John Huston

A group of stranded swindlers in an Italian port wait for a ship to East Africa, where they plan to corner the uranium market. Humphrey Bogart leads an international cast through John Huston's sly parody of the caper films he helped invent, with a script shaped by Truman Capote. The film lapsed into the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Crime · Adventure

John Huston's last war documentary and the most controversial: filmed inside a military psychiatric hospital, it follows soldiers with what the Army called "psychoneurotic" conditions — today it would be PTSD — through treatment and back toward ordinary life. Walter Huston narrates. The War Department suppressed it for more than thirty years, reportedly because it showed damaged veterans too honestly, and it did not reach the public until 1980. It is now in the National Film Registry. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the film is in the public domain.

War · Documentary

The first of John Huston's three war documentaries, made while he served as a captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The film follows the daily life of American soldiers stationed on the Aleutian island of Adak, a cold and barren outpost of immense strategic value in the Pacific, and culminates in a bombing run over Japanese-occupied Kiska that Huston filmed from the plane himself. He narrates with his father, Walter Huston. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the film is in the public domain.

War · Documentary

John Huston's second war documentary is about the 1943 Battle of San Pietro Infine, a costly Allied fight in the Italian campaign. Huston filmed with troops in the field, and the result was so unflinching that the U.S. Army initially refused to show it, fearing it would damage morale. General George Marshall ordered its release, arguing that soldiers headed into combat should see what war really looked like. Some battle scenes were re-created with the soldiers who had fought there, but the cost is real: two members of Huston's crew were killed during filming. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the film is in the public domain.

War · Documentary

The first of John Huston's three war documentaries, made while he served as a captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The film follows the daily life of American soldiers stationed on the Aleutian island of Adak, a cold and barren outpost of immense strategic value in the Pacific, and culminates in a bombing run over Japanese-occupied Kiska that Huston filmed from the plane himself. He narrates with his father, Walter Huston. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the film is in the public domain.

War · Documentary

John Huston's second war documentary is about the 1943 Battle of San Pietro Infine, a costly Allied fight in the Italian campaign. Huston filmed with troops in the field, and the result was so unflinching that the U.S. Army initially refused to show it, fearing it would damage morale. General George Marshall ordered its release, arguing that soldiers headed into combat should see what war really looked like. Some battle scenes were re-created with the soldiers who had fought there, but the cost is real: two members of Huston's crew were killed during filming. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the film is in the public domain.

War · Documentary