Kevin Brownlow Movies

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the...

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...

An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and...

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical...

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into...

A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall.

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.

As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints....

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound...

The making of Winstanley (1975)

In 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film....

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.