The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

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...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). Preserved by the Academy...

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

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...

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...

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

Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

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

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

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...