Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
Documentary about the life and career of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot.
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of c...
Co-stars and celebrity admirers go through Benny's entire career
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the ...
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...
In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent ...
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay An...
The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, is credited by many with the greatest...
Adam remains a consistent favorite among fans who are comforted that they will always have a good ti...
All About Ann celebrates the achievements of larger-than-life Ann Richards, who became the first ele...
Transcending cultural barriers and consistently going against the grain, female Nepali climber Pasan...
The film tells the life story of Louise Otto Peters, who in the middle of the XIX century in Germany...
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docud...
A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the ...
The Oscar nominated actor best known for his role of Mr. Miyagi, left behind a painfully revealing a...