Filmmaking Movies

A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew.

Film historians, a costumer, and three of the actors relate what it was like to work with John Wayne on True Grit (1969).

Filmmaking partners Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks are determined to get their films made by almost any means necessary. Set in the 1930s, this...

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk...

Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documentary filmmaking, his childhood, the dawning of...

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to...

An adventurous tragedy about Estonia's first film maker Johannes Pääsuke and his aspirations to travel around with a film camera and find...

Randi, a freelance filmmaker from Bandung, feeling uneasy and lonely at the new year's eve. To express his uneasiness, he connects with Gista, his...

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War...

Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.

Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead."

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

Nearly every major element of making the 1991 film Thelma & Louise is examined here from how the script was written to how Ridley Scott got involved,...

A group of frustrated actors, writers and directors take to the desert to make a film about themselves, then get lost in it.

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...

A teenage girl roams the streets trying to buy alcohol. Then she gets desperate...