After school specials

[VYFan]

What's the best made for TV movie that you have liked? (It's okay if you only liked it when you saw it when young.) And related to that, who has parlayed such a movie into the biggest career?

 

[RomaVicta]

The Siege at Ruby Ridge with Randy Quaid and Laura Dern (1996)

I don't know anyone else who saw this, but I thought it was a very interesting look at what happened there. Neither the Weavers nor the Feds are demonized. I thought it was a great, restrained telling of the story. I just looked it up on Netflix and they have it.

I don't know that it's the best, but your query brought it to mind. I thought it was one of the better movies of any kind that I saw the year it was broadcast.