Movies: Frank Capra

Our Job in Japan was a United States military training film made in 1945, shortly after World War II. It is the companion to the more famous Your Job In Germany. The film was aimed at American troops about to go to Japan to participate in the 1945–19...

A "know-your-enemy" propaganda film similar to "Know Your Enemy: Japan" and "My Japan", films about Japan with the same objective. It contains a history of the prelude to WW II, the death camps and other Nazi war crimes, and commentary on the charact...

A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking him, is an actual burglar thinking the man to be a rival to his score....

Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show....

Fulta Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of Salem Hardieker, a tough Bostonian. When Anne's...

Burgess Meredith narrates this insightful MGM-produced documentary about the life and career of Hollywood legend Clark Gable, from his childhood in Ohio, to his star status in Hollywood, and to his romantic life off-screen, including his marriage to ...

In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right....

Frank Capra's WWII propaganda films....

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents....

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Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter....

Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short....

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faith...

Three men join forces to raise an adopted son. A lost film....

Career overview of Hollywood legend Frank Capra by Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel....

Three stock market investors in San Francisco find themselves the target of a mystery investor, who is driving them to bankruptcy. The mystery investor is also sending the men a threat in the form of a note containing a tiger's head and a number, wit...

The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short....

The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short....

A jail break turns into a race....

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France....