10 Best Star Wars Documentaries

The original Star Wars making-of documentary may lack the substance of its successors on this list, but given that it's hosted by C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), the novelty factor is undeniable.

Across a tight 50 minutes, The Making of Star Wars offers up a whistle-stop tour through A New Hope's production, narrated by the dulcet tones of veteran actor William Conrad.

The behind-the-scenes footage of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford rehearsing on set is enough alone to make it worth watching, and though hardly a deep dive into the film's creation, it does speedily touch broadly on many key areas.

Watched today, this thoroughly of-its-time doc can't help but seem quaint, yet there's also an overpowering charm to it - a dusty, scratchy relic produced just before Star Wars became the all-encompassing pop-culture phenom that it is today.

Content-wise it's fairly average by contemporary standards, but the quirky presentation elevates it considerably.