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Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.

In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and...

Negev Desert, Israel, 1987. Bashir Abu Rabi'a works as a pyrotechnics and special effects assistant on the film Rambo III, starring Sylvester...

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of...

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated...

Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of the most thrilling scenes the disaster genre has...

After the coup in Uruguay in 1973, thousands of intellectuals and artists fled the country. The filmmaker’s father was among them and left for...

Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few months sifting through material stored at the...

Luiz Roberto Galizia died very young, but he left behind a wealth of personal archives. 30 years later, his niece Ana Galizia plunges into these...

Using archival iPhone footage of both the places my father and I call home and our childhood photos, this work collages time and space, traveling...

Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.

Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce...

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first...

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

To produce speech, a set of mechanisms must be brought together. What is the normal articulation for speech? How to produce the sounds that make it...

This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.