Film History books
Here are 48 books with a lot of film history, starting with American Film, Within Our Gates and Gaslight Melodrama.
American FilmAmerican Film Institute
Within Our GatesAlan Gevinson
Gaslight MelodramaGuy Barefoot
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent PatrickMallory O'Meara
The Films of Stephen KingAnn Lloyd
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess BrideCary Elwes, Joe Layden
HitchcockFrancฬงois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock
Adventures in the Screen TradeWilliam Goldman
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New HollywoodMark Harris
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - How We Made Movie MagicAndy Serkis
The Complete Phantom of the OperaGeorge C. Perry, Jane Rice
The Lord of the RingsBrian Sibley
Easy Riders, Raging BullsPeter Biskind
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern WomanSam Wasson
1001 Movies You Must See Before You DieSteven Jay Schneider, Geoff Andrew
The Wes Anderson CollectionMatt Zoller Seitz, Wes Anderson
The Making of Star WarsJ.W. Rinzler
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World WarMark Harris
The MatrixJoshua Clover
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a GenerationSusannah Gora
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of PsychoStephen Rebello
Future NoirPaul M. Sammon
My Lunches with OrsonHenry Jaglom, Orson Welles
The Art and Making of The Dark Knight TrilogyJody Duncan Jesser, Janine Pourroy
The Making of The Empire Strikes BackJ.W. Rinzler
Conversations with WilderCameron Crowe, Karen Lerner
John Carter and the Gods of HollywoodMichael D. Sellers
The Shawshank RedemptionMark Kermode
The Parade's Gone By...Kevin Brownlow
The Story of FilmMark Cousins
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940sOtto Friedrich
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion PicturesDonald Spoto
A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook
The Making of Return of the JediJ.W. Rinzler
A Critical Companion to Stanley KubrickElsa Colombani
Harry Potter: Film WizardryBrian Sibley
The Silence of the LambsYvonne Tasker
The Lord of the RingsErnest Mathijs
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern HorrorJason Zinoman
Twilight Director's Notebook : The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie MeyerCatherine Hardwicke
Harry Potter Page to ScreenBob McCabe
The Movie BookLouis Baxter, John Farndon
Hollywood BabylonKenneth Anger
The Twilight Saga: The Complete Film Archive: Memories, Mementos, and Other Treasures from the Creative Team Behind the Beloved Motion PicturesRobert Abele
The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie GuideBrian Sibley
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar FranchiseChris Taylor
Your Movie SucksRoger Ebert
Woody Allen on Woody AllenStig Bjorkman, Woody Allen