Jason Robards Movies

While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.

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...

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this...

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

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is...

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.

An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We...

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the...

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful...

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

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

When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner...

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 short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which...

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

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

A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or return home to care for her aging father whose mental...

An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new...

An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.