Author: Mark Franklin

Richard Gere is Jack Sommersby, a Confederate soldier who returns home to a warm welcome from everyone but wife Laurel (Jodie Foster). She remembers a cold, unloving man, one …

The Civil War has just broken out, leaving the settlers in the wilds of Texas in a precarious situation. The soldiers who protected them are heading off to war; …

The second of three TV movies featuring Christopher Reeve as Alan Johnson and Tony Todd as Britt Johnson, one white, one black, but self-proclaimed brothers. This time around, Britt …

Christopher Reeve is Alan Johnson, Tony Todd is Britt Johnson. One is white, one is black. After the Civil War, they travel to Texas as brothers and start a …

Rosalind Chao is Lalu, a young Chinese woman sold by her father during a three-year drought in her homeland. She’s taken first to San Franciso, then to a Oregon …

Gary Cole plays George Custer in this two-part, made-for-TV movie about his career as a post-Civil War Indian fighter. He’s portrayed as a man who fears his fame and …

John Clark Gable is John Coleman, one of three cowboys who decide there might be more of a future in robbing banks and stages than punching cows following a …

Eric Schweig is Theyendangea, who takes the American name Joseph Brandt in this movie about the Iroquois confederation. Six tribes vowed to live together peacefully, giving that federation considerable …

Corbin Bernsen is Brent Mallick, a Northerner trying to gobble up ranches from Southerners who can’t pay their taxes after the Civil War. Among the ranches he’s after is …

Martin Sheen is Jackson Hardin, a former Confederate officer who heads south of the Rio Grande to offer pardons to Southern soldiers who refused to surrender at the end …