Documentary, History
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 forgotten. At last remembered.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Keyboard Fantasies
Das Boot
A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Encounter with Fritz Lang
Alice Rose
First Daughter and the Black Snake
Marilyn Monroe Declassified
Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations
Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations
The General: Tour of Filming Locations
Empire of the Sun
Perfect Image?
The Last of the Mohicans
Inu-Oh
In Free Fall
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
It Was a Wonderful Life
Town Bloody Hall
SIMILAR MOVIES
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 2006
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.Keyboard Fantasies
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2021
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realized far before its time. Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered.Das Boot
IMDB 8.1 | Sep , 1981
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2011
The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 2018
A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.Encounter with Fritz Lang
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1964
Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Odysseus" and the filming of "Contempt" by Jean-Luc Godard, in which Fritz Lang plays the role of an old film director. During the interview, excerpts from the Lang films "The Nibelungen", "The Tired Death" and "M" are shown.Alice Rose
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2006
A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.First Daughter and the Black Snake
IMDB 5 | Apr , 2017
The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community meetings and regulatory hearings. Winona testifies that the pipeline route follows one of historical and present-day trauma. The tribe participates in the pipeline permitting process, asserting their treaty rights to protect their natural resources. LaDuke joins with her tribe and others to demand that the pipelines’ impact on tribal people’s resources be considered in the permitting process.Marilyn Monroe Declassified
IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 2015
Declassified FBI and CIA documents help director Paul Davids unravel the puzzle of Marilyn Monroe's demise, which was officially ruled a "probable suicide," while providing detailed evidence supporting the conclusion that Marilyn was murdered.Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2010
This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1923 comedy feature Three Ages was filmed in Hollywood, USC, and Los Angeles.Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2010
This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1924 comedy feature Sherlock Jr. was filmed in Hollywood and Orange County.The General: Tour of Filming Locations
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2009
In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations used in the filming of The General and offers glimpses of how they look today.Empire of the Sun
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1987
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.Perfect Image?
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1989
Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.The Last of the Mohicans
IMDB 7.4 | Aug , 1992
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.Inu-Oh
IMDB 7.2 | May , 2022
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.In Free Fall
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2010
The space of the junkyard allows various ‘crash’ narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual crashes and the remnants and afterlife of these machines becoming metaphors for economic decline. This is an investigation of planes as they are parked during the economic downturn, stored and recycled, revealing unexpected connections between economy, violence and spectacle, finding perfect example in the form of the Boeing 4X-JYI, an aircraft first acquired by film director Howard Hughes for TWA, which was subsequently flown by the Israeli Airforce before finding its way to the Californian desert to be blown up for the Hollywood blockbuster Speed. Through intertwined narratives of people, planes and places Steyerl reveals cycles of capitalism incorporating and adapting to the changing status of the commodity, but also points at a horizon beyond this endless repetition.Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1989
Recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, and the other legendary women who made blues music a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues.It Was a Wonderful Life
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1993
Documentary - They're clean, educated, articulate and rarely receive public assistance. But following a divorce, job loss or a long illness, a growing number of middle-class women are forced to live out of their cars. Directed by Michèle Ohayon (Colors Straight Up) and narrated by Jodie Foster, It Was a Wonderful Life chronicles the hardships and triumphs of six "hidden homeless" women as they struggle to survive, one day at a time. - Jodie Foster, Lou Hall, Reena SandsTown Bloody Hall
IMDB 5.3 | Apr , 1979
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.