20 movies like Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, ordered by similarity : Easy Riders, Raging Bulls(2003), Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny(2016), Elstree 1976(2015), The Cold Blue(2018), Score: A Film Music Documentary(2016), Uncle Howard(2016), Los Angeles Plays Itself(2003), Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!(2008), What Is Democracy?(2018), Filmworker(2017), Lost in La Mancha(2002), Churchill and the Movie Mogul(2019) ...
Documentary
USA
2019
94 Minutes
Erik Aadahl Ioan Allen Richard L. Anderson Richard Beggs Anna Behlmer Mark Berger
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An exploration of the history and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.
Documentary
UK|Canada
2003
119 Minutes
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A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
Documentary
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Karen Bernstein Julie Delpy
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A feature documentary on the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater. Produced and Directed by Louis Black (founder of SXSW Festivals and the Austin Chronicle) and Karen Bernstein (... See full summary »
Documentary
UK
2015
90 Minutes
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Actors and extras reminisce about their time on the set of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and how making the film affected their lives.
Documentary, War
USA
2018
72 Minutes
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A tribute to one of the world's great filmmakers and the men of the 8th Air Force who flew mission after suicidal mission in the Second World War.
Documentary, Music
USA
2016
94 Minutes
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A look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.
Biography, Documentary
2016
96 Minutes
Aaron Brookner John Giorno Jim Jarmusch Tom DiCillo James Grauerholz Hisami Kuroiwa
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Documentary
USA
2003
169 Minutes
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A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.
Documentary
Australia|USA
2008
103 Minutes
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The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s.
Documentary
2018
107 Minutes
Astra Taylor Cornel West Angela Davis Eleni Perdikouri William Barber
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This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.
Documentary
USA
2017
94 Minutes
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A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.
Documentary
UK|USA
2002
92 Minutes
Louis Pepe
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Terry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.
Documentary
UK
2019
70 Minutes
Charles Barr Stephen Fry Corey Johnson
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How Britain's wartime leader and its only ever movie mogul changed the course of history.
Documentary
Sweden|Denmark
1997
52 Minutes
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A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA|UK
2018
96 Minutes
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A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
Documentary
2006
240 Minutes
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Rare archival film footage and interviews illustrate filmmaker Ric Burns' tribute to art-world icon Andy Warhol.
Documentary
2000
55 Minutes
Arseni Tarkovsky Alexandra Stewart Larisa Tarkovskaya Sven Nykvist Chris Marker Valérie Mairesse Michal Leszczylowski Marina Vlady
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Documentary
UK
2010
86 Minutes
Jack Cardiff Martin Scorsese Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall John Mills Thelma Schoonmaker Kim Hunter Kathleen Byron Christopher Challis Raffaella De Laurentiis Richard Fleischer
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In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2009
91 Minutes
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A look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.
Comedy, Drama
Germany
2017
90 Minutes
Toby Ashraf Milena Dreißig Judith Engel Stephan Grossmann Tim Kalkhof Corinna Kirchhoff Andrea Sawatzki Andreas Lust Markus von Lingen
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For her first television film - a remake of Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant - director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and... See full summary »
Documentary
USA|Turkey|UK|Portugal
2016
99 Minutes
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The documentary "Midnight Return" explores the enduring and emotional power of film as seen through the lens of the blockbuster success Midnight Express (1978).