William Friedkin Movies

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Behind the scenes of The Hunted.

An impassioned plea for the release of a young man sentenced to die in an Illinois prison.

The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.

A tribute of Howard Hawks by the British Film Institute.

Friedkin and Roizman talk about the film's Georgetown locales, and side-by-side comparisons between the 1973 locations and their modern 2010...

An nnterview with director William Friedkin about The Guardian (1990)

Paintings conservators at the Getty Center reveal details of their craft as they restore two large paintings by French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry.

The cry of gulls. The ticking of a clock. The clatter of a shower curtain, torn from its rod. In this workshop-like documentary, Academy...

2010 documentary on William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic, featuring the never before seen on set footage of cinematographer Owen Roizman.

Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon was the last of three documentaries William Friedkin made for producer David Wolper. It concerned the world of pro...

William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn discuss the production and the reception of Friedkin's movie 'Sorcerer'

William Friedkin on The Manchurian Candidate

Behind the scenes of The Hunted.

A documentary film detailing the hunt for the holy grail of cinema: the legendary lost director's cut of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.