This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly chronicling the filmmakers' defiance of the blacklist. (BAM) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
6.4 1960 HD
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...
0 1972 HD
Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
5 1944 HD
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in...
6.6 1969 HD
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by...
6.5 1971 HD
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he felt the sovereignty of Sikkim was under threat...
5.2 1968 HD
Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
6 1963 HD
Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). Preserved by the Academy...
0 1972 HD
Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality...
8 2005 HD
A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city...
7.6 1994 HD
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...
0 1944 HD
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely...
6.8 1976 HD
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
6.7 1967 HD
The film reflects Dewdney's conviction that the projector, not the camera, is the filmmaker's true medium. The form and content of the film are shown...
4.8 1941 HD
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific,...
0 1983 HD
A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy Film Archive.
5.8 1945 HD
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner...
6 1974 HD
An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science) in San Francisco. It shows many of the exhibits...
5.2 1974 HD
Three young ladies perform yoga without clothes in the open air of Cyprus. Another does the same in a studio. These visuals are interspersed with...
0 1975 HD
Examines the mesmerising construction of clear crystal glass pieces created by the craftsmen of Waterford. The process from the intense heat of the...
6 1961 HD
Documenting the maiden voyage of the SS Hope, a hospital ship operated by Project HOPE, where it brought medical care to Indonesia and South Vietnam...
