Desc: Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Directed by Drew Cummings. With Roddy McDowall, Christopher Walken, Whitley Strieber, Ed Conroy. Documentary based on the best selling book Communion, written by Whitley Strieber. The last TV project Roddy McDowall was involved with prior to his death. A fact filled documentary with experts, former government officials, and reenactments of encounters with alien life forms using the real people who profess they have been abducted.