What are your favorites?

Clerks X: Snowball Effect
Universal Horror (Extended version)
The American Nightmare
Dawn of the Dead-"The Dead Will Walk"
Devil's Rejects-"30 Days in Hell"
Under Pressure....The making of The Abyss
Hostel-"Dissected"
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
From Dusk Til Dawn-"Full Tilt Boogie"
Indie Sex: Uncensored
Behind The Planet of the Apes

It's not as hands-on as the kinds of documentaries here, but I thought the first "An Evening With Kevin Smith" was pretty indispensable.

How about those Documentaries on the WB Kubrick set? Also...Curious Case of Ben Button has a good doc too.

1. "Movies" is the plural, "Movie's" is a possessive
2. It is "movie-making"
3. Full Tilt Boogie, the making of From Dusk Till Dawn.

It Came From Hollywood (1982)
The Marx Brothers In A Nutshell (1982)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
Document Of The Dead (1985)
The Fantasy Film Worlds Of George Pal (1985)
W.C. Fields Straight Up (1986)
Marilyn Something's Got To Give (1990)
Myrna Loy So Nice To Come Home To (1991)
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood The 'Plan 9' Companion (1992)
It's All True (1993)
The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen (1995)
Behind The Planet Of The Apes (1998)
Stanley Kubrick A Life In Pictures (2001)
Bond Girls Are Forever (2002)
Searching For Debra Winger (2002)
Cinema Hong Kong The Beauties Of The Shaw Studio (2003)

From Dusk Til Dawn-"Full Tilt Boogie"

And maybe Lost in La Mancha?

-- Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate --

A very good cautionary tale. You can watch it in eight parts on youtube, with part one here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcRiPLp4oU

That one documentary, about the proper use of apostrophe marks? Better than "The Sorrow and the Pity"!

Awesome stuff guys.


TCM's '39 From 1939, Hollywood's Greatest Year' is excellent.

Warner is doing a '1939' documentary this year, but I haven't seen it.

CT Dreyer - My Metier
The Battle of Brazil
Personal Journey Through American Movies w/ Martin Scorcese
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Billy Wilder Speaks

Also love Hearts of Darkness, of course.

the only two i could sit through and loved in its entirety were the ones from
"Platoon".
&
"Iron Man"

i'm not sure if you classify them as docus, but they were feature length and highly engrossing and interesting.

The recently released Cinematographer Style looks good as well. Here's a review of it.

Scorsese's documentaries on Italian and American films are excellent. Apparently he's going to be making one on British films as well. Also worth watching are Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, A Decade Under the Influence and A Constant Forge, a lengthy Cassavetes doc included in his Criterion box set.

First one that I could think of.

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I would second Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession. Technically it may fall under TV, but much of it's about movies.

For move making, there's Mad Hot Ballroom.

Hey there....I was wondering if there are any good documentaries on dvd about the origins of film and television? About who invented them and their progression throughout the early 1900's?

The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913

http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?product_id=694

Thanks CD. Lemme know if there are any other good ones

Modern Marvels did a show on television which isn't too bad. NetFlix has it on disc and streaming.

Origins of Film, but the set is out of print.

Thomas Edison invents the motion picture camera

people go to california and steal his ideas and sell them without paying patent royalties. Hollywood hasn't changed much in over 100 years