Film History Movies

Behind-the-scenes footage, rare screen tests and insightful interviews highlight this engrossing two-hour look at one of Hollywood's greatest dream...

Brooks discusses his serious films.

There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and the majority of democratic-minded filmmakers during...

A city symphony of '70s New York as it exists in the movies that mythologized it.

The achievements of Lois Weber - the highest paid film director at Universal Studios in 1916, virtually unknown today - as seen through the eyes of a...

Zineb Sedira pays tribute to the history of African Cinema and the filmmakers who had inspired her.

Artist Htoo Lwin Myo excavates the lesser-known and wildly joyful history of Myanmar’s horror and genre film industry in the 1950s that has...

The AFI's list of the 100 most thrilling American films of all time, presented by Harrison Ford in a three-hour CBS broadcast on June 12, 2001. The...

A brief documentary of Cinéma L’Amour, one of North America's last major adult theaters.

A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest...

The American Film Institute celebrates 100 years of film by recognizing the top 50 film heroes and top 50 film villains of all time.

The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges...

This documentary examines issues related to the struggle for gender equity and the portrayal of suffragettes in the early days of the silver screen....

Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades...

In 2002, a group of teenagers broke into their hometown cinema to make a film. What began as an ambitious idea became the testament of a generation.

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

A comedic docu-essay looking at the legacy of "Fred Ott's Sneeze," one of the first films ever made. Official selection of The Indie Gathering...