Wonderland of California

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A...

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

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...

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...

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