Roger Ebert Movies

Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew McCarthy

A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenny Hotz

The story of American film criticism.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Clarkson

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Arquette

Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Angelo Badalamenti

Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Woody Allen

A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Doris Day

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Stanton

Thirty years after A Hard Day's Night, its producer, director, writer and others describe its making. United Artists Records came to Walter Shenson,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Paul McCartney

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kris Kristofferson

A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation)...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Bogdanovich

A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adam Rifkin

Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Palin

Chronicles the life of Curtis Clemins, who is torn between the love of his life and accomplishing his dream. When hitting rock bottom during the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryan R. Williams

Retrospective documentary about the making of the 1970 cult film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dolly Read

This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arthur C. Clarke

This short documentary follows director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki as they attend two film festivals showing the film Princess...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hayao Miyazaki

Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brandy Snow

A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James B. Harris

From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clint Eastwood

This documentary celebrates the ridiculous stunts used by Hollywood over the years to market its worst movies. These include the ’50s drive-in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frankie Avalon

This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood's most...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chuck Jones

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS is a brand new compilation of the most...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Robert Englund

A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Kubrick

From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Known for what must be the cheapest and cheesiest of the indie film world, Troma films takes on Cannes with gallons of fake blood, the Tronettes, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lloyd Kaufman

DEAD TEENAGER MOVIE is a short-format documentary examining a specific sub-genre of teen slasher films; namely the Dead Teenager Movie - a term...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryan Merriman

Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic American movies of the late 1960s and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John A. Alonzo

A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauren Hutton

For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Heather Langenkamp

Citizen Yuppie is a 1-minute long short film directed by noted film critic Roger Ebert, originally shown alongside his partner Gene Siskel's short...

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Cast: Roger Ebert

A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Burden

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Ashman

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Hahn

Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stan Brakhage

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar

He was one of Hollywood's greatest tough guys. His charisma and electric on-screen presence propelled the success of classic films such as The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael J. Fox

Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martin Short

A documentary feature that reveals the creative process of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city's famous river as a location, directors are placed in...

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Cast: Andrew Davis

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Cronkite