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Documentaries about the history of movies or specific eras/genres and some movie trailer compilations.
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- DirectorKirby DickStarsKirby DickKimberly PeirceDarren AronofskyKirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board.
- DirectorElijah DrennerStarsRobert ForsterEric SchaeferEddie MullerA documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.
- DirectorAlex StapletonStarsRoger CormanMartin ScorseseQuentin TarantinoA documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.
- DirectorIsaac JulienStarsPam GrierFred WilliamsonMelvin Van PeeblesFilmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.
- DirectorKeith R. ClarkeStarsSamuel L. JacksonDavid CarradineJackie ChanA look at the history of martial arts films from their chinese roots to the present, presented by Samuel L. Jackson.
- DirectorLisa AdesLesli KlainbergStarsRandy BarbatoDan BucatinskyJonathan CaouetteA chronological look at films by, for, or about (or 'by, for, and about') gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, from Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain." Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transsexual films, films about diversity and various cultures, and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
- DirectorKurt KuenneStarsLeonard MaltinJohn BloomSamuel Z. ArkoffThis film chronicles the drive-in's birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana.
- DirectorChuck WorkmanA montage of nearly 500 film clips from eight decades of American movies, made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Director's Guild of America.
- DirectorDonna DaviesStarsGeorge A. RomeroTom SaviniGreg NicoteroA documentary that gives us a panoramic through the zombie movies, with footage about the main peaks in the gender.
- Amazing compilation of vintage grindhouse movie trailers from around the world; horror, sexploitation, blaxploitation, mondo, roadshow, Euro sleaze.
- This amazing follow-up to Synapse Films' best-selling 2005 compilation features even more classic theatrical trailers full of nudity, sex, violence, monsters and mayhem.
- StarsMichael GingoldChris PoggialiEdwin SamuelsonSynapse Films presents another volume in their best-selling series of classic exploitation trailers. Another collection from the bygone days of New York City's classic 42nd Street theatres.
- StarsMichael GingoldChris PoggialiEdwin SamuelsonGet ready for the fourth volume of classic exploitation, horror and just plain cool trailers in Synapse Films' best-selling compilation series. This time we've got alien horrors, schizoid psychos, ridiculous comedies vengeful action...and maybe a naked woman or two.
- DirectorStephen RomanoJustin Paul WarrenStarsMatthew KordelskiT. Lynn MikeskaHeather WallisA collection of the most outrageous cinematic gems from several golden ages of sleaze cinema shown at the Alamo Drafthouse is presented.
- DirectorStuart SamuelsStarsJohn WatersBen BarenholtzAlejandro JodorowskyFrom 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
- StarsBoris KarloffA speciality trailer show from the library of Something Weird Video featuring almost 100 trailers, real as well as so-called ones.Disclaimer on the back of the DVD box:
"WARNING: This program contains monsters, nudity, gorillas, violence and wrestlers!" - DirectorJim MonacoStarsNick PawlowHappy GoldsplattMichael Townsend WrightDeranged projectionist Mad Ron, host Nick, and charismatic zombie Happy Goldsplatt screen a collection of horror and exploitation trailers for a theater of the undead.In the same vein as the "42nd Street Forever" collections, except wackier, with a host and a puppet.
- DirectorIan TaylorStarsJackie ChanPei-Pei ChengDavid ChiangA look at the martial arts and kung fu cinema of Hong Kong.
- DirectorIan TaylorStarsPei-Pei ChengPing ChinDai LinAbout the wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's of the Hong Kong cinema. A sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and Huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles.
- DirectorIan TaylorStarsShao-Peng ChenPei-Pei ChengDavid ChiangA full journey from the beginning of "Swordplay" movies in Shanghai, growth in Hong Kong cinemas in the 60's and 70's and Ang Lee's epic "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
- StarsBill MumyCassandra PetersonForrest J. AckermanAn hour of gargantuan gorillas, deadly dinosaurs, one-eyed giants & colossal beasts!
- DirectorMark HartleyStarsRoger CormanJohn LandisPete TombsA fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.
- A six-episode web series exploring the histories of different exploitation genres.
- DirectorJohn WatkinStarsMaryam d'AboHalle BerryUrsula AndressThrough vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls", the documentary traced the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy participant. In HD.
- DirectorJeffrey SchwarzStarsForrest J. AckermanJohn BadhamDiane BakerChronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.