Movies: George Lucas

Writer Edith Wharton resisted societal pressures to create great works of literature....

John Ford was a master filmmaker with an influential style....

Shortly after the turn of the 20th Century, a small group of entrepreneurs began making motion pictures, and went west to a small suburb of Los Angeles. They became movie moguls, tasting success beyond their wildest American Dreams....

The first film in a new trilogy of Star Wars films, reported to be either episodes X, XI, and XII of the Skywalker Saga, or begin a completely new storyline with new characters. Plot TBA....

A visual interpretation of the poem by E.E. Cummings about the life cycle of a townspeople and of one ignored couple....

New demands for entertainment helped give birth to the popular song....

Documentary charting the contribution to Hollywood movies made by writer Joseph Campbell, whose ideas about mythic structure helped shape Star Wars....

Even the most devout Star Wars fan might not know that filmmaker and journalist Michel Parbot was once given unprecedented access to the set, stars, and filmmakers behind The Empire Strikes Back. The resulting work, The Making of The Empire Strikes B...

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive....

A lonely widower stalks his deserted mansion, gloomily contemplating ending his own life. His last word may hold the key to what has sent him down this dark path....

This film shows a German student escaping across the Berlin Border and being shot to death, while on the soundtrack, various platitudes about dying for freedom can be heard....

President Theodore Roosevelt launched America into the 20th Century....

Visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic motivates a generation of filmmakers and scientists; founder George Lucas and others tell about the hoverboards, Terminators and dinosaurs that are no longer the stuff of sci-fi....

A biography of filmmaker George Lucas....

In the early 1920s, Louis B. Mayer brought a young Irving Thalberg to Hollywood to trouble-shoot some problems at the film studio. Soon, this Boy Wonder proved to be a visionary of gigantic stature who left an indelible mark on Hollywood....

Erich von Stroheim was an extravagant pioneer of Hollywood filmmaking....

A Rebellion pilot is hounded by death from the merciless Empire and a frozen grave, after being abandoned during the retreat of the Rebel Alliance from Hoth....

Focuses on the escalating war between the Imperial Remnant and the fledgling New Republic, and serves as a culmination of interconnected stories from The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka....

Documentary about the invention of MORF, the program for morphing, which was created for the film Willow (1988)....

A complex system of alliances and diplomatic tensions helped end peace in Europe....