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1. The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2021)
82 min | Documentary
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest guard become Monsanto's worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana ... See full summary »
Directors: Camilla Denton Becket, James Becket | Stars: Vandana Shiva, Lionel Astruc, Deborah Barker, Vinod Bhatt
Votes: 48
2. Crime Story (1986–1988)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime.
Stars: Dennis Farina, Bill Smitrovich, Tony Denison, Steve Ryan
Votes: 3,368
3.
Crime Story (1986–1988)
Episode:
Going Home
(1988)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Luca gets hold of Abrams and forces Torello to give him back his captured heroin shipment in exchange. However, Mike's not going to let him escape this time and goes after him anyway, with tragic consequences all around.
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Dennis Farina, Tony Denison, Bill Smitrovich, John Santucci
Votes: 51
4. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A youth anthology series focusing primarily on adaptations of children's literature.
Stars: Willie Tyler, Frank Welker, Hal Smith, Janet Waldo
Votes: 352
5. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown
Votes: 30,259
6.
CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode:
Big Boys Don't Cry
(1993)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A high-school wrestler suspects his uncle is molesting his little brother, which forces painful memories of his own abuse to surface.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Jason Wiles, Robert Pine, Miko Hughes, Darleen Carr
Votes: 35
7.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Heart of Night
(1988)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A conflicted Castillo protects his ex-wife from a drug lord who is trying to kill her and her new husband.
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 299
8. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A teen drama anthology that often touched on social issues of the day.
Stars: Lance Kerwin, Samaria Graham, Mara Hobel, Alexa Kenin
Votes: 1,266
9. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
CBS late afternoon specials designed for middle school and high school students, dramatizing issues affecting teenagers.
Stars: Monica Calhoun, Tammy Lauren, Nick Angotti, Beau Dremann
Votes: 354
10. Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door (1997 Video)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy
A man awakens one morning to find himself incapable of leaving his room. Since he financially supports his parents and teenager sister, this is a problem. HIs abusive boss keeps appearing ... See full summary »
Director: Norith Soth | Stars: Ricardo Chacon, Jim Hendren, David Houseman, Brett McCarey
Votes: 11
11. Sons of Africa (2014)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Uganda's Idi Amin and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere were bitter enemies who went to war in 1978. Today, the dictator Amin is reviled as the 'Butcher of Uganda', while the socialist Nyerere is ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Jaffar Amin, James Becket, Madaraka Nyerere
Votes: 7
12. ¡Qué hacer! (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama
A Brechtian mix of political fiction, real-life footage and Country Joe McDonald music. In Chile in 1970, a young woman Peace Corps worker becomes involved with a mysterious American 'businessman' and a local revolutionary.
Directors: Saul Landau, Raúl Ruiz, Nina Serrano | Stars: Sandra Archer, Aníbal Reyna, Richard Stahl, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 64
13. The Wife Master (2012)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy
Bora S. is a gay, unemployed 40 year old man who still lives at home. When his family kicks him out of the house, he must find a means to support himself. He reluctantly accepts his Uncle's... See full summary »
Director: Mich Medvedoff | Stars: Bora Soth, Maly Seng, Med Heng, Sophaline Mao
Votes: 53
14. Kill Fee (1992)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama
On the eve of a big US-Japan trade summit, a reporter, Erica Boswell, gets a hot tip that the Japanese-American head of a big aerospace firm will be selling trade secrets to a Japanese ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Craig Shugart, David Efron, Mary Page Keller
Votes: 230
15. Natural Causes (1994)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Janis Paige, Ken Wisan, Joke Tachalom, Popin Kukiatton
Votes: 186
16. The Best Revenge (1996)
88 min | Action, Crime
Director: James Becket | Stars: Carlos Arellano, Fabian Carrillo, Pat Destro, Bruna Lombardi
Votes: 33
17. Final Approach (2005 Video)
92 min | Family
A kid is convinced that the plane he is on is being hijacked.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Veronica Alicino, Tom Ayers, Allen Barton, Jordi Caballero
Votes: 388
18.
ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode:
Fast Forward
(1995)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Teen travels to the future to see his future self, and is stunned to see how alcohol has shaped his life.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Geoffrey Scott Brown, Gerald McRaney, Mimi Kennedy, Susan Haskell
Votes: 15
19. Plato's Run (1997 Video)
R | 96 min | Action
Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Gary Busey, Roy Scheider, Steven Bauer, Jeff Speakman
Votes: 537
20. Latin Dragon (2004)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure
A decorated war hero and covert agent, Danny Silva returns home to East L.A. and finds his neighborhood has been taken over by violent street gangs headed by the brutally corrupt Bishop Thorn.
