Movies: Bette Davis

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance....

A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation....

Bette Davis handles the title role in this highly offbeat crime comedy about two aging hippies who elect to rob a bank to restore Bunny O'Hare's financial affairs after she's been unjustly evicted and rendered homeless. When that heist ends up paying...

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family....

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son....

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him....

Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist....

A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover....

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had ...

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia....

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones....

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War....

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine....

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special....

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob....

The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network....

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed b...

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races....

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs....

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work......