Hallmark Hall Of Fame
A List of Original Hallmark Hall of Fame movies starting in 1951. https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/hallmark-hall-of-fame/movies
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- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsBarbara AmesKirk BrownNatalie Core
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJason RobardsKate ReidJack BittnerThe life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsBill TraversVirginia McKennaJanet MunroA group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsNorman FellBetty FieldHelen HayesOn the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsGillian BarberMartyn GreenBobby ClarkA young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
- DirectorClaude WhathamStarsBrenda BruceChristine BuckleyJohn CollinThe story of a young veterinarian's apprenticeship to a somewhat eccentric older vet in the English countryside, and the young man's hesitating courtship of the daughter of a local farmer.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsRichard ThomasErnest BorgnineDonald PleasenceA young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
- DirectorFred CoeStarsJoanne WoodwardRichard KileyPat HingleMary Follet already has a five-year-old son and is pregnant again. Her husband dies in a car accident. How will she survive?
- DirectorKirk BrowningGian Carlo MenottiStarsChet AllenRosemary KuhlmannAndrew McKinleyOne night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsChet AllenRosemary KuhlmannLeon LishnerThe second Christmas broadcast of this opera about a boy and his mother who are visited by the Three Kings searching for the baby Jesus.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsDavid AikenJohn ButlerSarah ChurchillOne night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
- StarsDavid AikenJohn ButlerFelisa CondeOne night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
- DirectorJohn GrayStarsBrad JohnsonKathleen QuinlanTom SizemoreWorld War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRobert BurrTamara DaykarhanovaLynn FontanneA group of swindlers convinces a girl suffering from amnesia that she's the daughter and sole surviving child of Czar Nicholas II in order to collect the vast amount of money she would inherit.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsTommy Lee JonesSusan BlakelyChad LoweOn the morning of April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began with the "shot heard 'round the world".
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsTony RandallBoris KarloffDorothy StickneyBeware those two charming, elderly ladies - especially if they offer you a glass of elderberry wine.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsJean StapletonMartin BalsamHarold GouldA disabled woman starts a Little League baseball team to help the children in her poverty-stricken neighborhood.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsJason LeeMinka KellyMaggie Elizabeth JonesHostility turns into something else between a widowed farmer and a pushy ornithologist who came to his farm to save a family of swans.
- DirectorRon UnderwoodStarsBlythe DannerFaye DunawayPeter Fonda"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." Based on Anne Tyler's novel, the movie centers on Rebecca Davitch, a 53-year-old single mother and grandmother, and the cast of her colorful family around her.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsPeter UstinovGeraldine PageAnthony QuayleThe last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
- DirectorJeffrey A. BrownStarsLiana LiberatoNoah Le GrosJake WeberA romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests - and the surrounding environment - exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsMinka KellyAndie MacDowellChad Michael MurrayCaretta "Cara" Rutledge tries to move beyond a difficult past but is forced to grapple with history head-on when she returns to fix the family beach house.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsGeorge C. ScottTrish Van DevereVirginia McKennaA beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
- DirectorMel FerberStarsJohn ForsytheBrian AveryDick BalduzziA U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintroduce democracy, but his efforts are hindered by his commanding general. Placing his career in jeopardy, the governor decides to replace the town's bell, which had been looted by the Fascists.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsEdna BestJeannie CarsonJohn ColicosPeter Standish (John Kerr) travels back in time to 1780's London, switching places with his ancestor, Peter Standish. There, he meets the Pettigrew family, who lives in the house he will eventually inherit from a distant cousin. Peter arrives to be engaged to the eldest daughter, Kate Pettigrew (Jeannie Carson). Over the next few weeks, he experiences the daily activities and living conditions of an unromantic Victorian England, much to his disappointment. During this time, Peter alienates and frightens Kate, her mother and brother by knowing future events he should not know. However, Peter has fallen in love with the Helen Pettigrew (Janet Munro), who returns the feelings. Peter travels back to his proper time, just before his engagement to Kate dissolves and he changes the future.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsEmily VanCampSteve TalleyTimothy BusfieldA 24-year-old first-time teacher overcomes her initial fears and prejudices and makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter's makeshift classroom.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsDianne WiestGina McKeeKeith McErleanA man in the final stages of A.I.D.S. is cared for by his sister, mother, and grandmother.
- DirectorMichael Toshiyuki UnoStarsJoanne WoodwardLaura LinneyReed DiamondDrama about a couple (Woodward, Weaver) and their problematic daughter (Linney) who is a cocaine addict.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsDirk BogardeRosemary HarrisRachel RobertsThe play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsBill BeckerPaul DouglasBelle FlowerHarry Brock is beginning to move up in the world. So, naturally, he wants his girlfriend to be a little less uncouth. As long as she doesn't start thinking.
