Barbara Stanwyck Movies

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy...

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle...

Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and...

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike...

On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and...

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their...

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When...

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love...

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.