Kevin Brownlow Movies

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.

A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall.

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into...

The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.

Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the...

As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints....

Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little...

The making of Winstanley (1975)

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound...

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

A loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York farm.

A riveting account of the tragic adventure of filmmaker Varick Frissell and his filming of "The Viking" (1931) and the tragic events that befell that...

In 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film....