The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures once drawn by contemporary artists including Honoré Daumier. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territor...
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the ...

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

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

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...
Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to c...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that t...

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

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Jose...

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

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

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

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

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...