My Film Docs

Sobre el cineasta alemán Werner Herzog, que se enfrenta a actores difíciles, al mal tiempo y a la necesidad de atravesar una montaña en barco para rodar su película Fitzcarraldo (1982).

Documental sobre los problemas que tuvieron que superarse para completar la película de culto Apocalypse Now.

Sobre las películas del director de terror italiano Darío Argento. Incluye fragmentos de muchas de sus películas y entrevistas con amigos, actores y colegas.

The quest for the true personality of multi-talented cult artist and psycho-magician Alexandro Jodorowsky

A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members who have worked with him over the years.

From an early age, David Lynch was inspired by the arts and the warm inner glow that comes with the pursuit of creative expression. "Pretty as a Picture:The Art of David Lynch" examines how this modern day Renaissance man makes a motion picture, and examines, through his artistic explorations, the very nature of creativity.

The story behind the making of the 5 "Planet of the Apes" movies.

Documental sobre la relación profesional y personal entre Werner Herzog y Klaus Kinski.

Documentary about the career of Peter Sellers.

Throughout his career as an actor and a filmmaker, Clint Eastwood has practiced a policy of alternation, seldom repeating a tone, a character, or a genre two films in a row.

The first documentary on José Mojica Marins's (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica's history, from his poor childhood in Vila Anastácio, São Paulo (Brazil), until his success abroad in the '90s.

The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.

Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes the viewer back to a lost era of movie showmanship, placing this American cinema phenomenon into historical perspective.

A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.

This is the finest collection of bad films ever compiled. The budgets are cheap, the acting is terrible, and the plots are nowhere to be seen. It's The Fifty Worst Films Ever Made!

Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s.

Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It's feature-length, it's bloody, and the zombies don't run. Just like it should be. But there's just one difference between her film and every other zombie movie you've ever seen. Emily is twelve.

A look at the making of the film La leyenda de los duendes diabólicos (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.

A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.

During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking.

A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.

A documentary analyzing the furor which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.