Watch Ed Wood

A 1950s studio fixer spends a day recovering a kidnapped star; “would that it were so simple”.

A dead screenwriter narrates from a pool; Gloria Swanson is ready for her close-up.

A New York playwright is put in a peeling Hollywood hotel to write a wrestling picture, and cannot.

Herman Mankiewicz writes Citizen Kane, in 1930s studio black and white.

Margaret Keane painted the big-eyed children; her husband signed them.

A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through 1969 Los Angeles.

A rage-prone salesman, a pudding coupon scheme and a harmonium left in the street.

The rise and fall of a porn star in the San Fernando Valley, 1977 to 1984.