Cinema History Movies

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

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

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...

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....

At 18 hours and 43 minutes long, 'The Complete Story of Film' collects two epic documentaries by Mark Cousins into a stunningly expansive global...

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

A memoir celebrating yesteryears of cinema and how silver screen has evolved over the years, this documentary is ode to cinema by the audience, for...

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

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...

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

The Magic Lantern was an projector of information and stories than preceded the cinema. How did its visual style translate into the moving image?...

A brief biography of film director Ishiro Honda.

An homage to the weird and wonderful world of B-movies, this short fauxdocumentary by film artist Chris Gerrard splices together classic clips with...

An oral history exploring the development of film projection and cinema in Kingston-on-Thames - from resident innovator Eadweard Muybridge through...

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

Writer Adam Rockoff provides a basic overview of the slasher movie genre.