Christopher Frayling Trailers
Hammer and Beyond: The Jimmy Sangster Legacy TrailerHumphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain TrailerSergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America Trailer
Hammer and Beyond: The Jimmy Sangster Legacy TrailerHumphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain TrailerSergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America Trailer
Total trailers found: 36
01 January 1995
From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's acclaimed 1986 drama The Mission, film composer Ennio Morricone has crafted more than 500 scores over the course of his enduring career in film.
29 September 2011
Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification.
20 October 2022
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema.
18 November 2003
First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968.
30 April 2006
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris Karloff.
01 September 2005
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
22 September 2001
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
18 November 2003
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968.
18 October 2022
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The Ghoul, The Walking Dead (1936), Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), the Mr Wong series, The Climax (1944), Lured (1947), The Strange Door (1951), Grip of the Strangler and Corridors of Blood(1958), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), the Mexican quartet, some of his major TV appearances (The Girl From U.
06 July 2011
An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, John Lee Hancock and many more.
01 October 2003
A documentary about the railroads and the Robber Barons that got rich as the exploited the people why building their networks and the reality conveyed in Sergio Leone's C'era una volta il West (Once Upon A Time In The West).
26 September 2006
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Bela Lugosi.
01 January 2000
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America.
18 November 2003
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968.
19 October 2018
Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.
01 January 2002
A completely fantastic programme, charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2.
09 July 2008
Tribute to Universal make-up artist Jack Pierce who created some of the studio's most famous works including Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and countless other creatures.
07 September 1988
Jack the Ripper was a prince, a pauper, a mason, a madman... A host of more and more bizarre theories have surrounded the unexplained killings in Whitechapel since they hit the headlines in 1888.
13 August 2013
Directed by BAFTA Award winner Hamish Hamilton, the movie was filmed during the closing night of the V&A installation and features appearances by Pulp leader Jarvis Cocker, fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, and more, as well as insight from David Bowie Is curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh.
29 May 2018
The writer and cultural historian discusses the work of the great director.
28 December 1992
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from Brideshead Revisited to Prime Suspect.
04 March 1989
In a rare television interview, Doris Day looks back over her successful acting and singing career, and recalls happy memories of working with Rock Hudson, James Cagney, Clark Gable and James Garner.
10 January 2006
Christopher Frayling analyzes the importance of the film's influence on the making of later films ans
18 June 2013
In this interview, conducted in 2013, writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling discusses the groundbreaking design of THINGS TO COME.
08 July 2008
Documentary on the Mummy film(s) by Universal Studios.
22 October 2018
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's quest for the secret of life.
11 November 2008
The making of Quo Vadis (1951).
17 November 2007
Richard E. Grant looks at the history of Sherlock Holmes, including the many movie and TV adaptations.
13 February 2018
The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.
03 January 2020
Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep coming back to the count.
06 April 2025
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
01 January 1994
Bauhaus - The Face of the 20th Century, written and narrated by Frank Whitford, is an art documentary depicting the visual science generated from the outpouring of avant-garde ideas of this innovative educational undertaking.
05 June 2007
Christopher Frayling's in-depth analysis, a behind-the-scenes study of Leone's deepening artistic man
28 June 2026
Documentary from Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn tracking the career of director Jimmy Sangster.