Lee Grant Movies

A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with...

Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City...

A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and...

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release...

A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a...

A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that...

This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen....

The life and career of the renowned television writer and creator of the classic science fiction series, "The Twilight Zone."

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The...

The cast of Rocky (1976) pays tribute to actor Burgess Meredith.

The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live...

Director Elia Kazan and playwright Arthur Miller were once best friends and professional colleagues, to most that knew them then in both capacities...

From Mary Pickford to Barbra Streisand the successful actress turned producer/director is one of Hollywood's longest standing traditions.

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...

Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.

Forced to return to his struggling hometown after an expensive college degree, Killian gathers former childhood friends to audition for a music...

A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

HBO filmed version of the Neil Simon play (filmed in front of a live audience) has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's...