Movies: Christopher Reeve

Historical context for The Remains of the Day....

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....

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

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contri...

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus....

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

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....

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 S...

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....

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

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

Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother....

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...

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

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...

Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman....

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun....

A French documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as told by his French voice dubbing actor, Pierre Arditi....

After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an abusive husband organizes a party of vigilantes to accompany him into Indian territory....