All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Brian Cox, ranked

In 1280, King Edward “Longshanks” invades and conquers Scotland following the death of Alexander III of Scotland, who left no heir to the throne. Young William Wallace witnesses Longshanks’ betrayal and execution of several Scottish nobles, suffers the deaths of his father and brother fighting against the English, and is taken abroad on a pilgrimage throughout Europe by his paternal uncle Argyle, who has Wallace educated.

The documentary traces Jack Johnson’s odyssey from his roots as the son of former slaves to his entrance into the brutal realm of professional boxing. Within this unforgiving arena, he fought his way up through the ranks, ultimately becoming the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World. Accompanied by over fifty photographs and drawing from a wealth of new material, the biography of Jack Johnson unfolds.

Amid the heightening Russian conflict with Napoleon, five aristocratic families confront the looming prospect of their lives being irrevocably altered.

In the Mediterranean Sea, fishermen rescue an American adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. The skipper finds a laser projector under the man’s hip that gives the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich.

On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun at a lovers’ lane in Vallejo, California. One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle receives encrypted letters written by the killer calling himself the Zodiac, who threatens to kill a dozen people unless his coded message containing his identity is published.

Two years after their disappearance, Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz are in Goa, India. Gretkov directs Kirill to Goa to kill Bourne; however, Bourne spots him at the market and on the beach and flees with Marie in a vehicle.

The self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Too shy and socially awkward to speak with her upon arriving at her office and after he received the surprising news that Donald’s spec script for a cliché psychological thriller, The 3, is selling for six or seven figures, Charlie resorts to attending McKee’s seminar in New York and asks him for advice.

A car pulls up short on a New York City street, and Montgomery #Monty# Brogan gets out with his buddy Kostya to look at a dog lying in the road. Monty decides to take the dog to a nearby clinic instead. Frank is a hotshot trader on Wall Street; Jacob is an introverted high school teacher with a crush on 17-year-old Mary, one of his students.

In the words of Hitchens, Kissinger deserves prosecution “for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture.” He further calls him “a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.”

At the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attacks the President of the United States. Later, Logan returns to Professor Xavier’s school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro. Stryker’s forces invade the school and abduct some of the students.

A battle between the Greek armies of King Agamemnon of Mycenae and King Triopas of Thessaly is quickly averted when the great warrior Achilles, fighting for Agamemnon, defeats Boagrius, Triopas’ champion, in single combat after Achilles was initially absent from the battle. Upon learning of this, Menelaus meets with Agamemnon, his elder brother, and asks him to help take Troy.

Will Graham is a former FBI criminal profiler who has retired following a mental breakdown after being attacked by a cannibalistic serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, whom he captured. Graham is approached at his Florida home by his former FBI superior Jack Crawford, who is seeking help with a new serial killer case.