Norman Lear

Norman Lear: A Life on Television (2023)

An ET special that features new interviews with stars of the long-running comedies Lear created and never-before-seen interviews from the ET vault. This one-hour special features new interviews with stars of the long-running comedies Lear created, includin ...

Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023)

With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary's sixty-year career in show business. ...

A Case for Kindness (2022)

A Case For Kindness is a journey to understand the true nature of Kindness, making a case for why it is our best way forward as a society. The film will examine different themes of kindness while exploring various stories, cultures and conversations. We th ...

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022)

The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television's greatest stories in celebration of his 100t ...

Gratitude Revealed (2022)

An epic journey forty years in the making, acclaimed filmmaker, Louie Schwartzberg, the director of Fantastic Fungi, takes us on a transformational, cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of Gratitude through his intimate conversat ...

"Sr." (2022)

A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy. ...

Lucy and Desi (2022)

Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz risked everything to be together. ...

The Super Bob Einstein Movie (2021)

This documentary explores Bob Einstein's unlikely discovery and enduring career, sharing the many evolving layers of his comedy from the people that knew him best. ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021)

The live special event features reenactments of episodes from "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes". ...

Adventures In Christmasing (2021)

Parker Baldwin finds her Christmas plans upended when her network persuades her to spend three days in the wild with survivalist Finn Holt for a holiday television event. ...

Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)

Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin's varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jer ...

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pig ...

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion (2020)

The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited for a virtual table read hosted by Jason Reitman. The 3-hour virtual reunion included director Rob Reiner and actors Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patink ...

Pioneers in Skirts (2020)

Pioneers in Skirts is an Emmy-nominated 60-min documentary following filmmaker Ashley Maria's quest to peel back the layers of obstacles that can limit a woman or girl's pioneering ambition. ...

Find Your Groove (2020)

In this uplifitng documentary, stars and musicians from across the industry speak to the power and importance of music in society. Here we examine how close we came to not having many of the incredible artists who we cherish today had it not been for arts ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)

Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times. ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (2019)

Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons. ...

I Want My MTV (2019)

The film is about the formation of a music channel that has shaped modern pop culture. On August 1, 1981, the life of a whole generation of Americans changed forever - on this day MTV began its broadcasting day, making VJ a new teen hero and creating a can ...

Robert Scheer: Above the Fold (2019)

A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and later with the Internet website Truthdig. ...

Viewer Direction Advised (2018)

Twenty-one year old Ben is on a journey - to follow his TV-obsessed dad and explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next. ...

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017)

An intimate portrait of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century. ...

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017)

Irrepressible writer-comedian Carl Reiner, who shows no signs of slowing down at 94, tracks down celebrated nonagenarians, and a few others over 100, to show how the twilight years can truly be the happiest and most rewarding. Among those who share their i ...

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)

Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, ...

Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption (2013)

Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence M ...

Casting By (2012)

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking. ...

Pablo (2012)

Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that spans from Havana, during the pre-Cuban revolution to his current home, in the garage behind his son's house. ...

The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air (2009)

DVD featurette documenting the success of "All in the Family". ...

Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family" (2009)

DVD featurette documenting the beginnings of "All in the Family" ...

The Brothers Warner (2008)

An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience. ...

A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005)

On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events. ...

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)

Lifetime's "Intimate Portrait" series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls -- Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan -- with a collection of four programs offering an up-close look at the remarkable lives of the hit show's stars. Valer ...

Funny Is Money (1999)

Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fifth of the six films, "Funny Is Money," filmmaker Norman Jewison delves into the to ...

Perfect Moment (1997)

In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and Indian activist Russell Means, talk about religion, while composer Philip Glass and film-producer Irwin Winkler ...

Corwin (1996)

Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Actors in his radio plays included Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart, Charles Laughton, Danny Kaye, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. ...

Color Adjustment (1992)

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs blend ...

Traveling Hopefully (1982)

A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU. ...

A Different Approach (1978)

An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining seve ...

Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)

Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sk ...

Cold Turkey (1971)

Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each othe ...

Come Blow Your Horn (1963)

The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle. ...

Before We Forget (2025)

A coming-of-age story that follows Matias, an Argentine filmmaker in his forties, struggling with an unfinished movie inspired by his elusive first love to Alexander, a Swedish friend he met at an international school in the 90's. Tenderness and fascinatio ...

I Got A Monster (2023)

In March of 2017, Baltimore was rocked by one of the nation's largest Police corruption scandals when seven members of the elite Gun Trace Task Force unit were federally indicted on racketeering charges. Defense attorney Ivan Bates wasn't shocked by the ne ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021)

The live special event features reenactments of episodes from "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes". ...

I Carry You with Me (2021)

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, whe ...

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pig ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)

Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times. ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (2019)

Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons. ...

Playing for Change 3 - Songs Around the World (2014)

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger. ...

Way Past Cool (2003)

Based on the award-winning best seller by Jess Mowry, "Way Past Cool" is a coming-of-age story told in reverse, for it is the story of a group of young black kids and their fight to reclaim their childhood. ...

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama. ...

The Princess Bride (1987)

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't st ...

Heartsounds (1984)

New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compa ...

P.O.P. (1984)

A magazine editor battles her ex-con husband when he returns to the scene after a 21-year absence. ...

I Love Liberty (1982)

An all-star variety special saluting America. ...

The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice. ...

Cold Turkey (1971)

Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each othe ...

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find the ...

The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)

Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by a ...

Divorce American Style (1967)

After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce. ...

Never Too Late (1965)

A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be. ...

Come Blow Your Horn (1963)

The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle. ...

Scared Stiff (1953)

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer... ...