Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

Ringers – Lord of the Fans

'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.

Cameras in Middle-Earth

An inside look at the filming process of the 2003 film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

J.R.R. Tolkien: Creator of Middle-Earth

A documentary about Tolkien's early life and the creation of his Middle-Earth franchise

National Geographic – Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting experience from WWI, and closing with a look at the Finnish inspiration for the scholar's self-invented languages of Elfish. In between are interviews with the cast of the films and some clips, by far the most from "The Fellowship of the Ring", but a few glimpses of Rohan riders (from "The Two ...

A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of ‘Lord of the Rings’

Forgotten Silver

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.