Cinema History Movies

Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred cinema legen...

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie t...

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, rev...

An account of the life and work of US filmmaker Woody Allen as told by himself.

Comedian, actor, author, director and emblematic figure of the French stage and cinema of the 50s and 60s, Francis Blanche liked to change register, m...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962),a brilliant artist who began his career in silent films and had gre...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – the psychological warfare of the USA. America’s tru...

Writer Adam Rockoff provides a basic overview of the slasher movie genre.

A woman is chased by the wind of an arriving train. What follows is a visual ride – the camera becomes a protagonist of the film itself. The levels of...

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutiona...

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of...

A memoir celebrating yesteryears of cinema and how silver screen has evolved over the years, this documentary is ode to cinema by the audience, for th...

Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s g...

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater...

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

An homage to the weird and wonderful world of B-movies, this short fauxdocumentary by film artist Chris Gerrard splices together classic clips with so...

A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed wall...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in t...

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and pr...