A Battle Restored

Senses of Cinema

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassr...

Celebrating the Rice Media Center

Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few months sifting through...

Sperduti nel buio

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across Europe following th...

Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé

L'Armée rouge

For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the pillars of the USSR, an object of both fear and admiration, a symbol of both l...

Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II

A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preced...

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almos...

Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story is about a feminist...

Jane by Charlotte

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a came...

Victorian Britain on Film

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first capt...

Bandit Queen

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan...

Roberto Pires: Êle Fêz O Cinema Baiano Nascer

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already pa...

Behind the Planet of the Apes

Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to s...

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying...

Burn!

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to...

La Traversée de Bourvil

September 23, 2022 marks the 52nd anniversary of the death of Bourvil (1917-1970). Radio, sketches, boulevard theater, o...

Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro

Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968,...

1924, le Paris des Jeux olympiques

Lumière!

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Sudan's Forgotten Films

Benjamin and Awad run Sudan's national film archive. The two men, who have worked together for more than 40 years, are d...