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Frank Capra
Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of th…
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Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
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2023
Frank Capra: Mr. America
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2022
The Century of Icons
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2020
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
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2019
Hollywood's Second World War
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2017
Five Came Back
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2017
Five Came Back
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2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
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2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
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2005
Why We Fight
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1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
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1990
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
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1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
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1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
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1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
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1973
The Men Who Made the Movies
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1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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1973
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
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1968
Dear Mr. Gable
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1964
Rendezvous in Space
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1961
Pocketful of Miracles
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1959
A Hole in the Head
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1958
The Unchained Goddess
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1957
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
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1957
Hemo the Magnificent
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1956
Our Mr. Sun
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1956
The Bell System Science Series
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1952
The Fallbrook Story
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1951
Westward the Women
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1951
Here Comes the Groom
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1951
The Screen Director
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1950
Riding High
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1948
State of the Union
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1946
It's a Wonderful Life
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1945
Here Is Germany
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1945
Know Your Enemy: Japan
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1945
War Comes to America
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1945
Two Down and One to Go
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1945
Your Job in Germany
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