Kevin Brownlow Movies

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into...

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound...

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.

Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints....

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the...

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...

Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little...

A loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre upstate New York farm.

Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance is an interview with Kevin Brownlow which includes occasional clips and stills from the...

The making of Winstanley (1975)

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.