Joseph Sargent – MRQE

World War II: When Lions Roared (TV)

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This made-for-TV historical drama focuses on the sometimes uneasy alliances between three of the world’s great leaders — Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston Churchill (Bob Hoskins), and Joseph Stalin (Michael Caine) — as they met in 1943 for the Tehran Conference, in which they discussed the Allied drive against Germany and the possible postwar relationship between the three nations. With all dialogue for the three principle characters drawn from transcripts and reporting of the event, Then There Were Giants was first aired as a two-part miniseries; it was later released on home video under the title World War II: When Lions Roared.

Mandela and de Klerk (TV)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela’s 27-year struggle to end apartheid.

Passion Flower (TV)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father.

Sweet Nothing in My Ear (TV)

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring (TV)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.

Miss Rose White (TV)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rose White is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust wiped out her family, she is stunned to learn her older sister somehow survived the horror and is coming to America. The sisters’ reunion is complicated by Lusia’s memories of her struggles to survive and the revelation of past family secrets.

Never Forget (TV)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family’s extermination at Auschwitz, and she is a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts. When challenged by a hate group to prove that Jews were actually gassed at Auschwitz, Mel Mermelstein rises to the occasion with the support of his wife and children, in spite of the dangers to himself, his business, and his family. William John Cox (Dabney Coleman) provides legal help (pro bono) as a lawyer, originally a Roman Catholic from Texas.

Skylark (TV)

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jacob’s farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

Bojangles (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The life of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.

The Night That Panicked America (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles’ radio play, “The War of the Worlds” accidentally provoked.