Orson Welles Movies

Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of...

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this...

A documentary about making a film, shot over a week.

Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he...

In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII...

Documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, about the legendary race horse Nijinsky, one of the greatest and most successful race horses in history and...

An Englishman with amnesia tries to discover why he is at the center of a Latin American coup.

A shot-for-shot remake of Orson Welles first effort at cinema, filmed entirely on New Year's Eve 1996 in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and...

Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly...

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

A half-hour Cartrivision studio performance by Orson Welles titled My Little Boy, produced for exclusive distribution through Sears’ home-video...

A meta-theatrical adaptation of Moby-Dick in which a rehearsal evolves into a full performance, as actors are absorbed into the roles of Ishmael,...

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

An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange possession he's acquired - a monkey's paw which...

A darkly comic fable about vanity and desire, "The Fountain of Youth" follows a newly married couple whose relationship is destabilized by the...

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed...

Review the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 with archival photographs and reviews the highlights of the treasure trove with...