Director: Scott Thomas | Stars: Fabian Carrillo, Gary Busey, Lorenzo Lamas, Robert LaSardo
Votes: 396
21. Southern Cross (1999)
Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A mining businessman gets involved in crimes and murderers as he flees from another businessman who plans to dump nuclear waste illegally in abandoned coal mines in southern Chile.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Hugo Tramón, Christian Svensson, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Ironside
Votes: 202
22. Serenity Farm (2014)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Undisturbed for over 20 years, this remote forested island in the Pacific Northwest is visited by a group of campers on horseback. The camp tranquility is broken by violence and terror.
Directors: James Becket, John Rodsett | Stars: Sean Dryke, Shawna Welsh, Jake Arzola, Kasandra Bandfield
Votes: 82
23. Air Marshal (2003)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When terrorists hijack a flight, one man must find a way to save everyone on board.
Director: Alain Jakubowicz | Stars: Dean Cochran, Alan Austin, Eli Danker, Tarri Markel
Votes: 576
24. Boat 2142
Thriller | Announced
The true story of an American librarian, Ted Schweitzer, who, at the end of the Vietnam War, almost single-handed, saved the lives of 3,000 women and children from pirates who were selling them into lives of sexual slavery.
Director: David Carson
25. The Great Game Farm Rescue (2021)
Family
Family Film great for the whole Family.
Director: John Rodsett | Star: Michael Emery
26. Faces of Africa (2012– )
26 min | Documentary, News
Produced by CCTV News Content (CCTV+), an important component of CGTN (China Global Television Network) from CGTN Africa's studios in Nairobi, "Faces of Africa" covers extraordinary stories about people in Africa, known or unknown.
Stars: Chilu Lemba, Charles Kiarie, Ahmed Ag Kaedi, Youssou N'Dour
27. The Aegean: Apocalypse, Revelation, Environment (2008)
25 min | Documentary, Short
"We are assembled on a kind of latter day Ark which in itself is a symbol which would have delighted St. John. We shall be voyaging to Patmos on the sea of possibility from which life ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Star: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
28. Serenity Farm, the Movie (2021)
Thriller
A secret naval mission to the Congo, the crew contracted the Ebola Virus. Cousin William escaped the ship bringing the virus to his family. They became disfigured humans, kept alive by Victor as he worked to find a cure.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Michael Emery, John Rodsett
29. The Danube: A River of Life (2000)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Religious, scientific, environmental and political leaders travel the Danube from Passau, Germany, to its delta on the Black Sea and explore the common ground between pragmatic ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Star: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
30. Diagnosis Epilepsy: Now What? (2007)
81 min | Documentary
A diagnosis of epilepsy instantly raises numerous questions and fears for the parents and caretakers of a newly diagnosed child. Education is the key to understanding and managing all the ... See full summary »
Director: Camilla Denton Becket
31. The Mississippi: At the Tipping Point (2011)
47 min | Documentary
By clarifying the problems of the Mississippi, in this film scientists, religious leaders, environmental activists, politicians, and the media focus on ecological questions facing the ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Vandana Shiva
33. The Baltic: A Sea in Peril (2004)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Because it is almost entirely enclosed, the Baltic Sea is the world's most fragile and most polluted bodies of water. It receives pollution from nine countries that have widely disparate ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Vandana Shiva
34. The Arctic: Consequences of Human Folly (2008)
30 min | Documentary, Short
While the inhabitants of the Arctic have done nothing to contribute to the global ecological crisis, they are first in line to suffer the consequences. Greenland is the canary in the coal ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Vandana Shiva
35. The Amazon: The End of Infinity (2008)
42 min | Documentary, Short
The Amazon forest--The Green Ocean--is not only the source of the highest biodiversity of life on Earth, but it also acts as a massive hydrological pump that is essential to maintaining ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Vandana Shiva
38. Living Waters (2003)
18 min | Documentary, Short
The Religion Science and Environment symposia, lead by the Ecumenical Patriarch, brings together scientists and religious leaders in order to seek solutions to the ecological crisis ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Star: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
39.
ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode:
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Case of the Silk King
(1992)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Soleil Moon Frye, Chad Allen, Charles Haid, Pat Morita
40.
Faces of Africa (2012– )
Episode:
Sons of Africa
(2013)
29 min | Documentary, News
Their fathers did not see eye to eye and their relationship ended up in war. But their sons, Jaffar Amin, the son of Idi Amin, former president of Uganda, and Madaraka Nyerere, son of ... See full summary »
Director: James Becket | Stars: Idi Amin, Jaffar Amin, Macharia Maina, Julius Nyerere