Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, the anarchist union CNT socialized the film industry in Spain, so in Madrid and Barcelona film workers took over the production assets and, between 1936 and 1938, numerous films on a wide variety of topics were released, composing a varied mosaic that gives rise to one of the most unusual and original moments of Spanish cinematography.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Tati's 1958 film "Mon oncle".

Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

The 43 Group was an English anti-fascist group set up by Jewish ex-servicemen in the immediate wake ...

Documentary about Nicholas Ray's film "In a Lonely Place" (1950).

In 1967, Canadian documentarian James Beveridge traveled to Kolkata to film director Satyajit Ray at...

Documentary about the making of the 1983 thriller "Cujo"

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a c...

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

This short documentary from 2002, written by Jacques Tati scholar Stéphane Goudet and featuring rare...
Short documentary about the making of the 1987 film.

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
Documentary about the making of Lars von Trier's 1991 film.

Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...