John G. Avildsen Movies

Sylvester Stallone and John G. Avildsen narrate behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Rocky" to mark the film's 40th anniversary.

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and becomes famous in 1973 when director Sidney Lumet tells...

After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran,...

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old...

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

John Travolta, Barry Gibb and the Saturday Night Fever cast and crew tell the story behind the mega-hit film. Bruno Tonioli goes through the disco...

W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he...

A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.

An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.

The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Night of the Living Dead's George A. Romero and Spider-Man's Stan Lee share their filmmaking secrets with...

Documentary on Jack Lemmon featuring interviews with those who knew him and worked with him.

The 35th anniversary of the 1976 Oscar-winning film “Rocky” is marked with a TV retrospective in which Sylvester Stallone and others...

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

John G. Avildsen pays tribute to cinematographer James Crabe.

Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label...

Retrospective documentary on the making of The Karate Kid (1984).

A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.

A short film by John G. Avildsen.