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John Korty (born July 22, 1936) is an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time. He has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (for Who Are the DeBolts?) and several other major awards. He is described by the film critic Leonard Maltin as "a principled filmmaker who has worked both outside and within the mainstream, attempting to find projects that support his humanistic beliefs".
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05 August 1983
In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares.
05 March 1990
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying.
10 December 1997
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly.
03 October 1976
A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
27 April 1986
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero.
14 September 2004
A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.
01 January 1987
The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half.
01 January 1991
Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques and posing nude.
10 October 2009
The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in this beautifully crafted documentary.
15 July 1982
This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the military, interwoven with film and television clips from the period.
14 August 2004
The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.
13 November 1989
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her.
15 December 1978
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm.
15 April 1974
Barbara and Al adopt Eric, who is deaf and mute, and take him camping in Santa Cruz Mountains of California.
07 December 1987
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
13 March 1984
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 she ultimately stays to herself and her trusty guide dog, Emma.
14 November 1993
A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.
06 January 1978
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.
25 November 1984
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
11 March 1976
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 of them U.
25 February 1991
A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.
25 April 1994
Breaking out of prison with a child in her womb and a dream of a normal existence, Arlene Holsclaw (Rebecca De Mornay) resolves to get a job and lead a good, Christian life.
22 January 1972
A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure.
18 September 2012
Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli, all highly regarded vocalists in their own rights, have joined forces as The Blues Broads.
13 March 1986
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.
03 October 1966
A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake her husband with her overflowing optimism, but the marriage is severely strained when her first pregnancy ends in miscarriage.
21 January 1991
This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who's being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard.
01 January 1995
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 adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father.
09 December 1980
A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leaves her son with his grandmother.
24 October 1983
Dan and Julie Evans are looking for a fresh start after Dan is cut from his pro football team due to age.
04 November 1988
A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films such as "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Good Earth", and "The World of Suzie Wong", interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.
10 October 1988
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 her writing.
14 March 1973
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
31 January 1974
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110.
24 January 1973
A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
06 April 1998
The story of the rescue and recovery of an Oklahoma City bomb survivor.
01 January 1974
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.
21 November 1999
All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football.
01 January 1989
A documentary about Yosemite National Park.
26 October 1968
Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty
16 April 1984
Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.
01 January 1962
A film version of Edward Lear's narrative poem about the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a pt
01 February 1982
A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Ji
02 April 1973
A purple/red figure plays around with a typewriter, until he stubs his toe with the letter T on it.
01 January 1963
John Korty's animated adaptation of Hirosuke Hamada's story (Ryu no Me no Namida) of a little boy's fearless act of inviting a dragon to his birthday party.
12 May 1987
A small girl vents her rage at the world, frustrated by the problems of everyday life, until her younger brother offers her part of his orange.
01 January 1973
The letter Q keeps the rest of her word QUIET in silence.
01 January 1964
Animated story about the rivalry that develops between two friends, Paper and String, because of their different abilities.
21 February 1973
Pat talks about the letter P.
01 January 1966
A John Korty Cartoon
23 September 1967
An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.
22 November 1992
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously.
01 December 1977
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14 children [12 at the start of filming], some of whom are severely disabled war orphans -- in addition to raising Dorothy's five biological children and Bob's biological daughter.
06 February 1976
A man tries to record a crocodile eating crisp crackers, but he doesn’t hear the cracker sound twice.
10 February 1984
Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.
08 May 1970
A fascinating insight into the life and works of photographer Imogen Cunningham. Coming into public attention around 1910, she was celebrated in the late sixties through awards, honorary degrees and exhibitions.
03 March 1961
Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces and activities that culminates in a silent vigil at the Pentagon.
01 October 1965
Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
