The PUBLIC TELEVISION FEATURE FILM PACKAGE Season 4 is available for station
use from January 2024 - December 2025 and includes 96 films, with titles spread
over a two year period. Each film has a one-month public television window. The
first year of the package includes 30 Paramount titles, 10 features from the
MGM library and 8 Lionsgate movies. 2025 titles will be confirmed during summer
2023.
May 2025
Escape From Alcatraz - Episode #4065 Broadcast window: Film Studio:Released: 1979 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 52m Director: Don Siegel Top billed cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom Synopsis: Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is
believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a
possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons
in the world.
Fiddler on the Roof - Episode #4066 Broadcast window: May 2025 Film Studio: MGM Released: 1971 Theatrical rating: G Theatrical runtime: 3h 1m Director: Norman Jewison Top billed cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey Synopsis: In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional
values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic
ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Great Train Robbery, The - Episode #4067 Broadcast window: May 2025 Film Studio: MGM Released:1978 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 50m Director: Michael Crichton Top billed cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down Synopsis: England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a
large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an
impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it
out.
La La Land -Episode #4068 Broadcast window: May 2025 Film Studio: LIONSGATE Released: 2016 Theatrical rating: PG-13 Theatrical runtime: 2h 8m Director: Damien Chazelle Top billed cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt Synopsis: While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and
an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the
future.
Magnificent Seven, The - Episode #4069 Broadcast window: May 2025 Film Studio: MGM Released: 1960 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 2h 8m Director: John Sturges Top billed cast: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson Synopsis: Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate
their village from oppressive bandits.
April 2025
The Duchess - Episode #4061 Broadcast window: April 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT Released: 2008 Theatrical rating: PG-13 Theatrical runtime: 1h 50m Director: Saul Dibb Top billed cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper Synopsis: A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and
personal life.
Enchanted April - Episode #4062 Broadcast window: April 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT* Released: 1992 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 35m Director: Mike Newell Top billed cast: Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Joan Plowright, Miranda
Richardson, Alfred Molina Synopsis: Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with
their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain, The -
Episode #4063
Broadcast window: April 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT* Released: 1995 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 39m Director: Christopher Monger Top billed cast: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney Synopsis: When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that
their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change
that.
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Episode #4064 Broadcast window: April 2025 Film Studio: MGM Released: 1963 Theatrical rating: G Theatrical runtime: 3h 30m Director: Stanley Kramer Top billed cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman Synopsis: A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California
desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden
stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to
it.
March 2025
Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The - Episode #4057 Broadcast window: March 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT Released: 2008 Theatrical rating: PG-13 Theatrical runtime: 2h 46m Director: David Fincher Top billed cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton Synopsis: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging
backwards with consequences.
Importance Of Being Earnest, The - Episode #4058 Broadcast window: March 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT* Released: 2002 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 37m Director: Oliver Parker Top billed cast: Stars
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi
Dench Synopsis: In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest")
for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Lovely Bones, The (2009) - Episode #4059 Broadcast window: March 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT Released: 2009 Theatrical rating: PG-13 Theatrical runtime: 2h 15m Director: Peter Jackson Top billed cast: Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg Synopsis: Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over
her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for
vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
The Iron Lady - Episode #4060 Broadcast window: March 2025 Film Studio: LIONSGATE Released: 2011 Theatrical rating: PG-13 Theatrical runtime: 1h 45m Director: Phyllida Lloyd Top billed cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant Synopsis: An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of
her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death
while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister,
intervene.
February 2025
Galaxy Quest Broadcast window: Feb 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT Released: 1999 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 42m Director: Dean Parisot Top billed cast: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman Synopsis: The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to
play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.
However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a
reptilian warlord.
Odd Couple, The Broadcast window: Feb 2025 Film Studio: PARAMOUNT Released: 1968 Theatrical rating: G Theatrical runtime: 1h 45m Director: Gene Saks Top billed cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler Synopsis: A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his
best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and
lifestyles are as different as night and day.
Spaceballs Broadcast window: Feb 2025 Film Studio: MGM Released: 1987 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 36m Director: Mel Brooks Top billed cast: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis Synopsis: A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the
rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil
Spaceballs.
WarGames Broadcast window: Feb 2025 Film Studio: MGM Released: 1983 Theatrical rating: PG Theatrical runtime: 1h 54m Director: John Badham Top billed cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John
Wood Synopsis: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer
in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War
III.
