Movies: John Milius

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries......

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' ro...

The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation....

Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. Plenty of detail on every aspect of the film from pre-production to opening night is covered....

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta....

Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary....

Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films....

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The Ameri...

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others....

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)...

The story of Conan the Cimmerian, from Robert E. Howard's pulp fiction anti-hero to pop culture icon....

A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the cult comedy classic, featuring outtakes, rare behind-the-scenes home movies, and trivia facts....

Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that....

A retrospective look at the five Dirty Harry films (1971-88), starring Clint Eastwood....

Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie....

A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola....

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day....

This short documentary explores just how the film Pumping Iron revolutionized the fitness industry and created an international icon in Arnold Schwarzenegger. It also touches on what Hollywood's idea of an action star was and is....

A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh statio...

BBC documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws....