David Strathairn Movies

In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.

This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe leader as he falls in love and strives for peace.

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is...

Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by...

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle...

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

Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty...

Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama...

Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.

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."

A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts...

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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

Tammy and husband David lead a quiet life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sharing a home with David’s parents, Bill and Venida. David and...

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...

A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning...

Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician...

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

When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.

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...