David Susskind Movies

Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...

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.

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their...

The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was...

Unsold pilot for Carol Lawrence's talk show

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't...

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

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social...

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

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

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

In the year AIDS was first defined by the CDC, this 1982 program is a human rights debate between religious scholars and notable gay New Yorkers.

An anti-Communist propaganda film produced by the United States Information Agency for the indoctrination of the children separated by Operation...