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.

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

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...

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

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

The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valenc...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...

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

Alexei is a nineteen year old recruit being flown in to perform his military service on the frontier...

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

A feature length documentary about Australian popular entertainment across 150 years; of Skating and...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962), a brilliant artis...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best ani...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...

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

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

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

They created and performed the iconic action sequences of 007, Indiana Jones, Superman, Rambo, Star ...

The legendary British-American actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020), who conquered Hollywood in t...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...