Film History Movies

This is the first feature-length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh. In this 'memoir,' Walsh 'recounts' his career from the silent film...

Feature-length documentary on the making of HOT DOG... THE MOVIE.

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other...

A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi.

They created and performed the iconic action sequences of 007, Indiana Jones, Superman, Rambo, Star Wars, Conan, the Alien films and pretty much...

An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl...

The story of the abandoned production of 'Day of the Champion', a movie about Formula 1 which was set to film in 1966.

A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation.

A detailed history of documentary filmmaking in the US and the UK from 1929 to 1945. The first part, Working for Change, focuses on 1929-1941 and...

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again....

An account of the life and work of US filmmaker Woody Allen as told by himself.

Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin...

A comprehensive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the restoration process of restoring 3-strip Cinerama for the 1962 film "The Wonderful...

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations...

Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios...

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s...

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to...

A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills.

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise...