Ragtime Script

Script by:Michael Weller (Writer), E.L. Doctorow (Novel)
Directed by:Miloš Forman
Year:1981

Plot:A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Daniel Script

Script by:E.L. Doctorow (Novel), E.L. Doctorow (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1983

Plot:The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
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