Movies: Francis Ford Coppola

On the Las Vegas strip, two unlikely men rendezvous: Samuel Hill, an ill-kempt desert miner, and Benjamin Jabowski, a John Birch Society dandy from the city. Intent on some sort of mayhem, they enter the Herald Club before the burlesque show starts, ...

On the 35th anniversary of the release of the landmark film "The Godfather," (March 15, 1972) we look back at the time and place of the film's conception and shooting....

A behind the scenes look at "The Godfather" from 1971....

A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes....

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Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so spongi...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006)....

A Biography of George Lucas....

Behind the scenes of the 1992 masterpiece with director Francis Ford Coppola....

A look at the debate over same sex marriage in the USA. The reasons behind it are illustrated with real life couples that have run afoul of current laws despite varying levels of planning. Also, the reasons against it are debunked by proponents....

CENTRAL PARK is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking, skating, music, theatre, sports, picnics, parades and concerts. The film also illustrates the complex pr...

The famed Coppola family of filmmakers and musicians descends from Agostino Coppola, a poor immigrant from an impoverished village in Southern Italy. Interviews and archival footage portray how the family history has inspired these artists, and how t...

Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous, often estranged younger brother, tap dance legend Gregory Hines....

An unlucky musician returns back home on the day of his younger brother's movie premiere to steal and sell his computer to the paparazzi....

This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."...

A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (2007)....

A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart....

A pilot for a television adaptation of The Conversation (1974), intended to be broadcast on NBC, which was not picked up or aired....

Francis Ford Coppola expanding his love of the film....

Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arri...