Movies: Kevin Brownlow
- 2002
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
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A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940....
- 1985
No Surrender (1985)
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It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in....
- 2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
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The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and ...
- 2015
Notfilm (2015)
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NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production mee...
- 1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
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During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery....
- 2013
Birth of the Tramp (2013)
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A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot....
- 1969
The Original Action Hero (1969)
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The film will track the evolution of the action hero in films and how aspects and perspectives have changed about them. Along with Stallone, it will also star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke Evans, and Charley Palmer Rothwell among others....
- 1975
Winstanley (1975)
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Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state and the church....
- 2002
Cinerama Adventure (2002)
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A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era....
- 1966
It Happened Here (1966)
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World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight....
- 1998
Universal Horror (1998)
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A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s....
- 2005
Garbo (2005)
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An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admir...
- 2019
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers (2019)
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Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers....
- 1967
The White Bus (1967)
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A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England....
- 1997
The Race to Save 100 Years (1997)
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As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that h...
- 1993
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)
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Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith...
- 1968
About "The White Bus" (1968)
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Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post....
- 1964
I Think They Call Him John (1964)
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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....
- 2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
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Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary....
- 2004
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004)
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A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall....