Cinema History Movies

Early short film.

Writer Adam Rockoff provides a basic overview of the slasher movie genre.

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...

The life of Eiji Tsuburaya, pioneer of Japanese special effects.

The story of how the original Godzilla went from idea to script to screen.

The suit actors of Toho's science fiction and fantasy films faced many challenges in bringing their iconic monsters to life.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

This is a short film about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director of fiction in cinema history. Alice Guy was Léon Gaumont's...

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main...

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

Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is...

"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"...

How the first Godzilla suit was created and the struggles that came along with it.

How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Cannes has succeeded in this prodigy of placing...

In 1987, a small film distributor from Frankfurt/Main brings the film "Dirty Dancing" to West German cinemas against all negative odds. The film...

The story of iconic Spanish artist Susana Estrada's struggle against censorship and sexual repression during the turbulent years following the death...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...