Filmmaking Movies

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising...

On the slope of Sengokuhara, a film crew is getting ready to shoot a major scene of a samurai movie.

This coming-of-age memoir takes a candid look back on a group of struggling creatives isolated in the Appalachian Mountains. Three generations of...

Retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Ethan Wiley, Sean S. Cunningham, Arye Gross and Jonathan Stark, among others.

Film about Marcel Hanoun at work while making his film Les amants de Sarajevo in 1993.

A portrait of an independent filmmaker and the lengths he will go to fulfill his celluloid dream.

Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an...

When nerdy but lovable Jeffrey sets out to cure cancer for a class project, he accidentally drinks a deadly chemical that turns him into a deranged...

A look at London Film Productions' studios at Denham.

The making of Cleopatra (1934), showing pre-production, DeMille directing a scene, and the addition of music to the soundtrack.

This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives...

Discussion of the making of the film Summer Stock (1950).

Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.

After leaving his job and suing his boss for discrimination, a tired old man just wants revenge. He sets out to make a movie about his boss with the...

A documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a look at some of the deleted scenes,...

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with...

Directed by Jay "Dorkyswimmer" Abidin. Starring Kyfer Allchorne as David, someone who is trapped in the university for reasons unknown. David finds...

Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who...