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.

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

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

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

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

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...

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

An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, invit...

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

The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of t...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

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

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...

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

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

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