ICYMI: kaijucast‘s documentary Hail To The King is now on YouTube!
- Animal Icons: It Came From Japan - An Animal Planet special produced in the runup to Godzilla’s fiftieth anniversary in 2004.
- Bringing Godzilla Down to Size - A documentary on the genre’s origins and legacy, originally included on the Rodan / The War of the Gargantuas Classic Media DVD set.
- Godzilla & Hiroshima: The Dawn of the Kaiju Eiga - A documentary that explores Godzilla’s nuclear origin, and the influence of the nuclear scare on the genre.
- Godzilla 1954: The DVD Shelf Movie Reviews - A run-of-the-mill but informative YouTube documentary on the making of the original Godzilla.
- Godzilla 60th Anniversary: The Amazing World of Japanese Special Effects - A 2014 NHK documentary looking at the sixty year legacy of Godzilla and the history of tokusatsu.
- Godzilla and Other Movie Monsters - A documentary feature that explores the history of monsters in storytelling, from the earliest dragon legends to Japanese monster movies.
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters - A documentary produced by the BBC in 1998 during the runup to the first American Godzilla film.
- Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction - An independent, crowd-funded documentary by über-fan Kyle Yount (kaijucast) that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world’s greatest monster, Godzilla.
- Kaijunited: Japanese Monsters & Us - A fan-made documentary focusing on kaiju fandom in the US, Japan, and France.
- Kaiju Gaiden - A crowd-funded feature that tells the stories of previously-unheard-of independent kaiju films, and the people who made them.
- SciFi Japan TV - A now-concluded online documentary series from the folks at SciFi Japan. The focus shifts per episode.
If anyone can think of or knows of any more, please give me a shout!
Updated with a direct link to Hail To The King: 60 Years of Destruction!
This damn comic hasn’t even come out yet and these two pages are already creeping onto the list of my all-time favorite Godzilla moments. Because of course he would react to an enormous sign reading ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE by blowing it up.
Full preview here.
My loop is up for this month! The theme was rainbow and I was inspired by a certain film I’m sure you can’t guess~
I had to compress it for tumblr, but you can watch and vote for the original on the loopdeloop site HERE
