Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)

Summary: Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

Release Date: June 22, 2006

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Gisela Grischow

, Volker Schlöndorff

Writer: Volker Schlöndorff

Runtime: 1 h 11 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bioskop Film, Volker Schlondorff

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Der ewige Jude (1940)

Summary: Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.

Release Date: November 28, 1940

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Fritz Hippler

Writer: Eberhard Taubert

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

Production: Deutsche Filmherstellungs- und -Verwertungs- GmbH, Berlin (DFG)

Distributor: BuyIndies.com Inc., Loving the Classics

Country: Germany

Language: German

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Summary: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Release Date: January 12, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Ninotchka (1939)

Summary: A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Release Date: November 23, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch