Mel Brooks Movies

For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting...

New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996), and sketches from Your Show of Shows (1950) and...

A feature documentary profiling the most revered screenwriter in movie history, Paddy Chayefsky stands alone as the only writer to win three solo...

Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews...

New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then...

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part...

Seminal TV special about two groups of children, one in New York City and the other in Moscow, who befriend each other over a satellite connection...

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee...

A short documentary exploring the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks and the role it played in the production of "High Anxiety."

Features a sit-down with two of the film's writers; the third, Ronny Graham, passed away in 1999.

A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man (1970) won...

A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs.

In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the genre is resilient. A handful of masterpieces...

A behind-the-scenes short about the making of the 1991 Mel Brooks film "Life Stinks".

The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and...

Dick Cavett interviews Mel Brooks in 2006.

Hosted by Cary Elwes. It's a promotional piece that was intended to get the word out about the film while it was in production, but some of the...

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."

This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections...