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- DirectorBob MullerStarsWilliam TowerGutzon BorglumCalvin CoolidgeThe story behind the creation of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
- StarsJosé FerrerAuguste Rodin's masterpiece The Gates of Hell is an epic achievement: a massive portal to Hades inspired by Dante's Inferno, its towering doors covered with nearly 200 individual figures. Commissioned in 1880, the project was to be the main entrance to the museum of decorative arts in Paris, a museum that was never built. A century later, legendary New York businessman and philanthropist B. Gerald Cantor and his wife, Iris, convened a team of experts to attempt the first-ever bronze casting of The Gates of Hell using the painstaking "lost wax" method that Rodin himself had favored. The finished piece would stand 21 feet high and 12 feet wide, and weigh eight tons. This award-winning film chronicles Rodin's struggles and sacrifices in creating a monumental work of art -- and the extraordinary modern-day effort to give it the final form he envisioned.
- DirectorMarjorie HuntPaul WagnerStarsVincent PalumboRoger MorigiA look at some of the last stone carvers working in the United States, those completing the sculptures adorning the Washington National Cathedral. They discuss their craft and the cultural forces which helped define it, as well as the fading use of stone ornamentation in architecture and the history of stone carving, and they tour the cathedral to point out the history behind some of the work.
- DirectorHerbert MatterStarsAlexander CalderAlex MatterBurgess MeredithThe film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against music: the sky, trees, leaves, a bird, water, sand, a beach. A little boy (Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter) wanders along the beach observing the natural world around him. He walks and presently comes to a house and peers inside. The second sequence has no music. The narrator speaks of sculptor Alexander Calder and his work, as we see Calder in his workshop, cutting and creating unusual shapes, and seeing the resultant artworks. The last sequence has music as we view images of Calder's work. However, now they are intercut with images from nature so that we understand that Calder's inspiration is the natural world around him. The film ends as it began, with an image of the sun, now fading into the sky.
- DirectorJake AuerbachStarsAnthony CaroTony CraggRichard DeaconThe greatest sculptor of the 19th and 20th century as seen by the greatest British sculptors of the 21st century.
- DirectorJulius KohanyiHenry Moore grants Julius Kohanyi a rare personal visit with the master himself, at the pinnacle of his career. In the intimate setting of his studio in England, as he mixes clay in a palette, Moore shows how he conceives and shapes ideas for his art. Sitting amongst the pieces of driftwood and artifacts which inspire him, he plays with an early, miniature model for his monumental masterpiece now standing in front of Lincoln Center, and discusses the influences which made him decide to be a sculptor. In addition to a rarely seen pink marble sculpture made for his wife, we tour his private sculpture garden and travel around the world to see his other works on display. Moore granted few filmmakers access to him, and this film is about allowing Moore, in his prime, to speak for himself.
- DirectorJune OwensStarsBen H. CarpenterRobert GlenCatherine WhitemanThe Mustangs of Las Colinas is the largest equestrian sculpture in the world. Located in Williams Square Plaza, it is a breathtakingly realistic depiction in bronze of nine wild mustangs running across a granite stream.
- DirectorPaul G. Sanderson IIIA profile of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) who came of age during the Civil War and was a leading figure in the rebirth of American art that took place in the closing decades of the 19th Century. This documentary draws on photographs, letters, literary documents and the artist's works to create a beautiful and informative portrait of a neglected giant of American art.
- DirectorRichard DeweyTimothy MarrinanFor over forty years, world renowned artist Chris Burden has pushed the limits of sculpture, establishing himself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art. His provocative performances in the early 1970's shook the art world and have since become iconic. Over the next three decades Burden continued to redefine sculpture with a series of acclaimed assemblages, installations and kinetic works. Beams X Gravity documents the creation of perhaps Burden's most visually exciting work, Beam Drop Antwerp. The piece is massive, violent, thought provoking, beautiful and dangerous. The film documents the piece's creation from every possible angle, placing the viewer right at the heart of the action.
- DirectorHiro NaritaStarsChristoLinda HuntIsamu NoguchiIsamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings.
- DirectorPercy AdlonStarsFritz KoenigMichael BloombergHillary ClintonAdlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent times to the aftermath, where it now stands, heavily scarred, in Battery Park.
- DirectorKief DavidsonDaniel JungeStarsJason BatemanJamie BerardBryan BonahoomA look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.
- DirectorMaxence DenisExperimental documentary on two Haitian sculptors and their vision of voodoo and sculpture. Great images showing the fusion of recycled material and wood.
- DirectorEila HutriLasse NaukkarinenStarsKirsti TulonenArmas Hutri
- DirectorMichael McKennireyStarsJoe FafardJoe Fafard is a sculptor living in the small town of Pense in rural Saskatchwan. There is isn't much in Pense except for about 300 people and a lot of cows. Joe does small sculptures of the town's human and bovine residents, which have been exhibited and acclaimed in various places around the world.
- DirectorMark ZwonitzerStarsGutzon BorglumMichael MurphyFranklin D. RooseveltThe grand vision of sculptor Gutzon Borgum and the logistics behind the massive monument located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
- DirectorFaris KermaniStarsBettany HughesDinar BoontharnMario CeeIn the documentary Bettany Hughes visits 7 sites important to Buddism: Bodh Gaya, India; Bodanath Stupa, Nepal; Temple of The Tooth, Sri Lanka; Wat Pho Temple, Thailand; Angkor Wat, Cambodia; Giant Buddha, Hong Kong; and Hsi Lai Temple, LA.
- DirectorIan BremnerStarsAndrew BevanJohn ClementsXiuzhen LiNova's examination or how thousands to terra cotta soldiers in Qin dynasty's terra cotta army were created digresses into reviews of Qin history and technology.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsDavid McCulloughJeremy IronsDerek JacobiDocumentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985.
- DirectorKent JonesMartin ScorseseStarsPhillip LopateJames SandersMartin ScorseseFilm-maker Martin Scorsese looks back over the impact of The Statue of Liberty on the twentieth century, her evolution and what she meant to people of the past and what she continues to mean after September eleventh, 2001.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsDorothy TutinScott AntonyHelen MirrenBiographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.