“When Picasso died I wanted to make the first post-mortem documentary, as I knew would happen anyway, and cheaply. The film took four hours to finish from camera to print and cost a little under $5." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing ...
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy jo...
The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapol...
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...
This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with addit...
The film reflects Dewdney's conviction that the projector, not the camera, is the filmmaker's true m...
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits ...
Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel p...
A depiction of the life of an impoverished early twentieth century rural Bengali family.
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-g...
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M...
Things coaxed into light in roughly the order they were encountered. Preserved by the Academy Film ...
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...