Orson Welles Movies

Vignettes of Empire; history as doomed love affair.

"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...

From Iowa to Studio 54, this investigation into the rags-to-riches story of America’s first superstar designer uncovers the cautionary tale of...

A frog agrees to help a scorpion cross a river despite the frog's suspicions.

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a...

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...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The...

This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants...

During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of getting a response from an extraterrestrial...

A surreal meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by the Arthur Frain/Merlin character from Boorman’s “Zardoz”.

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...

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...

Jane Goodall has spent five years observing the chimps in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), Africa. One of her discoveries is that they use primitive...