The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest artworks, and follows his life and career as he achieves lasting fame. The documentary includes detailed looks at some of the artist's most renowned creations. In 1950 the film was re-edited and new footage shot by Robert J. Flaherty. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Kavery Kaul’s engaging documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in ...
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incu...

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of t...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power o...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, ...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
Experimental documentary using a train journey between New York City and Washington, D.C. as the fra...

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...

This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...

Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this...

This short on movie sound men starts with a short history of sound in the movies. We then see how th...