Richard Schickel Movies

Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.

Hosted by Clint Eastwood, Hollywood Remembers: Gary Cooper -- American Life, American Legend is a biographical portrait of the life and times of...

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

Documentary on Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film "Rebecca" and the working relationship of Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick.

Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"

Clint Eastwood tells us how he yearned to be a director from the time he was on "Rawhide" to finally obtaining the approval of his mentor, Don...

As a newspaper writer in Chicago, young Ben Hecht saw it all and learned how to captivate an audience with his writing. By the 1920s, he took that...

A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by one of the more unsung heroes of World War II: the...

An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.

How the play was adapted to Film

Directors Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discuss the science fiction movies of the 1950s that influenced them.

An in-depth analysis and celebration of the famous "I coulda been a contender" scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in the 1954 film "On the...

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious' (1946).

The making of Quo Vadis (1951).

Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.

explores the production of the film with interviews with those involved. The historical significance is similarly discussed. Includes interviews with...

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and...

Autobiography of Clint Eastwood up to his movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

An account of the life and work of US filmmaker Woody Allen as told by himself.