Orson Welles Movies

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

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

Orson Welles talks fantasy and magic in this short Vienna travelogue.

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves...

A short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unf...

A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges...

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

Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the doc...

Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats....

After Lori Brandon suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a toy company in northern California. Frank's new boss, the mysterious M...

Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of...

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this...

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.

In 1981, Welles gave a 90-minute question-and-answer session at the University of Southern California after a screening of The Trial. He had his cinem...

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his concept...

Martin Scorsese celebrates American movies from the silent classics to the Hollywood of the seventies.

A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.