HBO Signature: August 26, 2008

12:00 AM - Dead Ahead: the Exxon Valdez Disaster

The struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused by the 1989 oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized here.

04:00 AM - Finding Forrester

William Forrester (Oscar Winner Connery, Entrapment, The Rock) won the Pultizer four decades ago and then, mysteriously disappeared. Jamal Wallace (Brown) aspires to be a writer, and his brilliance on and off the basketball court gets him a seat at an e...

06:00 AM - How to Make an American Quilt

Director Jocelyn Moorhouse's film adaptation of the novel by Whitney Otto stars Winona Ryder as Finn Dodd, a Berkeley graduate student on summer hiatus at her grandmother's home to work on her thesis and ponder a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Sam ...

08:00 AM - Children of Men

It is 2027 and humanity is facing extinction as it has lost its ability to reproduce for 18 years. Then one day, a young woman miraculously gets pregnant. Theo (Owen), a disillusioned federal agent, must battle his inner demons and protect the young woman...

10:00 AM - Let's Go to Prison

A career criminal bent on revenge against the judge sent him to jail, John Lyshitski (Shepard) puts himself back into prison when he finds out that the judge's son, Nelson (Arnett), had been wrongly sentenced of a crime and is now serving time in the same...

12:00 PM - Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America

As an outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes contagious and transmittable among humans, scientists scramble to find a cure and contain the disease.

02:00 PM - Exterminator 2

In the distant future, evil doesn't lurk behind dark corners, it walks the streets of New York, where good and evil even the score. Armed with a flamethrower, the Exterminator (Robert Ginty) stalks gang leader "X" (Mario Van Peebles) and his band of urban...

04:00 PM - The Gauntlet

A cop transporting a witness with mob ties gets their vehicle bombed, and now the duo must decide who they trust....

06:00 PM - How to Make an American Quilt

10:00 PM - Just Cause

Bobby Earl's waiting in line on death row for raping and killing an 11-year old girl. There wasn't any evidence. But with the local sheriff Tanny Brown (Fishburne, The Matrix, Event Horizon) making him play Russian roulette with his gun, a confession was ...

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