David M. Thompson

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

The second part of a BBC documentary on the latter half of the career of French director Jean Renoir.

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from ...

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid Bergman.

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews ...

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly sincere Lillian Gish. From the 1920s, ...

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than ...

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.