Movies: Gene Hackman

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--...

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge....

The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde....

A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living....

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend....

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York....

A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief....

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S....

Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA....

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze....

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews wi...

Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing debut. That story and others comprise this portrait of the famed Hollywood icon. His career is explo...

A look at the mysterious, final weeks of Gene Hackman's life and their aftermath. How did the Hollywood icon die, alongside his wife and dog, far from the eyes of the world, not to be discovered until many days later?...

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium....

To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wonder...

Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman....

Marc McClure presents a documentary on the making of 'Superman' (1978)....

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of hi...

Behind the scenes of the 1992 film Unforgiven....

A documentary on the production of The French Connection (1971)....