Orson Welles Movies

Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel… Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.

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,…

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

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.

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.

Orson Welles trained as an artist before he become an actor and director, and continued to draw and paint throughout his career – character sketches, storyboards, set designs, pictures of…

Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Second, when two lifelong friends…

Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged and he himself was tortured by…

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…

Jackie and Lucy – together nicknamed ‘Jucy’ – are 20 something best friends who do everything together. Their days are spent working at a local alternative video store serving a…

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…

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…

This 1975 NASA documentary narrated by the great Orson Welles delves into the possibilities of extraterrestrial life as gleaned from the results of planetary probes, interstellar discoveries and findings about…

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…

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister (widowed by poison) to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission…

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, the master archer Tris, he falls in with the army of…

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….

This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath…

In Mexico, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a man is to be executed by Cascorro’s men. Doctor Henry Price, en Englishman, arrives in his car and saves him….

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…

Malpertuis is a labyrinth where characters issued from the Greek mythology are made prisoners by Cassavius. He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) as prisoners…

A chilling, heartbreaking testament to the strength and suffering of the Jewish people and the courage and heroism of those who came to their aid. With beautiful narration by Orson…

Glicko, a young chipmunk living in the city with his sister, is enticed by the words of Pippo, the carrier pigeon, to leave home and find the Great Forest, the…

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This is the 14th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host James Earl Jones, who talks about the “flying dream” while David Copperfield is sitting at a large desk…

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary – the enigma of his career as…

The modern myth of the UFO is examined, beginning with the hysteria created by Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s “War of the Worlds” and moving on to…

The modern myth of the UFO is examined, beginning with the hysteria created by Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s “War of the Worlds” and moving on to…

After a screening of ‘The Trial’ at the University of Southern California, Welles discussed with the public and tried to answer their questions.

Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of Apocalypse Now (1979)’ and Francis Ford Coppola’s struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Eleanor…

An English family living in India discovers a mongoose living on the estate. They decide to keep him as pet, in the hopes that he will keep them safe from…

Orson Welles’ free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr’s biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then…

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…

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The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and…

Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff’s career as young Prince Hal’s…

After the death of M, Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre, Bond thinks up the ultimate…

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…