Michael Pritchard Movies

Filmmakers Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento explore the damning sequence of "contradictions, gaps, and omissions" in the official version of events surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States in this documentary that puts forth the controversial proposal that the details as reported to the public simply cannot be true. Is the justification for going to war in Iraq founded on an outrageous series of fabrications? If not, then why does scientific evidence and newly revealed eyewitness testimony fly directly in the face of U.S. government's public statements regarding the attacks? Revealing conversations with Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and American literary icon Gore Vidal raise the difficult questions that have never once been addressed by the powers that be. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

This program is part of an educational series for children to help them understand the importance of their own choices. Any situation can be affected for better or worse by the way in which you frame it; you cannot choose the situations in which you find yourself, but you can choose how to respond. Addressing this fact in a positive way makes for a more enjoyable life, a lesson which this program seeks to inculcate in young students. This episode focuses on choosing to find things about oneself to like and appreciate in order to develop a positive self-image. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide

This program is part of an educational series for children to help them understand the importance of their own choices. Any situation can be affected for better or worse by the way in which you frame it; you cannot choose the situations in which you find yourself, but you can choose how to respond. Addressing this fact in a positive way makes for a more enjoyable life, a lesson which this program seeks to inculcate in young students. This episode focuses on the importance of learning to say no, for establishing one's boundaries and following one's own moral compass. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide

This program is part of an educational series for children to help them understand the importance of their own choices. Any situation can be affected for better or worse by the way in which you frame it; you cannot choose the situations in which you find yourself, but you can choose how to respond. Addressing this fact in a positive way makes for a more enjoyable life, a lesson which this program seeks to inculcate in young students. This episode teaches important principles about working with others, with a spirit of respect and cooperation. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide

This program is part of an educational series for children to help them understand the importance of their own choices. Any situation can be affected for better or worse by the way in which you frame it; you cannot choose the situations in which you find yourself, but you can choose how to respond. Addressing this fact in a positive way makes for a more enjoyable life, a lesson which this program seeks to inculcate in young students. This episode examines how the process affects the sometimes difficult and stormy seas of emotions, and how they are expressed. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide

This expensively wrought TV movie was the sequel to the 1984 offering Ewok Adventure, which in turn was inspired by those furry little extraterrestrials introduced in the 1983 theatrical feature Return of the Jedi. On the forest moon of Endor, a little girl (Aubree Miller) is protected by the Ewoks -- and by human hermit Noa (Wilfred Brimley) -- against such enemies as space-witch Charal (Sian Phillips). Like all previous chapters in the "Ewok" saga, The Battle for Endor was executive-produced by George Lucas. And, like Ewok Adventure, the film copped an Emmy nomination. First telecast November 24, 1985, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor was preceded two months earlier by the animated Saturday-morning series The Ewoks, which later evolved into The Ewoks and Star Wars Droids Adventure Hour. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; and Ed Harris is John Glenn, the straight-arrow "boy scout" of the bunch who was the first American to orbit the earth. The remaining four Mercury boys are Deke Slayton (Scott Paulin), Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank), Wally Schirra (Lance Henriksen) and Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid). Wolfe's original book related in straightforward fashion the dangers and frustrations facing the astronauts (including Glenn's oft-repeated complaint that it's hard to be confident when you know that the missile you're sitting on has been built by the lowest bidder), the various personal crises involving their families (Glenn's wife Annie, a stutterer, dreads being interviewed on television, while Grissom's wife Betty, angered that her husband is not regarded as a hero because his mission was a failure, bitterly declares "I want my parade!"), and the schism between the squeaky-clean public image of the Mercury pilots and their sometimes raunchy earthbound shenanigans. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide