Film History Movies

Brooks discusses his serious films.

The Professor, helped by his flying robot M.A.X., tries to show us the history of 3-D film, and his newest innovation, Real-O-Vision (ride films)....

The cult film *Dirty Dancing* (1987) made cinema history with its iconic soundtrack, unforgettable dance scenes, and summer romance. Yet, beneath the...

A city symphony of '70s New York as it exists in the movies that mythologized it.

The achievements of Lois Weber - the highest paid film director at Universal Studios in 1916, virtually unknown today - as seen through the eyes of a...

The American Film Institute celebrates 100 years of film by recognizing the top 50 film heroes and top 50 film villains of all time.

Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades...

The AFI's list of the 100 most thrilling American films of all time, presented by Harrison Ford in a three-hour CBS broadcast on June 12, 2001. The...

Zineb Sedira pays tribute to the history of African Cinema and the filmmakers who had inspired her.

There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and the majority of democratic-minded filmmakers during...

A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest...

In 2002, a group of teenagers broke into their hometown cinema to make a film. What began as an ambitious idea became the testament of a generation.

This documentary examines issues related to the struggle for gender equity and the portrayal of suffragettes in the early days of the silver screen....

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the...

The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges...

A comedic docu-essay looking at the legacy of "Fred Ott's Sneeze," one of the first films ever made. Official selection of The Indie Gathering...