Movies: Frank Capra

Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collabo...

Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign....

Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII....

This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current MGM productions....

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean a...

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon ...

Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an e...

Tells the story of how Frank Capra, a young and penniless immigrant, rose through the ranks of early Hollywood to become one of the Great American storytellers....

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France....

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A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to Ame...

A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology involved in predicting them and warning about the threat of global climate change....

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels....

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her swee...

Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers....

Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan....

An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be crowned if he returns to Necko-Shavia and hires a taxi driver to take him there. It all turns out to be...

Career overview of Hollywood legend Frank Capra by Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel....

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her....

A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin....