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HBO Max Amazon Channel
90
8.3
/280303/
82
/5551/
81
/3405/
4.3
/584808/
100
/78/
95
/7923/
99
/17/
cc age 6+

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.5
/404616/
73
/8640/
72
/5699/
3.8
/326834/
86
/227/
79
/7993/
77
/41/
cc age 16+

The Aviator (2004)
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
poster
78
7.6
/2538/
71
/65/
69
/26/
3.9
/4078/
100
/12/
90
/71/
68
/9/

Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film 'The Killing Fields'. At the same time, he gives a background to the events occurring in Cambodia at the time the film was set.
poster
Hoopla
77
7.4
/3735/
72
/149/
70
/77/
3.7
/8170/
96
/89/
85
/21/
73
/18/

Filmworker (2018)
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.1
/484402/
71
/16387/
67
/6748/
3.6
/659513/
82
/249/
71
/28302/
71
/39/
cc age 16+

Tropic Thunder (2008)
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
poster
73
6.8
/22095/
72
/1446/
65
/433/
3.3
/13042/
90
/168/
72
/209/
76
/30/
cc age 15+

Their Finest (2017)
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
poster
Kanopy
51
5.0
/2501/
63
/55/
50
/50/
3.0
/4114/
55
/11/
25
/8/
62
/6/

A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
poster
76
50
7.1
/1694/
71
/38/
66
/17/
3.6
/561/
91
/65/
79
/152/
84
/26/

Iraq in Fragments (2006)
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
poster
76
36
7.5
/676/
80
/19/
65
/13/
3.5
/268/
88
/16/
83
/33/

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
poster
76
32
8.1
/3029/
74
/21/
66
/26/
3.5
/373/
89
/10/

The Rest Is Silence (2008)
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
21
7.7
/724/
72
/17/
70
/25/
3.5
/719/
91
/2/

The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
poster
63
20
7.4
/207/
75
/12/
85
/11/
3.5
/327/
23
/13/
51
/94/

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' (2001)
A documentary about the making of Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, Platoon (1986).
poster
71
15
7.5
/343/
67
/8/
72
/11/
3.6
/612/

Life in Shadows (1949)
The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also blessed with the love of Ana, which he has longed for; but the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 changes everything for both of them.
poster
?
5.8
/72/
20
/1/

The Making of Midway (2001)
The making of the 1976 movie.
poster
?
6.4
/74/
70
/2/

So You Want to Be an Actor (1949)
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers
poster
?
6.8
/9/

Making of Oorlogswinter (2008)
A behind the scenes look at the production of Martin Koolhoven's film, Oorlogswinter.
poster
?
7.6
/18/

Quelli del Maledetto Treno Blindato - Making of 'Inglorious Bastards' (2007)
Behind the scenes of "Inglorious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino.
poster
?
6.1
/45/
10
/1/

Sam Fuller & the Big Red One (1984)
A documentary shot during the production of Samuel Fuller's film The Big Red One.
poster
?
7.2
/80/
45
/2/

A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (2000)
A documentary on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."
poster
?
5.8
/32/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Das Boot: Behind The Scenes (1981)
Comprehensive classic piece that looks at the process of creating the movie, told with a strong, well-constructed narrative that plays almost as a movie itself, a detailed retelling of how the movie was made and the dedication to authenticity that's evident right down to the finest little details on the ship. After a narrator sets the scene for various segments from the film, the piece takes its time to take a closer look at all of the elements that are necessary to create the movie and the challenges of shooting such a labor- and authenticity-intensive picture.
poster
?
4.6
/100/
10
/1/

Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988)
This documentary provides a nostalgic and insightful look at Hollywood's on- and off-screen efforts at promoting wartime patriotism during the years 1941-1945. Hosted by actor Van Johnson, the film includes movie clips, newsreel footage and interviews with stars of that halcyon era such as Vivian Blaine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roddy McDowall, Jackie Cooper, Gloria DeHaven and Tony Randall.
poster
?
6.6
/66/
80
/2/

