Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur."
After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety.
Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces.
In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.2591 |
| Birthday | 1915-05-06 |
| Place of Birth | Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA |
| Also Known As | George Orson Welles, O. W. Jeeves, |
1941
Citizen Kane
7.982/5928
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, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1966
A Man for All Seasons
7.344/481
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 de...
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A Man for All Seasons
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.3/466
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1965
Chimes at Midnight
7.2/237
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'...
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Chimes at Midnight
1949
The Third Man
7.907/2043
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...
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The Third Man
1958
Touch of Evil
7.749/1558
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, sett...
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Touch of Evil
1981
History of the World: Part I
6.769/878
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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History of the World: Part I
1962
The Trial
7.4/543
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
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The Trial
1969
Twelve Plus One
5.2/30
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 get...
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Twelve Plus One
1986
The Transformers: The Movie
7.131/578
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselve...
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The Transformers: The Movie
1956
Moby Dick
7.043/456
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 s...
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Moby Dick
1970
Catch-22
6.643/339
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
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Catch-22
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
7.345/711
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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The Lady from Shanghai
1966
Is Paris Burning?
7.2/219
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...
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Is Paris Burning?
1946
The Stranger
7.218/624
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...
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The Stranger
1974
And Then There Were None
5.655/110
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 kille...
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And Then There Were None
1968
House of Cards
4.643/14
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
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House of Cards
1943
Journey into Fear
6.065/101
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 th...
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Journey into Fear
1972
Treasure Island
5.722/36
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 L...
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Treasure Island
1970
The Deep
0/0
An unfinished feature film directed by Orson Welles and based on Charles Williams’s Dead Calm (1963), filmed between 1966 and 1969 off the Yugoslav co...
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The Deep
1965
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
0/0
Jane Goodall has spent five years observing the chimps in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), Africa. One of her discoveries is that they use primitive to...
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Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
1943
Jane Eyre
6.9/149
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 mee...
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Jane Eyre
1992
Don Quixote
6.071/28
A posthumous 1992 reconstruction of Orson Welles’s long-unfinished Don Quixote project, edited by Jesús Franco from footage shot between 1957 and 1972...
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Don Quixote
1999
According to Occam's Razor
0/0
A mockumentary look at the myths and realities surrounding aliens and UFOs. A hybrid of genres on the UFO subject.
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According to Occam's Razor
1990
Welles' Language
7/2
Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural missi...
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Welles' Language
1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
0/0
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1967
Casino Royale
5.3/800
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...
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Casino Royale
1970
Waterloo
7.096/218
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...
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Waterloo
1944
Follow the Boys
5.3/10
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...
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Follow the Boys
1969
The Battle of Neretva
6.774/53
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia....
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The Battle of Neretva
1975
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
6.4/28
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 murde...
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
1948
Macbeth
7.2/182
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurre...
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Macbeth
1982
Butterfly
4.743/37
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...
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Butterfly
1958
The Long, Hot Summer
7.034/219
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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The Long, Hot Summer
1959
Compulsion
7.106/159
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
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Compulsion
1972
Necromancy
4.414/35
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, ex...
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Necromancy
1958
The Vikings
7.03/350
Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
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The Vikings
1973
F for Fake
7.4/355
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 nam...
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F for Fake
1955
Napoleon
6.25/22
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 shootin...
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Napoleon
1963
The V.I.P.s
6.109/64
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
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The V.I.P.s
2022
American: An Odyssey to 1947
0/0
In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII begi...
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American: An Odyssey to 1947
1950
The Black Rose
6.587/23
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...
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The Black Rose
1969
The Southern Star
5.75/12
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 appealin...
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The Southern Star
1949
Prince of Foxes
6.115/26
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 m...
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Prince of Foxes
2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
0/0
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
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From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
1955
Mr. Arkadin
6.85/187
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 any...
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Mr. Arkadin
1946
Tomorrow Is Forever
6.128/39
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 k...
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Tomorrow Is Forever
1955
Three Cases of Murder
5.87/27
An atmospheric British omnibus film presenting three tales of murder and the supernatural. In “In the Picture,” a museum attendant is drawn into the e...
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Three Cases of Murder
1970
The Kremlin Letter
6/43
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 undercove...
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The Kremlin Letter
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
0/0
After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
1972
Malpertuis
6.415/41
A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who...
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Malpertuis
1951
Othello
7.351/205
Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion...
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Othello
1981
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
6.886/22
Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th centur...
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
1953
Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.633/30
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
1995
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
6.4/14
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...
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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1978
The Biggest Battle
4.393/14
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.
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The Biggest Battle
2003
The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
6/1
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 Brit...
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The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
1969
Tepepa
6.519/54
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
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Tepepa
1980
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
6.15/30
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day...
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The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1982
Slapstick of Another Kind
2.69/21
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
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Slapstick of Another Kind
1971
A Safe Place
5.217/23
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 neithe...
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A Safe Place
1977
Hot Tomorrows
6/1
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,...
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Hot Tomorrows
1952
Trent's Last Case
5.222/9
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicid...
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Trent's Last Case
1971
Ten Days' Wonder
6.103/29
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 bout...
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Ten Days' Wonder
1968
The Immortal Story
7.1/89
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
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The Immortal Story
2019
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
0/0
An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination.
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Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
1978
The Late Great Planet Earth
4.3/7
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 Zonderv...
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The Late Great Planet Earth
1960
David and Goliath
3.556/18
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...
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David and Goliath
1976
Voyage of the Damned
5.973/73
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Voyage of the Damned
1949
Black Magic
6.205/22
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
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Black Magic
1993
It's All True
7.6/16
A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.
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It's All True
1959
Ferry to Hong Kong
5.464/14
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...
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Ferry to Hong Kong
1963
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
7.191/131
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
7.5/25
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...
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
1972
Future Shock
4.7/9
“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We liv...
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Future Shock
1972
Get to Know Your Rabbit
4.8/22
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, b...
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Get to Know Your Rabbit
1958
The Fountain of Youth
6.1/15
A darkly comic fable about vanity and desire, "The Fountain of Youth" follows a newly married couple whose relationship is destabilized by the arrival...
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The Fountain of Youth
1977
The Force Beyond
4.3/7
Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are responsible for pretty much every conspiracy theory, para...
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The Force Beyond
1937
The Spanish Earth
6.5/20
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the...
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The Spanish Earth
1983
The Witching
0/0
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...
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The Witching
1965
Marco the Magnificent
4.636/11
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
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Marco the Magnificent
1977
It Happened One Christmas
4.556/9
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 d...
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It Happened One Christmas
1979
Filming Othello
7.3/12
Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The fi...
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Filming Othello
1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay
5.8/4
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. (na...
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Mysterious Castles of Clay
1967
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
5.286/14
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...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1954
Trouble in the Glen
5.5/4
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 s...
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Trouble in the Glen
1984
Where Is Parsifal?
2.833/6
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 mus...
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Where Is Parsifal?
1997
It's All Brazil
6.2/4
A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
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It's All Brazil
1953
Return to Glennascaul
6.5/27
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 trou...
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Return to Glennascaul
2021
Parkinson at 50
10/1
Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourit...
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Parkinson at 50
1984
The Road to Bresson
6.8/9
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
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The Road to Bresson
2013
Too Much Johnson
5.3/26
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gille...
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Too Much Johnson
1961
The Tartars
5.7/12
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 a...
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The Tartars
1970
Is It Always Right to Be Right?
6.2/20
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 someon...
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Is It Always Right to Be Right?
1983
Hot Money
2/3
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...
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Hot Money
1953
Man, Beast and Virtue
6.538/13
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 Assunt...
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Man, Beast and Virtue
1987
Someone to Love
5.3/10
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 int...
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Someone to Love
1968
The Fight for Rome
5.375/8
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus...
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The Fight for Rome
1982
Magic with the Stars
0/0
Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.
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Magic with the Stars
1973
The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
0/0
Platos allegory of the cave as told by Orson Welles
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The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
1953
King Lear
8/2
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
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King Lear
1971
Sentinels of Silence
6.8/10
Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert...
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Sentinels of Silence
1979
The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
0/0
The planning and implementation of the first flight to the moon, narrated by Orson Welles.
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The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
2000
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
5.5/2
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Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
1977
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
6/1
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 f...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
2021
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
9/1
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...
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Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
1983
Notre Dame de la Croisette
6/1
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.
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
2024
Othelo The Great
0/0
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and ra...
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Othelo The Great
1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
5.625/8
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...
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The Sailor from Gibraltar
1985
The Dreamers
5/3
The Dreamers (1985) is a posthumous short film assembled by Oja Kodar from unfinished footage directed by Orson Welles in 1982. Edited after Welles’s...
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The Dreamers
2011
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
5.268/28
In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey recorded the nightly squabbles of their over-the-top neighbors, homophobic Raymond Huffman and proudly gay...
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
1958
The Roots of Heaven
6.174/23
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause...
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The Roots of Heaven
1960
Crack in the Mirror
6.667/3
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is...
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Crack in the Mirror
1969
To Build a Fire
7.6/5
A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.
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To Build a Fire
1966
Orson Welles in Spain
5/2
Orson Welles presents a proposed film project to prospective investors in Spain. Speaking to an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles outlines his...
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Orson Welles in Spain
1957
Man in the Shadow
6.704/49
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...
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Man in the Shadow
1979
The Muppet Movie
7.2/677
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp...
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The Muppet Movie
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.53/83
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 ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
1996
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
7.3/28
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and H...
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1986
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
7/3
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 ga...
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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
2023
Looking Back Before You Leap
0/0
A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University.
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Looking Back Before You Leap
1967
Ten Days That Shook the World
6.2/4
An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes...
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Ten Days That Shook the World
2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.5/35
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2023
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
0/0
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, a...
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It's Pretty, but is it Art?
1971
Flame of Persia
0/0
A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971, organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and att...
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Flame of Persia
2018
The Other Side of the Wind
6.706/228
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts...
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The Other Side of the Wind
2001
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
6/1
This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants...
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The Paranormal Peter Sellers
1965
A King's Story
5.7/3
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....
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A King's Story
1984
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
6/10
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 Cha...
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The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
7.289/19
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Go...
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
1970
Upon This Rock
0/0
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
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Upon This Rock
1978
Tut: The Boy King
0/0
Review the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 with archival photographs and reviews the highlights of the treasure trove with an...
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Tut: The Boy King
2015
This Is Orson Welles
7.182/11
Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.
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This Is Orson Welles
1934
The Hearts of Age
5.3/41
A surreal silent short composed of symbolic imagery and allegorical tableaux centered on themes of death and mortality.
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The Hearts of Age
2013
Jodorowsky's Dune
7.835/738
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for t...
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Jodorowsky's Dune
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
6.7/25
Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civi...
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
1933
Twelfth Night
6/1
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.
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Twelfth Night
2012
The Shadow Knows
0/0
This exhaustive documentary covers the history and legacy of Walter B. Gibson's character, The Shadow, from the pulps to radio and beyond.
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The Shadow Knows
1968
Vienna
6/9
Orson Welles talks fantasy and magic in this short Vienna travelogue.
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Vienna
2009
Lucifer et moi
0/0
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Lucifer et moi
1940
Swiss Family Robinson
5.621/29
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...
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Swiss Family Robinson
1969
The Merchant of Venice
8/3
An unreleased 1969 made-for-TV short adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, produced, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. Originally...
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The Merchant of Venice
1988
On the tracks of a filmmaker
0/0
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On the tracks of a filmmaker
1975
Who's Out There?
6.3/3
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial...
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Who's Out There?
2024
The Battle of Grovers Mill
0/0
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 an...
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The Battle of Grovers Mill
1980
A Step Away
0/0
Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the doc...
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A Step Away
1984
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
9/1
Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats....
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The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
2000
Moby Dick
0/0
An unfinished 1971 film project in which Orson Welles performs readings from Moby Dick against a minimalist blue-screen setting, conceived as a styliz...
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Moby Dick
1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
7/12
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...
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1985
Orson Welles' Magic Show
6.3/3
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...
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Orson Welles' Magic Show
1962
Lafayette
5.167/6
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
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Lafayette
1981
Filming 'The Trial'
7/4
An unfinished 1981 essay-documentary project by Orson Welles, based on a filmed Q&A session at USC following a screening of The Trial, intended as a r...
