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.

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documen...

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel p...

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

Highlights the increasingly important roles women occupy on the various fronts of WW II. In England,...

This short on movie sound men starts with a short history of sound in the movies. We then see how th...
Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A...
This fragmentary documentary was prepared at the request of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and S...

Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this...

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

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Ar...
This film reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the c...

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...
Experimental documentary using a train journey between New York City and Washington, D.C. as the fra...

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

Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (B...

On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her...

Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, ...

Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in dee...

A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War...

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film A...