Frank Capra Movies

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film...

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows...

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows...

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a...

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy...

A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ruggles and his kennels; on the set of 'You Can't...

Frank Capra was one of Hollywood's most popular and respected directors in the 1930s and 1940s. His best-known films include "Isn't Life Beautiful?",...

Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in...

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally...

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was...