Showman

A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy Film Archive. 

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary a...

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982),a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems relat...

This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly...

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox F...

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy...

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems. Preserved by the A...

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its haunting...

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in betwee...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts...

The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race fr...

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...

Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific,...