The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down

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From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga is a 1983 television documentary special that originall...

A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siber...

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...
Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

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In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...

Thrill to the action from a battle to the death between beautiful amazons, twisted mutants and sicke...

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation....

This MGM short film highlights the work of master make-up artist William Tuttle. As the head of MGM'...

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