Oliver Platt

A pair of washed up actors become passengers on an ocean liner filled with miscreants and impostors.

Failed American comedian Tommy Fawkes lives under the shadow of his successful comic father. Trying to find his own niche in life, he begins searching for the funniest sketches in the world and travels to Blackpool where he encounters the tragi-comic Parker family and begins to uncover his own dark family secret.

Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.

From PBS - Learn the story of a wildfire that devoured more than three million acres in the Rockies in 1910.

1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was the year when Berkeley students rose up in protest, African Americans fought back against injustice in Harlem, and Barry Goldwater’s conservative revolution took over the Republican Party. Based in part on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by Jon Margolis, 1964 follows some of the most influential figures of the time—Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan—but also brings out from the shadows the stories of ordinary Americans whose principled stands would set the country onto a new and different course.

Like something out of a dime store novel or a Hollywood Cold War thriller, the story of William Alexander Morgan has it all — adventure and romance, mobsters and spies, and a cast of characters that includes J. Edgar Hoover, Chè Guevera, and Fidel Castro. The film is a quintessential American story of a man who reinvented himself, transforming from a failure to a hero and celebrity.

Henry Ford paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

Meet the scientist whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. Mary-Louise Parker is the voice of Rachel Carson in this moving and intimate portrait. Rachel Carson provides an illuminating and inspiring portrait of a seminal figure whose writings changed the course of our nation and are still highly relevant today.

A young boy's imagination summons cowboy legend Pecos Bill; who helps him save the family farm from a greedy land-grabber. With the help of a lumberjack and a railroad worker; they all embark on a surprise-filled adventure.

A student filmmaker vengefully turns his camera on his bitter mom and washed-up rock star stepdad in this dramedy based on a documentary.

A documentary film by award-winning director Ric Burns, The Pilgrims chronicles the deep history, origins, and critical first decade of the first permanent English colony in New England.

A traumatized undercover agent seeks the support of a therapy group.

Set in 1920s Chicago, this is the story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb--wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.

Get ready to sing, dance and laugh all the way from A to Z! When Baby Bear has trouble remembering his letters, he goes to the one bird in the world who can help him. Big Bird's amazing learning "method" which features songs, games and special surprises, makes learning the Letters as easy as A B C. It's 26 times the fun when you learn the alphabet with Big Bird and friends!

A tale of lovers able to face anything except the loss of each other.

The con is on and so are the laughs in this two-fisted action-comedy packed full of surprises! James Woods and Louis Gossett, Jr. are a potent one-two punch as a con man and an over-the-hill boxer out to scam Bruce Dern out of a small fortune!

Three loyal swordsmen and an eager recruit unite to protect the King.

Toni Collette stars as veteran rock journalist who has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine's editor by going on search to discover what really happened to a long lost rock god, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.

When a man is eaten alive by a mysterious creature in the beautiful Lake Placid area of New England, New York scientist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) arrives to investigate and, examining the evidence, soon confirms that the creature is a giant crocodile.

When his daughter is killed in a high school shooting, a grieving father holds the wife of the gun’s manufacturer hostage to get revenge.