Spend It All

An early short film by Penelope Spheeris about a boy enjoying the age-old pleasures of making a wish on a dandelion. Preserved by the Academy Film...

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'...

Louisiana filmmaker, Pat Mire, teams up with veteran filmmaker and cinematographer, Charles Bush, to capture the natural drama of handfishing in this...

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

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

For 170 years, a Native American community has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny island deep in the bayous of Louisiana. They have fished,...

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

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

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...

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain...

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