David Susskind Movies

An anti-Communist propaganda film produced by the United States Information Agency for the indoctrination of the children separated by Operation...

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes...

An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri. After...

The fascinating 1973 interview with a mid-level hitman named “Joey” who describes in detail his life in the mob that included the murder...

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians,...

Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.

The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was...

In the year AIDS was first defined by the CDC, this 1982 program is a human rights debate between religious scholars and notable gay New Yorkers.

A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry," "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches," and "This Property Is...

Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the...

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

Unsold pilot for Carol Lawrence's talk show