Cinema History Movies

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

Part one starts with an overview of the prehistory of moving images in the 19th Century: Zoetrope, Phenakistiscope, Chronophotagraphy etc. until the...

The Magic Lantern was an projector of information and stories than preceded the cinema. How did its visual style translate into the moving image?...

Since the beginning of August 2010, Bioskop Permata has been closed down. This film tries to explain about the end of a long Yogyakarta cinema...

To mark the century of film Geens and Lobet directed this homage to Belgian cinema in 101 fragments.

Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first...

A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s.

Local filmmaker Woo Ming Jin and his crew traversed across Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore to find 'Seruan Merdeka' (1947) - the first film made in...

Covering over 100 years of cinema, this is a journey of discovering and exploring the magic of cinema from a personal perspective. Looking at the...

The film follows Danish politician Silas Mudoh as he fights corruption from Mette Mor in Danish society.

A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills.

A poetic and dreamy visit of the French Cinémathèque's collection of devices.

A documentary celebrating over one hundred years of The Riverside Theatre & Cinema in Woodbridge.