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The movie world lost one of its all-time greats when actor and filmmaker Robert Duvall<\/a> passed away on February 15, 2026 at the age of 95. Duvall leaves behind a truly monumental body of work, including the following ten titles that are all currently available on home video. (You can find them available on digital or streaming as well, if that\u2019s your preferred movie consumption method.) Read more about them \u2014 and get links where to purchase them \u2014 below.<\/p>\n What a debut. On the\u00a0recommendation of screenwriter Horton Foote, Duvall \u2014 then a young actor mostly working in theater \u2014 landed the role of Boo Radley in the movie version of Harper Lee\u2019s\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird.\u00a0<\/em>The film went on to become one of the most beloved movies of the early 1960s, and Foote\u00a0and Duvall worked together again on\u00a0Tender Mercies.<\/em><\/p>\n Francis Ford Coppola\u00a0first worked\u00a0with Duvall in his 1969 film\u00a0The Rain People<\/em>; when Coppola cast\u00a0The Godfather<\/em>, he thought of Duvall for the role of Tom Hagen, the Corleone family lawyer.\u00a0Duvall wound up one of three\u00a0Godfather\u00a0<\/em>co-stars to get nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the film along with James Caan and Al Pacino. All three ultimately lost to Joel Grey in\u00a0Cabaret.\u00a0<\/em>But\u00a0The Godfather\u00a0<\/em>remains one of the greatest films in Hollywood history, and Duvall reprised his role in The Godfather Part<\/em> II<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>so it worked out okay, all things considered.<\/p>\n Two years after\u00a0The Godfather Part II<\/em>, Duvall played another essential supporting role in a \u201970s classic. In\u00a0Network<\/em>, he\u2019s UBS\u00a0vice president\u00a0Frank Hackett, who works with Faye Dunaway\u2019s\u00a0character to exploit their\u00a0news anchor\u2019s (Peter Finch) sudden popularity after he has a mental breakdown on the air and threatens to kill himself. As in so many of his great movies of this period, Duvall is not the star, or the flashiest performer. But he brought a gritty authenticity to Network<\/em>\u00a0with his tough,\u00a0understated work.<\/p>\n In Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Apocalypse Now<\/em>, Duvall \u2014 as the merciless (but also surf-loving) Lt. Kilgore \u2014 gave a\u00a0speech that is etched into pop culture history: \u201cNothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours … the smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like… victory.\u201d<\/p>\n Duvall finally won his Academy Award for this Horton Foote-scripted tale about a drunken country singer who gets his life back on track with the help of a kind woman and her son. The shoot was a fraught one \u2014 Duvall and director Bruce Beresford\u00a0supposedly fought over the direction of the character and the film \u2014 but the results were, like so many Duvall performances, quietly powerful.<\/p>\n This baseball film is famed for its bombastic finale featuring Robert Redford\u2019s Roy Hobbs (which, of course, is strikingly different from the novel it is based on). Duvall plays a\u00a0famous sports writer who gets mixed up with the young Roy Hobbs and then recognizes him years later when Roy shows up playing for the New York Knights. If you can hear the phrase\u00a0The Natural<\/em>, and not<\/em> start humming the music from that final home run<\/a>, you are a better person than me.<\/p>\n The Paper\u00a0<\/em>might be the least well-known and least-seen movie Ron Howard directed in the \u201990s. (His bigger hits of the period include\u00a0Backdraft<\/em>,\u00a0Apollo 13<\/em>, and\u00a0Ransom.<\/em>) It might also be his best work of the decade, a lively ensemble piece about the inner-workings of a big-city newspaper. Michael Keaton stars as the overworked editor of a New York City tabloid, whose obsession with a story threatens to derail his career and his marriage; Duvall plays the paper\u2019s editor-in-chief. Yet again Duvall does some of his best work\u00a0blending into a large and talented ensemble \u2014 one that in this case also includes Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, and the late Catherine O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n Duvall directed four films over the course of his Hollywood career; the most famous was this 1997 Oscar nominee, which Duvall helmed, wrote, and starred in as Sonny Dewey, a Pentecostal preacher who commits a terrible crime and then attempts to create a new life for himself as \u201cThe Apostle E.F.\u201d\u00a0of a new congregation. Duvall wanted to make the movie for years; when he couldn\u2019t find someone else to\u00a0produce it, he decided to independently finance it himself. His faith was rewarded with an arthouse hit and an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.<\/p>\n One more\u00a0strong supporting turn from Duvall for you: In James Gray\u2019s\u00a0We Own the Night<\/em>, he plays\u00a0a deputy chief of the NYPD and the father to the two leads, played by Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg. The latter is a cop; the former is a Brooklyn club\u00a0manager with ties to the underworld. After drug dealers target the family, Phoenix\u2019s character agrees to become an informant, with even more violent results.<\/p>\n Netflix has made so many movies in the last decade. These were maybe not the best ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTo Kill a Mockingbird\u00a0<\/em>(1962)<\/h3>\n
The Godfather\u00a0<\/em>(1972) and\u00a0The Godfather Part II\u00a0<\/em>(1974)<\/h3>\n
Network<\/em> (1976)<\/h3>\n
Apocalypse Now<\/em> (1979)<\/h3>\n
Tender Mercies<\/em> (1983)<\/h3>\n
The Natural<\/em> (1984)<\/h3>\n
The Paper<\/em> (1994)<\/h3>\n
The Apostle<\/em> (1997)<\/h3>\n
We Own the Night<\/em> (2007)<\/h3>\n
The 10 Worst Netflix Movies of the Last 10 Years (2016-2025)<\/h2>\n