Casablanca 50th anniversary, 1992

President-Elect Bill Clinton, calls for a gathering of experts to help guide his economic policy, and what he may do to reduce the national deficit. 

The realities of unlimited immigration, andthe movement that proposes to make English the official language of the United States. 

A month on from the presidential election, Alistair Cooke anticipates the effect that a new president, and a boost in public confidence, will have on the economy. 

Bill Hughes goes behind the scenes at the 1967 classic ‘Guess who is coming to dinner, starring Sidney Poitier and Katherine Hepburn. 

One of the greatest films to ever be produced by the classic Hollywood studio system features a song that infuriated composer Max Steiner. Regardless, he produced one of the most memorable and effective film scores of his entire career. The history of Casablanca's troubled produc ... Show More

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of folk horror classic The Wicker Man. 

With Christopher Nolan now an Oscar-winner, this particular episode of Film Stories begins by zipping back to 2017, when he had a his first serious drive-by of the Academy Awards. That'd be with Dunkirk, the first time he told a true story on film. It took him a long time to be i ... Show More

Director Martin Scorsese discusses his new film, Killers of the Flower Moon, with fellow Director Ti West in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Scorsese discusses lifting dialogue from real historical accounts when working on the script and its structur ... Show More

L’amour compte-t-il plus que la vertu? En posant ce dilemme à travers une idylle déchirante entre Humphrey Bogart et Ingrid Bergman dans l’Afrique du Nord de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, le film de Michael Curtiz est devenu l’archétype du film hollywoodien enchanteur et rassemble ... Show More

Director Benny Boom discusses his new film, All Eyez on Me, with fellow Director Jeff Byrd. The film tells the story of Tupac Shakur, the prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist. The feature film charts his meteoric rise and ultimate transformation into a cultural icon before h ... Show More

In October 2022, amid a flurry of media appearances promoting their film “Tàr,” the director Todd Field and the star Cate Blanchett made time to visit a cramped closet in Manhattan. This closet, which has become a sacred space for movie buffs, was once a disused bathroom at the h ... Show More

Thelma Schoonmaker is arguably the world’s most famous film editor, winning three Oscars in her 40-year career. Ever since Raging Bull, she has worked on all of Martin Scorsese’s major feature films like Goodfellas, Gangs of New York and Killers of the Flower Moon. She tells Fran ... Show More