Mel Brooks

For the first time ever, an animated feature presents a totally imagined world - a wondrously clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings.

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, and many more.

A blueprint of Frank Sinatra's personal and professional life from birth to retirement. He discovers his passion for singing early on and conquers the world of music. Sinatra then moves on to his dream of being an actor, proving to Hollywood that he isn't just a novelty or gimmick on set. Watch as he hits his lowest point in his life and then rises to the very top.

After 40 years, there's a sequel to the Mel Brooks film, History of the World, Part I.

In the late 1950s, a fresh style of stand-up comedy emerged tackling previously taboo subjects as sex, religion, politics, and drugs. Here are those comedians who took the big risks years ago and paved the way for today's crop of maverick comics.

This documentary features a reunion of the writers behind the iconic 1950s sketch comedy series "Caesar's Hour" at the Writers Guild Theater in 1996.

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

A hard-on-his-luck hound Hank (Michael Cera) teams up with a reluctant samurai (Samuel L. Jackson) to save a town full of cats and stop a ruthless villain from destroying their village.

Emmy-winning comedian, actor, writer and producer Sarah Silverman returns in her second HBO comedy special. Filmed at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston, the show features the New England native showcasing her fearless chutzpah.

A feature documentary profiling the most revered screenwriter in movie history, Paddy Chayefsky.

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies is the story of one daughter’s journey to see her father not just as 'Dad'- the man whose success and endless hours devoted to work loomed large over her childhood- but the way his collaborators do- as a doyen of modern American cinema. Through interviews with George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Affleck, Ron Howard, Morgan Freeman, Mel Brooks, Richard Donner, and more, Amanda Ladd-Jones endeavours to better understand her father, Alan Ladd, Jr. Known to all as Laddie, he is the understated studio chief and Oscar-winning producer behind such films as Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Chariots Of Fire, Police Academy, Braveheart, The Omen, Thelma and Louise, Young Frankenstein and Gone Baby Gone, whose intelligence, kindness, and unflagging faith in the people he hired turned him into one of the most successful movie moguls in Hollywood history.