Movies

Documentary about Raoul Walsh

Four nights in Dostoevksy's 1847 St. Petersburg are transposed to 21st-century Los Angeles. Over that period, a self-described dreamer helps a young...

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt...

Short documentary with background on plots that are taken from current news stories.

Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."

Short documentary about the making of the 1938 film "Jezebel."

Private investigator and former police detective Jack Ramsey is enjoying an affair with the local district attorney's wife, but no longer, after she...

"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most...

Documentary about the film Where Danger Lives (1950)

For Natia, firing bullets at her sister's head and narrowly missing is all in a days work. After taking over the family business, her sharp shooting...

An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics.

This documentary is featured on Warner Brothers' DVD for The Roaring Twenties (1939), released in 2005.

Documentary short on the making of "They Live by Night" (1948).

William Pierce (Nelson Franklin) is a practical, rational man who suddenly finds himself face to face with the paranormal when he starts receiving...

Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.

After an unforeseen and violent affliction turns her world upside down, Rowena Hambleton struggles to survive night-to-night as she prowls the...

The only witness to a young woman's murder has a nervous breakdown, is institutionalized, and escapes, tracking down the murderer.