This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly chronicling the filmmakers' defiance of the blacklist. (BAM) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
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 ...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparat...
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s...
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
A documentary on the Wilmington 10, 9 afro-Americans and 1 white woman who were unjustly imprisoned....
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...
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy ...
This film reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the c...
This fragmentary documentary was prepared at the request of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and S...
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
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...
The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapol...
This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...
A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Ann...