Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-jfk-assassination"

1. Capricorn One (1977)

PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston

Votes: 24,835

2. Deep in the Heart (1983)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

Director: Tony Garnett | Stars: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann

Votes: 418

3. The Odessa File (1974)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm

Votes: 12,180 | Gross: $1.11M

4. JFK: What the Doctors Saw (2023)

92 min | Documentary, History

Startling medical observations about JFK's wounds when seven doctors who were in the Parkland Hospital ER reunite to discuss a day none of them can forget.

Director: Barbara Shearer | Stars: Ronald C. Jones, Lawrence E. Klein, Joe D. Goldstrich, Kenneth Salyer

Votes: 557

5. Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (2021)

PG-13 | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History

From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.

Director: Marcus A. Clarke | Stars: Ilyasah Shabazz, Rahman Ali, Cornel West, Todd Boyd

Votes: 1,222

6. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, History

With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.

Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan

Votes: 56

7. JFK: The Final Evidence (2023)

Documentary, Action, Crime

In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.

Stars: Emma Long, David J. Hall, Chris Moran

Votes: 26

8. Volya vselennoy (1988)

NC-17 | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

To Dima predict fast death in accident. The neighbor pilot suggests the boy to fly to Leningrad. Dima sends the farewell letter to Lena and to spite "will of the Universe" makes the courageous decision.

Director: Dmitri Mikhleyev | Stars: Natalya Guseva, Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko, Andrei Baboshkin, Denis Germanov

Votes: 73

9. JFK: The Lost Bullet (2011 TV Movie)

Documentary, History

The uncovering of the 3 shots fired that resulted in the assassination of Jon F. Kennedy

Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Max Holland, Dave Markun, Michael Wilder, Fred Nichals Ciacelli

Votes: 109

10. The Killing of JFK: Minute by Minute (2023 TV Special)

Documentary, History

A gripping examination of the events around the infamous assassination from three crucial perspectives, including new information about what J Edgar Hoover knew before the shooting.

Director: Ian A. Hunt | Stars: Onyeka Nubia, Clive Webb, Althea Legal-Miller, Philip Shenon

11. Father Ted (1995–1998)
Episode: Tentacles of Doom (1996)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy

Craggy Island gets a visit by three bishops who have come to upgrade a local holy relic.

Director: Declan Lowney | Stars: Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn

Votes: 605

12. Profit (1996–1997)
Episode: Cupid (1997)

45 min | Crime, Drama

Problems with a merger open new opportunities for Profit, but reveal secrets that may cause trouble. Bobby plot get herself a rich man causes problems for Profit at Gracen & Gracen.

Director: Scott Paulin | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr

Votes: 68

13. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Lisa the Beauty Queen (1992)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Homer enters Lisa in the Little Miss Springfield pageant to build her self-esteem.

Director: Mark Kirkland | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 3,441

14. RichPlanet TV (2009– )
Episode: NASA/CIA Puppets & Space Travel Perception Management (2015)

Documentary, History, News

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Stars: Richard D. Hall, Carl James, Edgar D. Mitchell, Robert Picardo

15. Blackwater (2023)
Episode: Avsnitt 6 (2023)

58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

It is winter and the heavily pregnant Annie decides to leave the Stjärnberg collective together with Mia. In 1991, Birger and Johan visit Dan in Stockholm, who tells them where he was on Midsummer Night 1973.

Director: Mikael Marcimain | Stars: Alva Adermark, Alba August, Asta Kamma August, Pernilla August

Votes: 123

16. Pan Am (2011–2012)
Episode: Romance Languages (2012)

TV-PG | 40 min | Drama, History, Romance

Maggie reveals her kiss with Amanda, and Dean is jealous of Colette and a handsome, mysterious man. Laura discovers that her nude photos were on display in an art gallery. A smuggler targets a co-conspirator.

Director: John David Coles | Stars: Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse

Votes: 232

17. America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010– )
Episode: 5-1 (2010)

Documentary, Crime, History

We conclude the countdown of the greatest unsolved American mysteries and crimes with three cigars that changed the course of the American Civil War and a presidential assassination conspiracy.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Rick Beyer, Paul Aron, Jack Levin, Michael Newton

18. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: The Legend of Camelot (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

Numbed by grief after the assassination of her husband, Jackie crafts JFK's legacy, while Bobby becomes a champion of the dispossessed and the family's next great political hope.

Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sally Bedell Smith, Richard Mahoney, Kate Andersen Brower

Votes: 51

19. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: The Legacy (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

Tragedy strikes again when Bobby Kennedy is assassinated; Ted Kennedy must overcome scandal and misfortune to continue the family legacy and pass the torch to the next generation.

Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Adam Walinsky, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Barbara Perry

Votes: 42