Filming 'Othello'

1978

English

7.4

♡ 9

100%

Action

Documentary

movie business

Orson Welles Director

Suzanne Cloutier as Desdemona

Hilton Edwards as Himself / Brabantio

Orson Welles as Host / Othello

Robert Coote as Roderigo

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.

It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

1993

English

7.1

♡ 4

83%

70%

Documentary

Orson Welles Director

Miguel Ferrer as Narrator

Carmen Miranda as Self

Francisca Moreira da Silva as Self

Orson Welles as Self - Interview

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

South Seas Adventure

1958

English

7.0

♡ 2

Francis D. Lyon Director

Ted de Corsia as Supplemental Narration

Walter Coy as Supplemental Narration

Shepard Menken as Supplemental Narration

Orson Welles as Supplemental Narrator

Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy cerulean waters. Thrill to the lure of sunbrowned, luscious maidens and a paradise of coconut palms, coral strand and blue lagoons. Enchanted South Pacific archipelagos beckon with all the beauty and color of a painter’s palette. Stepping stones in the vast expanse of far-away seas, they promise romance, adventure, excitement—an irresistible blend of fascinating people and exotic places.

American Experience The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

2021

English

8.2

♡ 2

Jamila Ephron Director

Brent Jennings as Isaac Woodard

Harry S. Truman as Self

Orson Welles as Self

André Holland as Self - Narrator

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.

The Spanish Earth

1937

English

6.5

♡ 2

80%

42%

Action

Documentary

spanish civil war (1936-39)

War

Joris Ivens Director

Orson Welles as Narrator

Gustav Regler as Self

Commander Martinez de Aragón as Self

José Díaz as Self

Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.

The Eyes of Orson Welles

2018

English

6.7

♡ 2

93%

Mark Cousins Director

Jack Klaff as Orson Welles

Mark Cousins as Self

Orson Welles as Self

Beatrice Welles as Self

A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius, both of his life and of his monumental work: through his own eyes, drawn by his own hand, painted with his own brush.

The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla

1980

Serbo-croatian

7.2

♡ 5

biography

Biography

Drama

Krsto Papic Director

Branko Spoljar as

Charles Millot as Adams

Strother Martin as George Westinghouse

Orson Welles as J.P. Morgan

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991

English

7.5

♡ 7

Ken Burns Director

Jason Robards as Narrator

Orson Welles as Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast

Harry S. Truman as Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self - Announces Landing in Normandy

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

The Little World of Don Camillo

1952

Italian

7.6

♡ 2

Julien Duvivier Director

Barbara Florian as Bit part

Giorgio Albertazzi as Don Pietro

Orson Welles as Narrator

Emilio Cigoli as Narrator

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Just Henry

2011

English

6.3

♡ 1

57%

Drama

family relationships

murder

David Moore Director

John Henshaw as Charlie

Orson Welles as Harry Lime

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins

Stephen Campbell Moore as Joey Dodge

Pooky Quesnel as Mrs Jeffries

Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

1975

English

8.0

♡ 8

80%

Chuck Jones Director

Lennie Weinrib as Darzee the Tailorbird

Les Tremayne as Father

June Foray as Nagaina the Cobra, Wife of Nag

Orson Welles as Narrator

Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.

Swiss Family Robinson

1940

English

6.2

♡ 3

32%

18th century

Adventure

based on novel or book

swiss family robinson

Edward Ludwig Director

Terry Kilburn as Ernest Robinson

Tim Holt as Fritz Robinson

Orson Welles as Opening Narrator

Thomas Mitchell as William Robinson

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 in the jungle environment.