James Wong Howe Movies

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York...

In a plan to trap potential enemy spies in Washington, an American secret agent sets up a gambling house. He soon finds himself in a rivalry with his...

An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.

1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe.

After his wife deserts him, a doctor is obliged to abandon his practice in order to care for his infant son and ends up working as a janitor. This...

Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing...

During the dark days of the Civil War, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits.

The story of an unsung hero in filmmaking and the racial barriers he faced growing up and into his career, through archival footage of himself and...