Bret Wood Movies

Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local...

An exploration of La Oroya, an Andean smelting town caught in the tides of pollution and capital drain. The film charts U.S.-led industrialization...

Short documentary about Buster Keaton's first venture into features.

A mysterious assemblage of men use led by a man in red use a tarot deck to determine what punishment to mete out to those they've already determined...

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week.

Documentary on Day Dreams (1922), a Buster Keaton silent comedy.

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' (1921) and Keaton's developing style.

Documentary about the development of Buster Keaton's The Haunted House (1921).

Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation...

A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.

An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, The Little Death offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel,...

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not...

Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between...

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise...

Narrated by Rod Steiger, this documentary examines the frightful conventions from which the modern-day horror movie has evolved, featuring clips from...

Documentary on the making of The Dark Power.