Kevin Brownlow Movies

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into...

A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall.

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the...

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical...

This documentary explores the incredible life of Merian C. Cooper, from his time as a soldier and pilot in three different wars, to his exploits in...

Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the...

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound...

As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints....

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.

The making of Winstanley (1975)

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the basic features of detergency using animated diagrams and live action photography.

In 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film....

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little...