Movies: John Huston

Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except the native Indians. He tries to hunt crocodiles but becomes delirious, disoriented and nears death. ...

Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana....

The portrait of a whimsical and rebellious, yet cultured and cosmopolitan actor, screenwriter and director – going against the grain of conventional Hollywood filmmakers: from The Maltese Falcon to Prizzi’s Honor....

Bill Moyers interviews film director and actor John Huston who discusses his career and the process of filmmaking. Includes a documentary segment on Huston's life, excerpts from some of his films, and an the on-set production of his latest film....

Making of A Walk with Love and Death....

Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon examines the contemporary (1967) state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “What do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic...

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends....

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel. Using photographs, film excerpts, and numerous interviews with Bunuel, the video chronicle...

Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard....

A documentary story of a man of our times- In a period when his country was tormented by conflict and violencei he perceived and embraced the struggle of his epoch - the struggle for human dignity and freedom. The only documentary that was presented ...

An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston....

B. Traven is one of the most mysterious figures of the 20th century. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and a dozen other fine books which have sold in millions around the world, but no publisher, no agent, and no fellow author ever met him -h...

Documentary of Douglas MacArthur...

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984)....

American film director John Huston is interviewed in this episode of a Canadian television series....

A mediocre countryside actress is invited to a Budapest casting call. She hopes she might become the new Marilyn Monroe....

Television film that served as a pilot for the reboot of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Four classic episodes from the original show - "Incident in a Small Jail," "Man from the South," "Bang! You're Dead" and "An Unlocked Window" - were remade by con...

Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selection of a commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln asserts his leadership and appoints Gen. Grant....

From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this outstanding documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville, one of the greatest talents in American...