Orson Welles Movies

A frog agrees to help a scorpion cross a river despite the frog's suspicions.

A standalone archival recording of Orson Welles performing Shylock’s “Hath not a Jew eyes” monologue, filmed independently in the...

Collage film built upon the audio of The War of the Worlds, directed and narrated by Orson Welles. Originally broadcast in October 1938 as a...

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

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

Follows Captain Irving Johnson and the crew of the Yankee on an 18-month journey around the world. Shows the people and places that they visited and...

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...

This is a collection of Welles’ TV appearances from the 70s and 80s, including the one he did with Merv Griffin just hours before he died....

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.

A half-hour Cartrivision program featuring two studio performances by Orson Welles on the figures of Socrates and Noah, produced for Sears’...

In “Search for the Titanic”, Orson Welles takes viewers into a massive expedition attempting to locate the remains of the famous...

The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until...

Short vignettes explore different facets of human behavior and social issues.

Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".

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

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

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

An unfinished 1981 essay-documentary project by Orson Welles, based on a filmed Q&A session at USC following a screening of The Trial, intended as a...