David Susskind Movies

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...

Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption...

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

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

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...

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...

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

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

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their...

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...

A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable...

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to...

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

Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.

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

A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of...

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.

Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo...