Mel Brooks Movies

Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.

Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.

Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews...

The group & their respective partners travel to Europe to spread their close friend's ashes & prove that they can still be fun — even in their...

Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972,...

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by...

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Evil forces have invaded an isolated island and have targeted Patrick and Susan's grandfather, Mr. Campbell. Guided by Jack, a charming Irish rogue,...

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your...

Emmy-winning comedian, actor, writer and producer Sarah Silverman returns in her second HBO comedy special. Filmed at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston,...

In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the genre is resilient. A handful of masterpieces...

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale,...

A feature documentary profiling the most revered screenwriter in movie history, Paddy Chayefsky stands alone as the only writer to win three solo...

Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the...

Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times....

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld is an intimate portrait of what it means to expose oneself. At its center is the iconoclastic film producer Stuart...

A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.

In the late 1950s, a fresh, unconventional style of standup comedy emerged in sharp contrast to the standard "Take my wife, please" approach. It...

Irrepressible writer-comedian Carl Reiner, who shows no signs of slowing down at 94, tracks down celebrated nonagenarians, and a few others over 100,...

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview...