Robert Wise Movies

A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island...

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

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...

Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of...

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

Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion...

Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.

Follows the life and career of legendary composer Alfred Newman.

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

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

This documentary explores how one bold TV series became a global phenomenon, inspiring generations and reimagining the future as a place of hope....

Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching...

Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman.

The making of "The Andromeda Strain".

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

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt...

It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan...

Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly...

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