Bret Wood Movies

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation...

Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local...

Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.

An exploration of La Oroya, an Andean smelting town caught in the tides of pollution and capital drain. The film charts U.S.-led industrialization...

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise...

Two women initiate their friend into the joys of evangelicalism.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.

An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, The Little Death offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel,...

A troubled veteran returns home to resume his life, but first he must fulfill a dreadful family obligation.

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations...

Narrated by Rod Steiger, this documentary examines the frightful conventions from which the modern-day horror movie has evolved, featuring clips from...

Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between...

A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922), regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick...

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.

The special effects in The Play House (1921) are discussed.