Orson Welles Movies

A 1978 filmed conversation between Orson Welles and his lifelong mentor Roger “Skipper” Hill, shot at Welles’s home in Sedona by...

A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971, organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and...

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The...

A frog agrees to help a scorpion cross a river despite the frog's suspicions.

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary...

Orson Welles explains the creation process of a unique motion picture, a first of its kind, with contributions from the diverse range of worldwide...

A half-hour Cartrivision program in which Orson Welles performs literary selections associated with American writers George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, and...

This is a collection of Welles’ TV appearances from the 70s and 80s, including the one he did with Merv Griffin just hours before he died....

Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using...

An Englishman with amnesia tries to discover why he is at the center of a Latin American coup.

During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of getting a response from an extraterrestrial...

A documentary about making a film, shot over a week.

Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.

One Man Band (1999) is a posthumous archival reconstruction created by the Munich Film Museum from unfinished footage shot by Orson Welles between...

A Roaring Twenties escapade about a small-time crook turned vaudeville theater owner.

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying friend Bill Cronshaw: a passage from the journal of...