Cinema History Movies

Many people contributed to the creation of Godzilla, but only one man was truly the father of the monster.

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

Covering over 100 years of cinema, this is a journey of discovering and exploring the magic of cinema from a personal perspective. Looking at the...

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of...

Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this...

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

Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is...

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

The story of how the original Godzilla went from idea to script to screen.

A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation. Meet the man who created The Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonsson's...

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

The suit actors of Toho's science fiction and fantasy films faced many challenges in bringing their iconic monsters to life.

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

"Actor" is China's first documentary film to explore the virtues and skills of actors. The film takes the "Twenty-Two Big Movie Stars of New China"...

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

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...

Having devoted much of his career to programming and film history research, Law Kar, a.k.a. Uncle Kar, places himself before the camera for the first...