Cinema History Movies

Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have...

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

A brief biography of film director Ishiro Honda.

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

An homage to the weird and wonderful world of B-movies, this short fauxdocumentary by film artist Chris Gerrard splices together classic clips with...

Writer Adam Rockoff provides a basic overview of the slasher movie genre.

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s...

The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their connections to the movie business are discussed,...

Remarkable life story of Henri Diamant-Berger, a director and screenwriter whose devotion to cinema led him to collaborate with some of the greatest...

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

Since the beginning of August 2010, Bioskop Permata has been closed down. This film tries to explain about the end of a long Yogyakarta cinema...

Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmography and his many personal and artistic concerns.

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

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

The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world...

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

A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).

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