John Blackwood

Acting

John Blackwood

Acting credits

Life poster
6.0

In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

Life

2015

Tru Confessions poster
6.9

Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything...

Tru Confessions

2002

Beyond the Call poster
6.5

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.

Beyond the Call

1996

The Pentagon Papers poster
5.8

This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question would eventually become famous as the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the true reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

The Pentagon Papers

2003

Critical Choices poster
6.3

A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.

Critical Choices

1996

Heritage Minutes: Sitting Bull poster
NR

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

Heritage Minutes: Sitting Bull

1995

Last Man Standing poster
5.0

Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets a job fighting in a gym run by Napoleon. Roo is often tormented by memories of shock treatment and inhumane conditions. His friends, Capser and Ratty help him along the way, until he gets brutally beaten up by one of Napoleon's fighters...

Last Man Standing

1987

Deadliest Sea poster
5.3

Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps in the Bering Sea, but the boat and crew are soon victims of a powerful and relentless storm.

Deadliest Sea

2009

Night Friend poster
3.7

A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.

Night Friend

1988

Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe poster
3.5

An alien policeman comes to Earth to hunt down a renegade of his own race.

Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe

1990