Cinema History Movies

Film critic Alejandro G. Calvo traces an audiovisual journey through the work of David Lynch trying to find clues to decipher his enigmatic universe.

The extraordinary life of Hedy Lamarr, a successful actress and inventor of a pioneer system that is the base of technologies such as Bluetooth, GPS...

A journey into the mind of French actor and director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019), author of films both playful and profound, of an impressive...

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

An investigative journey of more than 120 years of cinema in Paraguay, from the first screening with the Lumière Brothers cinematograph to the...

The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task:...

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

Documentary short regarding the preservation and restoration of the worldwide remains of the Keystone films.

Documentary illustrating the birth of sound cinema.

This is a short film about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director of fiction in cinema history. Alice Guy was Léon Gaumont's...

A brief biography of film director Ishiro Honda.

The life of Eiji Tsuburaya, pioneer of Japanese special effects.

The birth date of film can be established: December 28, 1895. The place where it happened is also known: Paris, Boulevard des Capucines, Grand Caffe....

A documentary about Australian animation pioneer Eric Porter’s work on the iconic Aeroplane Jelly animated promos of the 1940s and 1950s.

A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s.

A documentary celebrating over one hundred years of The Riverside Theatre & Cinema in Woodbridge.

Going through a journey of three filmmakers trail tracing Indonesia’s family cinema. From Indonesia to the Netherlands and back, they met Kwee...

In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s...