Frank Capra Movies

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

Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank...

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and...

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

An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of...

Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe Day (VE). It was shown to US...

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends...

A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.

A chaotic, night-long comedy ensues when a newlywed couple's celebration is interrupted by rowdy in-laws, a pet parrot that gets stuck inside the...

Three stock market investors in San Francisco find themselves the target of a mystery investor, who is driving them to bankruptcy. The mystery...

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with...

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...

A documentary recording the visit of the Italian navy warship Libia to San Francisco.

An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be...

Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.

A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift...

“The Fallbrook Story,” is a 20-minute film of Cold War-era uneasiness in which director Frank Capra rails against what he calls the evils...

A jail break turns into a race.

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

Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe...