Leonard Maltin Movies

Art and science have worked together to allow cinema to switch to color. Numerous processes have succeeded one another to try to solve this...

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

Documentary about the life and work of mystery writer Mickey Spillane.

Leonard Maltin interviews Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy, while film clips trace the history of the comic strip detective.

Bonus feature on the Dumbo DVD.

The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This...

This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen....

“A Conversation with Fess Parker” (17:05) is another interview, edited almost exactly like the previous, where Maltin visits the man who...

Commemorating the centennial of Mercer's birth, this documentary is part biography, part archive, and part recontextualization, taking Mercer's tunes...

A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird.

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

The sound of flapping bat wings, an empty coffin, glistening fangs, tiny punctures on the neck, the sensual taste of blood, a blank reflection, fear...

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

Explore the rich history of the Walt Disney Archives as legendary producer and host Don Hahn tours rarely seen areas of the department’s vast...

A reclusive millionaire who owed his fortune to his father, Howard Hughes staked his fame on many things, including his credits as a producer,...

This documentary short takes you inside the fascinating world of film preservation and restoration.

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories...

A musical journey through the brief life and times of the celebrated composer who pioneered the crossover of jazz and pop music -- from his...

This is the first feature-length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh. In this 'memoir,' Walsh 'recounts' his career from the silent film...

Behind-the-scenes footage, rare screen tests and insightful interviews highlight this engrossing two-hour look at one of Hollywood's greatest dream...