James Agee Movies

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on...

Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old...

In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee...

A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly...

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure...

A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.

A documentary on the life of author and screenwriter James Agee.

A five-part biographic series about Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series Omnibus, filmed on location in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

Images of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.

A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of individuality versus the pressure to conform, and the...