A camera rotates around the same four towers. Seasons, weather conditions and the positions of the camera change over the course of the film. The...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.

'Afloat' is an experimental film that paints a portrait of Japanese performance artist: Ayumi Lanoire. The film opens as a telephone call between...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand...

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...

Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital...

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

Featuring interviews from members of the casting, production design, costume design, and creature effects teams, follow the behind-the-scenes journey...

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that...

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for...

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution...

The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem...

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of...