Filmography

• 2019The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story — Producer, Director
• 2010The Eastwood Factor — Writer, Director
• 2008Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2008The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
• 2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story — Writer, Director
• 2007Cannes: All Access — Director
• 2007Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard
• 2007Spielberg on Spielberg — Producer, Director, Writer
• 2007Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
• 2006Ask the Dust — H. L. Mencken (voice)
• 2005The Big Red One: The Reconstruction — Supervising Technical Director
• 2005The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One' — Director, Executive Producer
• 2005Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2004Scorsese on Scorsese — Director, Writer
• 2003Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin — Director, Writer
• 2002Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Director
• 2002Eastwood... A Star — Director
• 2002The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2002Woody Allen: A Life in Film — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2000Shooting War — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1999AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends — Writer
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies — Writer, Director, Executive Producer
• 1997Eastwood on Eastwood — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1997The Harryhausen Chronicles — Writer, Director
• 1995Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey — Writer, Director
• Secret Lives
• 1993Hollywood on Hollywood — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1992Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Director
• 1991Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1990Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1989Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend — Director
• 1987Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond — Writer
• 1987Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente — Writer, Director
• 1983From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga — Writer, Producer
• 1981James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 1980SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back — Writer, Producer
• 1979The Horror Show — Director, Writer
• 1977The Making of Star Wars — Writer
• 1975D.W. Griffith: An American Genius — Self, Writer
• The Men Who Made the Movies — Writer, Producer, Director, Creator
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock — Writer, Director
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor — Director
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor — Director, Writer
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh — Director
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli — Writer, Director, Producer
• 1973The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra — Director
• 1973The Men who Made the Movies: William A. Wellman — Director

Appearances as themselves (52)

• 2024BRATS — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2017Hawks on Hawks — Self (archive footage)
• Walt Disney — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• 2010BBStory: An American Film Renaissance — Self
• 2010Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen — Self
• 2009Behind The Gates: Cary Grant And Grace Kelly — Self
• 2009For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism — Self
• 2008A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry — Self
• 2008Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood — Self
• 2008In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic — Self
• 2008The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics — Self
• 2008The Craft of Dirty Harry — Self
• 2008The Evolution of Clint Eastwood — Self
• 2008The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry — Self
• 2008The Making of 'Rebecca' — Self
• 2007Crime Wave: The City Is Dark — Self
• 2007Fog City Mavericks — Self
• 2007Illegal: Marked for Life — Self
• 2007Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks — Self
• 2006A Man Named Brando — Self
• 2006A Streetcar in Hollywood — Self
• 2006A Streetcar on Broadway — Self
• 2006Desire and Censorship — Self
• 2006Shadows of Suspense — Self
• 2006The Making of Ryan's Daughter — Self
• 2006The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel — Self
• 2005East of Eden: Art in Search of Life — Self
• 2005The Adventures of Errol Flynn — Self - Author and Time Film Critic
• 2004Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock — Self
• 2004Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' — Self
• 2004Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' — Self
• 2004Hitchcock and Dial M — Self
• 2004Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess — Self
• 2004Leone's West — Self
• 2004Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths — Self
• 2004Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic — Self
• 2002Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time — Self
• 2002The Hustler: The Inside Story — Himself
• 2001Contender: Mastering the Method — Self
• 2001Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me' — Self
• 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film — Self
• 2001The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint — Self
• Backstory — Self - film critic
• 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self - 'Time' Critic and Clint Eastwood Biographer
• 2000On Cukor — Self
• 1998Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy — Self
• 1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western — Self - Film Historian
• 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
• 1991The Fred Astaire Songbook — Self
• American Experience — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest