Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.

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

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

Over the serene and verdant landscape of Northern California, a man with an everlasting childlike sp...

Danny Youngblood is a famed Hollywood director with a reputation for modeling sexy starlets into sup...

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she pla...

Kirk Douglas recounts his remarkable life in a celebrated one-man theater performance augmented with...
Hollywood is a hot spot for celebrities, and tour guide Scott Michaels (E!'s "20 Most Horrifying Hol...

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a c...

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic ...

Documentary about the making of the 1962 cult film "Carnival of Souls".
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
An interview with Spanish film director Victor Erice, conducted by Hideyuki Miyaoka