Movie Documentaries

[chrisgould]

I enjoy documentaries about movies. These are a few I have seen. Anybody got any more suggestions. The ones i have listed as streaming anybody know if they are/were available on disc.

Cleaning up the town remembering Ghostbusters disc
Wolfman's got nards Monster Squad disc
A Christmas story documentary: Road trip for Ralphie streaming
2001: The making of a myth
Who are you people? Close encounters of the Third Kind streaming

Not really movies but the movie industry
Netflix vs the World streaming
The Last Blockbuster disc

[Filmmaker]

CLEANIN’ UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING ‘GHOSTBUSTERS’: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Clean...lu-ray/265440/

[FrodoBagginz]

MGM: When The Lion Roars- 6 Hour long Documentary on the MGM studio. Available on DVD in the Wizard Of Oz 3 Disc Emerald Edition

Life Itself- Documentary about Roger Ebert

The Shark Is Still Working- Jaws Documentary that is on the Blu-Ray

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy- Available on Blu-ray

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History Of Friday The 13th- Available on Blu-ray

[deltatauhobbit]

These are some that I have that either fit your description or are close enough. Some directly focus on a single film or an aspect about that film; others are more broad, such as covering several films or careers; some are even more "adjacent" but still about film or a culture about it.

There are several other good documentaries that will be included on special features of the main movie (such as the two on the Spookies release or Empire of Dreams which sadly is only part of the Star Wars DVD set) but these have their own dedicated release.

[Grimfrost]

More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

[bigshot]

Hitler's Hollywood

Hitler's Hollywood – Official U.S. Trailer - YouTube

[erlinmeyer]

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan - about making of special effects in movies
Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror - examines Halloween and 4 sequels
American Movie - the making of Coven
The Death of "Superman Lives"; What Happened? - how Superman Lives never became a movie
Memory: The Origins of Alien - another look at the making of Alien
That's Entertainment! (parts I, II, & III) - covers MGM musicals

[Zarak]

[starsteam]

The Netflix series 'The Movies that Made Us' is wonderful fun and expanding into two more seasons.

[RCRochester]

For anyone who has the Criterion Channel, I wholeheartedly recommend THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS. It's one of the best behind-the-scenes documentaries I have ever seen and is about Peter Medak's nightmarish experiences working with Peter Sellers on Ghost in the Noonday Sun. Medak himself directed it and features so many authentic, honest accounts of what happened with great behind-the-scenes footage.

[dmabuse]

Birth of the Living Dead

[beamish13]

Originally Posted by Zarak

Love these two

[RFK]

Burden of Dreams: Les Blank's film on the making of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo
Pauline Kael: What She Said
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Charles Laughton Directs: The Night of the Hunter
Z Channel - A Magnificent Obsession
A Decade Under The Influence

[The Fallen Deity]

[Al_The_Strange]

Under Pressure: The Making of The Abyss was one of the first ones I've seen and it blew me away. Never realized how much effort and pain it took to make that movie.

The next best thing that would top it is Hearts of Darkness for Apocalypse Now. It's a must-see.

EDIT:
Both can be seen on YT:

Under Pressure: The Making of THE ABYSS - YouTube

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - YouTube

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Under Pressure: The Making of The Abyss was one of the first ones I've seen and it blew me away. Never realized how much effort and pain it took to make that movie.

The next best thing that would top it is Hearts of Darkness for Apocalypse Now. It's a must-see.

Was Under Pressure ever released separately?

I think this thread is only for docs that are standalone and not extras on video releases of said films (at least initially).

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

Was Under Pressure ever released separately?

I think this thread is only for docs that weren't included as extras on home video releases of said films.

It isn't, didn't even stop to think that was a requisite.

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

It isn't, didn't even stop to think that was a requisite.

I've just double checked what the OG poster has written and I think I'm wrong.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

I've just double checked what the OG poster has written and I think I'm wrong.

[Show spoiler]

No worries.

[latehong]

Never released on Blu-ray and probably never will be, but the 3-part, near 4 hour-long documentary A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) is without a doubt one of the quintessential achievements from the renowned director. Over the last 15 years (I saw it for the first time in 2005 or so), this doc has been the guide for me when it comes to classical Hollywood cinema and I still haven't watched every movie in it.



He also directed My Voyage to Italy (1999), another one about Italian cinema, but I didn't like it as much because he spent too much time on a few canonical classics and directors, lacking the diversity and pleasure of discoveries of A Personal Journey.