Movies: Kevin Brownlow

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences....

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post....

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a p...

Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the film. He has a ton of fascinating anecdotes about the film and its participants, including a really ...

A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall....

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker....

The making of Winstanley (1975)...

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full cos...

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

As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that h...

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state and the church....

A TCM original production on why silent movies matter, featuring new interviews with Honorary Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker Bill Morrison, TCM Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart, and film collector/expert Shane Fleming. The...

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

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 details, like sewing." Before editing became a craft, women were the earliest technicians. Today, the l...

The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier....

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era....

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

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

Short documentary about the last street car ride in Glasgow....

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