Mark Vieira Movies

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and...

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer.

A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.

Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."

An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.

A look at the life and films of the expressionistic movie and television director John Brahm.

This documentary is featured on Warner Brothers' DVD for The Roaring Twenties (1939), released in 2005.

An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics.

This is a first installment of a soap opera showing the Castro as a Gothic, sleazy neighborhood where danger and duplicity lurk. Assorted characters include the innocent new boy in town, a streetwise detective, a pair of lesbian astronauts, a bitchy male couple, and an alcoholic landlord.

The intertwined lives of Jean Harlow and William Powell, from childhood struggles to Hollywood stardom. The rise of Jean Harlow and William Powell in Hollywood, from humble beginnings to success in the transition to talkies.The journey of Jean Harlow's rise to stardom, from being discovered by...