Movies: George Lucas

  • 2008
    Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

    Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder (2008)

    Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

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    In the early 1920s, Louis B. Mayer brought a young Irving Thalberg to Hollywood to trouble-shoot some problems at the film studio. Soon, this Boy Wonder proved to be a visionary of gigantic stature who left an indelible mark on Hollywood....

    Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
  • 2015
    Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM

    Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM (2015)

    Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM

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    Visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic motivates a generation of filmmakers and scientists; founder George Lucas and others tell about the hoverboards, Terminators and dinosaurs that are no longer the stuff of sci-fi....

    Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM
  • 2003
    The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

    The Music of 'Indiana Jones' (2003)

    The Music of 'Indiana Jones'

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    In this 2003 featurette, John Williams recalls composing the music for the first three Indiana Jones pictures and alludes to the possibility of scoring a fourth....

    The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
  • 1967
    6-18-67

    6-18-67 (1967)

    6-18-67

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    6-18-67 is a short quasi-documentary film by George Lucas regarding the making of the Columbia film “Mackenna's Gold”. This non-story, non-character visual tone poem is made up of nature imagery, time-lapse photography, and the subtle sounds of the A...

    6-18-67
  • 2007
    Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century

    Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century (2007)

    Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century

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    President Theodore Roosevelt launched America into the 20th Century....

    Theodore Roosevelt and the American Century
  • 2007
    Hellfighters: Harlem’s Heroes of World War One

    Hellfighters: Harlem’s Heroes of World War One (2007)

    Hellfighters: Harlem’s Heroes of World War One

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    African American soldiers in World War One had more than one enemy to overcome....

    Hellfighters: Harlem’s Heroes of World War One
  • 2007
    Powder Keg: Europe 1900-1914

    Powder Keg: Europe 1900-1914 (2007)

    Powder Keg: Europe 1900-1914

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    A complex system of alliances and diplomatic tensions helped end peace in Europe....

    Powder Keg: Europe 1900-1914
  • 2008
    Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

    Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood (2008)

    Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

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    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 talent to Hollywood as a screenwriter, where he crafted some of the classic Hollywood films....

    Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood
  • 2007
    The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Conference

    The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Conference (2007)

    The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Conference

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    The 1919 Paris Peace Conference ended a war and set many courses for the future....

    The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Conference
  • 2007
    Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America

    Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America (2007)

    Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America

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    The American suffrage movement began when two women were barred from an anti-slavery meeting....

    Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America