SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back is a television documentary special which originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1980. Hosted by actor Mark Hamill, it is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the special effects in the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, which was released that year.
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Director: Robert Guenette
Actors: Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Frank Oz, Harrison Ford, Kenny Baker, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew
The C Word (2016)
Cancer: Few words are more feared. But in her sharply researched, deftly humorous message of hope, survivor Meghan O’Hara (Oscar-nominated producer of “Bowling for Columbine, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” and “Sicko”) changes…
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019)
Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next…
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native…
Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. D.A. Pennebaker,…
Pink Floyd: Pulse (1995)
Pulse (stylized as P•U•L•S•E) is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from the October 20, 1994 concert at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, in The Division Bell tour, originally released…
Heroin: Cape Cod, USA (2015)
An unvarnished look at the heroin epidemic sweeping America’s small towns and communities, focusing on on eight young addicts in idyllic Cape Cod, Mass.
The Bronx, USA (2019)
A socio-cultural multi-generational history of the Bronx focused on Producer George Shapiro’s 1949 graduating class and the 2017 graduating class of DeWitt Clinton High School.
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (2015)
At a time in the United States when the tech sector outpaces the overall growth of the employment market, CODE asks the important question: Where are all the women?
Under the Volcano (2021)
The story of George Martin’s AIR Studios Montserrat and the island that changed music forever.
I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
The story of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
Diego Maradona (2019)
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and…
The Rachel Divide (2018)
Rachel Dolezal became infamous when she was unmasked as a white woman passing for black so thoroughly that she had become the head of her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter. This portrait…