All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Sam Shepard, ranked

The film begins in 1947 at the Muroc Army Air Field in California, with civilian and military test pilots flight-testing high-speed aircraft, including the rocket-powered Bell X-1. While horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, the evening before his historic flight, Yeager falls and breaks his ribs, an injury which inhibits his ability to lock the door on the X-1.

Following the ousting of the central government in 1993 amid the civil war in Somalia, the United Nations Security Council authorizes a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. Outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force capture Osman Ali Atto, a faction leader selling arms to Aidid’s militia.

In 1881, young starstruck Robert Ford seeks out Jesse James when the James gang is planning a train robbery in Blue Cut, Missouri, making unsuccessful attempts to join the gang with the help of his older brother Charley, already a member. Bob becomes more admiring of Jesse before being sent away, where he stays at the farmhouse of his widowed sister, Martha Bolton, where he rejoins his brother Charley, Hite, and Liddil.

Set in 1897 great Gold Rush,the series follows the courageous expedition of two friends as they navigate the treacherous North American wilderness in pursuit of the thriving Klondike boom town known as Dawson City. Within its confines, a tapestry of murder, vengeance, wealth, and redemption unfolds, promising a captivating saga of high stakes and profound transformations.

The story is set several years after the events of ‘Lonesome Dove.’ Captain Woodrow F. Call, played by James Garner in this adaptation, is now retired and living in the town of Lonesome Dove. The story follows Call as he is reluctantly drawn back into the life of a Texas Ranger to track down and capture a young, elusive outlaw named Joey Garza.

The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Violet’s middle daughter Ivy is single and the only one living locally; Barbara, her oldest, who has inherited her mother’s mean streak, arrives from Colorado with her husband Bill and 14-year-old daughter Jean.

Retired police detective Jerry Black is seen mumbling to himself, apparently drunk, sitting on a bench outside a disused gas station. The party is interrupted by the discovery of a murdered child, Ginny Larsen. Jerry decides to go with another detective, Stan Krolak, to the scene of the crime.

Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. Due to his earlier diplomatic background in Niger, Wilson is approached by Plame’s CIA colleagues to travel there and glean information as to whether yellowcake uranium is being procured by Iraq for use in the construction of nuclear weapons.

Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. Due to his earlier diplomatic background in Niger, Wilson is approached by Plame’s CIA colleagues to travel there and glean information as to whether yellowcake uranium is being procured by Iraq for use in the construction of nuclear weapons.

Richard Dane awakens to find an intruder in his home and has to kill in self-defense. The problem is the intruder’s father, Ben Russel, is a murderous ex-con bent on avenging his son’s death. Richard, a small-time businessman, is in way over his head. Soon the two find out they’re both being misled and manipulated and find themselves drawn into a web of psychopathic sex, violence, and corruption.

The peaceful town of San Piedro has been stirred up by a murder trial, causing quite a controversy. Ishmael Chambers, a resident journalist, is deeply affected by the trial when he discovers that his former lover is involved. Through his investigation into the murder, he discovers some surprising leads that eventually lead him to an unexpected revelation.

After two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg, are killed by an assassin named Khamel, Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing her theory on why they were killed. An informant calling himself Garcia contacts Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham with information about the assassinations, but suddenly disappears.