A Crime to Fit the Punishment

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

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

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in...

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'...

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...

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...

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

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

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

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973....

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.