Orson Welles
Also Known As: Джордж Орсон Уэллс, George Orson Welles, O. W. Jeeves, 오슨 웰스, 오슨 웰즈, 오손 웰스, اورسون ولز
Biography: George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 06, 1915
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 10, 1985
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Citizen Kane
Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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A Man for All Seasons
Overview: A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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Chimes at Midnight
Overview: Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Third Man
Overview: In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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Touch of Evil
Overview: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-30
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History of the World: Part I
Overview: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Twelve Plus One
Overview: Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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The Trial
Overview: Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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The Transformers: The Movie
Overview: The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-08
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Moby Dick
Overview: In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-27
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Catch-22
Overview: A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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The Lady from Shanghai
Overview: A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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The Stranger
Overview: An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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And Then There Were None
Overview: Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-24
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House of Cards
Overview: In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-16
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Journey into Fear
Overview: An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-07
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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The Deep
Overview: A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs into their voyage, apparently drifting. Shot in a piecemeal fashion between 1966 and 1969 and plagued with production problems, this film never completed principal photography and never entered post-production. The original negatives are now considered to be lost, and the film only exists in two incomplete workprint versions (one color and one black-and-white), which have received isolated public screenings since 2007.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-08
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Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
Overview: Jane Goodall has spent five years observing the chimps in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), Africa. One of her discoveries is that they use primitive tools. The film shows the life of the chimps. Retrospective note: This documentary features remarkable historical footage of Goodall, her original camp, and the Gombe chimpanzees. It shows the early years of Goodall establishing the site before it went on to become a world-renowned research center.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Don Quixote
Overview: Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing good deeds in the name of his beloved Dulcinea. (Orson Welles' Don Quixote was filmed between 1957 and 1972, left unfinished at his death in 1985, and was eventually edited by Jesús Franco and released in 1992.)
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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According to Occam's Razor
Overview: A mockumentary look at the myths and realities surrounding aliens and UFOs. A hybrid of genres on the UFO subject.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Welles' Language
Overview: Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in the language domain - three friends of Welles' testified his love for cinema, his passion for Brazilian music and people and his obstinate endurance against formidable pressures coming from inside and outside Hollywood regarding his unfinished "It's All True".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Follow the Boys
Overview: During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
Genres: Music Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-05
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The Battle of Neretva
Overview: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Overview: Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-09
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Macbeth
Overview: A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Butterfly
Overview: Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative young woman comes to visit him and tells him she's his daughter. Jess finds it hard to adapt to his newfound parenting role, as a mutual attraction grows between them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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The Long, Hot Summer
Overview: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-17
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Compulsion
Overview: Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Necromancy
Overview: After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy company. Frank's new boss, the mysterious Mr. Cato, explains that Frank's position will involve magic. Cato, who seemingly holds enormous influence over the town, pursues the power of necromancy and believes that Lori holds the key that will help him resurrect his own dead son.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: A documentary film detailing the hunt for the holy grail of cinema: the legendary lost director's cut of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-01
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The Vikings
Overview: Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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F for Fake
Overview: Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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The V.I.P.s
Overview: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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American: An Odyssey to 1947
Overview: In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII begins, an American boy visits abroad, and an American soldier enlists in the army.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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The Black Rose
Overview: In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
Genres: War Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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The Southern Star
Overview: Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-04
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Prince of Foxes
Overview: In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Overview: A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-09
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Mr. Arkadin
Overview: Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Overview: In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-20
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Three Cases of Murder
Overview: Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? When a young politician is hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-15
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The Kremlin Letter
Overview: After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Overview: After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Malpertuis
Overview: Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius. He manages to keep them, as well as his nephew and niece, prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Othello
Overview: When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Overview: Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician Nostradamus actually predict such events as the fall of King Louis XVI, the rise of Napoleon, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? And are there prophecies that have yet to come true?
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-09
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Overview: Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-08
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The Biggest Battle
Overview: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-07
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The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
Overview: In 1956, Orson Welles directed 'The Tragedy of Lurs', an episode of the television series 'Around the World' that was inspired by the murder of a British family near the Dominici farm. The film was unfinished, but the French director Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-12
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Tepepa
Overview: The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-31
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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Overview: Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-02-19
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Slapstick of Another Kind
Overview: A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-09
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A Safe Place
Overview: Noah, a young woman who lives alone in New York, is dating two very different men, Fred and Mitch, at the same time. However, she realises that neither man can totally fulfil her needs.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Hot Tomorrows
Overview: A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Trent's Last Case
Overview: When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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Ten Days' Wonder
Overview: Charles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul Régis to help him solve the mystery of his recurring bouts of amnesia.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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The Immortal Story
Overview: An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
Overview: An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-21
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The Late Great Planet Earth
Overview: The Late, Great Planet Earth is the title of a best-selling 1970 book co-authored by Hal Lindsey and Carole C. Carlson, and first published by Zondervan. The book was adapted in 1979 into a movie. The Late, Great Planet Earth is a treatment of literalist, premillennial, dispensational eschatology. As such, it compared end-time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events in an attempt to broadly predict future scenarios leading to the rapture of believers before the tribulation and Second Coming of Christ to establish his thousand-year (i.e. millennial) Kingdom on Earth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-17
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Voyage of the Damned
Overview: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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David and Goliath
Overview: When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David is victorious and becomes the King of Israel.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-22
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Black Magic
Overview: A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-19
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It's All True
Overview: A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-17
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Ferry to Hong Kong
Overview: Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-29
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Overview: Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Overview: Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Future Shock
Overview: “Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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Get to Know Your Rabbit
Overview: A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-07
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The Fountain of Youth
Overview: A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Based on John Collier's short story “Youth from Vienna”.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-16
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The Force Beyond
Overview: Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are responsible for pretty much every conspiracy theory, paranormal encounter and cryptozoological sighting in history. (Also Jesus. No, really.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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The Spanish Earth
Overview: A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-10
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The Witching
Overview: This is Gordon's re-edit of his 1972 horror film Necromancy starring Orson Welles and Pamela Franklin. This version features brand new scenes (mostly to up to exploitation factor) filmed in 1983 and added by Gordon himself. It also features a brand new score and other changes and the whole thing differs greatly from the original 82-minute theatrical version.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-25
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Marco the Magnificent
Overview: Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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It Happened One Christmas
Overview: It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-11
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Filming Othello
Overview: Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-10
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Mysterious Castles of Clay
Overview: Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles. (narration replaced by Derek Jacobi, in a later release titled "Castles of Clay")
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Overview: Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-18
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Trouble in the Glen
Overview: Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Where Is Parsifal?
Overview: Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Return to Glennascaul
Overview: Orson Welles, taking a break from the filming of "Othello," is driving in the Irish countryside one night when he offers a ride to a man with car trouble. The man relays to Welles a strange tale of an encounter he had once before at the same isolated location.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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It's All Brazil
Overview: A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-09-18
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Parkinson at 50
Overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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The Road to Bresson
Overview: A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-05-13
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Too Much Johnson
Overview: This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-29
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The Tartars
Overview: The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills the Tartar leader and kidnaps his daughter, the dead man's brother, Burandai, retaliates by holding Oleg's wife, Helga, hostage. The stalemate can be resolved only on the battlefield.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Is It Always Right to Be Right?
Overview: The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right."
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-31
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Hot Money
Overview: Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Man, Beast and Virtue
Overview: Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-05-09
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Someone to Love
Overview: A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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The Fight for Rome
Overview: A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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Magic with the Stars
Overview: Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-17
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The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
Overview: Platos allegory of the cave as told by Orson Welles
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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King Lear
Overview: In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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Sentinels of Silence
Overview: Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert Amram, and is notable for being the first and only short film to win two Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
Overview: The planning and implementation of the first flight to the moon, narrated by Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-05
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Overview: Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant from The National Endowment Of The Arts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
Overview: The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic of Ireland; first in his youth as a promising young actor and finally in later years as a washed up icon of the silver screen.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-17
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Othelo The Great
Overview: A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and racism, he built a stellar career, facing controversy yet using it to challenge prejudice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Edge of Outside
Overview: An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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The Sailor from Gibraltar
Overview: Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Dreamers
Overview: Footage shot for Orson Welles' unfinished and unreleased film project, edited into a short documentary.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Overview: In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey recorded the nightly squabbles of their over-the-top neighbors, homophobic Raymond Huffman and proudly gay Peter Haskett, and the chronicle of the pair's bizarre existence soon took on a life of its own. This darkly funny documentary checks in with former punks Eddie and Mitch, who detail their late-'80s Lower Haight surroundings, and surveys the tapes' influence on an array of underground artists.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-26
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The Roots of Heaven
Overview: In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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Crack in the Mirror
Overview: Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine. The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man, Larnier, and their passion knows no boundaries of caution or safety. Eventually, Eponine's and Larnier's lust drives them to madness, and they murder Hagolin. The second tale concerns an up-and-coming young lawyer, Claude, whose mentor is a highly successful veteran attorney, Lamerciere, with a beautiful young wife named Florence. Claude finds himself defending Larnier and Eponine, while Lamerciere dies of a heart attack after he discovers that Florence has been unfaithful to him with Claude.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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To Build a Fire
Overview: A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Orson Welles in Spain
Overview: Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who sets himself apart from other matadors. In front of an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles pontificates on the state of cinema, the filmmaking process, and the art of bullfighting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Man in the Shadow
Overview: In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.
Genres: Thriller Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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The Muppet Movie
Overview: A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
Genres: Adventure Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-22
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Overview: Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also acts as a relatively complete biograph of Hearst's career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-29
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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Overview: For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn't make it, like the Doozers, Gorgs and most of the Fraggles) have gathered together in one place to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary and honor the one who brought them together: Kermit the Frog (and by doing so, Jim Henson).
Genres: Family Fantasy Music TV Movie Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-21
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Looking Back Before You Leap
Overview: A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-31
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Ten Days That Shook the World
Overview: An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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It's Pretty, but is it Art?
Overview: As Orson Welles, I might say: Art is the grand illusion, a mirror reflecting the complexities of the human soul. It's a symphony of ideas, emotions, and truths, played on the canvas of our shared humanity.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-02
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Overview: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Flame of Persia
Overview: Documentary film about the 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Overview: This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants and mediums to help him make key decisions in his life and work. Many of Sellers important decisions were influenced by Maurice Woodruff - a clairvoyant and astrologer based in London. Advice from the other side was taken on his marriage to Britt Ekland, accepting film roles such as Inspector Clouseau and dealing with his near fatal heart attack.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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A King's Story
Overview: A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edward VIII, from his birth until abdication in 1936. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
Overview: Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying friend Bill Cronshaw: a passage from the journal of Charles Lindbergh.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Overview: The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-13
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Upon This Rock
Overview: Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Tut: The Boy King
Overview: Review the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 with archival photographs and reviews the highlights of the treasure trove with anecdotal stories and conjecture about the Boy King's life and death.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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This Is Orson Welles
Overview: Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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The Hearts of Age
Overview: A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down stairs grinning. Others leave the same door and walk down the same stairs: a shabby man, a cop, and, several times, the same dandy. The man in blackface hangs himself; the dandy continues to smile. A bell tolls, a grave beckons. In the dark, the dandy plays the piano. Is he Death? The Hearts of Age is the first film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short, which he co-directed with William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself. He made the film while attending the Todd School for Boys, in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Overview: Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Overview: An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Twelfth Night
Overview: The earliest surviving film of Orson Welles, a vignette of his and Roger Hill's production of Twelfth Night at the Todd School for Boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-15
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The Shadow Knows
Overview: This exhaustive documentary covers the history and legacy of Walter B. Gibson's character, The Shadow, from the pulps to radio and beyond.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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Vienna
Overview: Orson Welles talks fantasy and magic in this short Vienna travelogue.
Genres: Crime Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Lucifer et moi
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-04
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Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unfinished film, though better described as a partially lost film due to the loss of film negatives. A restored and reconstructed version of the film, made by using the original script and composer's notes, premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival alongside Othello as part of the pre-opening ceremonies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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On the tracks of a filmmaker
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Who's Out There?
Overview: Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Jim Henson Idea Man
Overview: Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-18
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The Battle of Grovers Mill
Overview: An aspiring journalist faces the unimaginable when news of a nearby crash site comes over the radio. Based on “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells and the Orson Welles / Mercury Theatre on the Air radio play of the same name.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-08
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A Step Away
Overview: Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the documentary include USA team swimmer of Puerto Rican origin Jesse Vassallo; legendary Cuban track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena; Mexican diver Carlos Girón; American diver Greg Louganis; and the Puerto Rico national basketball team, among others. At the end of the film, the athletes expressed their hopes of being "a step away" from the 1980 Olympics Games; however, these hopes were shattered by the political crisis and the eventual USA-led boycott to the Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
Overview: Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-09
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Moby Dick
Overview: Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play Moby Dick—Rehearsed, or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break in the filming of The Other Side of the Wind. There is some ambiguity about what Welles intended to do with the footage, and how he was going to compile it. It remained unedited in his lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-01
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Overview: The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Orson Welles' Magic Show
Overview: Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between 1976 and 1985, Welles performs various magic tricks for the camera, promising that no trick photography is used.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-24
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Lafayette
Overview: The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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Filming 'The Trial'
Overview: In 1981, Welles gave a 90-minute question-and-answer session at the University of Southern California after a screening of The Trial. He had his cinematographer Gary Graver film the session with a view to editing highlights of the footage into the projected film. Graver observed, "A lot of people were there in the audience that day who are successful filmmakers now", as well as several noted film critics such as Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy. However, Welles never got round to editing the raw footage. Its only use in Welles' lifetime was by BBC journalist Leslie Megahy for his 1982 Arena documentary on Welles. The documentary features a young man asking Welles whether he would agree he has been persecuted by The Establishment and the capitalist system, and Welles being somewhat bemused by the question.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-01
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The Finest Hours
Overview: A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-29
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Portrait: Orson Welles
Overview: Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his conception of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Directed by John Ford
Overview: A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Oedipus the King
Overview: This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Overview: Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Overview: A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-29
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The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Overview: The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-02-21
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Freedom River
Overview: Uplifting modern day parable about mankind getting along together. Narrated by Orson Welles. Animation directed by Sam Weiss.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Overview: A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-05
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London
Overview: Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
Overview: In October 1970, at his Hollywood home, Welles recorded voice-overs for short stories intended for use on special screens at the Sears chain stores. Numerous 16mm films were sent to Sears, but only one film was preserved; however, as it was not complete, it could not be used. In 2003, the Munich cinémathèque museum restored the film, which narrates a Ring Lardner short story. The missing parts were filled in from a radio play recorded in 1946.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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A Huey P. Newton Story
Overview: The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-18
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The Well
Overview: Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
Overview: Explores the history of the woolen textile industry from earliest times until the present day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Lost in La Mancha
Overview: Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-11
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Show-Business at War
Overview: A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
Overview: What if other life was out there? Join us as we try to answer that most-asked question.l With millions of stars the possibility is more than that, it is a very high probability! Follow Pioneer 10 as is flies by our largest planet, the massive giant Jupiter, and learn the message Pioneer 10 carries as it leaves our solar system.. just in case!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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Duel in the Sun
Overview: Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Rita
Overview: Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-09
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A Horse Called Nijinsky
Overview: Documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, about the legendary race horse Nijinsky, one of the greatest and most successful race horses in history and after his retirement from the racetrack in 1970 an important sire of thoroughbred horses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Orson Welles Show
Overview: Unsold pilot for a talk show hosted by Orson Welles.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Disorder
Overview: Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-02
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The Greenstone
Overview: Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy (Joseph Cory) dedicates himself to finding a magical rock. Narrated by Orson Welles.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Overview: As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-31
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The Quest for Fire Adventure
Overview: Orson Welles explains the creation process of a unique motion picture, a first of its kind, with contributions from the diverse range of worldwide talents who made it possible.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Working with Orson Welles
Overview: "Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a cameraman for Welles in the last 15 years of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Overview: How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
Overview: Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Enchanted Journey
Overview: Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, young chipmunk Glikko leaves the safety of his comfortable cage to explore the world.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-10
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Overview: Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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The Eyes of Orson Welles
Overview: A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius, both of his life and of his monumental work: through his own eyes, drawn by his own hand, painted with his own brush.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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The Hitch Hiker
