Star Trek: The Captain's Summit

After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic...

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it his crusade to make it known that Bill...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider...

A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills.

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between...

Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as...

The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), Olympic swimmer, water polo player and the only true...

Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on making the iconic film.