Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than previously acknowledged. This documentary, featuring clips from a remarkable range of films, celebrates the early years of British filmmaking and spans from such pioneers as George Albert Smith and Cecil Hepworth to such later figures as Anthony Asquith, Maurice Elvey and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock.
Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-...
For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From ...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restor...
Writer Adam Rockoff provides a basic overview of the slasher movie genre.
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwea...
Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth travels to the West Yorkshire moors, known as "Bronte Country". It is an...
The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaki...
A new light on American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Hollywood’s greatest director, offering a unique...
Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
To be in Venice and see the architecture of New York, to perceive in a painting by Tintoretto the bi...
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super ...
Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. Sh...
He is the most sought-after man in Europe in the 1960s. Lex Barker embodies the flawless hero in his...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu...
Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on ...
The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), Olympic sw...