Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 14 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The Newsroom, Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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Starring Sam Waterston

  1. The Newsroom

    The Newsroom

    2012 · TV

    8.1/10 · TMDB

    A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the...

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  2. Godless

    Godless

    2017 · TV

    7.8/10 · TMDB

    A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

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  3. The Six Triple Eight

    The Six Triple Eight

    2024 · Film

    7.7/10 · TMDB

    During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six...

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  4. Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

    1986 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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  5. Crimes and Misdemeanors

    Crimes and Misdemeanors

    1989 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

  6. Miss Sloane

    Miss Sloane

    2016 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

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  7. The Killing Fields

    The Killing Fields

    1984 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol...

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  8. On the Basis of Sex

    On the Basis of Sex

    2018 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

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  9. The Man in the Moon

    The Man in the Moon

    1991 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls...

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  10. Hopscotch

    Hopscotch

    1980 · Film

    7.0/10 · TMDB

    When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will...

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  11. Nixon

    Nixon

    1995 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end...

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  12. Interiors

    Interiors

    1978 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful...

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  13. Capricorn One

    Capricorn One

    1977 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space...

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  14. Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate

    1980 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the...

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  15. Serial Mom

    Serial Mom

    1994 · Film

    6.7/10 · TMDB

    A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing...

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  16. The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    1974 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to...

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