From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter

From Book to Script: Finding the Story

From Book to Script - Finding the Story is a 19-minute documentary discussing the how the plot lines of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers were fit and adjusted into the scheme of the film trilogy.

The Man Behind the Duck

This featurette is available on the 'Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Vol. 1' (1934-1941).

A Conversation with John Hench

An interview with John Hench.

The Passing of an Age

BTS documentary of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Disney's Animation Magic: Treasure Planet

The making of Disney's Treasure Planet.

The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature

Documentary on the making of Walt Disney’s Fantasia.

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity of making one of the few animation movie production companies in the world today, especially in North America.

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'

From all the cartoons Walt Disney and his team create a full length feature film fun and fancy free . Learn the story of how ww2 Changed bongo and the rest of the cartoons . How Edgar burgan got to play himself and his puppets.

The Making of 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire'

A documentary about the making of the cult classic Disney Movie Atlantis.

J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth

Peter Jackson, Jude Fisher, Philippa Boyens, a few Tolkien experts (such as Tom Shippey), and others tell the narrative of J.R.R. Tolkien's friendship with C.S. Lewis, their experience in World War I, Tolkien's inspirations from the war, the creative process and composition of The Lord of the Rings, its impact and reception when published, conflicting worldviews represented in The Two Towers, and the relationship between Frodo and Sam.

Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'

Film historians examines the making of the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

A Day in the Life of a Hobbit

A behind the scenes documentary for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in which Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan describe the daily life of becoming and portraying the four primary Hobbits of Peter Jackson's films

The Lost Spider Pit Sequence

What the "spider-pit" sequence from the original King Kong (1933) probably looked like (the original sequence was cut out of the original movie because it was deemed "too gruesome" and was subsequently lost).

The Mist

A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense project from start to finish. It turns out that this one film may actually be a larger task to complete than all 3 of the Lord of the Rings films together.