All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Jeff Daniels, ranked

In 2035, the crew of the Ares III mission to Mars is exploring Acidalia Planitia on Martian solar day ( sol ) 18 of their 31-sol expedition. The mission is scrubbed, but as the crew evacuates, astronaut Mark Watney is struck by debris and lost in the storm.

The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. It follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal.

This sweeping drama narrates the epic tale of the three-day battle that permanently altered the trajectory of the American Civil War. The compassionate retelling unfolds through the perspectives of the soldiers involved.

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.

Widowed Aurora Greenway keeps several suitors at arm’s length in Houston, focusing instead on her close, but controlling, relationship with daughter Emma. Anxious to escape her mother, Emma marries callow young college professor Flap Horton over her mother’s objections, moves away, and has three children.

Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two kind but dimwitted men, are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island. Mistaking the crooks for debt collectors, the duo flee the apartment and return later to find that Mental and Shay have ransacked the apartment and decapitated Harry’s parakeet.

Eddie, a veteran and an amusement park maintenance worker, arrives in Heaven after a fatal accident. There, he encounters five people from his past: the Blue Man, the Captain, Marguerite, Ruby, and Tala. Each person demonstrates how Eddie influenced their lives, or vice versa, revealing that his impact was not always positive.

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K’s voice demo fails less than an hour before its unveiling at Flint Center. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs demands engineer Andy Hertzfeld to fix it, threatening to publicly implicate him in the presentation’s credits if he does not. Jobs bonds with Lisa over her MacPaint art and agrees to provide more money and a house.

On December 17, 1776, General George Washington, plagued by superior British forces and suffering from a diminishing army due to disease, desertion and lack of funds, faces the possibility of losing the war for American independence. However, on Christmas Eve a week later, Washington makes a bold and courageous decision. Taking a chance with a daring surprise attack against a group of experienced Hessian mercenaries, he leads his army across the treacherous Delaware River covered in ice.

Truman Capote, known in New York City society for his wit and fashion flair as much as he is recognized in literary circles, reads a brief article about the murder of a farming family in Holcomb, Kansas. Curious as to how the residents would react to a brutal massacre in their midst, the author and his friend, Nelle Harper Lee, travel to the rural Midwestern town, so Capote can interview people for a magazine article.

The story follows the Naval trial proceedings involving a young lieutenant who took the initiative to relieve his captain of command of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine during a tumultuous typhoon. This high-quality telefilm masterfully presents a courtroom drama that showcases its excellence.