Leonard Maltin Movies

As a newspaper writer in Chicago, young Ben Hecht saw it all and learned how to captivate an audience with his writing. By the 1920s, he took that...

Art and science have worked together to allow cinema to switch to color. Numerous processes have succeeded one another to try to solve this...

A short documentary about the making of John Ford's "Rio Grande."

An interview with John Hench.

Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the...

A documentary about the Marx Brothers containing interviews with Leonard Maltin, Dick Cavett and others.

Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.

This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen....

This documentary short takes you inside the fascinating world of film preservation and restoration.

A musical journey through the brief life and times of the celebrated composer who pioneered the crossover of jazz and pop music -- from his...

In the '40s Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he...

The sound of flapping bat wings, an empty coffin, glistening fangs, tiny punctures on the neck, the sensual taste of blood, a blank reflection, fear...

Documentary looking at the film classic, They Drive By Night

Documentary regarding two of the "nine old men" of Disney animators.

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the...

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

“A Conversation with Fess Parker” (17:05) is another interview, edited almost exactly like the previous, where Maltin visits the man who...

Bonus feature on the Dumbo DVD.

A interview with Joe Grant.

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry...