Movies: Bette Davis

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems....

Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist....

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss....

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 threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land....

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own....

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....

Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949....

Bette Davis handles the title role in this highly offbeat crime comedy about two aging hippies who elect to rob a bank to restore Bunny O'Hare's financial affairs after she's been unjustly evicted and rendered homeless. When that heist ends up paying...

A history of horror movies....

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

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones....

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars...

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races....

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....

A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation....

A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies of the '70s. Features a chain of your divas including Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jeanne Moreau in Mademoiselle, Elizabeth Taylor ...

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on th...

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities....

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....