Documentary short on the making of "They Live by Night" (1948).

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Parker reading poetry and scenes from the 1994 film on Parker's life, "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Matthew Broderick.

A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-what. Prize-winning films chosen by judges Gore Vidal, Andy Warhol, Terry Southern, Milos Forman, Holly Woodlawn, Sylvia Miles and Xaviera Hollander at the last two Erotic Film Festivals in New York.

In this documentary short, film historian David Thomson and critic Molly Haskell analyze the themes of Howard Hawks's 1940 film "His Girl Friday."

When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.

A documentary about actor Jack Lemmon.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.

Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.

Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.