Daniel Petrie Movies

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a...

During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4...

A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.

Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a...

In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush....

A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the...

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a...

An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.

A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a...

A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

A pitcher of a major-league baseball team finds out that his teammate and pal is desperately trying to hide that he is dying of a terminal disease so...

Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many...

An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to...

Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of...

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great...