Cinema History Movies

Many people contributed to the creation of Godzilla, but only one man was truly the father of the monster.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

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

In 1934, Walt Disney set out to do what no one had dared before: transform animation, until then confined to short, rhythmic gags, into a...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

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

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has...

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

How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Cannes has succeeded in this prodigy of placing...

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

“Don’t end up alone like I did.” This plea expressed by her grandmother before passing, haunts Tatiana, a single, 40-year-old...

The film summarizes the origin and development of animated film at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

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

The evolution of the zombie from its roots in Haitian voodoo to its coveted role as the world's most popular monster: from being a clumsy corpse to...

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a...

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise...

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

An investigative journey of more than 120 years of cinema in Paraguay, from the first screening with the Lumière Brothers cinematograph to the...

The turbulent history of the twenty-five years during which, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, Spain was turned into an immense movie set on...

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...