The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images

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.

Disney's Animation Magic: Treasure Planet

The making of Disney's Treasure Planet.

Kong's New York, 1933

From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter

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

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

The astonishing story of the genesis, production, worldwide success, and legacy of King Kong (1933), directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, a landmark of cinema, one of the most influential motion pictures in history.

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.

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."

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.

Weta Digital

Peter Jackson, members of Weta, and film production personnel are interviewed, telling of the birth of a small company in 1993 (for the making of Heavenly Creatures), which would provide visual effects for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and its various tasks in rendering fictional, fantasy environments and entities. The process behind the making of the Watcher in the Water, the Cave-troll, the giant corridor of Dwarrowdelf, the Balrog and its fire effects, the water-horses of the Bruinen flood, and the Ringwraiths' true appearance are explained by effects specialists of Weta Digital and the American company Digital Domain.

J.R.R. Tolkien - Creator of Middle-earth

A behind-the-scenes documentary from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that traces J.R.R. Tolkien's early life, the conception, success, and cultural phenomenon of The Lord of the Rings, and explores its central themes and underlying struggles.

Farewell, Friends!

BTS of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..

Behind-the-scenes documentary of the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script

Recounting of the long process of adapting the text of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring for film, a project that had begun in 1997. This involved countless adjustments of scenes, about a hundred screenplay revisions, and constant reordering of key moments from the story to fit the brevity of a film.