George Lucas Movies

Look at Life is a short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School. The...

As a newspaper writer in Chicago, young Ben Hecht saw it all and learned how to captivate an audience with his writing. By the 1920s, he took that...

Writer Edith Wharton resisted societal pressures to create great works of literature.

TV mini-series.

The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this...

The 1919 Paris Peace Conference ended a war and set many courses for the future.

This film shows a German student escaping across the Berlin Border and being shot to death, while on the soundtrack, various platitudes about dying...

A Night at the Movies, the ongoing TCM series of one-hour "Film Studies 101" specials, takes up the subject of "Fantasy" in its seventh and latest...

George Lucas's senior project at the University of Southern California in 1966. It was named for the lap time of the Lotus 23 race car that was the...

Irish poetry evokes power, change, life, death, sorrow and joy. Made by JAK Documentary for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, 2007.

Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha.

African American soldiers in World War One had more than one enemy to overcome.

Set two days before the events of Episode IV, Jedi Mara Jade has received a copy of the Death Star plans, which she must somehow get to the rebel...

Shortly after the turn of the 20th Century, a small group of entrepreneurs began making motion pictures, and went west to a small suburb of Los...

Ho Chi Minh spent decades trying to lead Vietnam to independence. In the summer of 1966, the United States found itself in a war it couldn't win,...

The American suffrage movement began when two women were barred from an anti-slavery meeting.

The Phantom Menace is now 20 years old. Star Wars fans have had mix feelings for this film since its release in 1999. This documentary covers the...

A complex system of alliances and diplomatic tensions helped end peace in Europe.

President Theodore Roosevelt launched America into the 20th Century.

An audiovisual piece that documents the life and subsequent death of Captain Han Solo; from the time he met Ben Kenobi and Luke Skywalker until he...