Orson Welles
Birthday: 1915-05-06
Place of Birth: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Biography: George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur." After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety. Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces. In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.
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Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...
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A Man for All Seasons
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...
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Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...
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The Third Man
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...
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Touch of Evil
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...
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History of the World: Part I
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the Fren...
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Twelve Plus One
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to ...
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The Trial
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through...
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The Transformers: The Movie
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leader...
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Moby Dick
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...
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Catch-22
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flyi...
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The Lady from Shanghai
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife....
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Is Paris Burning?
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...
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The Stranger
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who ...
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And Then There Were None
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killi...
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House of Cards
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to cre...
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Journey into Fear
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ...
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Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccanee...
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The Deep
A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs in...
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Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall has spent five years observing the chimps in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), Africa. On...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing go...
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According to Occam's Razor
A mockumentary look at the myths and realities surrounding aliens and UFOs. A hybrid of genres on th...
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Welles' Language
Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology,...
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affir...
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Casino Royale
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...
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Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...
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Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
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The Battle of Neretva
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He re...
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Macbeth
Three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, ...
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Butterfly
Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life...
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The Long, Hot Summer
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates...
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Compulsion
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves...
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Necromancy
After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy comp...
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The Vikings
Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric...
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F for Fake
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committ...
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Napoleon
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. T...
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The V.I.P.s
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal tri...
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American: An Odyssey to 1947
In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Ro...
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The Black Rose
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With h...
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The Southern Star
Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds ...
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Prince of Foxes
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes...
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From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight....
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Mr. Arkadin
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detectiv...
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Tomorrow Is Forever
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Eliza...
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Three Cases of Murder
Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pi...
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The Kremlin Letter
After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow...
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from...
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Malpertuis
A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with ...
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Othello
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of...
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...
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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the p...
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The Biggest Battle
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of wh...
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The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
In 1956, Orson Welles directed 'The Tragedy of Lurs', an episode of the television series 'Around th...
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Tepepa
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro....
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The Secret of Nikola Tesla
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest co...
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Slapstick of Another Kind
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are ...
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A Safe Place
Noah, a young woman who lives alone in New York, is dating two very different men, Fred and Mitch, a...
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Hot Tomorrows
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-si...
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Trent's Last Case
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the ...
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Ten Days' Wonder
Charles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul Régis t...
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The Immortal Story
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman...
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Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico in...
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The Late Great Planet Earth
The Late, Great Planet Earth is the title of a best-selling 1970 book co-authored by Hal Lindsey and...
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Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
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David and Goliath
When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't ...
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It's All True
A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America....
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Ferry to Hong Kong
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police af...
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life....
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in te...
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Future Shock
“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this t...
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Get to Know Your Rabbit
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy c...
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The Fountain of Youth
A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Based on John Collier's short story ...
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The Force Beyond
Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are respons...
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The Spanish Earth
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearb...
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The Witching
This is Gordon's re-edit of his 1972 horror film Necromancy starring Orson Welles and Pamela Frankli...
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Marco the Magnificent
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, w...
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It Happened One Christmas
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary...
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Filming Othello
Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of...
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Mysterious Castles of Clay
Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joa...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic ...
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Trouble in the Glen
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the...
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Where Is Parsifal?
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky...
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Return to Glennascaul
Orson Welles, taking a break from the filming of "Othello," is driving in the Irish countryside one ...
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It's All Brazil
A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True...
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Parkinson at 50
Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the in...
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The Road to Bresson
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson....
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Too Much Johnson
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' M...
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The Tartars
The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. W...
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Is It Always Right to Be Right?
The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And...
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Hot Money
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small t...
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Man, Beast and Virtue
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his frien...
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Someone to Love
A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valen...
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The Fight for Rome
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, ...
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Magic with the Stars
Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion....
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The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
Platos allegory of the cave as told by Orson Welles...
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King Lear
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they...
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Sentinels of Silence
Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was...
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The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
The planning and implementation of the first flight to the moon, narrated by Orson Welles....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late...
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Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic o...
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on t...
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Othelo The Great
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreakin...
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The Sailor from Gibraltar
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who...
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The Dreamers
Footage shot for Orson Welles' unfinished and unreleased film project, edited into a short documenta...
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey recorded the nightly squabbles of their over-the-top nei...
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The Roots of Heaven
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support fro...
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Crack in the Mirror
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ...
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Orson Welles in Spain
Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie abo...
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Man in the Shadow
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff t...
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The Muppet Movie
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen K...
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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn't make it, like th...
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Looking Back Before You Leap
A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University....
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Ten Days That Shook the World
An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic w...
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It's Pretty, but is it Art?
As Orson Welles, I might say: Art is the grand illusion, a mirror reflecting the complexities of the...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent...
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Flame of Persia
A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971...
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The Other Side of the Wind
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad i...
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The Paranormal Peter Sellers
This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitiou...
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A King's Story
A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edw...
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The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying frien...
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career ...
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Upon This Rock
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome....
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Tut: The Boy King
Review the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 with archival photographs and re...
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This Is Orson Welles
Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark o...
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The Hearts of Age
A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and live...
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Jodorowsky's Dune
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting F...
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life...
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Twelfth Night
The earliest surviving film of Orson Welles, a vignette of his and Roger Hill's production of Twelft...
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The Shadow Knows
This exhaustive documentary covers the history and legacy of Walter B. Gibson's character, The Shado...
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Swiss Family Robinson
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family m...
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The Merchant of Venice
A short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While ac...
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Who's Out There?
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the...
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The Battle of Grovers Mill
An aspiring journalist faces the unimaginable when news of a nearby crash site comes over the radio....
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A Step Away
Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, ...
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The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those m...
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Moby Dick
Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the i...
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what...
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Orson Welles' Magic Show
Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini ...
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Lafayette
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the Amer...
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Filming 'The Trial'
In 1981, Welles gave a 90-minute question-and-answer session at the University of Southern Californi...
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The Finest Hours
A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Ors...
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Portrait: Orson Welles
Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists...
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Oedipus the King
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own f...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...
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Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles....
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The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...
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Freedom River
Uplifting modern day parable about mankind getting along together. Narrated by Orson Welles. Animat...
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With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles....
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London
Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailo...
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An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
In October 1970, at his Hollywood home, Welles recorded voice-overs for short stories intended for u...
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A Huey P. Newton Story
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point ...
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From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
Explores the history of the woolen textile industry from earliest times until the present day....
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Lost in La Mancha
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Qu...
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
What if other life was out there? Join us as we try to answer that most-asked question.l With millio...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself...
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A Horse Called Nijinsky
Documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, about the legendary race horse Nijinsky, one of the greatest ...
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Disorder
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946...
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The Greenstone
Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy (Joseph Cory) dedicates himself to finding a magical ro...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the ...
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The Quest for Fire Adventure
Orson Welles explains the creation process of a unique motion picture, a first of its kind, with con...
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Working with Orson Welles
"Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a ...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the ...
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Bro...
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Enchanted Journey
Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, yo...
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and ...
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The Eyes of Orson Welles
A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) t...
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The Hitch Hiker
A haunting visual adaptation of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio performance. We are introduced t...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans ...
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The Welles Raft
The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1...
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High Journey
In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgi...
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Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acti...
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Around the World of Mike Todd
"Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in pr...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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Battle for Survival
This is a two-reel short appealing for financial support from Americans to assist in the feeding and...
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Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from Fra...
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The Other Side of Welles
Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Y...
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Hopper/Welles
Captures a 1970 meeting between the movie industry titan Orson Welles and the then-rising star Denni...
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The Cave
Carried by a rich narration from Orson Welles, this rarely seen 1973 animated adaptation of Plato’s ...
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of ...
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The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kli...
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The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity...
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Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first...
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Genocide
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism...
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Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958 documentary film by Orson Welles. It was funded by ABC TV. Around 30 minutes long, it follows a...
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Orson Welles' Sketch Book
Orson Welles recounts various stories from his life while drawing sketches of the events....
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The Psychic Connection
Visual observation of psychic phenomena including psychic surgery, prior life regressions, skin visi...
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King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
In March 1982, two wildlife photographers became stranded on South Georgia Island in the southern At...
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Baryshnikov in Hollywood
The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot....
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Let Poland Be Poland
Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US I...
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Out of Darkness
Three months in the life of a patient at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, CA. Therapy session...
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....
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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have ofte...
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The Magic History of Cinema
The Magic History Of Cinema is an international documentary showcasing magic and movies long continu...
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Embers & Dust
Embers and Dust focuses on the perspective of a young farm boy and his family, and how the night of ...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Hust...
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South Seas Adventure
Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy...
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Lords of the Forest
Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo....
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River of the Ocean
A documentary about the Atlantic Ocean, which tells of the coastal inhabitants' struggle with the se...
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The Double McGuffin
Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a bod...
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The Enemy Before Us
Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can'...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous smal...
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Search for the Titanic
In "The Search for the Titanic" Orson Welles takes the viewers into a massive expedition trying to l...
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In Our Hands
One million people. One voice: stop the nuclear arms race. The largest peace demonstration in histor...
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Almonds and Raisins
This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and...
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The New Deal for Artists
The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency establi...
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NBC: The First Fifty Years
A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airw...
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Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, ...
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Brasil
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his a...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad...
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Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
A movie made for closed circuit television to be played in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Orson Welle...
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWI...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Magic Mirror Maze
The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed thr...
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Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of gett...
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The Scorpion and the Frog
A frog agrees to help a scorpion cross a river despite the frog's suspicions....
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Lost in "The Thinking"
A surreal meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by the Arthur Frain/Merlin characte...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”...
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Human Nature in Eleven Parts
Short vignettes explore different facets of human behavior and social issues....
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Americans on Everest
A documentary account of the assault on Mt. Everest in 1963 by the men of the first American Mount E...
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Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
In June 1978, at his Arizona home, Welles films a series of conversations with his mentor Roger Hill...
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Hi-Fi
A deep dive into the history of São Paulo's avant-garde poetry movement, starting from fragments of ...
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The UFO Conspiracy
More than a stunning catalog of UFO photography, video and eyewitness recordings, hear startling scr...
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King of Kings
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused...
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Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
Follows Captain Irving Johnson and the crew of the Yankee on an 18-month journey around the world. S...
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The Orson Welles Story
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film....
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Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
Film, Stage and Radio director; Film, Stage and Radio Actor; Author; Magician; Musician....
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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A Mother's Tale
A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of indivi...
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The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
A speculative look forward at the United States' next 200 years....
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WeirdWorld
A small disillusioned creature searches for meaning in an increasingly weird world....
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Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
Our host (surreptitiously played by Abb Dickson in disguise) introduces us outside the castle and de...
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Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer
When F for Fake found an American distributor three years after its premiere, Welles produced a trai...
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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Jim Henson Idea Man
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a f...
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just lef...
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John Candy: I Like Me
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-be...
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