Platos allegory of the cave as told by Orson Welles

In 1956, Orson Welles directed "The Tragedy of Lurs," an episode of the television series "Around the World" that was inspired by the murder of a British family near the Dominici farm. The film was unfinished, but the French director Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary.

Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.

An unsold 1979 television talk-show pilot hosted by Orson Welles, blending interviews, audience interaction, staged segments, and magic performances, filmed between 1978 and 1979 but never broadcast or developed into a series.

Documentary look at the final two decades of the Orson Welles's career, featuring interviews with actor Norman Eshley, personal assistant Dorian Bond, and Henry Jaglom.

Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his conception of life.

Malpertuis featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor

A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a valuable legacy upon his profession. The scene is a hotel room in Paris. The year 1960. The star, Orson Welles. This is a pearl of cinematic memorabilia.

Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between 1976 and 1985, Welles performs various magic tricks for the camera, promising that no trick photography is used.

Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.