Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
7.8 1927 HD
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
7.5 1958 HD
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the...
7.7 1972 HD
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem. Preserved by the Academy Film...
0 1930 HD
Just before the scheduled electrocution of stockbroker Kenneth Avery for the murder of Mazie Lawrence, Nan Perry makes one last plea to the governor...
5 1914 HD
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is...
0 1979 HD
"This hand drawn animated film is a tribute to my hands. It was produced between 1977-79 with the assistance of a grant from the Sinking Creek Film...
4.8 1943 HD
Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...
6.5 1953 HD
A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson...
6 1949 HD
A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
5.6 1999 HD
Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...
8 1955 HD
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Preserved...
4.5 1944 HD
Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...
0 1978 HD
Future Perfect is an early algorithmic film, based on a collection of decreasing mathematical series that produce visual and auditory rhythms beyond...
2 1974 HD
"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle...
1 1972 HD
“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...
5.2 1951 HD
Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
5.5 1916 HD
"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen". This is episode 63 from a total of 119 weekly...
7.371 1947 HD
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the...
7.726 1965 HD
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain...
6 1951 HD
Stop-motion puppetry version of the classic fairy tale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
