Orson Welles Movies

Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo.

A small disillusioned creature searches for meaning in an increasingly weird world.

This exhaustive documentary covers the history and legacy of Walter B. Gibson's character, The Shadow, from the pulps to radio and beyond.

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand, a lively filmed...

Short vignettes explore different facets of human behavior and social issues.

An unfinished 1981 essay-documentary project by Orson Welles, based on a filmed Q&A session at USC following a screening of The Trial, intended as a...

During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of getting a response from an extraterrestrial...

A half-hour Cartrivision program in which Orson Welles performs material attributed to Clarence Darrow, produced for Sears as part of the American...

Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert...

The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until...

An Englishman with amnesia tries to discover why he is at the center of a Latin American coup.

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...

Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are responsible for pretty much every conspiracy theory,...

Malpertuis featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor

A standalone archival recording of Orson Welles performing Shylock’s “Hath not a Jew eyes” monologue, filmed independently in the...

Filmed in 1960 during a break in the production of "Ferry to Hong Kong," this short documentary records Orson Welles’s three-week journey...