Jason Robards Movies

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

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

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

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...

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.

The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. Inspired by real events.

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

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance...

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...

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...

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

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

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important...

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

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

A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and...

Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways both comedic and heartfelt, "The Golden Age of...

The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.