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What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marta Belmonte

A discussion between John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones about their film The Meaning of Life

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Cleese

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Serge Bromberg

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irene Bedard

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Thierry Frémaux

A collection of deleted scenes and bloopers from the library of Toho Studios films, including several films from the famous Godzilla franchise.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kumi Mizuno

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Novotný

A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Slavoj Žižek

Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mel Gibson

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruce Weber

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julien Bocher

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phil Tippett

Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lina Wertmüller

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marcus Hearn

This is the first feature-length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh. In this 'memoir,' Walsh 'recounts' his career from the silent film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Bogdanovich

The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Hurrell Sr.

Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alexandra Alévêque

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marvin Hamlisch

Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Thomas

A portrait of American actress Uma Thurman, muse of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and courageous voice for the many victims of despotic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Benedikt Hahn