Jason Robards Movies

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what...

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...

A champion of the strenuous life, Teddy Roosevelt embodied the notion of an expanded presidency. Stamping the presidency with his own colorful...

An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking...

A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film...

True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw...

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context...

Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the...

As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the story of America's favorite pastime from the...

During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...