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.

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

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

The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapol...

"Whereas SQUARE INCH FIELD was composed largely in the camera, Rimmer's next film, MIGRATION, made f...

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...

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

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

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

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...

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

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

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

This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...
A portrait of three Los Angeles area residents who create things with their hands. Angelo Austin dec...

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, ...

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

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