Kevin Brownlow
Director · b. 1938 · Crowborough, Sussex, England, UK
Kevin Brownlow is a British film director, producer and historian.
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Movie7.2DocumentaryHistoryThe epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018 · 42 votes
Movie7.1DocumentaryTV MovieA look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
Movie6.5DocumentaryUsing rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · 4 votes
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The film will track the evolution of the action hero in films and how aspects and perspectives have changed about them. Along with Stallone, it will also star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke Evans, and Charley Palmer Rothwell among others.
Movie8.5AdventureFantasyA documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.
The Chronoscope
2009 · 2 votes
Movie5.0DocumentaryTV MovieBlonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001 · 4 votes
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Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.
Movie8.0Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
About "The White Bus"
1968 · 1 votes
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As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that have become part of our shared history. It also takes the viewer through the painstaking process of film restoration, and highlights some of the organizations and individuals who are spear-heading this movement.
The Race to Save 100 Years
1997 · 1 votes
Movie8.4DocumentaryHistoryDocumentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.
Movie7.5DocumentaryA documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'.
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012 · 2 votes
Movie7.7DocumentaryA nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era.
Cinerama Adventure
2002 · 12 votes
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A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.
Censored!
1999
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Made for BBC Television in 1967, this 20-minute documentary features a rare interview with the director and a unique demonstration of his lighting techniques.
The World of Josef von Sternberg
1967 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryIn 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film. In this documentary short subject, created by The Criterion Collection, Kevin Brownlow and Chaplin biographer and archivist Jeffrey Vance recount the journey of this comic masterpiece.
Movie5.0DocumentaryNOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
Notfilm
2015 · 6 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryBBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
1968 · 2 votes
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The making of Winstanley (1975)
It Happened Here Again
1976 · 1 votes
Movie5.7DocumentaryAnimationCartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.
Cartoon Carnival
2021 · 3 votes
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Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the film. He has a ton of fascinating anecdotes about the film and its participants, including a really funny story involving David Shepard, another vaunted name in silent film, and Intolerance's editor, James Smith.
MovieDocumentary55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
1986