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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
As director
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Rendezvous in Space
Pocketful of Miracles
A Hole in the Head
Hemo the Magnificent
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Our Mr. Sun
The Fallbrook Story
Here Comes the Groom
Riding High
State of the Union
It's a Wonderful Life
Know Your Enemy: Japan
War Comes to America
Here Is Germany
Your Job in Germany
Our Job in Japan
Two Down and One to Go
Arsenic and Old Lace
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
Tunisian Victory
Attack in the Pacific
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
G.I. Journal
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Meet John Doe
As actor
Frank Capra: Mr. America
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
Hollywood's Second World War
Five Came Back
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Hollywood sul Tevere
Why We Fight
Frank Capra's American Dream
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
Dear Mr. Gable
The Screen Director
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Another Romance of Celluloid
It Happened One Night
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat