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.
The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.
The pianist Miguel Ángel Lozano embarks on a personal and artistic journey with the purpose of recon...
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almo...
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking do...
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked ...
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile enviro...
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, p...
How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Canne...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Ediso...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A documentary film that delves into the life and cinematic career of one of Japan's most prolific di...
A thought provoking documentary feature film providing a comprehensive exploration of the evolution ...