The Movies That Made Us is a TV Documentary series by Brian Volk-Weiss, it's a Spin-Off of The Toys That Made Us.
The series chronicles the production of some of the most famous movies in pop culture. Through interviews and photography, the series shows the process and adversity faced by these movies as they were made and distributed by theatre companies, and how their success went off to spawn serieses.
The series aired on Netflix on November 29th, 2019.
The Movies That Made Us contains examples of:
- Deadpan Snarker: the narrator and interviewers fill this role with joy.
- It Will Never Catch On: Interestingly, the people making the first Friday the 13th never thought anyone would ever see it, let alone that it would blow up like it did.
- Spin-Off: Of The Toys That Made Us. It also got a brief one called "The Christmas Movies That Made Us" which covered Elf and The Nightmare Before Christmas but both episodes were merged back into the main "Movies That Made Us".
- Talking Heads: As per the norm with documentary series, there are plenty of sit-downs with people involved in production of the movie to share their stories.
