Cinema History Movies

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

The Magic Lantern was an projector of information and stories than preceded the cinema. How did its visual style translate into the moving image?...

An expansive research project that takes us in a flashback to the reconstruction of a lost film production in Manchuria, the doomed epic entitled The...

"Actor" is China's first documentary film to explore the virtues and skills of actors. The film takes the "Twenty-Two Big Movie Stars of New China"...

A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest and most respected. Film Spa was made to celebrate its belated 50th...

Local filmmaker Woo Ming Jin and his crew traversed across Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore to find 'Seruan Merdeka' (1947) - the first film made in...

Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first...

Covering over 100 years of cinema, this is a journey of discovering and exploring the magic of cinema from a personal perspective. Looking at the...

A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills.

The film follows Danish politician Silas Mudoh as he fights corruption from Mette Mor in Danish society.

A documentary celebrating over one hundred years of The Riverside Theatre & Cinema in Woodbridge.

A poetic and dreamy visit of the French Cinémathèque's collection of devices.