Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is something only men can do.

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Par...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

At the height of the space race, three U.S. astronauts are tapped as the first Apollo crew. With daz...

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

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

A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever...

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...

The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the ...

Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of a...

Through our subject Adam, we reveal the incredible changes and forces that take all humankind from C...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

An intimate documentary delving into Rian Johnson's process as he comes in as a director new to the ...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, b...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, wher...

A look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film o...