Cinema History Movies

An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey...

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the...

Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.

From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy.

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films...

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film...

The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and...

Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold...

A documentary on the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend, Oregon.

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed...