Movies: Steven Spielberg

Film critic Richard Schickel interviews Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg about his craft, his body of work and the movie business....

A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia....

Gives insight into the creators mindset and how they culled from real life events to create some of the biggest sci-fi films of all time....

A behind-the-scenes look at how some of the visual effects were accomplished in the feature film Poltergeist (1982)....

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'...

The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'....

The Joe Spinell Story is a An outstanding and eye-opening documentary, made in 2001 for the Anchor Bay DVD release of Maniac (1980). His most notable roles were as mafioso Willi Cicci in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, and as loan shark Tony...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa...

A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball....

An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Archive in London and an inside look into Kubrick's home....

One of the first 'Making of...' movies to become a hit in its own right....

A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy....

The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, no...

Opus the Penguin struggles to achieve his seemingly impossible dream to be able to fly....

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Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of ...

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the courageous man who demanded peaceful protests in the segregationist South, all the while grappling with his own frailties and a federal government that haunted his every step instead of treating him like t...

The following documentary is composed exclusively of original behind-the-scenes footage shot during the production of "E.T." in 1981. It follows the order of the scenes as they appear in the film....

A behind-the-scenes look into the making of the new feature film “The Color Purple,” and the impact the story has had on our culture. Oprah Winfrey takes viewers inside the four-decade phenomenon, exploring the importance of the novel, films and musi...

While the Muppets prepare a tribute to the late Jim Henson, they learn about the life and career of the renowned puppeteer/film maker....