Willard Van Dyke Movies

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White,...

After Caroline Cram finds herself in an analyst's office, she starts groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness and anxieties. A...

Internationalist film exploring the economic and political importance of Latin America to the United States. A document of the “Good Neighbor...

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental...

"This unfinished civil rights-era film details how segregation affects the daily lives of African Americans, and includes portions of interviews with...

A documentary/recruitment film originally intended for showings outside the United States to promote careers in public health and American methods in...

A commercial for the Works Progress Administration. We see hands close up: working, playing, praying, whittling, and strumming. Hands use saws and...

Annual report to stockholders highlighting General Mills’s accomplishments of the past year.

A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process,...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...

Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

A school teacher/wheat farmer is solicited by several oil companies for the rights to drill on his family's farm. After accepting an offer, he...

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....