Cinema History Movies

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

On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in San Benedetto del Tronto. “The last match of Pasolin...

An audiovisual investigation into the way Spanish cinema has represented its audience throughout history, and a tribute to those who, for over a hundr...

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...

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 s...

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the ci...

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 “Singapore...

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to v...

A biography and tribute to one of Japan's most prolific composers.

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

Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first docume...

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a 52-mi...

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

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

We live with films every day, and it seems nothing easier than answering the question: what is a film? Obviously, a film is, first and foremost, a doc...

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 richne...

A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills.