Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in the Louisiana Delta from the singular Les Blank. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

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

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

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

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John ...

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

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

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...

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incu...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
A historical film contrasting the two Germanies – the good and the evil – which struggled for power ...

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

Kavery Kaul’s engaging documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in ...

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings...

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

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

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

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

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both...