Movies: Jack Lemmon

Novice writers from a writers workshop wrote the show's sketches....

Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and then for free on PBS stations' American Playhouse series in May 1988), 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' is ...

Uta Hagen comments on acting...

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or disting...

A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."...

A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre....

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking....

An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career....

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself....

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc o...

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts....

Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of chimpanzees and helping to bring their ecological vulnerability into the public consciousness. She also founded ...

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau....

A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom....

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A retrospective look at 60 years of great moments in film comedy, from the 1920s to 1982....

A boy enters a pet shop intending to buy a dog with a hip problem. The shop owner tries to convince him not to but the boy has other ideas....

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin....

Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars....

Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playful history of the most daring cross-sexual performances in Hollywood history, from Some Like it Hot to Big Momma's House....