Bay Area filmmakers and Canyon Cinema co-founders Ben Van Meter and Bruce Conner were invited to L.A. to talk about Underground Film on the Art Linkletter Show. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of ...

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

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

Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this...

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

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...

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

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