Frank Capra
Directing
Biography
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
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The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
It Happened One Night
1934
Five Came Back
2017
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
The Century of Icons
2022
Frank Capra: Mr. America
2023
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
The Men Who Made the Movies
1973
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Five Came Back
2017
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
2020
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
1990
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Why We Fight
2005
The Screen Director
1951
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
Dear Mr. Gable
1968
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
1938
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
1973
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
1932
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946
It Happened One Night
1934
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
1922
Lost Horizon
1937
Westward the Women
1951
Meet John Doe
1941
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1926
State of the Union
1948
Ladies of Leisure
1930
Forbidden
1932
A Hole in the Head
1959
The Bell System Science Series
1956
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
1942
The Miracle Woman
1931
Lady for a Day
1933
So This Is Love
1928
Dirigible
1931
Here Comes the Groom
1951
American Madness
1932
Our Mr. Sun
1956
Platinum Blonde
1931
Broadway Bill
1934
His First Flame
1927
Rain or Shine
1930
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Riding High
1950
The Power of the Press
1928
Tunisian Victory
1944
The Swim Princess
1928
Hemo the Magnificent
1957
Submarine
1928
Boobs in the Wood
1925
The Negro Soldier
1944
Good Morning, Nurse
1925
The Unchained Goddess
1958
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
War Comes to America
1945
The Matinee Idol
1928
The Strong Man
1926
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
1944
The Donovan Affair
1929
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944
The Way of the Strong
1928
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
1943
G.I. Journal
1944
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1925
Long Pants
1927
Rendezvous in Space
1964
Lucky Stars
1925
Attack in the Pacific
1944
Riders of the Purple Cows
1924
That Certain Thing
1928
Fiddlesticks
1927
For the Love of Mike
1927
Your Job in Germany
1945
Flight
1929
The Younger Generation
1929
Jubilo, Jr.
1924
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
Saturday Afternoon
1926
Cold Turkey
1925
The Marriage Circus
1925
The Burglar
1928
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
1957
All Night Long
1924
Here Is Germany
1945
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
1943
The Iron Nag
1925
The Fallbrook Story
1952
Say It with Sables
1928
The Italian Warship Libia
1921
3 Days to Live
1924
The Wild Goose Chaser
1925
Our Job in Japan
1945
Sneezing Beezers
1925
Little Robinson Corkscrew
1924
Two Down and One to Go
1945