film-history

Released in 1962, Dr. No introduced the world to James Bond, a British secret agent whose blend of wit, style, and lethal charm would define a franchise. Starring Sean Connery a...

The Wizard of Oz is often remembered for its ruby slippers, tornado, and Technicolor spectacle, but many details of how it was made—and what was real versus rumor—remain mis...

At the 87th Academy Awards in 2015, Spotlight claimed the Oscar for Best Picture, reaffirming awards season 2015 as a moment where intimate, rigorously crafted journalism took c...

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall became a defining Hollywood partnership through four films that cemented their screen chemistry and off-screen romance. Their collaborations, i...

The Exorcist is widely regarded as the film that transformed horror from Gothic thrills into psychological terror. Released in 1973, it drew from a 1971 novel by William Peter B...

Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas dramatizes the trajectory of Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family, anchored in real history. The film weaves events from the postwar economic...

The question of what year did the original Rocky come out has a clear answer: the film premiered in 1976. Production wrapped earlier that year, and the premiere on November 21,...

Deliverance (1972) is based on James Dickey’s 1970 novel of the same name, which draws from a 1969 backcountry canoe trip in north Georgia that went wrong. The film is not a d...