Discuss The Men Who Made the Movies

  1. It's a TV series. Not sure why IMDb lists them as separate movies when they were clearly packaged and released only on TV.
  2. Episodes didn't air in the same order on every PBS affiliate. I used the ordering posted by WNET/Thirteen, as they produced the show: https://licensing.wnet.org/programs/men-who-made-the-movies/
  3. In the early 2000s, many of the original 8 episodes were recut (including, possibly, shortening from 90 minutes to 60), and their narration and graphics/titles replaced. The revised versions aired many times on TCM, and most were also released as bonus features on collector's edition DVDs of the directors' films.
  4. The final episode on Samuel Fuller, completed in 2002, is based on an interview shot in 1989. It screened at the Atlanta Film Festival on 5 Jun 2002 before airing on TCM.

Available on physical media (in re-edited form):

  • Hawks - Bringing Up Baby (2004 release), Rio Bravo (2007 release)
  • Cukor - The Philadelphia Story (2004 release)
  • Fuller - The Big Red One (2005 release)
  • Minnelli - The Band Wagon (2005 release)
  • Wellman - Forbidden Hollywood, Vol. 3 (2009 release)
  • Vidor - The Big Parade (2013 release)

Excerpts available on physical media:

  • Walsh - The Roaring Twenties (2024 release)
  • Capra - Meet John Doe (2023 release)

Not available on physical media:

  • Hitchcock

If you are curious to see an intact original episode, a gentleman named Ray scanned an original 16mm print of Frank Capra and uploaded it to Vimeo. It's actually the only version of that episode I've found.

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