FILM DIRECTORS

How real is the 'science' in Star Trek?

An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.

This is the first feature-length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh. In this 'memoir,' Walsh 'recounts' his career from the silent film era to the tumultuous 1960s. The documentary makes stunning use of rare, personal and production photos and footage, revealing Walsh's extraordinary, adventurous life on and off the set. From his apprenticeship with D.W. Griffith to his discovery of John Wayne and Rock Hudson, from the innovative 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924) to the widescreen 'The Big Trail' (1930), from his classic work with Cagney, Bogart and Flynn to his mastery of every genre (musicals, comedies, Westerns, gangster, war), Walsh made Hollywood history. His life is nothing less than the story of Hollywood itself. Here's a full-bodied account of one of Hollywood's greatest legends.

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.

Details the early attempts, what worked, or why it didn't, in the history of adding partial or full colour to films. Includes early film clips to illustrate how most tries appeared to audiences.

A documentary about Hollywood during the 1930s.

A documentary about how Hollywood kept up morale during the years of World War II.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and later in the movie Peter Fonda narrate the story about the censorship, exploitation and sex in Hollywood movies from the 1930s and the Hays' Motion Picture Production Code to the present day era.

Elia Kazan was one of the greatest Hollywood and Broadway directors. A three-time Academy Award winner, five-time Tony Award winner and winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes, he was also one of the most controversial, respected and reviled men ever to work in film.

A show that tells someone's life story every interesting episode at a time.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Produced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 to the end of the European war.

Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.

An anthology based on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell hosts.

Hondo, an embittered former rebel officer, travels to Arizona Territory in the 1870s with his dog Sam. Often clashing with the local cavalry, which he holds responsible for the death of his Indian wife.

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Discovering Film celebrates the lives of some of the most prolific and iconic Hollywood stars.

Chronicles of the lives of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Basil Rathbone's thoughts on the actor Errol Flynn, whom he worked with on 3 feature films.

Narrating the written musings of classic Sherlock Holmes actors including Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone, and Douglas Wilmer. Covering what they thought of their careers, Sherlock Holmes, acting, and much more.

A throwback silent film web series adapted from the wider works and characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A podcast focusing on the dark side of early Hollywood

Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.

Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.

Documentary series exploring a topic, headline, or person that became the ground zero for a revolution in culture; told by the people who were on the front lines of the story.

Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.

The show originated as a local New York City late night program in June 1953 and went onto the network in September 1954. Throughout the summer of 1956, Steve Allen was the only host. When Allen's prime-time series debuted in the summer of 1956, he limited his appearances on this show to Wednesday through Friday and a series of guest hosts filled in until 1 October 1956 when Ernie Kovacs took over as permanent host for the Monday and Tuesday broadcast. Kovacs had his own set of entertainers, i.e., Wendell, Hanley, Arthur and Loden. The last show was broadcast on 25 January 1957."Tonight's" first monologue was given with Steve Allen seated at the piano: "In case you're just joining us...this is Tonight...and I can't think of too much to tell you about it, except I want to give you the bad news first: this program is going to go on forever. I wouldn't call it a Spectacular....you might say it's more a Monotonious ."

Interim version of the talk show that aired between the departure of Jack Paar and the arrival of Johnny Carson.

Originally airing during late-night, Tonight Starring Jack Paar was an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. After 1959, it was officially known as The Jack Paar Show.

The classic long-running prime time TV investigative news magazine.

Australian version of the long-running news-magazine show.

A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.

Ringo Starr narrates this compilation of clips from classic "Rock and Roll" films from the 1950s and 60s.

Spattered with blood and controversy, Sam Peckinpah's Westerns revolutionized their genre. SAM PECKINPAH'S WEST: LEGACY OF A HOLLYWOOD RENEGADE goes in search of the man behind these legendary films. Through a poignant array of film clips and rare interviews, the documentary reveals a tortured artist whose genius and demons changed the Western forever. Interviewees include actor/director Billy Bob Thornton, Benicio Del Toro, Paul Schrader, film critic Roger Ebert, actors who worked with Peckinpah such as Harry Dean Stanton, Stella Stevens, L.Q. Jones and others. The personal side of Peckinpah will feature interviews with family members, sister Fern Lee, son Mathew Peckinpah, plus exclusive home movies and photos.

Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.

Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.

The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.

Jodie Foster narrates a profile of actress Bette Davis.

Raw footage filmed by George Stevens during World War II between 1944 and 1946 for the US Army Signal Corps. Includes footage shot at D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Dachau concentration camp.

The story of the Allied landing at Normandy that began the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazi empire. This documentary tells the story using the rare color footage director George Stevens shot with his personal 16-millimeter film camera as he followed the Allies during and after the landing.

About the Liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany in the mid 1940's by the Allied Powers. Pictures from the Americans invading Germany via the Rhine. People building up the houses from ruins and much more.

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Friend and colleagues look back at the life of the fallen star.

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.

Based on the title of General Eisenhower's book, combat film from from World War II. This was the first documentary series produced for television.

The Pacific was a key battle ground during World War II. Combat here changed the tides of the war.

A look at the life and work of American journalist, I.F. Stone, who leads a one-man crusade against government deception.

Multiple daily news bulletins for the Granada North West region.

Clint Eastwood. Also: Jack White performs and is interviewed.

Sally Field hosts this thorough documentary about actress Barbara Stanwyck. Highlights include Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).

Barbara Stanwyck was orphaned by her mother and abandoned by her father at a very young age. She started supporting herself at 14, doing various menial jobs before finding fame and fortune. Her humble background made her ever congenial to the people she worked with, especially neophyte actors and film crew, taking serious effort to know everyone's name, as well as their spouses. To know more about her life story, watch Discovering Barbara Stanwyck, free at Amazon Prime.

Michael Landon Jr. directs this biographical story of his television star father, 'Michael Landon' (John Schneider). The film deals with the scarring that Michael Jr. felt after his parents divorce when he was 15 and looks at his father's philandering ways. Michael Jr. is the son of Landon's second wife 'Lynn Noe'), who was deserted when Landon took up with a make-up artist on the set of Little House on the Prairie (1974).

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.

Roy Glenister arrives in Nome, Alaska, meets Helen Chester. Corrupt officials falsely claim ownership of Glenister's mine. Legal battle ensues, nearly leads to violence. Misunderstanding caused by saloon owner's lie.

This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.

Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent-movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie "True Heart Susie," starring Lillian Gish, to "Love Me Tonight" (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy) and to Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" (1951), plus many, many more.

A capsule of Marlene Dietrich's legendary stage act, filmed in Australia with Burt Bacharach conducting the orchestra.

Marlene Dietrich in Concert.

Marlene Dietrich.

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his remote 10th Century castle hoping a battle there against the advancing Germans will not lead to its destruction and all the heritage within.

A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Before Charles Bronson was typecast-ed in Hollywood as the image of a lone killer, he was a major figure in popular cinema during the 1960s and 70s. His enigmatic stone face persona and career in Hollywood are worthy of a second look.

An intimate portrait of the life, times and struggles of one of the most iconic actors in the history of cinema.

Marlon Brando dreamed of turning the Tetiaroa atoll in French Polynesia into a natural sanctuary open to scientists. This ecological project has been ongoing since the actor's death in 2004.

This documentary takes us back to this incredible life and career with numerous excerpts from films, songs, rare archives in which Perkins speaks in impeccable French, and the testimonies and memories of friends, colleagues and journalists who have worked with him.

A legend of the Hollywood Golden Age, Gregory Peck (1916-2003) enjoyed an exemplary career, working under the direction of some of the world's greatest filmmakers: Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Raoul Walsh, Vincente Minnelli... Portrait of an actor with irresistible charm and strong political commitments.

A colorful portrait of Jane Fonda, actress and activist, resonating with recent American history, its dreams and its disillusions.

A documentary about the impact of the James Bond film character on actor Sean Connery's career and in film history.

Gene Tierney's life story would perfectly lend itself to a screenplay for a successful Hollywood movie with herself starring in it. She grew up in a well-to-do middle class family and began to write poetry at an early age. On a trip to Los Angeles she was taken on a tour through the Warner Studios. When Anatole Litvak spotted her, he said to her mother : she ought to be in pictures. This was the beginning of a long career with masterpieces as Laura, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Leave Her to Heaven. For Martin Scorsese, she is maybe the most underrated actress of our time.

Kim Novak will forever be remembered for her dual role in Hitchcock's "Vertigo", in which she plays a woman forced to transform into someone else to fulfill a man's obsession. Novak was a rebel inside a star system that broke women's spirits in order to manufacture screen goddesses, a toxic system she never ceased to speak out against. In the 1950s at the age of 20, Novak finds herself thrown into the limelight. With no acting experience, the young woman who dreamed of becoming a painter undergoes a makeover which will transform her into a glamorous bombshell. Her anxiety on set is compounded by an intimidating studio head, demanding directors, and a misogynist press. This first documentary about Kim Novak, her career and her emancipation from the Hollywood system, tells the story of how this box office sensation who worked with some of the greatest directors of the era takes on the Hollywood studio system and reclaims her life - with the exclusive participation of the actress herself.

A worldwide homage by various artists to the legendary italian director Sergio Leone, pioneer in the western genre and famous for the creation of the subgenre "spaghetti western".

After 40 years, Tom Cruise continues to push the envelope in film. Exposing one's heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as far as Cruise is concerned, it is the only way to achieve an end that feels complete.

Not only a theater icon, but also a television and a movie star, English actress Helen Mirren and her brilliant career have been impressing the world since the 1960s. She is the only actress to have won the "Triple Crowns of Acting". She's an uncategorizable, multi-talented actress, but also a powerful and very feminist woman. She is considered by many to be the greatest living actress. Often associated with the roles of powerful figures in films such as "The Queen", she is a strong feminist activist. Indeed, for almost 60 years, through the characters she chose to play and her attitude behind the scenes, she's an advocate for women's emancipation, relentlessly fighting against sexism.

On January 28th 1985, dozens of the era's most popular musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity single for African famine relief. Setting egos aside, they collaborated on a song that would make history.

With never-before-seen footage, this docuseries follows David Beckham's meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global football stardom.

Follow legendary actor Sylvester Stallone with his wife and daughters in a direct access to their daily life.

In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its complexity at the heart of the American paradoxes: from Black activist, rebel soldier to gangster torn between violence and charity. Voted best actor of the 21st century by the New York Times a few months ago, Denzel Washington, 65, has risen to the top of American cinema. As an Actor, director and producer, he has shaken up a "color line" as immutable as it is subtle. Often identified with his characters, he reveals himself to be disconcerting and paradoxical. As if he were holding up a mirror to America in which all of its contradictions and failings were reflected. A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary career of the world-renowned African-American actor.

In this short we hear from Washington, Moretz, Harbour, Leo, Blumenthal, Black, Fuqua, Wenk, Pullman and actor Marton Csokas as it examines Washington's casting and his work in the movie.

She enchanted her audience like no other: Lauren Bacall. The portrait describes her childhood in Brooklyn, where she was born in 1924 as the daughter of a salesman and a secretary of Jewish descent.

Robert Redford, with his fuzzy blond hair and steel blue eyes, was seen by many, especially female fans, as a sex symbol, despicable lover and daring romantic. But the Hollywood star has been, and is, much more than that, because he's committed to independent cinema, promoting independent directors, and advocating for the environment and North American indigenous people by using his stardom. The documentary tries to get closer to the big film star by means of expert interviews, film excerpts, festival appearances and rarely shown private shots.

In November's election, Americans must decide who will lead the nation for the next four years: Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. An interwoven investigative biography of both major-party candidates.

Israelis and Palestinians recount the attack of October 7, 2023, perpetrated by Hamas, and the incessant bombardments that have hit Gaza ever since.Raw testimonies, documented by amateur videos of rare violence.

In Wisconsin, a 'swing state' and a veritable microcosm of the United States, voters share their hopes and expectations, sketching a sociological portrait of a fragmented America.

The international custody battle over six-year old Elian Gonzalez triggers a political earthquake in Miami-Dade County in 2000, swaying the outcome of the presidential election.

Follows the rebellious Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republicans, as they navigate relationships with allies and opponents from both parties.

A chronicle of the incursion at the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C., many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden's presidency.

Follows the events of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th of 2021, told by those who witnessed the chaos firsthand.

In August 2017, white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, viciously attacking counter-protestors. Two lawyers, convinced that the Trump DOJ would do nothing, decided to sue a group of violent rightwing protestors.

Alexandra Pelosi turns her camera on some of the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Through a series of candid interviews, Pelosi talks to several individuals charged with crimes for their participation.

Follows Nancy Pelosi behind the scenes, through the milestones of her career leading up to the inauguration of President Joseph Biden.

It centers on President Joe Biden's first year in office.

An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Follows the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.

Those who played prominent roles in Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign return to discuss how politics and the media have changed since that time.

Set against the backdrop of the 2024 election, CARVILLE follows Democratic consultant James Carville as he navigates the current political landscape and delves into his famous, bi-partisan marriage to Republican strategist, Mary Matalin.

Looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only the constitutional republic, but Christianity itself.

The Sixth is a portrayal of a city and nation under siege as well as a testament to the importance of truth, told through the eyes of 6 unique individuals whose lives will be forever changed by the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A documentary feature film that explores the critical role of military veterans in domestic violent extremist groups.

A group of deeply faithful Christians in Oklahoma are challenging firmly rooted fundamentalist Christian doctrine. Labeled as "heretics" for their beliefs and seemingly defiant interpretations of the Gospels, they are open minded to the Bible as a living document, preaching more forgiving and inclusive interpretations of biblical doctrine.

Conservative and progressive theologians debate the meaning of the cross, and the most difficult parts of the Christian gospel.

When a generation finds the theology and practice of the modern church wanting, they turn to the internet for answers. An investigation into the roots of the reformation reveals a theology that challenges everything they thought they knew about Christianity.

When we think about worship, we too often ask ourselves the wrong questions. What do I like? What would non-Christians like? What would the people in my church like? All along, we're missing the central question. How does God want to be worshipped? Spirit and Truth dives into Scripture and history to rethink how we are to approach the God we worship. Featuring expert teachers Kevin DeYoung, Terry Johnson, Robert Godfrey, Tim Challies, and many more.

To provide news and commentary important to the 77 million Anglican Christians worldwide; to educate and train church laypersons in video and Internet technology; and to build up the Body of Christ through the creation, distribution, and promotion of multimedia content.

Bob Abernethy hosts an award-winning series that includes features and profiles of the people, trends, values and spiritual life that exist behind the headlines. Newsmakers, scholars and historians offer perspectives and analysis of significant events affecting the faith community, while personal profiles explore the different ways people express their faith.

A docudrama of the classic series. Almost like another episode of the series as a photo album presented to Grandma as a present spurs memories, presented via flashbacks from the series' first eight seasons. Waltons creator Earl Hamner recounts bringing his life to television.

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.