The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race from his perspective, starting from a week before the race through the day after the big event. You can feel the fervor and anticipation build (*pay close attention to the scaffolding that collapses with too many people on it during the race) as Eddie prepares to keep his place, "on the pole." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surroun...
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
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 ...
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...
A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy ...
This film is an account of the Talyllyn Railway, a historic narrow-gauge slate carrier in Tywyn, Wal...
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s...
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparat...
Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Jose...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, ...
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...
A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John ...
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...
This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...