David Susskind Movies

A graduate student interviews the retired General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Gettysburg farm, sometimes confronting him about his...

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...

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

A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of...

The fascinating 1973 interview with a mid-level hitman named “Joey” who describes in detail his life in the mob that included the murder...

A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural.

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...

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

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

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

Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the...

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit....

Lew, NY baseball scout, learns of an Alabama pitching prospect he travels to see him. Lew is less impressed with Chubb than his sister Josephine. Lew...

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

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles...