
Production
Jake Eberts
Born 1941-07-10 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jake Eberts (July 10, 1941 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such Academy Award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the direct-to video Hero of the Rails (1996) and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Eberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
5.1A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.
Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
2014
8.0A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details, scouting locations, the buffalo hunt, the Lakota Sioux, and the recognition and success the film achieved.
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003
Who is Alfred Lepetit? Unknown by the general public but glorified by all the movie industry, Alfred is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his film career. A portrait of a living legend among stars.
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
2000
Behind the camera
4.5Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Super Mario Bros.
1993
7.2A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Open Range
2003
6.6World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
7.1Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Two Brothers
2004
6.6Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
The Education of Little Tree
1997
5.7Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him?
Grey Owl
1999
6.6Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
City of Joy
1992
6.1A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.
Whatever Lola wants
2007
5.7Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
The Wind in the Willows
1996
7.2When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
Snow in August
2001