Jim Henson Movies

This documentary interviews young people on war, religion, music, sex, and other topics. Part of NBC's Experiment in Television.

The King of Eight is a 1970 short film produced for Sesame Street by Jim Henson, using stop-motion animation. The 70-second short film focuses on the...

A robot illustrates the nascent, but growing relationship between man and machine - a relationship not without tension and resentment.

CAT AND MOUSE is Jim Henson’s second and more ambitious interpretation of a composition from jazz drummer Chico Hamilton whom Jim met and...

The presentation by Jim Henson that started it all.

Steve Allen hosts famous ventriloquists and puppets including Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, and The Muppets.

The Queen of Six is a stop-motion animated short produced for Sesame Street by Jim Henson. Similar to "The King of Eight," the short focuses on the...

Sure we’re interested in Jim Henson’s work as a filmmaker and creative innovator, but his brilliant talents as a performer are often...

Mankind has devoted too much time, too much money and plenty of space on paperwork and more paperwork. In the 1960's, to remove all those obstacles...

The musician Orpheus descends to Hades to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.

The Idea Man is a three minute short film by Jim Henson which was used for a live performance with Limbo on The Mike Douglas Show on July 20, 1966....

A witch weds a widowed king. Finding that his children pose a threat to her, she transforms the three boys into ravens. The girl escapes but is told...

The hero Perseus faces the Gorgon, Medusa.

Memories is a one-minute film created by Jim Henson as a commercial for Bufferin in 1967.

"Doll House" is a Sesame Street song about the number 2. The song features vocals by Juli Christman, and is accompanied with a live-action film by...

A group of twelve rocks remove themselves from a crowd and are counted out, before taking the shape of a numeral 12.

Rowlf the Dog joins IBM as a typewriter salescanine, enduring many pratfalls and discoveries in his career.

The inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus flee from the wicked King Minos with the aid of Daedalus's man-made wings, but will Icarus heed his father's...

Sam the Snake talks about all the things that begin with S.

The third of six documentary specials on puppetry presented by Jim Henson. This special features the artistry of American puppeteer Bruce Schwartz,...