Switch servers if a stream won't play. Your server and progress are remembered on this device.
1. Birth of a Titan
Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures through the eyes of the people who worked there from its creation at the start of the talkies in the late 1920s.
2. Let's Face the Music and Dance
He examines the musicals made in the mid 1930s with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Includes interviews with both stars, the producer Pando Berman and choreographer Hermes Pan.
3. A Woman's Lot
The story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked there, traces the films made at RKO for and by women, concentrating on the careers of Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn.
4. It's All True
Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.
5. Dark Victory
The 1950s were a time of mounting paranoia, reflected by the studio's ventures into film noir. Robert Mitchum makes his first screen appearance, Val Lewton creates Zombies and Cat People, and the House Un-American Activities Committee stalks its prey.
6. Howard's End
Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.
Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Stars: Ed Asner
TV
World War II with Tom Hanks
2026
TV
Kylie
2026
TV
Mr. Scorsese
2025
TV
Pee-wee as Himself
2025
TV
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
2024
TV
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
TV
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy
2023
TV
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
TV
History 101
2020
TV
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
TV
Prop Culture
2020
TV
The Movies That Made Us
2019