Movies: Jack Lemmon

Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and then for free on PBS stations' American Playhouse series in May 1988), 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' is ...

A soldier has a ten-day leave from his military duties. He’s an easygoing guy who rarely thinks about his sometimes reckless behavior until he tempts fate once too often....

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau....

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts....

A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom....

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc o...

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Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of chimpanzees and helping to bring their ecological vulnerability into the public consciousness. She also founded ...

A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."...

A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959....

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches....

Commemorating the centennial of Mercer's birth, this documentary is part biography, part archive, and part recontextualization, taking Mercer's tunes and putting them in the hands of modern singers like Jamie Cullum and Dr. John to show they are stil...

Jack Benny's 1968 TV specials features topical references including a parody of The Graduate....

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin....

A retrospective look at 60 years of great moments in film comedy, from the 1920s to 1982....

Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original featuring an exclusive interview with the original Odd Couple....

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or disting...

Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playful history of the most daring cross-sexual performances in Hollywood history, from Some Like it Hot to Big Momma's House....

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself....

A boy enters a pet shop intending to buy a dog with a hip problem. The shop owner tries to convince him not to but the boy has other ideas....