Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked!

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From tropical disasters and doomed sci-fi epics to bribing Orson Welles and fending off a puma, we rate cinema’s most revealing glimpses behind the scenes

Behind-the-scenes footage from Dawn of the Dead is the highlight of this aficionados-only affair, which follows the 1979 satirical zombie horror all the way through to distribution. Director George A Romero, makeup maestro Tom Savini and the occasional zombie actor shoot the breeze in the deserted shopping mall that provides the movie with its incongruous central location.

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