This film is an account of the Talyllyn Railway, a historic narrow-gauge slate carrier in Tywyn, Wales, and its operation by a preservation society who saved it from being sold for scrap. Although the release date is 1965, it was actually filmed in the early 1950s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy ...
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...
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...
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents ...
Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Acad...
Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Jose...
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparat...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy ...
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surroun...
Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, ...
A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John ...
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, ...
A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...