Orson Welles Movies

A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.

Explores the history of the woolen textile industry from earliest times until the present day.

A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door...

Uplifting modern day parable about mankind getting along together. Narrated by Orson Welles. Animation directed by Sam Weiss.

Vignettes of Empire; history as doomed love affair.

Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.

Visual observation of psychic phenomena including psychic surgery, prior life regressions, skin vision, metal bending, and tongue skewing.

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

The earliest surviving film of Orson Welles, a vignette of his and Roger Hill's production of Twelfth Night at the Todd School for Boys.

Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, among others.

A haunting visual adaptation of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio performance. We are introduced to Ronald Adams: a man who, during a cross country...

The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed through a succession of four algorithmic...

One million people. One voice: stop the nuclear arms race. The largest peace demonstration in history, a magical day when even the police were on the...

Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who...