Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mo...
Mickey Rooney is interviewed by Robert Osborne.

Witness never-before-seen footage of the Warren Miller film crew and athletes as they take on the wo...

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...

Travel films have an established format with their own conventions, history and baggage. It is a med...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), w...
This documentary short subject for DVD gives a look at the making of Cole Porter's MGM classic, "Les...
A short documentary on the making of the 1946 film Ziegfeld Follies.
A short documentary on Jerome Kern and the making of Till the Clouds Roll By.
A short documentary on the lives of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and the making of the fil...

The story of the shooting of Satan's Blood (Escalofrío), a film directed by Carlos Puerto in 1978.

Haunted by three unfinished films, a filmmaker seeks to demystify his relationship with failure thro...

THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab...

A cheerful road movie all about Belgian films at Cannes over the past 70 years. Filmmakers from the ...
Author Lee Clark Mitchell discusses the Western genre and literature.
Interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
Interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions of the film.

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prep...