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Sidney Lumet Acting Filmography (35)

Breakdown: 1975
2025·Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)
One Step Further: Becoming Lumet
2023·Self
By Sidney Lumet
2015·Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009·Self
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008·Self
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008·Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008·Self
Prince of the City: The Real Story
2007·Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006·Self
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
2006·Self
The Making of 'Network'
2006·Self
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004·Self
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
2004·Self
The Manchurian Candidate
2004·Political Pundit
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003·Self
A Decade Under the Influence
2003·Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003·Self
Inside 'Serpico'
2002·Self
Serpico: From Real to Reel
2002·Self
New York at the Movies
2002·Self
Dziga and His Brothers
2002·Self
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002·Self (uncredited)
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
2000·Self - Director, 'Fail Safe'
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000·Self
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999·Self
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998·Self
Fonda on Fonda
1992·Self
Night of 100 Stars III
1990·Self
William Holden: The Golden Boy
1989·Self
Funny
1988·Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982·Self
Wiz on Down the Road
1978·Self - Director
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
1965·Self
One Third of a Nation
1939·Joey Rogers
The 400 Million
1939·Additional Voice (voice)