Building Empire: A Filmumentary

Name: Building Empire: A Filmumentary
Director: Jamie Benning
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-03-02
Duration: 137 min
Rating: 7.0

2006137m

★ 7.0

Documentary

Building Empire is an unofficial commentary on The Empire Strikes Back. Starting with the movie itself, it adds behind the scenes footage, audio interviews with the cast and crew, alternate angles, reconstructed scenes, text facts and more to give an in-depth look at the process which brought the film to the big screen.

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