Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now (2002)

A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into five parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min) Making Prehistory (20 min), the Next Step in Evolution (15 min), and the Third Adventure (25 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), and Something Survived (16 min).

В шоу-бизнесе нет лучшего мастера спецэффектов, чем Ролли Тайлер. Его уникальные способности создавать на экране грандиозные иллюзии приносят ему множество заказов от крупнейших студий Голливуда. На этот раз его заказчиком становится… Министерство юстиции. Суть дела: разыграть «убийство» важного свидетеля, дающего показания против теневых воротил. Задуманная постановка проходит как по маслу, но в результате осведомитель бесследно исчезает, а недоумевающему и ошеломленному Ролли «пришивают» убийство. Обманутый и преследуемый бывшими работодателями — Отделом полиции Нью-Йорка — Ролли быстро понимает, что никому не может доверять, и единственное средство сохранить жизнь — его несравнимое искусство мистификатора.

Документальный фильм, созданный в поддержку ремейка «Кошмара на улице Вязов».

Спустя пять лет после своего первого опасного приключения, Ролли Тайлер оставил бизнес спецэффектов и зарабатывает на жизнь проектированием мудреных электронных игрушек. За помощью к нему обращается бывший супруг его подружки — полицейский детектив. Полицейским нужно достоверно разыграть сцену, чтобы поймать серийного убийцу, и Ролли в очередной раз соблазняется опасным миром киноиллюзий. Совсем скоро он обнаруживает себя в смертельном капкане лжи и предательства. Чтобы разоблачить опасные замыслы преступников, он может полагаться только на свои изобретательные трюки и старую дружбу с детективом Лео Маккарти — если, конечно, сумеет остаться в живых…

Фильм рассказывает о судьбе фильма Жоржа Мельеса «Путешествие на Луну» («Le Voyage dans la Lune»), от момента создания и вплоть до наших дней.

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.

Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga is a 1983 television documentary special that originally aired on PBS. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the original Star Wars trilogy, with particular emphasis on the final film, Return of the Jedi. Narrated by actor Mark Hamill, the documentary was written by Richard Schickel who had written the previous television documentaries The Making of Star Wars (1977) and SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

Документальный фильм, рассказывающий о съемках «От заката до рассвета» и его создателях.

This provocative and insightful film is the first in a series of documentaries that will reveal the secret knowledge embedded in the work of the greatest filmmaker of all time: Stanley Kubrick. This famed movie director who made films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut, placed symbols and hidden anecdotes into his films that tell a far different story than the films appeared to be saying. In Kubrick's Odyssey, Part I, Kubrick and Apollo, author and filmmaker, Jay Weidner presents compelling evidence of how Stanley Kubrick directed the Apollo moon landings.

Живущий в Голливуде молодой парень Майк, заполнивший родной дом бездной заводных, прыгающих, ползающих игрушек, устройств и приспособлений, хочет найти работу в сфере киноискусства, поскольку в области спецэффектов, как он считает, равных ему нет.

Special Effects Supervisor Jeff Okun gives an overview of his responsibilities on Sphere, and takes us through some of the techniques used to create the illusions that sell the film, from storyboards and concept drawings through scaled miniatures and CGI. The segment ends with Elkins giving some advice for those who might want a career in the special effects industry.

As an actor, director and producer, Ray Harryhausen has been a vibrant figure in Hollywood, working on everything from family films to mind-bending sci-fi. But his true genius lay in the creation of special effects for movies such as Mighty Joe Young and It Came from Outer Space. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and featuring appearances by George Lucas and Ray Bradbury, this film documents Harryhausen's remarkable life's work.

The story of how the classic epic "Ben-Hur" was made.

Documentary giving an extensive look into the design and development of the creatures created for artist Takashi Murakami's first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes.

Thrill to the action from a battle to the death between beautiful amazons, twisted mutants and sickening, deadly zombies sometime after WWIII as you also watch from behind the scenes as brilliant special effects are constructed by demented master craftsmen, some of whom seem to be losing their grip on reality! Which side of the camera are we really on? How far will these gut-wrenching effects go? The answer is further than ever before - more graphic scenes of violence, perversion, mutilation and slaught per minute than any horror feature ever made!

This one proves that it's all a big fake, and the myth of the Guinea Pig movies being actual snuff is not true. The girl from "Devil's Experiment" laughs while her flesh gets twisted. The guy from "He Never Dies" longs to take the latex applications off.

Johnny Diamonds stars in this musical adventure set in ancient mythological greece. Johnny Orpheus returns home to the peaceful village of Salamis to find that it has come upon troubled times. Assembling a crew of heroes like no other, Johnny sets sail on a song-filled voyage of adventure to obtain the Golden Bouzouki, a legendary musical instrument of divine origin which is said to bring peace to the hearts of all mankind. (Not Rated, 1 hour, 48 minutes)

Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including Rick Baker, Bill Sturgeon, David Cronenberg, James Woods among others, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, this tells the story of how the special effects in the film were created.

A young woman resorts to drastic, self-destructive measures to rid herself of a mysterious, otherworldly creature known as The Guest.