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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...
A historical film contrasting the two Germanies – the good and the evil – which struggled for power ...
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...

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

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

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

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

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Ar...

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

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

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

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