Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young composers and romantic partners, are caught in the web of silent film star Gloria Swanson when she hires them to write a musical version of Sunset Boulevard, her 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder.
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the...
Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the prese...
A detailed history of documentary filmmaking in the US and the UK from 1929 to 1945. The first part...
On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the ...
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent...
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker M...
The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.
On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in Sa...
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the ...
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: internatio...
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking do...
A young aspiring screenwriter takes a ride along to research his script. But this is no ordinary rid...
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almo...
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Qu...
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by th...
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...