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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an American anthology television program sponsored by Hallmark Cards that began broadcasting in 1951. Originally presenting live dramatic stories, the program shifted in later years to televised plays and made-for-television movies adapted from literary and historical works....

The Day After is a 1983 television film directed by Nicholas Meyer that originally aired on the ABC network. It depicts the devastating impact of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City. Starring actors such as Jason Rob...

Duel is a 1971 American television thriller directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Richard Matheson, based on Matheson's short story. Dennis Weaver plays a motorist pursued across isolated California roads by the unseen driver of a tanker truck, with suspense built largely through movemen...

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1974 American television film adapted from Ernest J. Gaines's novel and broadcast by CBS. Cicely Tyson portrays a fictional Black woman whose recollections span enslavement, emancipation, Reconstruction, segregation, and the civil rights movement. Presente...

Brian's Song is a 1971 American television film about Chicago Bears teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, played by James Caan and Billy Dee Williams. Based on their real friendship, the drama follows their competition, mutual support, and Piccolo's illness and death from cancer. First broadcast...

Matlock is an American legal drama centered on criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock, portrayed by Andy Griffith. The NBC television series ran from 1986 to 1995, initially airing six seasons before moving to ABC for its final three. Production was handled by multiple companies including The Fred Si...

Sybil is a 1976 American made-for-television drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and broadcast on NBC. It stars Sally Field as a young woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder, stemming from severe childhood trauma, and Joanne Woodward as the psychiatrist who treats her. Based on the boo...

A Christmas Carol is a 2019 British television adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella. The three-part series was produced by Steven Knight and featured executive producers Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott. It premiered in the UK on BBC One and subsequently aired as a single television film on FX in the Un...

Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian-American television miniseries that dramatizes the 1945–1946 Nuremberg trials of prominent Nazi war criminals. Aired on TNT and directed by Yves Simoneau, it stars Alec Baldwin as United States Supreme Court Justice and Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. The series expl...

Trilogy of Terror is a 1975 American made-for-television horror anthology film directed by Dan Curtis. The film stars Karen Black in all three unconnected segments, portraying four distinct characters, including twin sisters. Each story is based on the works of acclaimed horror author Richard Mathes...

These Tracey Ullman Show shorts introduced the world to the Simpsons family in the early 1980s. They offered brief comedic glimpses into the daily lives of Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa. These initial segments established the characters and humor that would become hallmarks of *The Simpsons*, a globa...

Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors is a 2015 NBC television film that dramatizes a chapter of Dolly Parton's childhood in rural Tennessee. The biographical drama focuses on young Dolly's experience growing up in a large, impoverished family and the significance of a patchwork coat her mother made, w...

An American Christmas Carol is a 1979 television film that relocates Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to New England during the Great Depression. Henry Winkler stars as Benedict Slade, a miserly businessman whose encounters with three spirits force him to examine the human cost of his actions. Th...

Helter Skelter is a 1976 American made-for-television crime drama based on Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, the book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Broadcast by CBS as a two-part production, it dramatizes the investigation and prosecution surrounding the Charles Manson mur...

Body Bags is a 1993 American horror anthology television film made for Showtime. It consists of separate horror segments introduced by John Carpenter, who also appears as the on-screen host, and includes segments directed by Carpenter and Tobe Hooper. The film uses the anthology format to present mu...

Flight 93 is a 2006 American television film directed by Peter Markle. It dramatizes the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including the passengers' attempt to regain control of the aircraft. The film is a historical drama based on the known tim...

Stalked by My Doctor is an American television thriller directed by Doug Campbell and released in 2015. Eric Roberts plays a doctor whose professional relationship with a young patient develops into an obsessive and dangerous fixation. The film is the first entry in a series of television thrillers...

The Fire Next Time is a 1993 American made-for-television disaster miniseries directed by Tom McLoughlin. Its story depicts a future United States facing severe environmental disruption associated with climate change, using family and political drama within a large-scale disaster narrative. The titl...

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County is a 1998 American pseudo-documentary horror television film directed by Dean Alioto and broadcast by UPN. Presented as home-video footage recovered from a missing family, it depicts an extraterrestrial attack during Thanksgiving in Lake County, Montana. The...

Hanging by a Thread is a 1979 American television disaster film produced by Irwin Allen Productions for NBC. Directed by Georg Fenady, it follows several people trapped in a disabled cable car above a ravine, with the characters' histories presented through flashbacks. The cast includes Sam Groom, P...

The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake is a 1990 American television disaster miniseries directed by Larry Elikann. Its story imagines the effects of a catastrophic earthquake in the Los Angeles area and follows the resulting human and social disruption. The production belongs to the disaster...

Final Days of Planet Earth is a 2006 American science-fiction television film directed by Robert Lieberman. Its story follows a growing threat to human civilization that is connected to an alien or otherwise unexplained force, combining elements of disaster fiction, invasion drama, and speculative s...

The Cover Girl Murders is a 1993 American television mystery thriller directed by James A. Contner and starring Lee Majors, Jennifer O'Neill, and Beverly Johnson. Its story follows a magazine publisher, an editor, and a group of models who travel to an isolated island for a swimsuit photo shoot, whe...

Blackout is a disaster television film depicting the cascading effects of a catastrophic power grid failure across a major city, exploring the social breakdown that follows an extended electrical outage.

Terror on the 40th Floor is a 1974 American made-for-television disaster drama directed by Jerry Jameson. The story follows business people who remain in a high-rise after a Christmas Eve office party and become trapped as a fire rises from the basement through the building. John Forsythe, Joseph Ca...

Meltdown: Days of Destruction is a 2006 American television disaster film directed by John Lafia. Its story begins when an asteroid passes close to Earth and changes the planet's orbit, bringing it nearer to the Sun and causing temperatures to rise rapidly. Police officer Tom Bracket, played by Casp...

Behemoth is a 2011 made-for-television disaster film directed by W. D. Hogan and produced for the Syfy channel. Set in a small mountain town, it follows a geologist and his family as mounting seismic and volcanic activity signals the awakening of a colossal prehistoric creature whose emergence threa...

Category 8 is a 2013 science fiction disaster television film directed by Kevin Fair, focusing on a catastrophic solar flare that threatens to cause a global extinction event.

Stonados is a 2013 American-Canadian science-fiction action disaster television film directed by Jason Bourque and written by Rafael Jordan. The story is set around Boston and follows former storm chaser Joe Randall as unusual waterspouts develop off the coast and begin producing tornadoes that thro...