Jason Robards Movies

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day...

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the...

An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.

While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the story of America's favorite pastime from the...

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw...

A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways both comedic and heartfelt, "The Golden Age of...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the...

A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."

When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner...

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what...

Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's...

An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking...