Kevin Brownlow Movies

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the...

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.

Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the basic features of detergency using animated diagrams and live action photography.

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.

Short documentary about the last street car ride in Glasgow.

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

The film will track the evolution of the action hero in films and how aspects and perspectives have changed about them. Along with Stallone, it will...

A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill...

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound...

As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints....

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.

Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little...

Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the...

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

In 1942, Charles Chaplin released his definitive sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning the original 1925 silent version of his film....

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.