The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay An...
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, co...
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing...
Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.
An account of the life and work of the charismatic Spanish writer Terenci Moix (1942-2003).
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Form...
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (198...
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Rob Schmidt's 'Wrong Turn'.
An insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature l...
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put i...
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the fi...
The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of N...
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almo...
Raymond Briggs gives a rare glimpse into his world as we visit the animation studios where a small a...
In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soun...