Movies: George Lucas

George Lucas discusses how Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Monomyth (aka the Hero's Journey) and other concepts from mythology and religion shaped the Star Wars saga....

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....

The third film in a new trilogy of Star Wars films, reported to be either episodes X, XI, and XII of the Skywalker Saga, or begin a completely new storyline with new characters. Plot TBA....

Focuses on the escalating war between the Imperial Remnant and the fledgling New Republic, and serves as a culmination of interconnected stories from The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka....

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white film by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of their USC film school course. It is an abstract film with no story and no actors, that graphically depicts the reflections of moving light streaks an...

John Ford was a master filmmaker with an influential style. This documentary about the great director was produced by Lucasfilm. Made by JAK Documentary for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, 2007. Producer & Writer: Sharon Wood Associa...

Set two days before the events of Episode IV, Jedi Mara Jade has received a copy of the Death Star plans, which she must somehow get to the rebel forces. Unfortunately, she is being held prisoner by the Empire, and only two rebel soldiers, Zev and Kl...

Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha....

Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha....

Marcello, I'm So Bored is a 1966 short animated film co-directed by John Milius and John Strawbridge. An intentionally crude cartoon with a live action epilogue in which Milius appears with Gayle Hunnicutt. The film was made when Milius was a student...

The Phantom Menace is now 20 years old. Star Wars fans have had mix feelings for this film since its release in 1999. This documentary covers the film's journey in the Star Wars fandom over the past 20 years. How do fans look at The Phantom Menace 20...

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...

The second film in a new trilogy of Star Wars films, reported to be either episodes X, XI, and XII of the Skywalker Saga, or begin a completely new storyline with new characters. Plot TBA....

Scout: A Star Wars Story, tells the tale of Dax Orrell, a soldier on The Forest Moon of Endor, during Return of the Jedi, who wakes up in a daze with no idea as to where the rest of his battalion has gone....

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

Documentary about the invention of MORF, the program for morphing, which was created for the film Willow (1988)....

A Night at the Movies, the ongoing TCM series of one-hour "Film Studies 101" specials, takes up the subject of "Fantasy" in its seventh and latest installment. Once again Laurent Bouzereau has created a documentary examining the many different ways t...

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

A Rebellion pilot is hounded by death from the merciless Empire and a frozen grave, after being abandoned during the retreat of the Rebel Alliance from Hoth....

George Lucas's senior project at the University of Southern California in 1966. It was named for the lap time of the Lotus 23 race car that was the subject of the film. It is a nonstory visual tone poem depicting the imagery of a car going at full sp...