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.

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...

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

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

Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territor...

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

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...

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

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

“What kind of person do you think former President Park Geunhye is?” Sohn Seokhee, a journalist, giv...

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 was a very human account of the lives and deaths of Marie Antoinette and Louis the XVI focusing...

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

A look inside the Will Vinton Studio, with specializes in stop-motion animations with clay. Preserv...

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

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...