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.

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

Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

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

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...

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

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

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

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