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Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Faye Dunaway

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Malcolm McDowell

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jodie Foster

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Altman

In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to create a motion picture that eclipsed everything...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elsa Lepoivre

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

The astonishing story of the genesis, production, worldwide success, and legacy of King Kong (1933), directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Fontana

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Damien Chazelle

The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Curtis

As the eldest son of the legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas (1916-2020), it was not easy for Michael Douglas to make his way in Hollywood and,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Grau

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Documentary which aired on television in 2004, about the two daughters of Judy Garland and their relationship.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lorna Luft

In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sally Kellerman

Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Michelson

The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Malone

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cary Grant

A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Klaff

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977)...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Scorsese

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ed Asner

Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Plummer

Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Ross

Kid Notorious is an animated television series that aired for nine weeks on Comedy Central and is currently running on the UK version of Adult Swim....

Genre: Animation

Cast: Robert Evans

A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Frederick

The epic story of the actors, writers, directors, and producers who fought for their place on the page, behind the camera and on the screen. From...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood is a 2011 BBC documentary series written, directed and presented by Paul Merton. The three-part series traces the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Merton