David Strathairn Movies

A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property...

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous...

The story of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on the president and who, with his wife, became the...

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's...

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three...

After agreeing to meet an obscene caller at a bar, a young New York reporter witnesses a murder and becomes an unwilling player in a dangerous game...

This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who...

Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support...

A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

An English teacher sells encyclopedias while searching for the meaning of life.

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a...

True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and...

Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at...

Rage and intolerance collide with compassion Academy-Award nominated David Strathairn portrays Danny Dunkleman, a Jewish liberal humanist, and the...

An emotionally troubled man named David takes a minister hostage. John, a police superintendent tries to negotiate with David's demands while fending...

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of...

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum advantage in the American Civil War.