Marlene Dietrich Movies

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel,...

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of...

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female independence. Proving the doubters wrong with every change...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its value to the Allied war effort.

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.