TV Movies I Like (in no particular order)
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1. The Thorn Birds (1983)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Romance
In the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful niece of a vast sheep station owner stand powerless before God's will, tormented by desire. How far are they willing to go in the name of love?
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown
Votes: 10,177
2. North and South, Book I (1985)
TV-PG | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 11,894
3. North and South, Book II (1986)
95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Mary Crosby
Votes: 6,206
4. Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994)
91 min | Drama, History, Romance
The Civil War has just ended, but things in the country aren't much better, especially in the south.
Stars: Philip Casnoff, Kyle Chandler, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lesley-Anne Down
Votes: 2,873
5. Love Comes Softly (2003 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A young woman on her way to a new life in the 1800's suddenly finds herself a widow. Now she must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. Can any of them find love again?
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, Corbin Bernsen, Skye McCole Bartusiak
Votes: 6,968
6. Love's Enduring Promise (2004 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Family, Western
The Davis family saga continues as Missie's romance with a wealthy surveyor is interrupted by her father's life-threatening accident. However, the mysterious stranger who begins helping them makes Missie second-guess her true feelings.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: January Jones, Logan Bartholomew, Dale Midkiff, Katherine Heigl
Votes: 3,651
7. Love's Long Journey (2005 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Family, Western
Newlywed settlers (Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew) face hardship as they build new lives.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew, William Morgan Sheppard, James Tupper
Votes: 2,383
8. Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Family, Western
Tragedy tests the faith and love of a family of pioneers as they carve out a life on the frontier.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Logan Bartholomew, Frank McRae
Votes: 2,048 | Gross: $0.25M
9. Love's Unending Legacy (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A widow (Erin Cottrell) and her son return home to be near her parents.
Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith
Votes: 1,742
10. Love's Unfolding Dream (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Family, Western
Belinda Tyler struggles to choose between her career aspirations as a doctor and her feelings for a New York lawyer who wants a traditional wife.
Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Dale Midkiff, Robert Pine
Votes: 1,434
11. Love Takes Wing (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Family, Romance, Western
A doctor (Sarah Jones) helps townspeople who fear a mysterious illness.
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips | Stars: Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Jordan Bridges, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 1,506
12. Love Finds a Home (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Western
A frontier doctor (Sarah Jones) clashes with a nursemald (Patty Duke) while caring for the woman's pregnant daughter inlaw (Haylle Duf).
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Jordan Bridges, Patty Duke
Votes: 1,175
13. Love's Everlasting Courage (2011 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Western
In the early west, a young husband's trials in raising his child after his wife's unexpected death.
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Wes Brown, Cheryl Ladd, Bruce Boxleitner, Julie Mond
Votes: 1,039
14. Love Begins (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Family, Western
A traveling man (Wes Brown) falls in love with a woman (Julie Mond) who runs a farm with her sister.
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Wes Brown, Julie Mond, Abigail Mavity, Jere Burns
Votes: 1,282
15. The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A family flees the city for the wilderness. They learn to live with nature and more importantly, that when one has family, one has everything.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Robert Logan, Susan Damante, Hollye Holmes, Ham Larsen
Votes: 1,784 | Gross: $31.22M
16. Adventures of the Wilderness Family 3 (1979)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Family
The family who went "back to nature" by homesteading in Colorado's Rocky Mountains is threatened by possible federal opposition to their mining claims on the land they moved to.
Director: Jack Couffer | Stars: Robert Logan, Susan Damante, Heather Rattray, Ham Larsen
Votes: 630
17. The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978)
G | 105 min | Adventure, Family
The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zuniga | Stars: Robert Logan, Susan Damante, Heather Rattray, Ham Larsen
Votes: 764
18. Christy (1994–1995)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, History
Christy tells the story of an idealistic nineteen year old who leaves the comforts of her city home to teach school in the impoverished Appalachian community of Cutter Gap, Tennessee in 1912.
Stars: Kellie Martin, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, Tyne Daly, Randall Batinkoff
Votes: 1,398
19. Christy: The Movie (2000 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Drama
The community where Christy teaches begins to resent her attempts to bring progress to the town.
Director: Chuck Bowman | Stars: Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston, Bruce McKinnon
Votes: 253
20. Christy: Choices of the Heart (2001)
G | 176 min | Drama
Comprised of two films, the miniseries details Christy's crisis of faith in the wake of a typhoid epidemic, her emotional catharsis, the life-altering events that cause her to make a choice between the two men in her life and her marriage.
