Richard Schickel Movies

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

Behind the scenes of the 1992 film “Unforgiven.”

A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known...

A retrospective look at the brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Dial M for Murder.'

This documentary on the life and work of Academy award-winning director Elia Kazan highlights his colorful life on Broadway and in film, which is...

A documentary on Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film, "Suspicion".

The making of Quo Vadis (1951).

Short documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by one of the more unsung heroes of World War II: the...

Documentary about the film Where Danger Lives (1950)

How the play was adapted to Film

Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.

An in-depth analysis and celebration of the famous "I coulda been a contender" scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in the 1954 film "On the...

Documentary about film.

Autobiography of Clint Eastwood up to his movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.

As a newspaper writer in Chicago, young Ben Hecht saw it all and learned how to captivate an audience with his writing. By the 1920s, he took that...

Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"

In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'. Each episode...

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Wrong Man."