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Chaplin Today: 'City Lights'

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Ligh

2003

Montgomery Clift

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretch

1983

Reporters

The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following t

1981

Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born

This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

2005

View and Vision: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman

Documentary about the American architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

1999

The Celluloid Closet

What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serv

1996

Afro Promo

A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry's attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery.

1997

Silent Shakespeare

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

2000

Blood of 1000 Virgins

The question of "who hunts virgins" and more will be stripped down and explored in the sexiest trailers hosted by Playboy's Nikki Leigh.

2013

MMXIII

An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct and verité, and the ways in which technology, lan

2013

The Past is Always New, the Future is Always Nostalgic: Photographer Daido Moriyama

This documentary follows the legendary Japanese photographer as he continues to find new ways of seeing the visual assault of Tokyo’s streets and remi

2019

Weegee's New York

The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film give

1948

Not Bad at All

Every weekend for six years, Jessica takes a bus from NYC, where she lives and works as a set decorator, to Boston, her hometown, where she cares for

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considere

2014

The Dinosaur and the Baby

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaborati

1967

Heute Programmwechsel

1958

Diez Horas con Alberto García-Alix

2022

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German f

2008

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence o

2014

August Sander: People of the 20th Century

As the first documentary filmmaker, Reiner Holzemer has produced a film about the most famous German photographer, which shows both, the work and his

2002