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsEddie AlbertTammy GrimesJudith AndersonAn eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsNathan LaneRobert Sean LeonardTony GoldwynJack Palmer is a social worker whose job has taken precedence over his personal life. Mainly, his job is to help four mentally challenged men live regular lives in a home. They consist of: Norman, who works at a donut shop and has a thing for keys; Barry, who thinks he is a golf pro and doesn't communicate well with his father; Arnold, who is into all things Russian and has a habit of spending money; and Lucien, who is into Spider Man and must testify before the state senate. Jack wants to help them, but he also thinks it is time to move on with his life. The hard part is trying to say goodbye to the guys he cares about.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsJames GarnerJoanne WoodwardKathryn ErbeA married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsRichard BurtonSophia LorenJack HedleyTwo strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
- DirectorBrent ShieldsStarsEllen BurstynGlenn CloseThomas GibsonThe story of a painting as it moves from owner to owner through the centuries.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsAlec GuinnessGeneviève BujoldMargaret CourtenayJulius Caesar's arrival in Egypt proves to be more than interesting to the beautiful Cleopatra, ambitious sister to the boy pharaoh.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsMichael MoriartyPeter FacinelliKevin ConwayThe struggle between a father and son at odds over the youth's career choice.
- DirectorDesmond DavisStarsGreta ScacchiColin FirthJohn GielgudCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsAlicia SilverstoneEion BaileyPolly BergenA single mom returns to her hometown after a lengthy absence, posing a potential threat to the marriage of her old high school flame and his wife.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJoe AbdullahFelix AylmerHenry BrandonA titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsTod AndrewsRobert BolgerFrank Daly
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsStephanie ZimbalistPamela ReedGeorge GrizzardA mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?
- DirectorRon OliverStarsTatyana AliDondré T. WhitfieldDennis HaysbertA hotshot lawyer returns to her childhood home following a death in the family.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsAndy GarciaMandy MooreCheri OteriDuncan Mayor loved Susie so much he wanted to give her one last Christmas gift before she passes away. He didn't care about any consequences or anything else.
- DirectorEric CloseStarsKristin ChenowethScott WolfKevin QuinnA youth choir director (Chenoweth) needs to write a big song for the Christmas Eve show but "finds herself distracted" when a boy with a golden voice (Kevin Quinn) joins her choir, which will come as news to his widowed father (Wolf).
- DirectorRon OliverStarsDermot MulroneyKimberly Williams-PaisleyDanny GloverA cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles for Christmas to get inspiration for a story in honor of his late father. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsRalph BellamyEllen BurstynToni Campbell
- DirectorAllan ArkushStarsSean FarisEloise MumfordDaniel Eric GoldTraumatized by her mother's death, a 6-year-old girl stops talking but is cared for by her three uncles. The story unfolds as all of them find the importance of family.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMelville CooperJohn KerrEva Le GallienneMiss Moffat, a schoolteacher in Wales, realizes that one of her working-class pupils is extremely gifted.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsGeorge GrizzardLarry HainesShirley KnightFrank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up - but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsAnna PaquinGoran VisnjicMichelle DockeryThe story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJames OlsonKen HowardBrian KeithGeneral Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsEd FowlerMichael GarrettJohn Gibson
- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsJohn BannerManfred FürstGregory Gaye
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansLee VinesJudith AndersonIn this drama, broadcast live from New York, a baby girl is left anonymously at a convent of Dominican nuns. The sisters decide to raise the child in accordance with the mother's wishes, as expressed in a note that accompanies the infant. Told in flashbacks, the story depicts how each nun reacts to the prospect of raising a child, deals with the child's upbringing, and copes with her departure eighteen years later. Meanwhile, there is constant disagreement among the mother superiors about the rules governing the novices and how strictly they should be observed.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJudith AndersonEvelyn VardenSiobhan McKennaA Hallmark Hall of Fame production of the classic play, with Dame Judith Anderson and Siobhan McKenna.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsDean CainPeri GilpinLandon LiboironA tragic street racing accident kills a wife and her child leaving her husband to pick up the pieces and pursue justice against the boy that killed them.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsBernard ArchardBarbara AtkinsonMaxine AudleyUnable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsNorman BarrsHermione GingoldHurd HatfieldHallmark presented the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah", in the Englihi language came to be written.
- DirectorBrent ShieldsStarsMary-Louise ParkerPeter GallagherBebe NeuwirthCate has a vintage clothing store. She attends her nasty dad's birthday party/family gathering where she meets Harry. She's dating Philip but he's dull - contrary to Harry.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsChristopher PlummerHope LangeDonald HarronThe fiercely proud Cyrano may be the greatest swordsman in France - or the world - but he dares not reveal his love to the beautiful Roxanne.
- DirectorGordon RigsbyStarsJane AlexanderEdward Herrmann
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsJames GarnerJudith IveyRuby DeeA grumpy man must rejoin his community when his godchild gets in trouble and a childhood friend refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsSomar AlbergRalph BellamyLeo BrittThe black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the American Revolutionary War.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRichard BowlerAnthony DawsonFelix DeebankTony Wendice hasn't got much money to pay for his expensive tastes, but he does have a rich wife. However, she has a lover and so might leave him - if she lives long enough.
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsFaye DunawayBette DavisJames SloyanIn 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsBruce GreenwoodLinda EmondNoel FisherA developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program."
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisChristopher PlummerHume CronynA wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansPepito ArvelloVivian BlaineAdaptation of the stage play of the same name by Elmer Rice, about a frequently daydreaming woman and her love life. Georgina Allerton, a young bookstore cashier and aspiring novelist, awakens one morning to prepare for work, lamenting that she is in love with her brother-in-law Jim. While taking a shower she imagines herself to be the guest of a radio psychiatry show, talking about her problems; Jim married her sister Miriam two years ago, and she has never told him about her feelings towards him. She has just started dating another man, George Hand, who has ardently pursued her despite being married himself, and she has tried to forget about Jim. Miriam tells Georgina that she is pregnant, and Georgina congratulates her; Miriam reports that Jim does not know about it yet, and she is quite upset at the matter. While alone, Georgina has a daydream about giving birth to twins, with her parents serving the roles of hospital staff and Jim as her husband. In her dream, Miriam attempts to take the children but is repudiated by Jim, who says that there is "no real marriage" between them. She interrupts her own daydream in order to rush off to work. Georgina has a series of daydreams involving family and friends throughout the rest of the play.
- DirectorBrent ShieldsStarsMatt KeeslarPatrick BerginGeorge HearnIn 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer. Brenda Fricker appears as Keeslar's aunt and Mark Lambert is an army deserter, who signs up for the drive.
- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsCliff HallPat PeardonFred BeirThe origins of Broadway, Manhattan's most famous thoroughfare, is traced to the 1720s when the New York City street plan was altered because of a beloved cherry tree.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsTrevor HowardJames DalyPamela FranklinRecounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsJudy DavisJamey SheridanLauren HewettA young girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in the Australian outback after her mother's death. Stars Judy Davis and Jamey Sheridan. From the Hallmark Hall of Fame Collection.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJudith AndersonCharlton HestonMichael AllinsonIn the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsJulie HarrisJena MaloneTed LevineAfter her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsPamela BellwoodJames FarentinoJohn ForsytheThis sequel to 1969's Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Teacher, Teacher" dramatizes a mentally-challenged teenager's love for his teacher.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsPatricia NealClaude AkinsSian Barbara AllenAthletic youth, aware of his terminal illness, refuses to give up.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsElizabeth MontgomeryRobert FoxworthLou AntonioAn American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
- DirectorMichael SwitzerStarsGary SiniseJoely RichardsonGordon PinsentA high-powered Los Angeles lawyer returns to his estranged father's home in Maine where he faces tragedy, haunting memories and someone from his past.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsRichard BenjaminJosé FerrerRaf ValloneA waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRicardo MontalbanBert LahrStanley HollowayNeighboring widowers plot to romantically unite their son and daughter by pretending to feud and forbidding the two children to associate with each other. Their scheme works and the two youngsters fall head-over-heels in love. To end their "feud" the fathers hire a bandit and his henchmen to fake an abduction and allow the son to rout the assailants. The plan works, but the two love birds discover that requited love is much less exciting than forbidden romance and they break off their relationship. Matt, the son, resolves to see the world and receives a severe buffeting, while Luisa, the daughter, has an unhappy romance with the bandit, who steals her most precious possession, her mother's necklace. Matt returns, sadder but wiser, and the two former lovers reunite.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJudith AndersonMary AdamsElizabeth AshleyA young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
- DirectorDarnell MartinStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Q'orianka KilcherDeWanda WiseA group of young inmates are given the opportunity to turn their lives around by becoming volunteer firefighters .
- DirectorMartha CoolidgeStarsWilliam HurtElizabeth McGovernBrian BenbenWhen Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and more outrageous, he continues to enrage Knight until one of the promotions backfires with grave consequences.
- DirectorWilliam CorriganStarsSarah ChurchillMary BarclayAlexander ClarkBiography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and the letter of appreciation she received from Queen Victoria.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsKimberly Williams-PaisleyCampbell ScottEric CloseKimberly Williams and Caitlin Fein play a mother and child whose love conquers adversity.
- DirectorWilliam CorriganStarsCloris LeachmanElliott SullivanDon McHenryThe story of Martha Berry, who brought education to the impoverished children of rural Georgia after the Civil War.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsJessica TandyHume CronynJohn DenverAnnie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsJames WolkTreat WilliamsDominic Scott KayBrad Cohen who, despite being challenged by Tourette's Syndrome at a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsRichard BurtonVirginia McKennaAngharad ReesThe story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsPeter UstinovJosé FerrerArnold MossThe Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
- DirectorRobert L. CollinsStarsHenry FondaJosé FerrerJohn HousemanThe story of Clarence Earl Gideon and his fight for the right to have publicly funded legal counsel for the needy.