David Susskind Movies

The 1973 program that explored Howard Hughes’ connection to Watergate and the alleged $100,000 bribe to Nixon that may have precipitated the...

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...

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

The fascinating 1973 interview with a mid-level hitman named “Joey” who describes in detail his life in the mob that included the murder...

Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio...

A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island.

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

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

A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles...

Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.

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

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.

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't...

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

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

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

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...

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