Stars: Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston, Dale Dickey
Votes: 136
21. Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991 TV Movie)
G | 98 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Votes: 2,374
22. Skylark (1993 TV Movie)
G | 95 min | Drama
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell
Votes: 1,100
23. Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
On a cold winter day a mysterious stranger shows up at the Witting Farm. He is John Witting, the father of Jacob Witting who abandoned Jacob and his mother when Jacob was little. Jacob is ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, George Hearn
Votes: 1,032
24. Roots (1977)
TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 18,866
25. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.
Stars: Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw
Votes: 2,780
26. Roots: The Gift (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, History
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., LeVar Burton, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew
Votes: 662
27. Queen (1993)
TV-14 | 282 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Biracial daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the ... See full summary »
Stars: Ann-Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Ossie Davis
Votes: 1,713
28. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998)
TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Western
The trials and adventures of a female doctor in a small Wild West town.
Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Shawn Toovey, Chad Allen
Votes: 13,711
29. Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, Western
When Dr. Mike and Sully's daughter Katie is kidnapped, they and a group of townsfolk travel to Mexico to rescue her.
Director: James Keach | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Eduardo Yáñez, Jim Knobeloch
Votes: 1,039
30. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
When Dr. Mike and Sully travel to Boston for Colleen's graduation from medical school, they find Dr. Mike's mother terminally ill. Sully finds himself a target for assassination by a corrupt politician.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Jessica Bowman, Shawn Toovey
Votes: 693
31. Lonesome Dove (1989)
TV-14 | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane
Votes: 25,889
32. Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
TV-14 | 81 min | Drama, Western
Head back to Lonesome Dove in this sequel to one of the most-loved miniseries of all time.
Stars: Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, Ricky Schroder, William Petersen
Votes: 2,892
33. Streets of Laredo (1995)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama, Western
Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern railroad baron to track down Joey Garza, a new breed of killer.
Stars: James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty
Votes: 2,280
34. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
PG-13 | 272 min | Western
In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove", two young men join the Texas Rangers unit that's on a mission to annex Santa Fe.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 1,929
35. Lorna Doone (2000 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
Against a backdrop of political and religious upheaval, a farmer falls in love with the "queen" of the notorious Doone clan --a family that he has sworn vengeance on.
Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Neil Finnighan, Jack Baverstock, Trevor Cooper, Aidan Gillen
Votes: 2,008
36. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974)
G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Western
After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls "Ben".
Director: Richard Friedenberg | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Don Shanks, Marjorie Harper, Lisa Jones
Votes: 1,020 | Gross: $45.41M
37. The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Western
A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage in this made-for-TV movie.
Director: Don Keeslar | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Kim Darby, Noah Beery Jr., Keenan Wynn
Votes: 331
38. Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999)
98 min | Adventure, Western
Grizzly Adams (Tom Tayback) and his pet bear, Samson, go in pursuit of some evil prospectors (Joseph Campanella, Joel Rook) who may have kidnapped a trio of kids.
Directors: John Huneck, David Sheldon | Stars: Tom Tayback, Lindsay Bloom, Jennifer Waldman, Selina Jayne
Votes: 110
39. Flicka (2006)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Young Katy claims a wild horse as her own -- an effort to prove to her father that she is capable of taking over the family horse ranch one day.
Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw, Maria Bello, Ryan Kwanten
Votes: 8,509 | Gross: $21.00M
40. Flicka 2 (2010 Video)
PG | 96 min | Family
A big-city teenage girl is forced to live on a ranch in Wyoming and bonds with a wild horse.
Director: Michael Damian | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Tammin Sursok, Clint Black, Reilly Dolman
Votes: 1,826
41. The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 98 min | Drama
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Director: Brent Shields | Stars: Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, Mare Winningham, Tania Gunadi
Votes: 6,072
42. Swiss Family Robinson (1975–1976)
60 min | Adventure, Family
Karl Robinson, his wife, two children and an orphaned girl end up on a volcanic island after a shipwreck. Also on the island is Jeremiah Worth, who was abandoned there seven years earlier.
Stars: Martin Milner, Pat Delaney, Willie Aames, Eric Olson
Votes: 232
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