The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film gives evidence, here very restrained, of Weegee's interest in technical tricks: blur, speeded up or slowed-down film, a lens that makes the city's streets curve as if cars are driving over a rainbow. - The New York Times

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology,...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 ...

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 198...

Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Drom...

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the mi...

Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in th...

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

A 16 year old girl recalls the last moments of her summer vacation, spent with friends in the Lauren...

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...

Corral is a 1954 National Film Board of Canada documentary by Colin Low, partly shot in the Cochrane...

In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants ...

An extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of th...
A short documentary covering the conclave and election of Pope Pius XII.

This fascinating documentary chronicles the intense rivalry between high schools in Southern Indiana...
The Mona Lisa Curse is a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes that...
Jerry Wald has to write about radio, visiting Sid Gary gives him the tip it might be more easy for h...
In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of t...

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimen...