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New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two make...

With the help of a superstar agent, movie star Vincent Chase and his friends embark on a risky project that will serve as Vincent's directoral debut.

A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound.

Val Waxman is a one-time cinematic genius down on his luck. His ex-wife has managed to convince a high-powered studio head to take a chance on Val's "unique vision." Just when the cameras are ready to roll, he's struck with a psychosomatic case of blindness. When efforts to cure him fail, Val contrives a scheme to forge ahead with the picture, for fear of blowing his one last chance at greatness

Follows a struggling film producer as his personal and professional lives decline.

A compilation of the very earliest films from the first projections of moving images to the advent of the feature film, an area of film history often underseen, underappreciated, and understudied.

Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director - all he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.