Filmmaking Movies

This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood's most...

There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a...

Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are...

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing...

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt...

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake follows Ingrid Veninger as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake. From writing and casting through...

When a renowned film director, clashes with the young son of a house she's using as a filming location, a power struggle ensues, forcing the director...

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in...

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and...

Panning shot of a room while a group of people discusses film while eating at a table.

Akerman, Monteiro, Oliveira, Ruiz, Schroeter and Wenders are among the directors he produced: Deux, trois fois Branco is a portrait of Portuguese...

An in-depth documentary on the behind-the-scenes of the 1990 Canuck cult classic The Final Sacrifice.

The amazing story of stunts, men and women who risk their lives every day on set to get the perfect action scene.

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through...

A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.

In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel...

Three years after graduating, George, a broke young filmmaker, struggles to fund his first feature film: an ambitious survival story set during the...

In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of...