Timewatch
1982
star 6.9
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning al...
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Acting
Christopher Frayling
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Christopher Frayling
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
star 7.3
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to o...
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
star 6.4
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating...
The Spaghetti West
2005
star 5.8
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
Sad Hill Unearthed
2018
star 6.9
Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the l...
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
star 10.0
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to...
Clint Eastwood's West
2011
star 6.0
An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews w...
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
star 9.6
Documentary about Sergio Leone
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
2008
star 8.4
Tribute to Universal make-up artist Jack Pierce who created some of the studio's most famous works including Fr...
In Search of Dracula
2020
star 8.4
Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep coming back to...
Ennio Morricone
1995
star 6.8
From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to...
The Face of Tutankhamun
1992
star 9.0
The wondrous story of the curse and craze, fame and fortune surrounding the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamu...
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
2008
Documentary on the Mummy film(s) by Universal Studios.
Nightmare! The Birth of Victorian Horror
1996
star 7.5
Probing the origins of Victorian-era tales of terror.
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2025
star 10.0
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
An Opera of Violence
2003
star 6.8
First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker...
The Wages of Sin
2003
star 7.5
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker...
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
star 6.1
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in Am...
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
2018
star 8.5
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which et...
Elementary My Dear Viewer
2007
Richard E. Grant looks at the history of Sherlock Holmes, including the many movie and TV adaptations.
Something to Do with Death
2003
star 6.3
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker...
Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years
2018
star 7.3
The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's fin...
Lugosi: The Dark Prince
2006
star 7.6
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Bela Lugosi.
David Bowie Is Happening Now
2013
star 6.0
Directed by BAFTA Award winner Hamish Hamilton, the movie was filmed during the closing night of the V&A instal...
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
2008
star 6.0
The making of Quo Vadis (1951).
Turning Like Clockwork
2011
star 4.7
A look back on A Clockwork Orange
Attenborough the Controller
2002
A completely fantastic programme, charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then strugglin...
Granada: From the North
1992
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the cur...
Shadow of the Ripper
1988
Jack the Ripper was a prince, a pauper, a mason, a madman... A host of more and more bizarre theories have surr...
Bauhaus: The Face of the Twentieth Century
1994
star 7.0
Bauhaus - The Face of the 20th Century, written and narrated by Frank Whitford, is an art documentary depicting...
Karloff: The Gentle Monster
2006
star 7.6
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris Karloff.
Railroad: Revolutionising the West
2003
star 8.0
A documentary about the railroads and the Robber Barons that got rich as the exploited the people why building...
The Myth of Revolution
2007
Christopher Frayling's in-depth analysis, a behind-the-scenes study of Leone's deepening artistic maturity, as...
Hideous Progeny: The Curse of Frankenstein and the English Gothic Tradition
How the gothic film by british production company Hammer Films helped in shaping the horror genre for audiences...
Christopher Frayling on Things to Come
2013
In this interview, conducted in 2013, writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling discusses the groundbr...
Christopher Frayling on Budd Boetticher
2018
The writer and cultural historian discusses the work of the great director.