Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process, slagging and the blast furnace. Workers reflect upon their lives and the importance of their jobs. Emphasizes the importance of teamwork in the mills and on the plant's labor relations committee to help win the war. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Acad...

Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom t...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

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

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...

Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...

Throughout time, Eastern Ukraine (such as Donbas) has been referred to as a 'Russian world', but thi...

It's 1948 and hydro-electric power is transforming Scotland's Grampians.

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...

A documentary produced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that covers the histor...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Str...
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...
A portrait of three Los Angeles area residents who create things with their hands. Angelo Austin dec...
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, T...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...