All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring David Morse, ranked

At a Louisiana assisted-living home in 1999, elderly retiree Paul Edgecomb becomes emotional while viewing the film Top Hat. His companion Elaine becomes concerned, and Paul explains to her that the film reminded him of events that he witnessed in 1935, when he was a correctional officer at Cold Mountain Penitentiary’s death row, nicknamed The Green Mile.

The series chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

The series is told from the point of view of Henry Shackleford, a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of John Brown’s motley crew of abolitionist soldiers during the time of Bleeding Kansas, eventually participating in the famous 1859 raid on the Army depot at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Brown’s raid failed to initiate the slave revolt he intended, but was the instigating event that started the American Civil War.

Dr. Ellie Arroway works for the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Four years later, around 1996, with Drumlin seeking to close the SETI program, Arroway discovers a signal repeating a sequence of prime numbers, apparently sent from the star system Vega about 26 light-years away.

Dr. Bennet Omalu pioneered the identification of chronic brain damage as a contributing factor in the deaths of certain National Football League players. The narrative traces Dr. Omalu’s David-vs.-Goliath odyssey, illuminating his role as a forensic neuropathologist who first uncovered football-related brain trauma in a professional player. His relentless battle was not only about revealing the truth behind this devastating condition but also about humanizing the toll taken on athletes in high-impact sports.

Former UN field agent Gerry Lane, his wife Karin, and their two daughters are in heavy Philadelphia traffic when the city is overrun by zombies. UN Deputy Secretary-General Thierry Umutoni, an old friend of Gerry, sends a helicopter that extracts the Lanes to a U.S. Navy vessel in the Atlantic Ocean where scientists and military personnel are analyzing the worldwide outbreaks.

Middle-aged photographer and businessman Robert Bobby Garfield returns to his old hometown upon learning that his best friend, decorated soldier John Sully Sullivan has died in a traffic accident and begins recollecting his past when he visits an abandoned house where he used to live.

Ignatius Ig Perrish is the prime suspect when his girlfriend, Merrin, is raped and murdered. After a vigil led by Merrin’s father, who believes Ig to be guilty, Ig drinks heavily, urinates on Merrin’s memorial, and wakes up with a pair of horns protruding from his head.

Alice Bowman moves to South Americanc because her engineer husband, Peter Bowman, has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon. While driving one morning through the city, Peter is caught in traffic and then ambushed and abducted by guerrilla rebels.

Alice Bowman moves to South Americanc because her engineer husband, Peter Bowman, has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon. While driving one morning through the city, Peter is caught in traffic and then ambushed and abducted by guerrilla rebels.

Under the care of English physician Guy Luthan at New York’s Gramercy Hospital, a homeless individual meets a gruesome end. To Luthan’s astonishment, the patient and his medical record vanish without a trace. Despite being instructed by his superiors to let the matter go, Luthan refuses to abandon the case. His investigation leads him to a disturbing discovery: the exploitation of homeless individuals for scientific experimentation.

During a red-eye flight of a Lockheed L-1011 from Los Angeles International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport, the plane flies through a strange light, and most of the passengers and flight crew disappear, leaving behind only personal artifacts. Pilot Brian Engle, deadheading on the flight, takes the controls; unable to contact any other airport, he decides to land the plane at Bangor International Airport.