E. L. Doctorow Movies

A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Celebrate the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Ragtime with this once-in-a-lifetime reunion concert featuring original cast members, including...

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the...

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden...

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in...

A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.

A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.

An intellectual match between two dramatically different artists, one permanently unsure and frustrated and questioning everything, the other an...

A documentary profile of director/choreographer Bob Fosse. Includes clips from his films and television specials as well as interviews with Fosse,...

A new production of EL Doctorow's historical novel, recorded at the Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre. Broadcast as part of BBC4's...

The Boston Pops performs Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert, prepared by the original creators Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty...

For more than a century, New York’s Greenwich Village was home, playground, and inspiration to many of America’s leading writers and...

Ahrens and Flaherty's powerful adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel returns to Broadway.