Given their long and illustrious careers in acting and filmmaking, it's no surprise that both John Wayne and Henry Fonda starred in quite a number of World War II films. These films vary in ...

The Austrian filmmaker Alexander Horwath pushes this self-evident truth further in his purposefully expansive documentary “Henry Fonda for President.” The movie convincingly posits that Fonda ...

A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private man who ...

Today is Henry Fonda ... to perceive him as a movie star. We’re going to have to somehow make sense of his lingering on death. You write, “No symbol lies deeper in Fonda’s art than the ...

Henry Fonda for President envisions American history through the dual lives of Henry Fonda: the movie star and the real man behind him. While it’s the debut film from 61-year-old director Alexander ...