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Filming 'The Trial'
1964
The Finest Hours
6.3/3
A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
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The Finest Hours
1968
Portrait: Orson Welles
5.8/5
Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his concept...
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Portrait: Orson Welles
1971
Directed by John Ford
6.9/40
A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
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Directed by John Ford
1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
6.5/2
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Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1968
Oedipus the King
5.4/5
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 invo...
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Oedipus the King
1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
5.767/43
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, C...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
1969
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
3/2
A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.
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Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
1969
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
7/5
The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.
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The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
1971
Freedom River
6.3/3
Uplifting modern day parable about mankind getting along together. Narrated by Orson Welles.
Animation directed by Sam Weiss.
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Freedom River
1990
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
0/0
A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles.
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With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
0/0
A half-hour studio performance in which Orson Welles reads Ring Lardner’s story The Golden Honeymoon, produced for Sears’ Cartrivision home-video cata...
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An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
5.1/9
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
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A Huey P. Newton Story
2005
The Well
0/0
Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.
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The Well
1977
From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
0/0
Explores the history of the woolen textile industry from earliest times until the present day.
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From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
2002
Lost in La Mancha
7.046/229
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 stor...
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Lost in La Mancha
1943
Show-Business at War
7/3
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Show-Business at War
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
6.1/8
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2001
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
0/0
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...
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NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
1946
Duel in the Sun
6.321/182
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...
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Duel in the Sun
1970
A Horse Called Nijinsky
10/1
Documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, about the legendary race horse Nijinsky, one of the greatest and most successful race horses in history and aft...
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A Horse Called Nijinsky
1979
The Orson Welles Show
6/1
An unsold 1979 television talk-show pilot hosted by Orson Welles, blending interviews, audience interaction, staged segments, and magic performances,...
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The Orson Welles Show
1950
Disorder
5/4
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
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Disorder
1980
The Greenstone
1.5/1
Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy (Joseph Cory) dedicates himself to finding a magical rock. Narrated by Orson Welles.
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The Greenstone
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
7.115/143
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...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
1982
The Quest for Fire Adventure
6/1
Orson Welles explains the creation process of a unique motion picture, a first of its kind, with contributions from the diverse range of worldwide tal...
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The Quest for Fire Adventure
1993
Working with Orson Welles
5.5/4
"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 l...
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Working with Orson Welles
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
6.2/5
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 wa...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
1976
Bugs Bunny Superstar
7.3/37
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 ho...
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
1981
Enchanted Journey
6.4/5
Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, young chipmunk Glikko leaves the safety of his comfo...
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Enchanted Journey
2000
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
6.5/12
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje...
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Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
2018
The Eyes of Orson Welles
7/43
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, bot...
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The Eyes of Orson Welles
2004
The Hitch Hiker
0/0
A haunting visual adaptation of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio performance. We are introduced to Ronald Adams: a man who, during a cross country...
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The Hitch Hiker
1973
The Battle of Sutjeska
6.354/24
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 e...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
2022
The Welles Raft
0/0
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...
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The Welles Raft
1959
High Journey
6/1
In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Turkey) are photograph...
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High Journey
2010
Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
4/2
A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a valuable...
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Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
1968
Around the World of Mike Todd
6/2
"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 be...
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Around the World of Mike Todd
1993
La Classe américaine
7.574/242
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...
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La Classe américaine
1946
Battle for Survival
0/0
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...
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Battle for Survival
1983
Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
0/0
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 pl...
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Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
2005
The Other Side of Welles
0/0
Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Cro...
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The Other Side of Welles
2020
Hopper/Welles
5.9/4
A restored 1970 cinéma vérité conversation between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper, filmed during the production of "The Other Side of the Wind" and re...
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Hopper/Welles
1973
The Cave
0/0
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 hau...
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The Cave
2018
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
7/5
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.
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
1974
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
5.8/3
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...
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The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
1998
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5/1
Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s...
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The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1993
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
5/1
The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of “Rosebud,” the object at t...
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Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
Something Else
0/0
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Something Else
1982
Genocide
7.4/18
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 co...
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Genocide
1958
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
6.7/3
An unbroadcast 1958 essay-film by Orson Welles, blending documentary, personal reflection, and cultural portraiture in a subjective study of Italy and...
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Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1955
Orson Welles' Sketch Book
6.5/4
Orson Welles recounts various stories from his life while drawing sketches of the events.
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Orson Welles' Sketch Book
1983
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
0/0
In March 1982, two wildlife photographers became stranded on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean during the Falklands War between the...
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King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
1983
The Psychic Connection
0/0
Visual observation of psychic phenomena including psychic surgery, prior life regressions, skin vision, metal bending, and tongue skewing.
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The Psychic Connection
1982
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
0/0
The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.
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Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
6/1
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Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1984
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
0/0
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
2020
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
6.4/31
Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have often been overshadowed by her premature death.
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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
1982
Let Poland Be Poland
0/0
Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency protesting the t...
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Let Poland Be Poland
1982
Doug Henning's World of Magic
0/0
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Doug Henning's World of Magic
1956
Out of Darkness
0/0
Three months in the life of a patient at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, CA. Therapy sessions of a young woman with catatonic schizophrenia an...
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Out of Darkness
1979
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
0/0
Gala tribute to the Chairman of the Board.
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Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
1974
A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles
0/0
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A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles
1975
Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
0/0
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Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
1960
The Battle of Austerlitz
6.6/36
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
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The Battle of Austerlitz
1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
0/0
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Disorder Is 20 Years Old
2017
The Magic History of Cinema
0/0
The Magic History Of Cinema is an international documentary showcasing magic and movies long continued history and explores how the origins of cinema...
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The Magic History of Cinema
2016
Embers & Dust
6.7/3
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 Wor...
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Embers & Dust
1944
Know Your Ally: Britain
4.6/8
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 Departmen...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
1958
Lords of the Forest
8/2
Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo.
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Lords of the Forest
1960
An Arabian Night
0/0
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An Arabian Night
1945
Mexico City, Old and New
0/0
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Mexico City, Old and New
1962
River of the Ocean
0/0
A documentary about the Atlantic Ocean, which tells of the coastal inhabitants' struggle with the sea, the secrets of the deep, and the benefits of th...
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River of the Ocean
1958
South Seas Adventure
5.7/5
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...
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South Seas Adventure
1986
It's Not All True
6.5/6
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
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It's Not All True
1972
The Man Who Came to Dinner
0/0
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 any...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
1984
In Our Hands
0/0
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...
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In Our Hands
1975
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
0/0
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Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
1973
Power and Corruption
0/0
Short educational film about Macbeth
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Power and Corruption
1982
Wagner e Venezia
0/0
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Wagner e Venezia
1977
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
0/0
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The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
1979
To Try Again... and Succeed
0/0
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To Try Again... and Succeed
1981
The New Deal for Artists
0/0
The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters,...
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The New Deal for Artists
1979
The Double McGuffin
4.955/11
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...
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The Double McGuffin
1980
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
0/0
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
1984
Almonds and Raisins
0/0
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...
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Almonds and Raisins
1979
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
0/0
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The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
1981
Search for the Titanic
0/0
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...
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Search for the Titanic
1970
The Enemy Before Us
0/0
Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
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The Enemy Before Us
1981
A Gift of Harvest
0/0
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A Gift of Harvest
1973
Kelly Country
0/0
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Kelly Country
1976
NBC: The First Fifty Years
0/0
A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airwaves on 15 November 1926.
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NBC: The First Fifty Years
1972
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
0/0
Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, among others.
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Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
1981
Brasil
7.5/7
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.
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Brasil
2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
6.6/35
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...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
1978
Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
0/0
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,. Depiction...
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Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
1955
The Land of the Basques
0/0
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2021
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
0/0
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 driv...
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
1967
Beggars Would Ride
0/0
Crime film directed by a 24-year-old Gary Graver.
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Beggars Would Ride
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.6/5
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 "wor...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6.7/3
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
2012
Magic Mirror Maze
0/0
The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed through a succession of four algorithmic progressions...
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Magic Mirror Maze
2024
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
0/0
During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of getting a response from an extraterrestrial civilizati...
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Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
2025
The Scorpion and the Frog
5/1
A frog agrees to help a scorpion cross a river despite the frog's suspicions.
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The Scorpion and the Frog
2005
Lost in "The Thinking"
0/0
A surreal meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by the Arthur Frain/Merlin character from Boorman’s “Zardoz”.
