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.
This is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a blac...
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...
Documentary about the Watts Towers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
An overview of John F. Kennedy's political career. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partne...
The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved ...
This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documen...
Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dr...
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
John Ford splices together footage of Torpedo Squadron 8, all but one of whom were later shot down a...
Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel p...
Bosom Friends is a 1934 American short film produced by E. W. Hammons. It was nominated for an Acade...
A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in part...
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A...
Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly a...
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...