Movies: Red Buttons

A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years....

An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory....

Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children — 37 of them over the years — in the Chicago area, all of whom come back to visit when they discover he's terminally ill....

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation....

Documentary about the life and times of Jackie Gleason....

GOODNIGHT, WE LOVE YOU is a film that chronicles the final stand-up comedy performance of a true living legend - the first female stand-up comic in history: Phyllis Diller. In 2002, Phyllis Diller announced that she would be hanging up her wigs and ...

The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame....

Musical adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story broadcast as a live television special on NBC....

Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels....

The residents of Mapleview retirement home rebel against their oppressors and take the staff hostage. Their demands are simple. They want more freedom, real food, no more enemas, free love and porn. A wacky siege begins....