Keyword: hollywood history
Hollywood Black
5.7
2024
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Chronicles the Black experience in Hollywood, revealing the story of the actors, writers, directors and producers who fought for their place on the screen.
Hollywood Black
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
7.9
2018
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The rise of black actors as they have gone from being the backdrop to calling the shots. This is the inside story of the turning points of black life on both sides of the lens, from Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, to the present day.
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Breakdown: 1975
6.3
2025
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An essay on the year 1975, looking at the classic movies all released in that year.
Breakdown: 1975
Faye
6.8
2024
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Faye Dunaway reflects on her life and candidly discusses the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career.
Faye
Becoming Marilyn
7.7
2022
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On the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroes passing, this documentary provides a unique portrait of the screen icon from her own perspective. In contrast to the many films made and books written about her, this one offers to give her back her voice, through the interviews she gave, the books she wrote and the fragments she left behind. For the first time, it will be a matter of understanding how Norma Jeane Baker created the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Because Marilyn was not born Marilyn, she became her.
Becoming Marilyn
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
6.9
2025
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For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"-the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the...
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
High Noon on the Waterfront
7.7
2022
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An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman, voiced by Edward Norton, and Elia Kazan, voiced by John Turturro.
High Noon on the Waterfront
The Scarlett O'Hara War
6
1980
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This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
The Scarlett O'Hara War
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
7.7
2018
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Pamela B. Greens energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Becoming Cary Grant
6.6
2017
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For the first time one of Hollywoods greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to create it.
Becoming Cary Grant
The Eyes of Orson Welles
6.7
2018
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Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as hes never been seen before.
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Marilyn Monroe Declassified
7.1
2016
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Marilyn Monroe Declassified is a feature documentary by director Paul Davids about Marilyn Monroes life and career and her untimely, mysterious death in 1962 at age 36. Perhaps the most groundbreaking aspect of this film: Declassified FBI and CIA documents have helped the director unravel the puzzle of her demise, which was officially ruled a probable suicide. Many people with first-hand knowledge at the time of her death did not agree with probable suicide, and information about her affair with President Kennedy and close association with his brother, Robert, came out later. Two policemen and eventually two chiefs of police of Los Angeles (Darryl Gates and Tom Reddin) and Mayor Yorty all made statements that began to unravel a murder cover-up, and declassified FBI files (plus Chief Tom Reddins statement) pointed to some involvement by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. This film ultimately exonerates Robert Kennedy and proves he was setup for blackmail and entrapment, revealing by whom and precisely how, while providing detailed evidence supporting the conclusion that Marilyn Monroe was murdered. The film is a fascinating slice of hidden history benefiting from about 20 new interviews and the piecing together of historic testimony (including Senate crime hearings), news footage and clues from key archival interviews that span the decades. It also provides a summary of Marilyn Monroes modeling and acting career, much assisted by a new interview from nationally known film critic Pete Hammond. (The nudity in the film is related only to Marilyn Monroes famous Golden Dreams calendar pose, and drugs come up only in connection with abuse of prescription drugs in the 1950s and 1960s.)
Marilyn Monroe Declassified