
01 Jan 1969

Josef von Sternberg, A Retrospective
An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television.
Documentary about the making of the film first presented on the British television series "The South Bank Show".

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01 Jan 1969

An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television.

22 Oct 2014

Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film company, Cannon Films. This documentary recounts their many successes and discusses their eventual downfall.

01 Jan 2000

Documentary about the making of David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter".

01 Jan 2000

Documentary about the making of Powell and Pressburger's 1947 film "Black Narcissus."

27 Oct 2009

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".

07 Jul 2005

An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot films.

08 May 1966

Interview with Jacques Tati on the set of his 1967 film "PlayTime". Produced for the British television program "Tempo International".

08 Jul 1931

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.

10 Jul 1922

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.

14 Nov 2005

Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.

01 Jan 1978

Interview with film director Jacques Tourneur which first appeared on the French television series "Ciné regards".
03 Jul 2008
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

17 Jan 2025

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

08 Nov 2019

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.

29 Jul 2014

Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
01 Jan 2010
A documentary on the collaboration of filmmaker Sacha Guitry and actor Michel Simon focusing on the film "La Poison" (1951).

02 Dec 1976

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

10 Jun 2011

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called “other Generation of '27,” brought Hollywood to Madrid's Gran Vía, turning a grey and sinister post-war city into the capital of an incipient and ambitious cultural industry.

01 Jan 2007

The true story behind the Prince of the City.

02 Sep 2017

The film tells the story of the intimate and unprecedented encounter between the photojournalists of the Magnum Agency and the world of cinema. The confrontation of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality. For 70 years their paths crossed: a family of photographers, amongst them the biggest names in photography, and a family of actors and filmmakers who helped write the history of cinema, from John Huston to Marilyn Monroe to Orson Welles, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn.