Movies: Kevin Brownlow

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker....

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....

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....

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....

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

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959....

Short documentary about the last street car ride in Glasgow....

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....

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 cos...

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era....

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the basic features of detergency using animated diagrams and live action photography....

As 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 h...

Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little details, like sewing." Before editing became a craft, women were the earliest technicians. Today, the l...

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....

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith...

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....

A loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York farm....

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post....

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance....