A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...
Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...
A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of trans...
Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Jose...
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...
Documentary short film demonstrating the way wartime farming measures in 1943 resulted in the greate...
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparat...
This moving, family documentary goes behind the scenes at The Big Bear Alpine Zoo, which is only one...
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s...
Vans Skateboarding is proud to present Lizzie, a short 35mm film directed by renowned filmmaker Greg...
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...
The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummie...
Exploring the rise and fall of the groundbreaking animated series Ren & Stimpy and its controversi...
On November 8, 2018, a spark flew in the Sierra Nevada foothills, igniting the most destructive wil...
While California is going bankrupt, one business is booming. "How Weed Won the West" is the story of...