All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Mel Gibson, 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.

In 1925 Lynchburg, Virginia, young Desmond Doss nearly kills his brother during roughhousing. That event and his Seventh-day Adventist upbringing reinforce Desmond’s belief in the commandment Thou shalt not kill.#Fifteen years later, Doss takes an injured man to the hospital and meets a nurse, Dorothy Schutte. They strike a romance, and Doss tells Dorothy of his interest in medical work. His father, Tom, a Great War veteran, is deeply upset by the decision.

Shortly after his 50th birthday, LAPD Homicide Sergeant Roger Murtaugh is partnered with Sergeant Martin Riggs, a transfer from narcotics. Murtaugh is contacted by Michael Hunsaker, a Vietnam War buddy and banker, but before they can meet, Murtaugh learns that Hunsaker’s daughter, Amanda, apparently committed suicide by jumping from her apartment balcony.

In London in 1872, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon, is found not guilty by reason of insanity for killing an innocent stranger, George Merrett, and is sent to Broadmoor. Some Oxford University Press oversight committee members are contemptuous, but Freddie Furnivall describes their current abject defeat, saying that the extraordinary Murray may be what they need.

In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces. After arriving in Vietnam, he learns that an American base has been attacked and is ordered to take his 400 men after the enemy and eliminate the North Vietnamese attackers although intelligence has no idea of the number of enemy troops.

Face down on the kitchen table of an underground abortionist, barely conscious and with two large bullet wounds in his back, lies career thief and former Marine Porter. The unlicensed doctor uses the whiskey he is drinking as sterilizing agent and digs out the bullets. Porter begins tracking down his estranged wife Lynn and former partner-in-crime Val Resnick.

One of the most lovable and captivating movie stars in America was Steve McQueen. McQueen appeared to have everything he could want: stardom, expensive cars and mansions, and more money than he could possibly need. Follow McQueen fan Pastor Greg Laurie as he sets out in his mint Mustang to travel the nation in pursuit of the untold truth about the actor’s redemptive final chapters.

A group of chickens live on an egg farm run by the Tweedys. One day, the chickens’ leader, Ginger, observes a rooster named Rocky Rhodes crash-land in the farm and hides him from the Tweedys. Rocky saves her, giving them time to warn the others of the Tweedys’ plans and only a short time to escape.

In the American Old West, gambler Bret Maverick is on his way to a major five-card draw poker tournament being held on the paddle steamer Lauren Belle. Joseph owes $1,000 to Maverick; they swindle that amount from a Russian Archduke with a scheme that “allows” him to hunt and kill an Indian.

In Denmark, Prince Hamlet finds himself involved in a conspiracy of powerful interests within the royal palace. Cruel uncle Claudius kills his brother and takes the power of the kingdom. After an encounter with the restless ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet feigns madness and plots to take vengeance.

In 1607, the Susan Constant sails from London to the New World, carrying English settlers from the Virginia Company. In the Powhatan tribe in Tsenacommacah, North America, Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, fears being possibly wed to Kocoum, a brave warrior whom she sees as too serious for her own free-spirited personality.

A young woman named Lydia buys ammunition at a megastore for her boyfriend Jonah Pincerna and his gang. However, Lydia accidentally shoots Jonah in the neck and flees the house, escaping the crime scene and Jonah’s gang. He picks up Lydia, takes her back to his trailer, and learns that she is both a drug addict and an alcoholic.