Mel Stuart Trailers
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' Trailer
Mel Stuart (born Stuart Solomon; September 2, 1928 – August 9, 2012) was an American film director and producer who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, at whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance.
Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He has directed other features, including If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), One Is a Lonely Number (1974) and Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000).
Stuart also directed feature documentaries including Four Days in November and Wattstax.
In addition he has directed or produced over 150 films including movies of the week, The Triangle Factory Fire, Bill, The Chisholms, and Ruby and Oswald, the television series Ripley's Believe it Not, and the documentaries The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1968, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Man Ray - The Prophet of the Avant-Garde, George Plimpton and the Philharmonic and The Poet's View. He has been awarded four Emmy awards, an Academy Award nomination, a Peabody and numerous other awards. He served as president of the International Documentary Association for two years.
He was related to TV producer David L. Wolper.
Most Popular Mel Stuart Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
24 April 1969
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
13 November 2001
Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
29 June 1971
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
30 January 1979
The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women.
19 June 1972
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her.
03 March 1978
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
13 May 1987
An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
26 October 1980
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
21 December 1970
Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.
06 September 2005
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
31 December 1981
A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
07 October 1964
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
02 March 1965
A documentary about men who are courageous enough to risk their lives undertaking challenges, sports-related and not, that are at the limit of human capabilities.
06 March 1968
This documentary showcases Hitler's strategy for conquering hearts and minds by exploiting people's capacity to hate, something as relevant in our time as it seems to have been in his.
19 October 1965
Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.
04 February 1998
A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder
09 March 1966
The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.
17 February 1970
A documentary story of a man of our times- In a period when his country was tormented by conflict and violencei he perceived and embraced the struggle of his epoch - the struggle for human dignity and freedom.
31 January 1967
China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L.
08 May 1976
A newspaper reporter trying to track down a hermit-like billionaire goes to the Brazilian jungle, where she finds herself in the middle of an extortion plot, voodoo and supernatural occurrences.
01 January 2010
Sleep experts explore how the discovery of REM (rapid eye movement) opened up a fascinating new field of research on dreams, sleep disorders and more.
04 February 1973
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots.
09 April 1997
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism.
29 December 1963
The story of the 1960 US Presidential election
19 April 1976
A look at the history of film from 1936-1972, with a special emphasis on the social impact of the medium and the way it both reflected and influenced American life.
01 October 2000
Forty runners compete in the most gruelling race on earth, the Badwater. The film documents the trials and tribulations of these athletes as they run 135 miles through Death Valley in July and explores the motivations behind this seemingly masochistic contest.
22 December 1981
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution.
08 February 1978
A dramatic re-creation of the four-day span preceding and following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, drawn from authenticated events and eyewitness accounts.
13 December 1966
Acclaimed producer David L. Wolper presents this landmark documentary (based on Theodore H. White's best-selling book) that analyzes Democrat Lyndon B.