Overview: A haunting visual adaptation of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio performance. We are introduced to Ronald Adams: a man who, during a cross country trip, is slowly driven to madness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-11
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Overview: The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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The Welles Raft
Overview: The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-06-23
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High Journey
Overview: In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Turkey) are photographed from low-flying aircraft against an evocative soundtrack, revealing the features of their ancient capitals, historical heritage and remarkable landscapes in a new dimension.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-31
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Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
Overview: A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a valuable legacy upon his profession. The scene is a hotel room in Paris. The year 1960. The star, Orson Welles. This is a pearl of cinematic memorabilia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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Around the World of Mike Todd
Overview: "Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous behind-the-scenes footage from the film.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-08
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La Classe américaine
Overview: George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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Battle for Survival
Overview: This is a two-reel short appealing for financial support from Americans to assist in the feeding and resettlement in Palestine of 1.5 million European Jews who in 1946 were "incredibly, alive." Orson Welles' magnificent narration stirs one's soul.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
Overview: On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand, a lively filmed interview took place inside the French Cinémathèque.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-28
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The Other Side of Welles
Overview: Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Croatia". Through the period of 25 years, he appeared as actor in several co productions made in Croatia (David and Goliath, Tartars, Austerlitz) - acted in few Yugoslavian film (Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Nicola Tesla) and directed two of his own film: The Trial and The Deep. As a Hollywood maverick, in Croatia he often found his shelter. Through the never before seen archive materials and the interviews with the people who worked with him, directors of this film, in the 90th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his passing, reveal the other side of Orson Welles
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Hopper/Welles
Overview: Captures a 1970 meeting between the movie industry titan Orson Welles and the then-rising star Dennis Hopper, who had just made Easy Rider.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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The Cave
Overview: Carried by a rich narration from Orson Welles, this rarely seen 1973 animated adaptation of Plato’s 'allegory of the cave' populates the tale with haunting human figures, bringing retro-surreal life to the parable.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Overview: An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-02
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The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
Overview: The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kline. The film shows footage of great modern artists in their studios creating and commenting on their work, with narration and commentary by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-05
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The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Overview: Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars as Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali and Johnny Carson; guests then recalled comedic moments they shared. Comedian Rich Little (a regular on the "Roast" specials) served as pitchman for the videos in a series of TV infomercials
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
Overview: The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of “Rosebud,” the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles’ debut film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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Something Else
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Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
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Genocide
Overview: The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-14
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Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Overview: 1958 documentary film by Orson Welles. It was funded by ABC TV. Around 30 minutes long, it follows a similar style to F for Fake and The Fountain of Youth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Orson Welles' Sketch Book
Overview: Orson Welles recounts various stories from his life while drawing sketches of the events.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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The Psychic Connection
Overview: Visual observation of psychic phenomena including psychic surgery, prior life regressions, skin vision, metal bending, and tongue skewing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-18
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King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
Overview: In March 1982, two wildlife photographers became stranded on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean during the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-22
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Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-16
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Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Overview: The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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Doug Henning's World of Magic
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Genres: Family TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-14
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Let Poland Be Poland
Overview: Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency protesting the then recent imposition of martial law in Poland. Hosted by Charlton Heston, Max von Sydow, and Glenda Jackson, the program features multiple celebrity appearances, speeches by 21 world leaders, and several contributions Polish artists and intellectuals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-31
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Out of Darkness
Overview: Three months in the life of a patient at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, CA. Therapy sessions of a young woman with catatonic schizophrenia and her gradual journey to recovery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-02
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Disorder Is 20 Years Old
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-11
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Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
Overview: Gala tribute to the Chairman of the Board.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Overview: Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have often been overshadowed by her premature death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-27
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The Great Buster: A Celebration
Overview: A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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The Magic History of Cinema
