Frank Capra Movies

The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up...

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

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...

The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short.

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

Part of a a video series that documents the fighting between the United States and Imperial Japan during and immediately after World War II.

In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put...

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

Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of...

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is...

“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...

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...

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...

Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester...

Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids...

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...