For fans of iconic movie stars and filmmakers (both dead and alive) who enjoy looking behind the curtain of how movies are made, 2025 was a year replete with great gems. We've been spoiled with documentaries that disclosed well-known and unfamiliar moments, personal internal turmoil, and delightful anecdotes of actors (and a director or two) we've followed and adored for years. Some of these came as long-overdue retrospectives about late legends who defined their respective eras, while others were created with the in-depth involvement of their subjects themselves — looking back and analyzing their successes, failures, setbacks, lucky breaks, and the personas fame molded them into — from several decades of distance.

Making such concise portraits and biographies of larger-than-life cinema s

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