Robert Wise Movies

A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles.

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid...

From Star Trek to The Sound of Music, award-winning director Robert Wise was dedicated, inventive, and ready to tackle any genre. He helmed...

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never...

Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if...

The making of "The Andromeda Strain".

The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major...

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the...

Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection."

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his...

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and...

Documentary attached to the 50th anniversary MGM Blu-ray collection of "West Side Story" (1961). Details how this successful stage production was...

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors....

A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.

A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden Age.

This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through...