For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to...

17 of the largest ships emit more sulfur than all the cars on the planet. How is this possible?

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

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's endearing movie released in 1982, achieved the tripl...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were la...

A comprehensive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the restoration process of restoring 3-str...

Pierre Carles questions the privatization of the leading French televisions channel : is it not scan...

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a m...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is o...