Overview: The Magic History Of Cinema is an international documentary showcasing magic and movies long continued history and explores how the origins of cinema are closely linked to the conjurors and illusionists of the early 20th century and how those ties continue with todays top filmmakers and magicians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-30
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Embers & Dust
Overview: Embers and Dust focuses on the perspective of a young farm boy and his family, and how the night of Orson Welles' dramatic broadcast of War of The Worlds unfolded for them.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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Know Your Ally: Britain
Overview: Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Mexico City, Old and New
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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South Seas Adventure
Overview: Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy cerulean waters. Thrill to the lure of sunbrowned, luscious maidens and a paradise of coconut palms, coral strand and blue lagoons. Enchanted South Pacific archipelagos beckon with all the beauty and color of a painter’s palette. Stepping stones in the vast expanse of far-away seas, they promise romance, adventure, excitement—an irresistible blend of fascinating people and exotic places.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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Lords of the Forest
Overview: Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo. Released in 1958.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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River of the Ocean
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-12-09
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An Arabian Night
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-09
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It's Not All True
Overview: Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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Kelly Country
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-01
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Power and Corruption
Overview: Short educational film about Macbeth
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-03
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The Double McGuffin
Overview: Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuses to believe them. Later they discover both were part of an assassination plot. Now they have to figure out how to stop the plot and put the bad guys in jail.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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The Enemy Before Us
Overview: Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than anyone expects.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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To Try Again... and Succeed
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-04
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The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-17
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-10
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Search for the Titanic
Overview: In "The Search for the Titanic" Orson Welles takes the viewers into a massive expedition trying to locate the remains of the famous unsinkable ship at the bottom of the Atlantic North waters several years after its sinking on it's maiden voyage back on April 1912.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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A Gift of Harvest
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-10
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In Our Hands
Overview: One million people. One voice: stop the nuclear arms race. The largest peace demonstration in history, a magical day when even the police were on the side of the marchers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Almonds and Raisins
Overview: This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-09
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Wagner e Venezia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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The New Deal for Artists
Overview: The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-06
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NBC: The First Fifty Years
Overview: A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airwaves on 15 November 1926.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-21
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Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-27
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Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Overview: Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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Brasil
Overview: João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Overview: In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-05
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Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
Overview: A movie made for closed circuit television to be played in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Orson Welles explains the rules of various gaming,. Depictions of the talent and amenities at the hotels are also shown.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Land of the Basques
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Overview: In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-30
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Beggars Would Ride
Overview: Crime film directed by a 24-year-old Gary Graver.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Magic Mirror Maze
Overview: The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed through a succession of four algorithmic progressions of split screen patterns. The result is hypnotic, kaleidoscopic and a bit uncanny.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
Overview: During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of getting a response from an extraterrestrial civilization; what they didn't anticipate was a speedy reply and an uptick in sightings around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-21
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The Scorpion and the Frog
Overview: A frog agrees to help a scorpion cross a river despite the frog's suspicions.
Genres: Animation Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-12
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Lost in "The Thinking"
Overview: A surreal meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by the Arthur Frain/Merlin character from Boorman’s “Zardoz”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Overview: For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Human Nature in Eleven Parts
Overview: Short vignettes explore different facets of human behavior and social issues.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-11
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Americans on Everest
Overview: A documentary account of the assault on Mt. Everest in 1963 by the men of the first American Mount Everest Expedition under the leadership of Norman Dyhrenfurth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-10
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Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
Overview: In June 1978, at his Arizona home, Welles films a series of conversations with his mentor Roger Hill, whom he has known since childhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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Hi-Fi
Overview: A deep dive into the history of São Paulo's avant-garde poetry movement, starting from fragments of the works of poet Augusto de Campos. A collage of rare scenes shows a long trail of comradery between avant-garde poetry and experimental cinema.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The UFO Conspiracy
Overview: More than a stunning catalog of UFO photography, video and eyewitness recordings, hear startling scriptural evidence from noted scholars like Dave Hunt and I.D.E Thomas which reveals the hidden truth about UFOs and the beings who operate them.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-18
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King of Kings
Overview: Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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