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Lost in "The Thinking"
1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
7.5/8
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...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
2025
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
0/0
Short vignettes explore different facets of human behavior and social issues.
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Human Nature in Eleven Parts
1965
Americans on Everest
0/0
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 D...
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Americans on Everest
2005
Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
0/0
A 1978 filmed conversation between Orson Welles and his lifelong mentor Roger “Skipper” Hill, shot at Welles’s home in Sedona by Gary Graver. Edited f...
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Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
1999
Hi-Fi
5/1
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...
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Hi-Fi
2004
The UFO Conspiracy
4.333/3
More than a stunning catalog of UFO photography, video and eyewitness recordings, hear startling scriptural evidence from noted scholars like Dave Hun...
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The UFO Conspiracy
1961
King of Kings
7.144/226
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 th...
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King of Kings
1955
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
0/0
A meta-theatrical adaptation of Moby-Dick in which a rehearsal evolves into a full performance, as actors are absorbed into the roles of Ishmael, Star...
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Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
0/0
Follows Captain Irving Johnson and the crew of the Yankee on an 18-month journey around the world. Shows the people and places that they visited and s...
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Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
1982
The Orson Welles Story
9/1
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.
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The Orson Welles Story
1965
Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
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Film, Stage and Radio director; Film, Stage and Radio Actor; Author; Magician; Musician.
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Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
7.519/26
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
1976
A Mother's Tale
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A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of individuality versus the pressure to conform, and the te...
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A Mother's Tale
1977
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
6/1
A speculative look forward at the United States' next 200 years.
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The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
2025
WeirdWorld
10/2
A small disillusioned creature searches for meaning in an increasingly weird world.
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WeirdWorld
1978
Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
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Our host (surreptitiously played by Abb Dickson in disguise) introduces us outside the castle and describes what - and who - are allowed in it, follow...
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Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
1976
Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer
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A nine-minute short film created by Orson Welles in 1976 as a preview for F for Fake, composed largely of newly shot material and structured as an ess...
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Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
7.772/46
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man wh...
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Jim Henson Idea Man
1940
Citizen Kane Trailer
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A self-contained promotional short in which Orson Welles introduces "Citizen Kane" through staged rehearsals and narration, without using footage from...
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Citizen Kane Trailer
1983
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
5.571/7
Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli, and a...
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
2002
Heart of the Festival
4/1
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Heart of the Festival
2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
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Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.
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Hollywood sul Tevere
2005
Orson Welles Uncut
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Malpertuis featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor
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Orson Welles Uncut
1939
The Green Goddess
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In 1939, Orson Welles staged a version of the play "The Green Goddess" in New York, which was preceded by a short film prelude. This was two years bef...
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The Green Goddess
1955
Don Quixote
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Orson Welles’s unfinished reimagining of Don Quixote, conceived in 1955 and filmed intermittently over more than a decade, portraying Don Quixote and...
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Don Quixote
1956
Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
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A lost 1956 television pilot created by Orson Welles for a proposed documentary series. The filmed episode, “Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeer...
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Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
1960
Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
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Filmed in 1960 during a break in the production of "Ferry to Hong Kong," this short documentary records Orson Welles’s three-week journey through colo...
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Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
1970
The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
5/1
A standalone archival recording of Orson Welles performing Shylock’s “Hath not a Jew eyes” monologue, filmed independently in the early 1970s and unre...
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The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
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A half-hour studio reading in which Orson Welles performs Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, created for Sears’ Cartrivision home-video system.
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An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain
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A half-hour Cartrivision program in which Orson Welles performs literary selections associated with American writers George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, and Mar...
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An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain
1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow
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A half-hour Cartrivision program in which Orson Welles performs material attributed to Clarence Darrow, produced for Sears as part of the American Her...
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An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow
1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah
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A half-hour Cartrivision program featuring two studio performances by Orson Welles on the figures of Socrates and Noah, produced for Sears’ home-video...
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An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah
1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy
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A half-hour Cartrivision studio performance by Orson Welles titled My Little Boy, produced for exclusive distribution through Sears’ home-video system...
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An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy
1999
One Man Band
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One Man Band (1999) is a posthumous archival reconstruction created by the Munich Film Museum from unfinished footage shot by Orson Welles between 196...
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