A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not' (2003)
In the '40s Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules Furthman writes a script, which follows the book closely. The location of the story is Cuba, but the US Government is against depicting corruption and violence on Cuba, and threatens to withdraw the film's export license. William Faulkner rewrites the script, and relocates the story to Martinique. Hawks's wife, Nancy Slim Gross, happens to see a young model at the cover of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and shows it to her husband. Hawks is a star-maker, who likes to discover and nurture new talents. After a screen test, he chooses the 19-year-old model as the lead actress opposite Humphrey Bogart. She changes her name from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. At the first takes she is so nervous that she shakes.
poster
67
?
6.9
/252/
67
/8/
63
/6/
3.5
/348/

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun (1987)
Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun
poster
Starz
43
?
6.4
/163/
15
/2/
52
/7/

John Ford Goes to War (2002)
When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put in charge of the Field Photographic Unit by Bill Donavan, director of the soon-to-be-OSS. During the war, Field Photo made at least 87 documentaries, many with Ford's signature attention to heroism and loss, and many from the point of view of the fighting soldier and sailor. Talking heads discuss Ford's life and personality, the ways that the war gave him fulfillment, and the ways that his war films embodied the same values and conflicts that his Hollywood films did. Among the films profiled are "Battle of Midway," "Torpedo Squadron," "Sexual Hygiene," and "December 7."
poster
Hoopla
56
?
7.0
/122/
35
/4/
65
/4/

Forced March (1989)
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.
poster
77
?
7.9
/3471/
75
/4/

I Want To Live (2015)
I Want to Live is a documentary on the lives of Kurdish Refugees from Syria, living in refugee camps in Kurdistan. Shot on location, it is set against the Syrian civil war and the ISIS (Islamic State) attacks upon Kurdistan. Told through the eyes of a young boy, Shndar, living with Thalassemia disease, he searches for an immediate treatment as he ages without losing hope, leaving his home amid simmering ethnic and religious hatred to live the life of a refugee. The film tells stories of daily life on the camp and outside of it. More than being a film on the life of refugees, it is an intimate character study and gripping tale of innocent lost amides wars, a meditation on life, death, war, peace, and tolerance.
poster
?
6.7
/33/
60
/1/

The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975)
"The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War" is a compilation documentary narrated by Lowell Thomas, illustrating changing attitudes toward the war and its participants, as well as toward the movies themselves. Winner, Gold Medal, 1975 Chicago Film Festival.
poster
65
?
6.0
/201/
75
/2/
60
/2/

Operation Dirty Dozen (2006)
A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being filmed just north of London, the short focuses mostly on star Lee Marvin enjoying his pursuits on his one day off a week.
poster
65
?
7.2
/290/
56
/6/
65
/6/
3.4
/220/

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca' (1992)
A documentary about the making of the classic film "Casablanca."
poster
62
?
6.7
/161/
60
/2/
53
/9/

Nitrate Base (1997)
This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...). Beside it we have a kind of resume of the historic contest in which cinema lived till now, events and movements (neo-realism, classical etc.). All the aspects are taken in consideration: fashion, star system till the end, the sad end, of cinema in the theaters.
poster
73
?
6.6
/171/
82
/19/
72
/6/

Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion (2000)
A making-of documentary for the film Braveheart (1995).
poster
?
7.0
/22/

The Making of Sharpe's Peril (2008)
Behind the scenes of the TV movie Sharpe's Peril
poster
?
9.2
/11/

Sharpe's Challenge: Behind the Scenes (2006)
Behind the scenes of the TV movie Sharpe's Challenge. Featuring interviews with author Bernard Cornwell, star Sean Bean and members of the supporting cast, plus footage of hundreds of Indian extras who were recruited and trained to act as British Army soldiers.
poster
31
?
4.4
/128/
20
/1/

Journey to the Screen: The Making of 'Pearl Harbor' (2001)
An overview of the making of the film Pearl Harbor (2001) and a look back at the real life events


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