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.

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Acad...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John ...

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1...

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...

The film is part of Eye Filmmuseum’s Mutoscope and Biograph Collection. This collection consists of ...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personaliti...

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...
Short by Stuart Schulberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings...

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of t...

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s...

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incu...