TRON has a great 90-minute making-of featurette.

The Frighteners doc is on DVD. The "Director's Cut" DVD by Universal to promote Kong has 3.5 hours of it on one side and the hour-long "Storyboard" segment on the movie side of the disc, plus the audio commentary from the LD as well. I was very happy that Universal included everything, I was very worried they wouldn't as I had wanted to see this documentary for a long time.

Some great picks so far (the Hampster Factor from 12 monkeys, Requiem for Krypton from Superman Returns, 30 Days...from the Devil's Rejects, Full Tilt Boogie, The Frighteners Documentaries as well as the LotR Documentaries from the Extented Editions)

I'd Like to Add
the 100+min Doc. on 1941...
the Full length docs on Clerks and Clerks II
The Fly Documentary
But 2 of my favorites in terms of extras would be I Heart Huckabees and the Alien Quadrilogy...

This was the first one that came to my mind as well. A very good "making of".

Well since we're counting Lost in La Mancha

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse

WOW!

Thanks for all of the replies...looks like I have some purchases to make.

Thanks again.

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Jaws- the full 2 hours documentary.

awesomeness.

The Usual Suspects has a great one as well.

I agree on Jaws. Also, the documentary 'The Shark is Still Working' should be coming out in the near future and should be amazing with all the detail and participants involved. I'm super excited for it!

http://www.sharkisstillworking.com/

While the JAWS (& Amadeus) Docs were cool for info about the film they contained no "on the set" footage (apart for some stills). I was actually disappointed with both of them.

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While not the best, certainly one of the most interesting I've watched is "Year of the Rat" from Willard. Not many behind the scenes extras would follow a film into its box office failure. It is an interesting watch.

John Carpenter's The Thing

Terror Takes Shape, 80 Minute Documentary from The Thing.

'The Fear of God' from 'The Exorcist' 25th anniversary edition is pretty stellar.
Even though it's been truncated.

I have to agree with most or all of the posts here. You guys are on point.

That is awasome! I had no idea such a project was even in development. I bookmarked that page so I could stay informed on a possible release. :up:

The 197-minute American Pie Revealed documentary.

You think I'm kidding, but I'm not. Easily one of the neatest documentaries created specifically for a DVD release and not only is it in-depth, but it's also a blast.

I agree with you probably one of my favorites as well. Another great one that was already mentioned was the Star wars Episode 1 documentary, it was better than the film itself.

I've always liked Michael Bays production diaries for Pearl Harbor and BB2. I just love watching things blowing up really!

I'm interested in this American Pie 3 hour documetnary. Which dvd do I have to buy?

It was packaged with American Wedding when it first came out on dvd, since its Universal I am guessing that it is out of print, but you can always check ebay for it.

It's an easy/cliche answer, but I simply have to go with the Appendices of the EE Lord of the Rings sets. I've never set that much time aside to watch "making-of's" before, and I doubt I ever will again. They were beautifully presented, they showed EVERYTHING, and they made it seem that each movie was always a saber's edge away from utter disaster (especially when it came to Peter's mad-dash of editing near the end each time). The Appendices have made every other "making of" seem trite and insignificant to me.

the documentary in the X-MEn 1.5 DVD is pretty good and takes you through all the process of making the movie.


I think there's one similar on the X2 DVD

Far and away my favorite "Making of..." extras are the ones included with Black Hawk Down. Riveting stuff.

The third disc of the Cleopatra set has a great doco.

I was really impressed with The Hills Have Eyes behind the scenes footage