June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popu...
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey H...
In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down wi...
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Mar...
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young composers and romantic partners, are caught in the web...
A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss...
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a ve...
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of ...
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s P...
Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his count...
A portrait of American actress Uma Thurman, muse of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and courag...
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the ...
Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically...
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent...
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner ...
After World War II, many young French women became housewives, convinced that devoting themselves en...