Alexander Scourby Movies

A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938. [An episode of the CBS anthology series...

Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations...

Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that,...

"China!" is a documentary by Felix Greene presenting everyday life in the People’s Republic of China, filmed during extensive travel across the...

In 1960 Jane Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior of man's closest living relative, the chimpanzee....

Ernie Pandash has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to...

Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II. Note: Originally...

The grizzly has roamed North America for nearly a million years. And now, in the last century and a half, he has come dangerously close to...

The voice of an officer counts out the last tense seconds- 'Three Two One - Zero!' - and another atomic explosion rends the stillness. This film,...

A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

The relatively calm years between 1900 and 1914 represented a time of tranquility and opulence in America, before World War I removed any carefree...

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid...

During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to...

A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow",...

Enjoy some of the bizarre and unbelievable creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators and scientists probe the secrets of this...

Alexander Scourby narrates this fascinating look at Western culture between 1914 and 1918, when the nations of Europe, and later America, plunged...