Bette Davis Movies

Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London.

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can...

Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.

The arms race goes to the beauty parlor with Bette Davis in The Letter.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949.

Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she...

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab...

On February 22, 1986, Bette Davis received an honorary César award – and presented one to the Cinémathèque...

A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.

In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his...

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of sound and color changed movies.

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

This documentary examines the many aspects of the gay fascination with Bette Davis, featuring film clips of Bette's most iconic moments, juxtaposed...

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is...

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.