"hollywood history" containing the tag

Faye
1h 31m
Movie 2024

Faye

Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.

King Kong: Monster and Myth
1h 1m
Movie 2024

King Kong: Monster and Myth

In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to create a motion picture that eclipsed everything seen until then: when King Kong was released, it was celebrated as an artistic and technical revolution and became the first myth created by the young cinematic art.

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
Movie 2025

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood

Prüdes Hollywood - Laster, Lust und Leidenschaft im Film
0h 54m
Movie 2025

Prüdes Hollywood - Laster, Lust und Leidenschaft im Film

In recent years, Hollywood productions have turned away from sensuality. Is the sex scene on the verge of extinction or reinvention? Alongside film professionals and researchers, this documentary deciphers a trend that speaks volumes about the evolution of the industry and our societies.

Hollywood Black
TV Show 2024

Hollywood Black

The epic story of the actors, writers, directors, and producers who fought for their place on the page, behind the camera and on the screen. From blackface to Black Panther, this series is a definitive chronicle of more than a century of the Black experience in Hollywood and a powerful reexamination of a quintessentially American story – in brilliant color.

LA. LA. End
Movie 2024

LA. LA. End

The Californian sun, which lights up the city, lights up again every evening in cinemas all over the world". Guided by these words from Blaise Cendrars, L.A. L.A. END is a stroll through Los Angeles, among the remnants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Following in the footsteps of a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, we meet a gallery of characters who paint a sensitive portrait of a bygone era that gradually becomes a portrait of a woman.

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
Movie 2023

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
0h 53m
Movie 2023

Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son

As the eldest son of the legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas (1916-2020), it was not easy for Michael Douglas to make his way in Hollywood and, like his father, become a recognized actor and a prestigious producer.

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
1h 35m
Movie 2023

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

Becoming Marilyn
0h 53m
Movie 2022

Becoming Marilyn

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth of a myth.

High Noon on the Waterfront
0h 14m
Movie 2022

High Noon on the Waterfront

An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman and Elia Kazan.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2h 11m
Movie 2020

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2h 25m
Movie 2020

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.

Le phénomène Godlywood : quand l'Église fait son cinéma !
0h 53m
Movie 2024

Le phénomène Godlywood : quand l'Église fait son cinéma !

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
1h 0m
TV Show 2018

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

Les Cartoons bannis
Movie 2022

Les Cartoons bannis