In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations used in the filming of The General and offers glimpses of how they look today.

The film follows the story of a San Francisco Pentecostal minister Richard Gazowsky on his quest to ...

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.
An appreciation of Stagecoach, with director and Ford biographer Peter Bogdanovich.

A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker.

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which th...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962), a brilliant artis...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...

Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Holly...

The Captains' Summit documents the first time in Star Trek history that four stars who at some point...
This documentary short subject for DVD gives a look at the making of Cole Porter's MGM classic, "Les...

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the...

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were la...

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Fo...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...

Documentary about the making of the Spierig Brothers' 2014 film PREDESTINATION that is based on Robe...

French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...
In the summer of ’83 a camera crew visited Valkhn Films, an editing house where Style Wars was being...