Lee Grant Movies

Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City...

Documentary on the career of Lauren Bacall.

From Mary Pickford to Barbra Streisand the successful actress turned producer/director is one of Hollywood's longest standing traditions.

HBO filmed version of the Neil Simon play (filmed in front of a live audience) has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's...

Documentary that examines whether America is failing children by not making child care an issue of national priority.

On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and...

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The...

Documentary on breast cancer featuring a series of interviews with survivors and their families. Director and host Lee Grant speaks with support...

Documentary about gun control focusing on how women feel about owning guns. The program features both sides of the gun-control issue, including...

When Women Kill is a poignant documentary exploring the shocking violence that seven women fell victim to at the hands of men. The program profiles...

A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.

Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in...

"Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are removed from their mothers and given to fathers...

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

Why Me? a one-hour documentary on breast cancer narrated by actress Lee Grant. First broadcast on May 13, 1974 on CBS in Los Angeles, it was the...