Cinema History Movies

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

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

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

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

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

Norwegian film history narrated by Harald Heide Steen jr.

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...

London After Midnight (1927), directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, is the most sought-after lost film by fans of fantastic cinema. Has...

Part one starts with an overview of the prehistory of moving images in the 19th Century: Zoetrope, Phenakistiscope, Chronophotagraphy etc. until the...

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how...

Many people contributed to the creation of Godzilla, but only one man was truly the father of the monster.

An oral history exploring the development of film projection and cinema in Kingston-on-Thames - from resident innovator Eadweard Muybridge through...

Early short film.

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

A biography and tribute to one of Japan's most prolific composers.

Since the beginning of August 2010, Bioskop Permata has been closed down. This film tries to explain about the end of a long Yogyakarta cinema...

The Magic Lantern is a non-narrated celebration of early cinema and silent-film imagination, exploring the early work of pioneers such as Georges...