Kevin Brownlow is a British film director, producer and historian.
Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the ...
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This documentary explores the incredible life of Merian C. Cooper, from his time as a soldier and pilot in three different wars, to his exploits in Hollywood, as a director, producer and cinematic innovator. ...
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An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, p ...
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A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall. ...
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Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959. ...
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A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film "The Great Dictator," released in 1940. ...
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Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary. ...
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A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s. ...
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Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. ...
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A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker. ...
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Documentary presenting Alan Parker's view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King's Lynn on the making of Hugh Hudson's Revolution, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski. ...
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It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in. ...
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A loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York farm. ...
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Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state and the church. ...
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During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery. ...
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Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain's most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costu ...
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BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance. ...
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Made for BBC Television in 1967, this 20-minute documentary features a rare interview with the director and a unique demonstration of his lighting techniques. ...
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World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight. ...
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The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier. ...
Watch NowA documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely through it's imaginative and emotional effect. ...
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The tram system of Glasgow and the last weekend of the service. ...
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A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the basic features of detergency using animated diagrams and live action photography. ...
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Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences. ...
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A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill Morrison, TCM Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart, and film collector/expert Shane Fleming. They disc ...
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Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers. ...
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The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and for ...
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NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, ...
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Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by ...
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Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts. ...
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A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot. ...
Watch NowThree Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the film. He has a ton of fascinating anecdotes about the film and its participants, including a really funny ...
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A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'. ...
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In 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film. In this documentary short subject, created by The Criterion Collection, Kevin Brownlow and Chaplin biograp ...
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A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past. ...
Watch NowDocumentary about Hollywood during the silent film era. ...
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A riveting account of the tragic adventure of filmmaker Varick Frissell and his filming of "The Viking" (1931) and the tragic events that befell that adventure into early film-making. ...
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A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. ...
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Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on s ...
Watch NowAs the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that have be ...
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BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance. ...
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Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post. ...
Watch NowMade for BBC Television in 1967, this 20-minute documentary features a rare interview with the director and a unique demonstration of his lighting techniques. ...
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