The best Stanley Donen’s documentary movies

Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen

13/04/1924- 22/02/2019
Today we present the best Stanley Donen’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Stanley Donen’s movies.

Mike Nichols: An American Master

Mike Nichols: An American Master
7.4/10
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
8.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/09/2011
  • Character: Self
The story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Covering six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other.

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/05/2008
  • Character: Himself
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 17/07/2005
  • Character: Himself
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)

What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'

What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/2002
  • Character: Himself
Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of "Singin' in the Rain". The short documentary includes Donald O'Connor, who played the comical "Cosmo Brown", Stanley Donen, one half of the directors next to Gene Kelly, and Kathleen Freeman, who played Phoebe Dinsmore, Lina Lamont's (Jean Hagen) voice coach.

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