Toward Independence

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

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

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and...

Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, in 2003.

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...

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

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

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

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to...

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the...

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

This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain. ...