John Korty

The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.

A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy...

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.

A small girl vents her rage at the world, frustrated by the problems of everyday life, until her younger brother offers her part of his orange.

In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and...

In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and...

In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and...

A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she...

An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent,...

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with...

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and...

A fascinating insight into the life and works of photographer Imogen Cunningham. Coming into public attention around 1910, she was celebrated in the...

A fascinating insight into the life and works of photographer Imogen Cunningham. Coming into public attention around 1910, she was celebrated in the...

A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She...

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14...

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her...

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long...

The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the...

Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was...

A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children...

A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques...

A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.

A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.

Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so...

A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake her husband with her overflowing optimism, but...

A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake her husband with her overflowing optimism, but...

Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli, all highly regarded vocalists in their own rights, have joined forces as The Blues...

Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli, all highly regarded vocalists in their own rights, have joined forces as The Blues...

A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she...

A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she...

A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her...

Dan and Julie Evans are looking for a fresh start after Dan is cut from his pro football team due to age. They move into a palatial, coastal house...

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most...

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most...

Animated story about the rivalry that develops between two friends, Paper and String, because of their different abilities. In the end, both friends...

John Korty's animated adaptation of Hirosuke Hamada's story (Ryu no Me no Namida) of a little boy's fearless act of inviting a dragon to his birthday...

A film version of Edward Lear's narrative poem about the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a pea-green boat

John Korty's animated adaptation of Hirosuke Hamada's story (Ryu no Me no Namida) of a little boy's fearless act of inviting a dragon to his birthday...

The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in this beautifully crafted documentary. A wonderful...

The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in this beautifully crafted documentary. A wonderful...

The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in this beautifully crafted documentary. A wonderful...

The letter Q keeps the rest of her word QUIET in silence.

A purple/red figure plays around with a typewriter, until he stubs his toe with the letter T on it.

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.

The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the Mafia....

Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty

Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty

Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty

Pat talks about the letter P.

Pat talks about the letter P.

After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her...

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the...

Barbara and Al adopt Eric, who is deaf and mute, and take him camping in Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Eric becomes lost and is found by a...

A documentary about Yosemite National Park.

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.

The story of the rescue and recovery of an Oklahoma City bomb survivor.

Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while struggling to reach the outside world through...

All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school...

A man tries to record a crocodile eating crisp crackers, but he doesn’t hear the cracker sound twice. So he decides to go in the crocodile's...

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long...

Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.

This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who's being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard.

A John Korty Cartoon

Breaking out of prison with a child in her womb and a dream of a normal existence, Arlene Holsclaw (Rebecca De Mornay) resolves to get a job and lead...

Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him....

Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces...

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14...