Bette Davis

Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect the fractures in the American image of ...

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of ...

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

Combining unprecedented access to Davis’ vast personal archives with original interviews, this documentary reveals a startling portrait of ...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually ...

The history of the irreverent “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and the content battles it fought with its television network.

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood’s greatest independent producers, is ...

A compilation of “coming attractions” from bad ’50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies of the ’70s. Features ...

A documentary about the making of the 1950 film “All About Eve.”

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard ...

Margo Channing’s famous line, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night,” characterizes well the actress who ...

Share the magical memories – and see clips from her Oscar winning performances – in this profile of the “First Lady of the ...

Biography of Bette Davis hosted by Jodie Foster.

A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family’s home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the ...

The arms race goes to the beauty parlor with Bette Davis in The Letter.

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being ...

A documentary on the film director William Wyler (1902-1981), this feature was conceived by his daughter, Catherine, as a loving tribute. ...

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood’s greatest ...

On February 22, 1986, Bette Davis received an honorary César award – and presented one to the Cinémathèque française, which was then celebrating ...

When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there’s time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and ...

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Minnie, too, has built doll houses for ...

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and ...

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of sound and color changed movies.

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she’s traveling through the country and ...

Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she ...

After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner’s ...

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually ...