Filmmaking Movies

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to...

The story of how the classic epic "Ben-Hur" was made.

When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic...

A collection of cast interviews and behind-the-scenes clips from the Coen brother's Academy Award-winning film Fargo.

This documentary focuses on the careers of influential partners in trash film, John Waters and Divine. The film includes interviews with Waters'...

Explores the life and death of one of the first onscreen flappers. By the time she appeared in The Flapper, she had completed more than seventeen...

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to...

Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including Rick Baker, Bill Sturgeon, David Cronenberg, James...

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francisco in the 1980s.

The first feature-length documentary that fully explores how the toxic social and political Canadian context after 1968 created some of the most...

This documentary covers the life and death of London-based Polygram Filmed Entertainment.

Documentary about the life and career of a comic genius, Peter Sellers.

A found footage look at a filmmaker's journey to discover what it takes to 'make it'.

An inexperienced producer and director audition and film naked women for a nudie movie. Everything goes wrong.

The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

A student tries to fix his bad grade but everything goes wrong.

After going through a breakup and moving back home, James navigates through a "quarter life crisis" while dealing with mental illness, a spandex...