John Korty Movies

All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school...

The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the Mafia....

The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the...

Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques...

A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.

Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so...

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most...

Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while struggling to reach the outside world through...

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her...

A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.

A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him....

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was...

A documentary about Yosemite National Park.

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.

This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the...

The story of the rescue and recovery of an Oklahoma City bomb survivor.

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy...