On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

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

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...

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...

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

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...