Why Movies?

Discover the birth of Cinema in the first installment of the “Tour de Cinema” series.

In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Ll...

This documentary short-film follows the story of The White Bus Cinema based in Southend-on-Sea. They keep the process of projecting real celluloid fil...

Take a virtual stroll down the streets of Glasgow’s iconic Great Western Road.

a documentary and a fiction about reflecting on "pre-cinema".

The story of the abandoned production of 'Day of the Champion', a movie about Formula 1 which was set to film in 1966.

Jacques Rozier or the fierce, independent itinerary of a filmmaker in perpetual disarray, admired by his peers and pampered by the critics.

Experience the 1990’s and the end of a millennium in the sixth installment of the “Tour de Cinema” series.

Dive full-force into the most electric, profound, action-packed, and emotionally resonant decade in the history of filmmaking with the fifth installme...

Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, pos...

Gathering for a Christmas lunch, the film critics and writers of Discovering Film discuss the merits of 20 films from Bill Murray's star turn in Scroo...

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes...