Leonard Maltin Movies

An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.

Find out how the spectacular music inspired the animation, and learn more about the development of the characters—such as how Ursula ended up...

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The...

Join host Leonard Maltin as he explores the early life of John Wayne (born as Marion Michael Morrison) as a college football star. After a chance...

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...

In the '40s Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he...

Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.

Documentary looking at the film classic, They Drive By Night

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...

A documentary on the life and career of Victor Fleming, director of such iconic movies as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.

Documentary focusing on the making-of the 1940n adaptation of Pinocchio by the Disney studio, often considered the artistic pinnacle of the Disney...

The story of how sound was paired with images in early years of cinema; offering an in-depth look at the people behind-the-scenes and the...

Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.

A fond remembrance of and tribute to the uniquely American institution of the horror movie host.

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

Documentary regarding two of the "nine old men" of Disney animators.

Making of documentary from the 50th Anniversary.

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the...

Documentary about High Noon featuring Fred Zinnemann and Stanley Kramer.

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories...