Movies: Henry Fonda

Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sart...

Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them are on their Golden Honeymoon in Florida. Everything goes perfectly... until Lucy meets her former f...

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about....

Short documentary about the making of the 1938 film "Jezebel."...

Jane Fonda hosts a tribute to her father....

Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty...

The Really Big Family is a 1966 American documentary film directed by Alexander Grasshoff about the Dukes family of Seattle, who had 18 children. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....

Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pres...

A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD....

John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford...

From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's. James, the boy in question, h...

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)...

Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties....

Bronco riders travel through South Dakota and round up 400 wild horses in danger of extinction, then bring them to Fort Pierre where they are ridden by broncobusters in rodeo competition....

Not that long ago, crippling diseases were blamed on evil demons. What's more, nowadays, healing miracles are often considered to be natural events, misinterpreted by superstitious people. Despite the advances of modern medicine, many people still em...

The Man Who Loved Bears (1979) True-story documentary detailing the struggle of a man trying to raise a helpless grizzly bear cub named "Griz" in order to return him to the natural Colorado wild....

The story of legendary actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982), and his children, Jane (1937) and Peter (1940-2019), who would become famous performers in their own right, pop culture icons, and political and social activists; three members of Hollywood royalt...

Henry Fonda-narrated 1966 ABC documentary that follows a wounded soldier in Vietnam from the field, through the medical system, and back home to the USA. It aired on ABC TV October 24, 1966 and again in January 1967. Time Magazine: "Henry Fonda nar...

Henry Fonda reminisces about the stars and pictures of the glory days of Tinseltown....

An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering....