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.

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...

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...

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

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...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effor...

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