Well illustrated book on history of silent movies

The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of ...

A biography of the director of such movies as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago examines David Lean's life, from the troubled Quaker family he was born into to his learning ...

Here, from one of today’s leading authorities on film history, is the story, told brilliantly and for the first time, of the pioneering movie makers who as early as 1905 ...

The story of the making of a film about the supposedly successful Nazi invasion of England in 1940.

Not only does this volume feature, as the title suggests, many previously unpublished photos of the silent film star (these consisting of film stills, production shots, and ...

Publisher description

Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.