Kevin Brownlow Movies

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

Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.

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

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.

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

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

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

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A riveting account of the tragic adventure of filmmaker Varick Frissell and his filming of "The Viking" (1931) and the tragic events that befell that...

The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.

A loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York farm.

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

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith