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Flashback: A Brief History of Film (1986) with Louis D. Giannetti •
Five American Cinematographers (1987) • ''Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart'' (1990) •
Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (1993) •
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 (1997) •
Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (1999) •
Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood (2005) •
Pieces of My Heart: A Life (2008) with Robert Wagner •
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille (2010) • ''You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age'' (2014) with Robert Wagner •
John Wayne: The Life and Legend (2014) • ''I Loved Her In The Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses'' (2016) with Robert Wagner •
Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart (2017) •
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (2020) •
20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio (2021) •
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided (2023) • ''Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face'' (2025) ==External links==