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.
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

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

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

Short film made up of various clips showcasing the Cinecolor process, including a visit to a Marx Br...

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 ...
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...
A portrait of three Los Angeles area residents who create things with their hands. Angelo Austin dec...
Short by Stuart Schulberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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

Kavery Kaul’s engaging documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in ...

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power o...

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

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

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both...

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

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

A look inside the Will Vinton Studio, with specializes in stop-motion animations with clay. Preserv...

Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the f...

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