Category: Documentary

1631. THE MEMPHIS BELLE (1944-USA). COLOR. Directed, produced, scripted and co-photographed by WILLIAM WYLER. During the Second World War, anumberof Hollywood’s top filmmakers, including William Wyler, Frank Capra, John Ford, […]

1529. HOLLYWOOD COME HOME (1962-1963-USA). 1. HOLLYWOOD COME HOME (1963-USA). Hosted by RAY MILLAND. Here’s a fascinating mini-history of the changes in the motion picture industry from the end of […]

1514. BLOOD OF THE BEASTS (Le Sang des Betes) (1949-France). Directed by GEORGES FRANJU. This film is a masterpiece: a groundbreaking, landmark documentary, as well as the film which established […]

1251. THE WEDDING OF PALO (1935-Denmark). Directed by FRIEDRICH DALSHElM, KNUD RASMUSSEN. Dr. Knud Rasmussen, the famed Danish explorer, was filming a documentary on Eskimo life in the Angmagssalik district […]

1255. AFRICA SPEAKS! (1910-usa). Photographed and narrated by PAUL L. HOEFLER.’The Strangest Adventure Ever Filmed!” Come with explorer-naturalist Paul L Hoefler on a fourteen-month journey across Equatorial Africa. Armed with […]

1288. NAZIS.. .LEST WE FORGET! 1. NURNBERG UND SEIN LEHRE (Nuremberg and Its Lesson) (1949-Germany).On November 21,1945, accused Nazi war criminals were placed on trial at the Palace of Justice […]

1157. THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST (1953-England). COLOR. A riveting, remarkable, beautifully photographed documentary record of Edmund Hillary and company’s triumphant Mount Everest expedition. On the eleventh attempt, after thirty years […]

1175.WHY WE FIGHT #7: WAR COMES TO AMERICA (1944-USA). Narrators include WALTER HUSTON and LLOYD NOLAN. Directed by ANATOLE LITVAK. Produced by FRANK CAPRA, and the last in on award-winning […]

1180. WHY WE FIGHT #3-DlVIDE AND CONQUER (1943-USA). Directed by FRANK CAPRA and ANATOLE LITVAK. The Nazis invade Poland, the British and French declare war, but are soundly defeated at […]

1190.THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS 1965 England).with Charles Laughton,Flora Robson, EMLYN WILLIAMS, MERLE OBERON, ROBERT NEWTON, JOSEF VON STERNBERG, ROBERT GRAVES. Hosted by DISK BOGARDE, In 1937, after only a […]