Mark Vieira

8.3

Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

Jan 01, 2005

Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

2005 22 min 3 vues

Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer.

Documentary

7.8

Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public

Jan 01, 2005

Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public

2005 20 min 4 vues

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

Documentary

6

The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On

Jan 01, 2005

The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On

2005 18 min 1 vues

This documentary is featured on Warner Brothers' DVD for The Roaring Twenties (1939), released in 2005.

Documentary

8

White Heat: Top of the World

Jan 01, 2005

White Heat: Top of the World

2005 16 min 1 vues

An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.

Documentary

6.9

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Oct 21, 2008

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

2008 105 min 7 vues

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

Documentary

7

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Sep 02, 2007

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007 85 min 5 vues

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.

Documentary

6.7

Complicated Women

May 06, 2003

Complicated Women

2003 56 min 11 vues

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.

Documentary

6.4

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Mar 03, 2008

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

2008 67 min 14 vues

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Documentary

7

Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm

Oct 09, 2007

Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm

2007 16 min 1 vues

A look at the life and films of the expressionistic movie and television director John Brahm.

Documentary

6.5

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

Oct 23, 2005

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

2005 17 min 2 vues

An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics.

Documentary

5

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert

Jun 18, 2005

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert

2005 16 min 1 vues

Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."

Documentary

7

The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story

Oct 09, 2007

The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story

2007 20 min 1 vues

A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.

Documentary

1

Castro

Jan 01, 1986

Castro

1986 37 min 1 vues

This is a first installment of a soap opera showing the Castro as a Gothic, sleazy neighborhood where danger and duplicity lurk. Assorted characters include the innocent new boy in town, a streetwise detective, a pair of lesbian astronauts, a bitchy male couple, and an alcoholic landlord.

Drama

4.7

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

Dec 13, 2010

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

2010 min 6 vues

Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.

Documentary