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Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

The first feature-length documentary about Faye Dunaway who speaks about her career, with landmark roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Faye Dunaway

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jodie Foster

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Scorsese

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

As the eldest son of the legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas (1916-2020), it was not easy for Michael Douglas to make his way in Hollywood and,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Grau

The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Curtis

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cary Grant

Marilyn wasn't born Marilyn, she became it. This unique portrait reveals her in her own words: a lucid and determined woman, shifting image of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marilyn Monroe

A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Klaff

In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sally Kellerman

The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Malone

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Billy Wilder

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mario Adorf

A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Karen

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977)...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lluís Soler

This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lee Grant

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hermes Pan

Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Plummer

Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Ross

A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Mason

Kid Notorious is an animated television series that aired for nine weeks on Comedy Central and is currently running on the UK version of Adult Swim....

Genre: Animation

Cast: Robert Evans

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ed Asner

A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Frederick

Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood is a 2011 BBC documentary series written, directed and presented by Paul Merton. The three-part series traces the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Merton