Burt Lancaster Movies

An all-star variety special saluting America.

Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in...

Ali the Fighter was made in 1975, when the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was still fresh in everyone's minds. Filmmaker William Greaves frames Ali's rise to glory, beginning with his "Cassius Clay" days back in Louisville.

A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster — later Burt Lancaster — was one of five children of a New York City postal worker. By eighteen, Burt was 6'2" and blessed with the athletic physique and...

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin."

Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".

Colorful, outspoken, a man of many contradictions, Ralph McGill emerged during the troubled years of the 1950s and '60s as a prominent and influential Southern white opponent of segregation and one of America's most revered newspaper editors. As he became convinced of the injustice of segregation...

A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti

Documentary about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, including an interview with an eyewitness of the bomb drop on Hiroshima and scientific statements describing the devastating consequences of a nuclear war.

Behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.

A behind-the-scenes, promotional short about the making of the feature film The Gypsy Moths (1969), which extensively features free fall skydiving.

Jenny is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed by Joan Horvath. Produced by Project Head Start, it shows the importance of good nutrition for underprivileged nursery school children. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...

A mysterious Polaroid-filmed short that showcases depth in stereo photography.

This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties and early fifties as part of the Anti-Communist witch-hunts that terrorized the nation. This film is seen through the eyes of the wives and children of...

Burt Lancaster hosts a review of the first 50 years in NFL history.