Thursday's Children

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

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

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'...

Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely...

The film reflects Dewdney's conviction that the projector, not the camera, is the filmmaker's true medium. The form and content of the film are shown...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

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...

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

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). Preserved by the Academy...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by...

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...

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