Directed by Michael Matessino.
Starring Dan O'Bannon, Ridley Scott, H R Giger, Ronald Shusett, Nick Allder, Mia Bonzanigo, Bob Burns, Ron Cobb, Leslie Dilley, Brian Johnson, John Mollo, Ivor Powell.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Comment: An extremely well-done documentary on the making of and legacy of Ridley Scott's 'Alien'.
shill's feature Rating: 0/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 0/10. Extras 0/10.
Comment:
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: In-flight television transmissions, onboard film footage, astronaut commentary, lunar landing footage, launch footage, much more
Comment: Over ten hours of footage chronicling the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission from training through splashdown.
Directed by David Comtois, Kevin Burns.
Starring Roddy McDowall, Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Edward G Robinson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Full AMC documentary, three hours of bonus material including interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, makeup tests, dailies, outtakes, featurettes
Comment: Not yet watched, never seen.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Bond Girls Are Forever documentary, Bond girls photo gallery, Bond girls timeline, DVD catalog trailer, Bond Vs Oakenfold music video
Comment: Promotional James Bond disc.
Directed by Rick McKay.
Starring Alec Baldwin, Tom Bosley, Marlon Brando, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Charles Durning, Ben Gazzara, Robert Goulet, Uta Hagen, Celeste Holm, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Martin Landau, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Fay Wray.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Rick McKay's documentary about Broadway and the memories of its legendary stars.
Directed by Austin Hoyt, Patricia Garcia Rios.
Starring Geoffrey Baer.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Part I: Mudhole to Metropolis, Part II: The Revolution Has Begun, Part III: Battle for Chicago, Bonus Disc: Chicago by 'L': Touring the Neighborhoods
Comment: Three-part documentary about the city of Chicago, plus extras.
Directed by Kevin Brownlow, David Gill.
Starring Kenneth Branagh.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Six-part miniseries: Where It All Began (Introduction), Art's Promised Land (Sweden), The Unchained Camera (Germany), The Music of Light (France), Opportunity Lost (Britain), End of an Era (Finale)
Comment: Not yet watched, never seen.
Starring Daphne Ashbrook, Paul McGann, Alan Barnes, Gary Russell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Was free with Tenth Planet purchases. Documentary on Ashbrook's UK visit in 2004.
Directed by Bill Baggs.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture 3/10. Extras /10.
Comment: Documentary about Doctor Who, cheaply produced and poorly presented (probably mastered from VHS)
Directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick.
Starring Edward Herrmann.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Frank Lloyd Wright
Comment: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright.
Directed by Michael Franti.
Starring Michael Franti.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: I Know I'm Not Alone
Comment: Documentary following Michael Franti as he shares his music through war and occupation in Iraq, Israel and Palestine.
Starring Peter Jackson, Naomi Watts, Andy Serkis, Jack Black, Adrien Brody.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Days 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, 31, 33, 36, 40, 42, 46, 48, 51, 53, 58, 62, 66, 68, 70, 73, 76, 77, 82, 85, 87, 90, 92, 95, 97, 100, 103, 105, 108, 110, 113, 115, 118, 120, 123, 125, 127, 129, 130, 131, plus other bits
Comment: Two disc set of production featurettes for King Kong from September 2004 through April 2005. #120571
Directed by Alain Resnais.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard)
Comment: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek.
Directed by Jules Naudet, Gedeon Naudet, James Hanlon.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Will go down in history as one of the most unique historic documentaries ever created.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Includes "Biography: Charles Manson - Journey Into Evil", and three episodes of "Investigative Reports": The Criminal Profiler, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy
Comment: Interesting 2-disc documentary set on serial killers produced by A&E.
Directed by Peter Kuran.
Starring William Shatner (Narration).
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Also referred to as 'The Atomic Bomb Movie' - documentary in 3D with an excellent music score
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: New documentary on Val Lewton produced by Martin Scorsese.
Directed by M Clay Adams.
Starring Leonard Graves.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Design for War, The Pacific Boils Over, Sealing the Breach, Midway is East, Mediterranean Mosaic, Guadalcanal, Rings Around Rabaul, Mare Nostrum, Sea and Sand, Beneath the Southern Cross, Magnetic North, The Conquest of Micronesia, 14 more
Comment: The landmark 1952 documentary series covering the naval battles of World War II
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra.
Starring Andrei Tarkovsky.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Voyage in Time
Comment: Documentary chronicling Andrei Tarkovsky's search for a new film idea, and the locations for it.
Directed by Ken Burns.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: The Ken Burns documentary miniseries.
Directed by Hugh Raggett, David Elstein, Peter Tiffin.
Starring Laurence Olivier.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: A New Germany, Distant War, France Falls, Alone, Barbarossa, Banzai!, On Our Way, The Desert, Stalingrad, Wolf Pack, Red Star, Whirlwind, Tough Old Guy, It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow, Home Fires, Inside the Reich, Morning, Occupation, Pincers, 7 more
Comment: All 26 episodes of the famous documentary series, plus 11 additional documentaries of related material. Invaluable.