Movies: Marcus Hearn

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgus...

A 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who, including a rare interview with creator Sydney Newman, and new interviews with producer Verity Lambert, directors Waris Hussein and Richard Martin, actors William Russell and Carole Ann F...

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory h...

This documentary features interviews with several leading ladies from Hammer's peak period, who share illuminating and amusing anecdotes about the various films they worked on....

Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series....

The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films....

Several key production personnel look at the making of K-9 and Company: A Girls Best Friend, plus K-9's subsequent life in books and comic strips is examined and explored....

Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"....

Cast, crew and critics discuss the BBC's 2005 remake of 'The Quatermass Experiment'....

Documentary about actor André Morell....

Dennis Wheatley biographer Phil Baker provides a brief history of author nearly 80 book career, covers the whole of Wheatley’s contentious relationship with Hammer studios, including his displeasure with The Lost Continent (1968) and his utter loathi...

documentary on the production of Hammer's The Stranglers of Bombay...

A short retrospective documentary looking at the making of the final Hammer Films production of the 1970s, "To the Devil a Daughter."...

A potted history of the many errant Gallifreyans to have appeared in the show....

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons and John J. Johnston as they discuss the troubled production of the film and how it relates to the end of Hammer’s horror run for some time....

Documentary on the Hammer film...

Contemporary news coverage of the William Hartnell era is examined in this new documentary presented by Mary Tamm....

A short documentary on Hammer final film with Peter Cushing as the titular character Baron Frankenstein....

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to the making of the film The Horror of Frankenstein and the state of the Hammer studio at the time....

Film historians and members of Hammer studios talk about the making of Dracula and it's influence on pop culture and modern vampire films....