Cinema History Movies

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in...

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to...

A feature length documentary about Australian popular entertainment across 150 years; of Skating and Dancing, Vaudeville and Moving Pictures.

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct...

Covering over 100 years of cinema, this is a journey of discovering and exploring the magic of cinema from a personal perspective. Looking at the...

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

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic...

An oral history exploring the development of film projection and cinema in Kingston-on-Thames - from resident innovator Eadweard Muybridge through...

Part one starts with an overview of the prehistory of moving images in the 19th Century: Zoetrope, Phenakistiscope, Chronophotagraphy etc. until the...

A poetic and dreamy visit of the French Cinémathèque's collection of devices.

A biography and tribute to one of Japan's most prolific composers.

The suit actors of Toho's science fiction and fantasy films faced many challenges in bringing their iconic monsters to life.

An audiovisual investigation into the way Spanish cinema has represented its audience throughout history, and a tribute to those who, for over a...

Somewhere between the 1930s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor...

Documentary illustrating the birth of sound cinema.

A compilation of scenes and trailers from horror movies having to do with wolfmen.

Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider...

This is the first feature-length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh. In this 'memoir,' Walsh 'recounts' his career from the silent film...