Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for money prizes. Baby prepares for WW2. [Originally a 70mm projection-performance, 1982, by Ken and Flo Jacobs. From THRILLS AND CHILLS (Castle Films, c. 1930)].
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty ...
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...
Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored b...
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...
Exploring the devastation of the 1930s, Lisa Jackson shapes amateur-shot archival film from a South ...
As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situ...
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
An Eternalism film.
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...