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...

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

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

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...
A historical film contrasting the two Germanies – the good and the evil – which struggled for power ...

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

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

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personaliti...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

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

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

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

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...