Films by Frank Capra
This list contains all films directed by the Italian-American writer/director/producer Frank Capra.
List is divided into two major sections: Narrative films (#1-#32) and documentary films (#33-#48).
Note #1: List does NOT include lost films and short films (with the exception of three documentaries: Two Down And One To Go, Your Job In Germany, Rendezvous In Space).
Note #2: Why we fight is a series of 7 propaganda documentaries made during the WWII consisting of: Prelude to War, The Nazis Strike, Divide and Conquer, The Battle of Britain, The Battle of Russia, The Battle of China, War Comes to America.
Note #3: The Bell Laboratory Science Series consists of nine television documentary specials, but only the first three were directed by Capra. They are: Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent, Strange Case of Cosmic Rays.
If you know how to get some of the feature films that are not on the list, please let me know where to find them.
List is divided into two major sections: Narrative films (#1-#32) and documentary films (#33-#48).
Note #1: List does NOT include lost films and short films (with the exception of three documentaries: Two Down And One To Go, Your Job In Germany, Rendezvous In Space).
Note #2: Why we fight is a series of 7 propaganda documentaries made during the WWII consisting of: Prelude to War, The Nazis Strike, Divide and Conquer, The Battle of Britain, The Battle of Russia, The Battle of China, War Comes to America.
Note #3: The Bell Laboratory Science Series consists of nine television documentary specials, but only the first three were directed by Capra. They are: Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent, Strange Case of Cosmic Rays.
If you know how to get some of the feature films that are not on the list, please let me know where to find them.
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- DirectorFrank CapraStarsHarry LangdonPriscilla BonnerGertrude AstorA meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsHarry LangdonGladys BrockwellAlan RoscoeHarry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, he decides to rescue her; to do this, he must break off his forthcoming wedding to his childhood sweetheart Priscilla by any means necessary--including murder.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsViola DanaRalph GravesBurr McIntoshMolly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy's father is furious and disinherits them. Andy tries his hand at ditch digging to support his wife, but that doesn't work out.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsShirley MasonWilliam Collier Jr.Johnnie WalkerJerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.) is a dress designer in love with shop-girl Hilda Jenson (Shirley Mason). But the problem is that prizefighter Spike Mullins (Johnny Walker) is also in love with Hilda. Jerry, undaunted by the obvious fact that , physically speaking, is no match for the bull-like Spike. Jerry Takes a few boxing lessons and, aided by Hilda, who deliberately overfeeds Spike before the big fight between the two rivals.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBessie LoveJohnnie WalkerErnest HilliardA Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.
- DirectorFrank CapraIrvin WillatStarsJack HoltDorothy RevierRalph GravesTwo sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Jobyna RalstonMildred HarrisNaive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean HersholtLina BasquetteRicardo CortezSoap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltLila LeeRalph GravesA Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckRalph GravesLowell ShermanAn upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJoe CookLouise FazendaJoan PeersWoman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltFay WrayRalph GravesJack Bradon is tasked to reach the South Pole with a dirigible.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckDavid MannersSam HardyAfter an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean HarlowLoretta YoungRobert WilliamsA young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckAdolphe MenjouRalph BellamyA librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
- DirectorFrank CapraAllan DwanRoy William NeillStarsWalter HustonPat O'BrienKay JohnsonSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckNils AstherToshia MoriA Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsWarren WilliamMay RobsonGuy KibbeeA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsWarner BaxterMyrna LoyWalter ConnollyA runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge BancroftA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett HortonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward ArnoldA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.