Movies: Frank Capra

Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong....

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faith...

The owner of a gambling hall is entrusted with the care of a pretty young girl. He falls in love with her, but he must decide whether to let her go to his best friend, with whom he believes her to be in love, or to try to win her for himself....

A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin....

A documentary recording the visit of the Italian navy warship Libia to San Francisco....

Professor Frank Baxter and some animated friends answer questions about blood. what makes it red? Why do little animals' hearts beat so quickly? And so much more....

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Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Ch...

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France....

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents....

A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking him, is an actual burglar thinking the man to be a rival to his score....

A jail break turns into a race....

Three men join forces to raise an adopted son....

Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation....

Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short....

A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made....

Career overview of Hollywood legend Frank Capra by Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel....

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Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show....

The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short....