 American
Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking, PBS series, aired beginning
in January 1995, produced by the New York Center for Visual History,
and co-produced by KCET, Los Angeles, and the BBC in the United Kingdom,
available as a 2
disc-DVD set, a 5-videotape
set, and with a companion
study guide by Ed Sikov; also American
Cinema/American Culture accompanies the Annenberg-funded telecourse American Cinema; an excellent, British-made documentary covering
the entire scope of American-Hollywood film from the silents through
the 1990's; featuring clips from over 200 films and comments from Clint
Eastwood, Spike Lee, Julia Roberts, Steven Spielberg and others; covers
such topics as "The Hollywood Style," "The Studio System,"
"Romantic Comedy," "The Film School Generation,"
and more.- AFI's
100 Years...100 Movies (CBS Television Special), 1998. In addition,
AFI's 100
Years...100 Movies (Complete Edition), 1998, a 10-part retrospective
in a 2-disc DVD set; also AFI's
100 Years...100 Stars (CBS Television Special), 2000.
- A
Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, 1995,
a four-hour semi-documentary DVD about films from the silent era through
the late 60's; also available as a companion book (hardback or paperback)
- The
Directors: The Essential DVD Collection, featuring interviews and
the work of 22 eminent directors. Titles include Robert Altman, Clint
Eastwood, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Sydney Pollack, Rob
Reiner, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Milos Forman, Joel Schumacher,
and more.
- The
Guess - Who What When & Where Picture Trivia Book: Movie Edition,
conceived and created by David Cutler, GreyCore Press, 2004.
- Hollywood:
A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Complete Set of 13 videotapes
(2001), from HBO, an excellent 13-hour documentary series covering Hollywood's
silent film era
- Cinema
Europe: The Other Hollywood, 1995, a companion DVD piece to the Hollywood series, a six-hour survey of Europe's silent era and
cinema prior to World War II
- Landmarks
of Early Film (1886-1913) Volume 1, 1994, by Film Preservation Associates.
Features a hand-colored copy of The Great Train
Robbery (1903), and A Trip To The Moon
(1902) by George Melies with its original narration restored;
also Landmarks
of Early Film, Volume 2: The Magic of Melies, 1994.
- The
Lumiere Brothers' First Films, 1996, with 85 of the silent 50-second actualities made by the Lumieres between 1895 and 1897
- The
Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913, a 5-disc box
set; the two most famous early silents - The
Great Train Robbery (1903) and A Trip
to the Moon (1902) - are also shown here
- Treasures
from American Film Archives, 2000, a 4-disc box set, including 50
preserved films from 18 American archives spanning the years 1893 to
1985
- The
Origins of Film, 3-disc box set, divided into six programs featuring
a handful of landmark features along with collections of shorts
- The
Best of British Cinema: Five Decades of Classic British Films, 1988,
five part documentary: "Private Lives," "The Gentle Touch,"
"World of Adventure," "The Romantics," or "A
Class of Their Own"
- Visions
of Light: The Art of Cinematography, 1993, traces the history and
illuminates the art of cinematography
- Here's
Looking at You, Warner Bros., The History of the Warner Bros. Studio,
1991, directed, written and produced by Robert Guenette
- MGM:
When the Lion Roars, 1992, Turner Pictures, 3 part video, directed
by Frank Martin
- The
Republic Pictures Story, 1991, video, Republic Pictures Home Video
- 20th
Century Fox, The First 50 Years, 2000, from Image Entertainment,
also available on VHS; also Twentieth
Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years, 2002.
- The
Academy Award Winners - The First 50 Years, 10 video boxed set,
1994, Brentwood Home Video, produced and directed by Jeff Forrester
- 30
Years of Academy Award Winners, 2000, a 3-disc DVD set, covering
the Oscars from 1972-2002
- Academy
Award Winners, a poor-quality, 10-hour, 2 disc DVD set, with Oscar
history, trivia, information, for the first 50 years
- The Hidden Hollywood Series: Hidden
Hollywood: Treasures From the 20th Century Fox Vaults, 1997, and Hidden
Hollywood, Vol. 2: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults,
1997
- 100 Years at the Movies,
by Chuck Workman, 1994, for the Academy Awards show
- The First 100 Years of Cinema: A Celebration of
American Movies, by Chuck Workman, 1996, premiered at San Jose Film
Festival (Cinequest)
- Film
Critics' Top 100 Films of All Time: The Greatest Collection of Movie
Trailers, 2004, 2-disc DVD set
- 100
Years of Horror, 1996, with clips, trailers, interviews and lost
footage from "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" to recent
shockers, narrated by Christopher Lee
- Extensive film collection
- See 'Frequently Asked Questions' page of this site for help on hard-to-find video/film resources
- Also see recommended Film
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