1. Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.
Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. .
2. Overnight
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
3. F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story
Honing his craft as an indie filmmaker in Germany in the early 90s, Uwe Boll never could have imagined the life that lay before him. From working with Oscar-winning actors and making films with US$60million budgets to having actors publicly disparage him and online petitions demanding he stop making films, Boll continued to work; he has a filmography of 32 features, a career that has led to his new life as a successful high-end restauranteur. Already a cult legend, he will be remembered forever in the film world; for some, as a modern-day Ed Wood, who made films so bad, they're good, while for others, a prolific filmmaker who came from a small town in Germany and never compromised his integrity while forging his own unique Hollywood trajectory.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
4. The High Sign: A Filmmaker Emerges
Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' and Keaton's developing style.
5. One Week: Marvelous Toys
Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week.
6. Savoring the Scarecrow: Or Buster & the Sybil Trilogy
The evolution of The Scarecrow is discussed in this documentary.
7. The Haunted House: Gags and Growth
Documentary about the development of Buster Keaton's The Haunted House .
8. Hard Luck: The Last Short to Be Found
Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck .
9. The Goat Is Not a Goat
A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.
10. The Play House: An Accidental Masterpiece
The special effects in The Play House are discussed.
11. On Scoring Cops and Helping Silent Films Live Again
Ben Model discusses scoring music for silent movies.
12. A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations
The actors in My Wife's Relations are discussed in this documentary.
13. ... That Dud... The Blacksmith
Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith , a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.
14. The Frozen North: Keaton's Darkest Comedy
A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North , regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick condemnation of Arbuckle, were reflected in the film.
15. Day Dreams and the Problems of Missing Film
Documentary on Day Dreams , a Buster Keaton silent comedy.
16. Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations
This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1923 comedy feature Three Ages was filmed in Hollywood, USC, and Los Angeles.
17. Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations
This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1924 comedy feature Sherlock Jr. was filmed in Hollywood and Orange County.
18. The General: Tour of Filming Locations
In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations used in the filming of The General and offers glimpses of how they look today.
19. Silent Echoes: Seven Chances
In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where Seven Chances was filmed, comparing archival images with contemporary photos, and sharing stories of Mrs. Eleanor Keaton's visit to the Seven Chances church.
20. Silent Echoes
Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between 1920-1923, many in the streets surrounding his former Hollywood studio, the same studio where, a few years earlier, Charlie Chaplin had made his brilliant series of Mutual shorts. Written by Anonymous