Movies: Steven Spielberg

"Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnapped and shipped to the Americas. Features interviews with scholars, oral histories and a dramatic recreation of the Middle Passage" (The History Channel...

Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of ...

Thirty years after a forgotten massacre that occurred during the Guatemalan civil war, a forensic scientist and prosecutor search for Oscar, a young boy who survived the horror....

Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during World War II....

The complete documentary on the production of the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"....

The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the “big three” of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, Steven Spielberg, and Martha’s Vineyard local Craig Kingsbury, who played ...

For millions of viewers, Peter Falk is Columbo. Despite playing the quintessential blue-collar TV detective of the '70s and '80s, his early career is rarely explored. Using archive footage, interviews and extracts from his films and the TV show, the ...

A 100 year history of the development of movie marketing, reflecting technical improvements, audience taste and cultural sensibilities....

Following the events of "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts," the Autobots team up with the G.I. Joes to go against their archenemies, the Decepticons and conniving terrorist organization COBRA....

BBC documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws....

This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view of both Black and Jewish activists....

Based exclusively on testimonies of "Schindler Juden" from the Institute’s Visual History Archive, Voices from the List continues beyond the narrative of the Academy Award®-winning film Schindler's List by incorporating rare, archival footage and an ...

U.S. Veteran tribute made for the 2008 Democratic convention....

Ben Burtt reveals which sounds he and his team at Skywalker Sound recorded to incorporate into the Indiana Jones trilogy....

Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation present interviews with survivors of the Nazi death camps in Hungary. Their tragic testimonies are illustrated through newsreels from the era and archival photos....

Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) o...

The story behind A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)...

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the courageous man who demanded peaceful protests in the segregationist South, all the while grappling with his own frailties and a federal government that haunted his every step instead of treating him like t...

Australian-made film with Steven Spielberg, Stan Deyo, Stanton Friedman, Dr. Alan Hynek, Jacques Vallee, Ken Arnold, Betty Hill and Ray Palmer (publisher of the Shaver Mystery). This rare TV documentary gave birth to The Cosmic Conspiracy and contain...

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959....