Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

Unpacking the 76,897 micro-genres that make up the cinematic DNA.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

A comic who had previously refused to discuss his private life opens up for the first time, riding high on the surprise success of Blazing Saddles more than thirty years into his career.

After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.

Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.

On director Steve McQueen and his film 12 Years a Slave.

An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.

“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”

Wes Anderson, the Wilson brothers and Bottle Rocket.

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

The world’s most famous child star grows up.

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

An interview with Murphy at the apex of his power, just before the release of Harlem Nights.

“Let me say that again: Hedy Lamarr, arguably the most glamorous star of the pre-war period, also helped invent your cell phone and WiFi connection.”

Meet Mark Millar, the brains behind our era’s most violent, ingenious comics.

Script doctor Damon Lindelof explains the new rules of blockbuster screenwriting.

A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”

Making the case that all Pixar movies exist on a cohesive timeline in the same universe dominated by a central theme: the battle between animals, humans and machines.

How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.

On set in Mexico with the Duke.

A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.

On film comedy’s silent beginnings.

Inside Brigham Young University’s successful animation program.

“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”