop of an international finance deal in New York and Peru, Oliver's Deal is an ...

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Without Warning: The James Brady Story
Without Warning: The James Brady Story

The story of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on t...

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Stars & Bars
Stars & Bars

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric....

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A Little Prayer
A Little Prayer

A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is h...

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament...

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Trumbo
Trumbo

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individu...

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The Making of ‘Sneakers’
The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992)....

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The Human Behavior Experiments
The Human Behavior Experiments

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they're capable of a...

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Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his ...

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Freedom Song
Freedom Song

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi...

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Willa Cather: The Road Is All
Willa Cather: The Road Is All

Willa Cather had the great good fortune to have lived among the first generation of white settlers i...

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O Horizon
O Horizon

Abby, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spendi...

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Judgment
Judgment

Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of...

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Heat Wave
Heat Wave

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the blood...

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The Luckiest Man in America
The Luckiest Man in America

1984; Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Pres...

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The People Speak
The People Speak

A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A Pe...

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When Nature Calls
When Nature Calls

When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife...

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American Pastoral
American Pastoral

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new po...

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April One
April One

An emotionally troubled man named David takes a minister hostage. John, a police superintendent trie...

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Return of the Secaucus Seven
Return of the Secaucus Seven

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer...

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November Criminals
November Criminals

When Addison investigates the murder of his friend Kevin with the help of Phoebe, they discover that...

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UFO
UFO

A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with...

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With Friends Like These
With Friends Like These

Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in...

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Fast Color
Fast Color

A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having ...

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Simon Birch
Simon Birch

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his...

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Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotia...

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The Devil Has a Name
The Devil Has a Name

An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company....

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An Interview with God
An Interview with God

An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the ...

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Walkaway Joe
Walkaway Joe

A young boy named Dallas goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their famil...

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My Dinner with Hervé
My Dinner with Hervé

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor H...

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Matters of Life and Death
Matters of Life and Death

Three siblings struggle to maintain control of their lives after the unexpected death of their paren...

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Nomadland
Nomadland

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everythin...

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a...

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The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" invest...

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Paradise
Paradise

Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an ast...

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Them That Work
Them That Work

Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between compan...

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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks u...

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The Oedipus Project
The Oedipus Project

The Oedipus Project is an innovative new digital initiative by Theater of War Productions that will ...

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A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female ...

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Dominick and Eugene
Dominick and Eugene

Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. Th...

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Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a...

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Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'

Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angel...

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Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing

Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When...

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Lincoln@Gettysburg
Lincoln@Gettysburg

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum ...

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He Does Not Want Peace
He Does Not Want Peace

When a man witnesses a profound event, it threatens to destroy his family....

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By Any Means
By Any Means

A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rig...

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The Bard
The Bard

The story of George Moses Horton, an enslaved poet in 19th-century North Carolina who used his writi...

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Zootopia 2
Zootopia 2

After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find th...

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This Ordinary Thing
This Ordinary Thing

A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust....

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Babies
Babies

Struggling with the decision of whether or not to bring a child into the world, Annie and her husban...

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