Alain Silver Movies

Four nights in Dostoevksy's 1847 St. Petersburg are transposed to 21st-century Los Angeles. Over that period, a self-described dreamer helps a young...

This documentary is featured on Warner Brothers' DVD for The Roaring Twenties (1939), released in 2005.

Short documentary about the making of the 1938 film "Jezebel."

Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer.

Danny DeVito stars in and directs this critically acclaimed short film which was part of the ground breaking HBO/Cinemax anthology series, "Likely...

"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most...

Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."

For Natia, firing bullets at her sister's head and narrowly missing is all in a days work. After taking over the family business, her sharp shooting...

Short documentary with background on plots that are taken from current news stories.

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan...

An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics.

Documentary short on the making of "They Live by Night" (1948).

After an unforeseen and violent affliction turns her world upside down, Rowena Hambleton struggles to survive night-to-night as she prowls the...

Mary (Kate Lyn Sheil) lives alone. She is waiting for something to happen in her life. Riding the elevator to work, a strange man, Hayward, grabs her...

Documentary about Raoul Walsh

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt...

Documentary about the film Where Danger Lives (1950)