David Susskind Movies

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

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...

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

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

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

The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed,...

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

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

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.

A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the...

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

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

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 biography of President Harry S. Truman.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

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...

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

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