Kevin Brownlow Movies

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.

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.

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

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

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical...

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

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

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

Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...

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

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

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