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Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt...
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of...
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...
Visions of Light
A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden Age.
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection."
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does...
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his...
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more....
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and...
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red...
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never...
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
A documentary about the 1951 sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," featuring clips from the film and interviews with some of the cast and crew...
Making The Earth Stand Still
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion...
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan...
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
The making of "The Andromeda Strain".
The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman.
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
The Stupids
A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles.
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee
A Century of Science Fiction
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
And the Oscar Goes To...
Documentary attached to the 50th anniversary MGM Blu-ray collection of "West Side Story" (1961). Details how this successful stage production was...
West Side Memories
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the...
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
From Star Trek to The Sound of Music, award-winning director Robert Wise was dedicated, inventive, and ready to tackle any genre. He helmed...
Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
Charmian Carr, who played Liesl in the movie "The Sound of Music", takes a tour of the Austrian town of Salzburg, where the location shots of the...
Salzburg Sight and Sound
The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major...
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years