Christopher Frayling

Christopher Frayling

Birthday: 1946-12-25

Place of Birth: Hampton, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography: No biography available.

Movies

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a...

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Bauhaus: The Face of the Twentieth Century
Bauhaus: The Face of the Twentieth Century

Bauhaus - The Face of the 20th Century, written and narrated by Frank Whitford, is an art documentar...

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Attenborough the Controller
Attenborough the Controller

A completely fantastic programme, charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the the...

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An Opera of Violence
An Opera of Violence

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian...

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Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950....

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The Myth of Revolution
The Myth of Revolution

Christopher Frayling's in-depth analysis, a behind-the-scenes study of Leone's deepening artistic ma...

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Hideous Progeny: The Curse of Frankenstein and the English Gothic Tradition
Hideous Progeny: The Curse of Frankenstein and the English Gothic Tradition

How the gothic film by british production company Hammer Films helped in shaping the horror genre fo...

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Lugosi: The Dark Prince
Lugosi: The Dark Prince

Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Bela L...

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He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce

Tribute to Universal make-up artist Jack Pierce who created some of the studio's most famous works i...

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Sir Christopher Frayling On 'The Magnificent Seven'
Sir Christopher Frayling On 'The Magnificent Seven'

Christopher Frayling analyzes the importance of the film's influence on the making of later films an...

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Railroad: Revolutionising the West
Railroad: Revolutionising the West

A documentary about the railroads and the Robber Barons that got rich as the exploited the people wh...

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Boris Karloff:  The Rest of the Story
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, fr...

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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay t...

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David Bowie Is Happening Now
David Bowie Is Happening Now

Directed by BAFTA Award winner Hamish Hamilton, the movie was filmed during the closing night of the...

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Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification
Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification

Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of ...

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Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years
Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years

The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British co...

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Turning Like Clockwork
Turning Like Clockwork

A look back on A Clockwork Orange...

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Clint Eastwood's West
Clint Eastwood's West

An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring i...

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Sad Hill Unearthed
Sad Hill Unearthed

Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of rest...

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The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness nov...

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Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Documentary about Sergio Leone...

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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and ...

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In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic

The making of Quo Vadis (1951)....

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Shadow of the Ripper
Shadow of the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was a prince, a pauper, a mason, a madman... A host of more and more bizarre theorie...

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The Spaghetti West
The Spaghetti West

A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s....

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In Search of Dracula
In Search of Dracula

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

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Christopher Frayling on Budd Boetticher
Christopher Frayling on Budd Boetticher

The writer and cultural historian discusses the work of the great director....

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The Wages of Sin
The Wages of Sin

Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italia...

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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contr...

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Granada: From the North
Granada: From the North

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Stre...

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Something to Do with Death
Something to Do with Death

Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian...

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Karloff: The Gentle Monster
Karloff: The Gentle Monster

Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris ...

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Christopher Frayling on Things to Come
Christopher Frayling on Things to Come

In this interview, conducted in 2013, writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling discusses t...

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Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy

Documentary on the Mummy film(s) by Universal Studios....

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Elementary My Dear Viewer
Elementary My Dear Viewer

Richard E. Grant looks at the history of Sherlock Holmes, including the many movie and TV adaptation...

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