Cinema History Movies

The life of Eiji Tsuburaya, pioneer of Japanese special effects.

Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was...

Film critic Alejandro G. Calvo traces an audiovisual journey through the work of David Lynch trying to find clues to decipher his enigmatic universe.

Norwegian film history narrated by Harald Heide Steen jr.

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very...

The film summarizes the origin and development of animated film at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

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

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...

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

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

Feature-length documentary on the making of HOT DOG... THE MOVIE.

A brief biography of film director Ishiro Honda.

The turbulent history of the twenty-five years during which, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, Spain was turned into an immense movie set on...

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...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

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

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...