Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim.

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film trace...

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its in...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, b...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, ma...

An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, cowo...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.
Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary di...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...