Michael Murphy Movies

During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It...

An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.

Richard, a successful New York accountant, has a chronic stuttering problem that causes great exhaustion and personal strife for him. After trying a...

Based on Doug Most's acclaimed non-fiction book of the same name, The Race Underground tells the dramatic story of how Boston overcame a litany of...

From PBS and American Experience - Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality...

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely...

A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.

An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband...

By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in...

Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the...

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and...

The continued story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert.

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...

The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families...

A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared...

This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse...

Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart,...

The historical account of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn of the last century exploits made headlines, led them to be pursued...

He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and...

In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the...