Cinema History Movies

The Big Picture uncovers the untold story of a state-of-the-art cinema quietly forgotten in the center of Bristol, a vibrant UK city known for its...

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred...

Since the beginning of August 2010, Bioskop Permata has been closed down. This film tries to explain about the end of a long Yogyakarta cinema...

Going through a journey of three filmmakers trail tracing Indonesia’s family cinema. From Indonesia to the Netherlands and back, they met Kwee...

Part one starts with an overview of the prehistory of moving images in the 19th Century: Zoetrope, Phenakistiscope, Chronophotagraphy etc. until the...

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...

In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s...

Norwegian film history narrated by Harald Heide Steen jr.

An homage to the weird and wonderful world of B-movies, this short fauxdocumentary by film artist Chris Gerrard splices together classic clips with...

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

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

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

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.