Movies: Marcus Hearn

A short documentary on the Hammer production of The Camp on Blood Island...

A potted history of the many errant Gallifreyans to have appeared in the show....

Contemporary news coverage of the William Hartnell era is examined in this new documentary presented by Mary Tamm....

The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films....

A short documentary on Hammer final film with Peter Cushing as the titular character Baron Frankenstein....

A behind the scenes featurette focussed on Hammer Film Productions' 1971 film 'Doctor Jekyll & Sister Hyde.'...

This documentary features interviews with several leading ladies from Hammer's peak period, who share illuminating and amusing anecdotes about the various films they worked on....

A 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who, including a rare interview with creator Sydney Newman, and new interviews with producer Verity Lambert, directors Waris Hussein and Richard Martin, actors William Russell and Carole Ann F...

Dennis Wheatley biographer Phil Baker provides a brief history of author nearly 80 book career, covers the whole of Wheatley’s contentious relationship with Hammer studios, including his displeasure with The Lost Continent (1968) and his utter loathi...

A look at the First Doctor's comic strip adventures. Featuring interviews with artist Bill Mevin, comics historians Jeremy Bentham and John Ainsworth, and former Doctor Who Magazine editors Gary Russell and Alan Barnes....

Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series....

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory h...

Documentary on the Hammer film...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgus...

documentary on the production of Hammer's The Stranglers of Bombay...

A short retrospective documentary looking at the making of the final Hammer Films production of the 1970s, "To the Devil a Daughter."...

Several key production personnel look at the making of K-9 and Company: A Girls Best Friend, plus K-9's subsequent life in books and comic strips is examined and explored....

Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"....

A retrospective of actor Philip Madoc's many roles as a Doctor Who villain....

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to the making of the film The Horror of Frankenstein and the state of the Hammer studio at the time....