Joan Leslie Movies

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real...

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War.

This film documents Hollywood's efforts to bolster support for the Allied forces in WWII by creating propaganda films.

In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father...

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of Sergeant York.

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.

A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

A featurette exploring the gangster films made at Warner Bros., actor Humphrey Bogart's career and the making of HIGH SIERRA (1941).

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to...