Film History Movies

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

Behind-the-scenes footage, rare screen tests and insightful interviews highlight this engrossing two-hour look at one of Hollywood's greatest dream...

Brooks discusses his serious films.

A penetrating documentary of a legendary filmmaker, narrated by the renowned film critic Richard Schickel. Excerpted works include “Birth of a...

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

Artist Htoo Lwin Myo excavates the lesser-known and wildly joyful history of Myanmar’s horror and genre film industry in the 1950s that has...

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

A brief documentary of Cinéma L’Amour, one of North America's last major adult theaters.

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...

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

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...

Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of the most thrilling scenes the disaster genre has...

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...

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

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

Always the last to know, filmmaker Jon Beaton learns of his autism late in life – a diagnosis that brings liberation and mourning in equal...

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.

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

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