
Hal Roach
Production · 1892 – 1992 · Elmira, New York, USA
Harry Eugene Roach Sr. professionally known as Hal Roach, was an American film and television producer, director, and actor who was active from the 1910s to the 1990s. He is remembered today for producing a number of successes including the Laurel and Hardy franchise, the films of entertainer Charley Chase, and the Our Gang film comedy series.
Movies16
Movie7.1ComedyOllie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Sons of the Desert
1933 · 275 votes
Movie5.4DocumentaryDouglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.
Hollywood Uncensored
1987 · 10 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryTV MovieBased on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · 9 votes
Movie7.4DocumentaryComedyThe lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
Laurel & Hardy - Die komische Liebesgeschichte von Dick und Doof
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
2011 · 22 votes
Movie5.8DocumentaryBiography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985 · 14 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryTV MovieThe story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaSamson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
Samson
1914 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary is about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.
Movie6.5DocumentaryHistoryThe story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Cinecittà Babilonia: sesso, droga e camicie nere
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
1989 · 3 votes
Movie4.4FantasyAdventureThe fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
The Magic Cloak of Oz
1914 · 14 votes
Movie5.1AdventureFamilyOjo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr. Pipt, who has been stirring the powder of life for nine years. Ojo adds plenty of brains to Margolotte's Patchwork servant before she is brought to life with the powder. When Scraps does come to life, she accidentally knocks the liquid of petrifaction upon Unc Nunkie, Margolotte, and Danx (daughter Jesseva's boyfriend). So all go on separate journeys to find the ingredients to the antidote.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
1914 · 15 votes
Movie6.0DramaWesternBlamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
The Squaw Man
1914 · 23 votes
Movie6.5ComedyWhile at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
Number, Please?
1920 · 30 votes
Movie7.4ComedySpanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Wild Poses
1933 · 14 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Documentary looking at how Hollywood went from a small town to a mega center.
Series3
TV7.5Talk ShowThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · 96 votes
TV8.4DocumentaryA 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.
Hollywood
1980 · 17 votes
- TV
Hollywood '84
1984