Marc Wanamaker

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.

Portrait d'un "Monsieur tout-le-monde" faussement lisse, dont Billy Wilder sut révéler avec fracas la démesure de grand acteur dans les sept films qu'ils tournèrent ensemble, parmi lesquels "Certains l'aiment chaud", "La garçonnière", "Irma la douce" et "Avanti, avanti".

TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?

A new TV documentary on Chaplin that celebrates a 100 years of the iconic Tramp, presented by Laurent Delahousse.

The power struggle between film producer Louis B. Mayer and star actor John Gilbert during the Roaring Twenties and the arrival of talkies.

Travaillant en grande partie sans être crédités par le système hollywoodien, le scénariste Harold et la chercheuse cinématographique Lillian ont laissé une marque indélébile sur les classiques d'Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski et bien d'autres.

A documentary on Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.

Ce documentaire examine la sexualité galopante des début d'Hollywood à travers des extraits de films et des témoignages de stars de l'époque comme Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford et Marlene Dietrich.

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.

A documentary on the life and career of silent film star Mabel Normand.

Première femme réalisatrice, productrice et directrice de studio de l’histoire du cinéma, Alice Guy est le sujet d’un documentaire mené tambour battant telle une enquête visant à faire (re)connaître la cinéaste et son œuvre de par le monde.

Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with John Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker, reveals newly discovered connections between Buster Keaton’s MGM debut and the earliest films of his career.

Ever wonder if celebrity truly dies with the celebrity, if graves really can give up the dead, or if walls really do talk? Then join the hunt for star haunts and hauntings in and around the city of broken dreams - Hollywood, California. Find out the details of the odd pilgrimages and observances held at celebrity gravesites, the eerie accounts of strange studio haunts, the unusual tales of ghostly disturbances at the mansions of the stars, and the spooky sightings of apparitions on the Grey Ghost herself, the legendary luxury liner, the Queen Mary. With this program, you have a unique backstage pass to the studio lots, the crypts, the tombstones, the cemeteries, and the homes of some of Hollywood's most notable characters, ranging from Bugsy Siegel and Rudolph Valentino to Harry Houdini and Marilyn Monroe. So if your curiosity is sparked and your courage is up to par, then come along on a truly terrifying tour of Hollywood Ghosts and Gravesites.

Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities from show and film document the well-known glamorous side of Sunset Boulevard, Schmidt also witnesses the transformation in the wake of a gigantic investment boom

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.