Jonathan Rigby Movies

Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking...

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British...

Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military,...

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic...

A look at Hammer’s progression from a back off in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company,...

Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series.

A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.

An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep coming back to the count.

It’s 1881, and Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different academics. Abercrombie Smith is a model of Victorian manhood, clean of...

A revealing insight into the short life and times of Michael Reeves.

The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.

The Last Sacrifice delves into the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton—the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and...

A documentary produced for Universal about their early Wolf Man film(s)

Documentary on the Hammer film

The interviewees cover Bram Stoker's life around the time he wrote The Jewel of the Seven Stars, the movie's producers, Leon's onscreen persona,...

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to...

A documentary about the making of the movie "Dragonwyck"

Filmmakers and historians discuss the 1942 cult classic Dr. Renault’s Secret.