Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in deep-water seas from within a special designed batiscaff, by the Cousteau family of sea explorers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Jose...

A biographical documentary about the Belgian free-diver Fred Buyle and his art of silent diving.

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

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...

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...

A journey into the extraordinary life and legacy of pioneering marine biologist Edie Widder.

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

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

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

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

Whether it's the biggest great white, the most photographed tiger shark, or the shark known for jump...

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

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

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