John Korty Movies

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....

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...

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...

The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the...

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....

Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques...

A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.

The story of the rescue and recovery of an Oklahoma City bomb survivor.

A documentary about Yosemite National Park.

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school...

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.

The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in this beautifully crafted documentary. A wonderful...

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...

This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the...

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy...

A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.

Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty