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1. Star Trek: Short Treks (2018–2020)
TV-PG | 10 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A series of stand-alone short films featuring characters and storylines from Star Trek: Discovery (2017).
Stars: Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jenette Goldstein
Votes: 3,176
2. Millennium Actress (2001)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.
Directors: Satoshi Kon, Kô Matsuo | Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Shôzô Îzuka, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa
Votes: 32,416 | Gross: $0.19M
3. Rang De Basanti (2006)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi
Votes: 122,539 | Gross: $2.20M
4. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,604
5. Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011)
TV-PG | 30 min | Documentary
Behind the scenes of the making of Doctor Who (2005) with the cast, crew and directors.
Stars: Russell T. Davies, David Tennant, Steven Moffat, Phil Collinson
Votes: 927
6. Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Spalding Gray discusses his participation in the film The Killing Fields (1984) and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Spalding Gray, Sam Waterston, Ira Wheeler
Votes: 2,388 | Gross: $1.09M
7. Jaws: Deleted Scenes (2000 Video)
14 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
Deleted scenes from Jaws.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Bruce, Dorothy Fielding, Lee Fierro, Jonathan Filley
Votes: 200
8. The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' (1995 Video)
125 min | Documentary
Excellent and very detailed documentary on the making of a classic. Filled with appealing trivia, exhaustive interviews with cast and crew members, and never before seen footage.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Steven Spielberg, Peter Benchley, David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck
Votes: 826
9. Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II (1991)
Unrated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film Nighthawks (1978).
Director: Ron Peck | Stars: Ron Peck, John Brown, John Daimon, Nick Bolton
Votes: 128
10. The Shark Is Still Working (2007)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways Jaws has helped to shape common elements of pop culture.
Director: Erik Hollander | Stars: Steve Alten, Joe Alves, Roy Arbogast, Steven Awalt
Votes: 809
11. Filmworker (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.
Director: Tony Zierra | Stars: Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds
Votes: 3,515 | Gross: $0.10M
12. Dirty Harry: The Original (2001 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A look at the making of the Dirty Harry series.
Director: Jerry Hogrewe | Stars: Robert Urich, Clint Eastwood, John Milius, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Votes: 220
13. Star Trek: Enterprise - In a Time of War (2014)
90 min | Documentary
Newly produced multi-part documentary featuring all-new interviews with the show's cast and crew as well as behind the scenes archival content. This retrospective documentary gives fans an ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Lay Jr. | Stars: Scott Bakula, Rick Berman, John Billingsley, Chris Black
Votes: 174
14. Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
An inside look at the hectic production of Heaven's Gate (1980), the media circus that turned it into a synonym for movie flop and how it added to the tectonic change that occurred in Hollywood film studios after it infamously flopped.
Director: Michael Epstein | Stars: Steven Bach, Hal Ashby, Sandy Berke Jordan, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 530
15. The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan (2004 TV Movie)
125 min | Documentary
A filmmaker and his crew making a documentary about award-winning director M. Night Shyamalan begin to suspect that their subject is hiding a dark and sinister secret.
Director: Nathaniel Kahn | Stars: William D. Arrowood, Adrien Brody, Deepak Chopra, Glenn R. Cohen
Votes: 897
16. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
TV-14 | 119 min | Documentary
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
Director: Kenneth Bowser | Stars: Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam Peckinpah
Votes: 3,098
17. Jaws: The Inside Story (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
A fascinating program that goes behind the scenes of Steven Spielberg's landmark 1975 film JAWS.
Director: Rob Goldberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Steven Spielberg, David Fear, Sid Sheinberg
Votes: 337
18. The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw (2008 Video)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Explores the true story of the notorious Jesse James, how the myth developed during his lifetime, and how the legends have persisted over 100 years after his death at the hands of his former friend, Robert Ford.
Stars: Casey Affleck, Andrew Dominik, Ralph Ganis, Ron Hansen
Votes: 77
19. The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990 TV Movie)
73 min | Documentary
A documentary chronicling the making of all three films in the Godfather trilogy.
Director: Jeff Werner | Stars: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Marlon Brando, James Caan
Votes: 1,166
20. Wanderlust (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on road movies and their effect on American culture.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Allison Anders, Jeanine Basinger, Robert Benton, Karen Black
Votes: 132
21. Edict of Expulsion 1492
110 min | Adventure, Drama, History | Pre-production
The Edict of Expulsion of the Sephardic Jews in Spain went public with the Alhambra Decree in April 1492. The charter declared that no Jews were permitted to remain within the Spanish ... See full summary »
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Robert Maillet, Kabir Bedi, Bill Oberst Jr., Nea Dune
22. Fried Green Tomorrows: Juliette, GA Lives (2006)
46 min | Documentary
A visit to Juliette, GA, 15 years after this former kudzu-covered ghost town received a 1/4 million dollar makeover by a Hollywood movie.
Director: Neill Calabro | Stars: Danny Vinson, Emmy Collins, Neill Calabro, Clay Cranford
Votes: 35
23. The Second Front (2005)
R | 88 min | Action, Romance, War
In the midst of World War 2, intelligence services from England, Germany and Russia collided in a fierce fight for the mind of Nicky Raus, a genius German Jewish scientist who has been developing a powerful state-of-the-art secret weapon.
Director: Dmitriy Fiks | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Svetlana Metkina, Ron Perlman
Votes: 353
24. Until the End of the World: Wim Wenders in Tokyo (1990 Video)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
This 1990 Japanese film follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on 'Until the End of the World', in Tokyo, and details the creation of the film's groundbreaking high-definition sequences.
Stars: Wim Wenders, Sean Naughton, Chishû Ryû, David Byrne
Votes: 8
25. Occupation: Deleted and Extended Scenes (2018 Video)
8 min | Short
Stars: Dan Ewing, Stephany Jacobsen, Trystan Go, Izzy Stevens
26. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.
Director: Chuck Workman | Stars: Orson Welles, Simon Callow, Christopher Welles, Joanne Hill Styles
Votes: 976 | Gross: $0.02M
27. The Irishman: In Conversation (2019)
TV-MA | 23 min | Documentary, Short
A roundtable discussion about The Irishman (2019) with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.
Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese
Votes: 1,974
28. Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001 TV Movie)
119 min | Documentary, History
A trip through the idiosyncrasies and difficulties of making one of the most tormented movies ever filmed.
Directors: Kevin Burns, Brent Zacky | Stars: Robert Culp, Roddy McDowall, Darryl F. Zanuck, Mel Gussow
Votes: 406
29. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
81 min | Documentary
A 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... See full summary »
Directors: Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg | Stars: Randy Barbato, Dan Bucatinsky, Jonathan Caouette, Ash Christian
Votes: 840
30. The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1984)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
A chronicle of the making of Ingmar Bergman's Oscar winning film.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Daniel Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Allan Edwall
Votes: 1,027
31. La constellation Jodorowsky (1994)
91 min | Documentary, Biography
The quest for the true personality of multi-talented cult artist and psycho-magician Alexandro Jodorowsky
Director: Louis Mouchet | Stars: Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Marcel Marceau
Votes: 555
32. The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002 Video)
60 min | Documentary
This riveting film takes a look behind the scenes at one of the 20th century's cinema classics and at one of contemporary cinema's most maddeningly brilliant directors, Milos Forman. Using ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Jersey | Stars: Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, Saul Zaentz, Neville Marriner
Votes: 213
33. Pulp Fiction: The Facts (2002 Video)
31 min | Documentary, Short
Behind the scenes of the legendary classic film by Quentin Tarantino.
Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Lawrence Bender, Samuel L. Jackson, Sally Menke
Votes: 422
34. By Sidney Lumet (2015)
103 min | Documentary
In a never-before-seen interview filmed in 2008, three years before his death, Sidney Lumet discusses his life and career.
Director: Nancy Buirski | Star: Sidney Lumet
Votes: 456
35. Into the Breach: 'Saving Private Ryan' (1998 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Chris Harty | Stars: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Matt Damon, Edward Burns
Votes: 357
36. La femme de l'hôtel (1984)
89 min | Drama
Making a film in her native town, a director finds inspiration in a woman, Estelle David, seen wandering through a hotel.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Paule Baillargeon, Louise Marleau, Marthe Turgeon, Serge Dupire
Votes: 83
37. Bag om filmen 'Fucking Åmål' (1999 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Michael Sandager | Stars: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Lukas Moodysson
Votes: 32
38. A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' (2001 Video)
53 min | Documentary
Revisiting Platoon (1986)
Directors: Charles Kiselyak, Jeff McQueen | Stars: Oliver Stone, Arnold Kopelson, Dale Dye, Charlie Sheen
Votes: 201
39. Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows - A Behind-the-Scenes Look (2002 TV Special)
Documentary
A short documentary about making TV movie "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)"
Stars: Tammy Blanchard, Judy Davis, Jayne Eastwood, Victor Garber
Votes: 68
40. Over-Ride 'Narc - Island' (2021)
97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Friends take advantage then win the rewards. A story from deep with the Tri Island State. Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique Reap what you sow. A Fragrance Francique Film.
Director: Fragrance Francique | Stars: Dexter Joseph, Michaiah Williams, David Ambrose, Iyjah Peters
Votes: 22
41. Building Star Trek (2016 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
In this documentary props and other items from the original Star Trek series are tracked down and others are restored for display at various locations throughout the U.S.
Director: Mick Grogan | Stars: Jim Conrad, Gerald Gurian, Nichelle Nichols, Simon Pegg
Votes: 207
42. Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987)
360 min | Documentary, History
The history of the major Golden Age of Hollywood film company, RKO Pictures.
Stars: Edward Asner, Ginger Rogers, Linwood G. Dunn, Pandro S. Berman
Votes: 185
43. Inside NCIS (2012– )
Short
"Inside NCIS," is a new web series. This web-serie offering exclusive access to the world of NCIS, on CBS.com and the CBS Audience Network. The eight-episode series will offer an inside ... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Weatherly, Sean Murray, Pauley Perrette, Cote de Pablo
Votes: 37
44. Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On (2006 Video)
15 min | Short
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Rutanya Alda, Jocelyn Brando, Joan Crawford, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 45
45. 50 Years of Star Trek (2016 TV Movie)
84 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
This documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, providing interviews with cast and crew members about the series' legacy, as well as the last filmed interview with Leonard Nimoy.
Director: Ian Roumain | Stars: J.J. Abrams, Mark A. Altman, John Barrowman, Robert Beltran
Votes: 234
46. Operation Dirty Dozen (1967)
9 min | Short, Documentary
This promotional short film provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Dirty Dozen (1967). It shows star Lee Marvin and the other actors on set and enjoying their time off in London during the Swinging 1960s.
Director: Ronald Saland | Stars: Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Clint Walker
Votes: 197
47. Man on the Moon: Behind the Moonlight (2000 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
Interviews with the cast from the film Man on the Moon (1999) educate us a bit on the making of the film and also information about Andy Kaufman is mentionned. Though this is yet another Universal promotion, it is still enjoyable to watch.
Stars: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Milos Forman, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 109
48. Oscar Presents: The War Movies and John Wayne (1977)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Star: John Wayne
Votes: 36
49. Making 'Taxi Driver' (1999 Video)
71 min | Documentary
To highlight Taxi Driver's 38th anniversary, this 70-minute documentary delves into the making of Scorsese's film and highlights the many contributions put forth by Taxi Driver's ensemble of talented actors and artisans.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro
Votes: 364
50. Obsessed with Vertigo (1997 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo". Narrated by Roddy McDowall, with behind-the-scenes talk from Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Bumstead, ... See full summary »
Director: Harrison Engle | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Robert A. Harris, James C. Katz, Martin Scorsese
Votes: 408