1950

The Costume Designer

0/0

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...

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The Costume Designer

1941

Women in Defense

4.8/4

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

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Women in Defense

1994

Hoop Dreams

7.6/306

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

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Hoop Dreams

1982

A Crime to Fit the Punishment

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

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A Crime to Fit the Punishment

1945

Appointment in Tokyo

5.8/4

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 B...

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Appointment in Tokyo

1949

The Art Director

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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'...

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The Art Director

1960

Primary

6.4/36

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

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Primary

1982

Burden of Dreams

7.6/136

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems relat...

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Burden of Dreams

1975

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

6.6/18

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

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The Man Who Skied Down Everest

1977

Harlan County U.S.A.

7.4/101

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

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Harlan County U.S.A.

1974

Hearts and Minds

7.7/90

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts...

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Hearts and Minds

1972

Marjoe

7.633/30

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

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Marjoe

1951

The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk

10/1

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

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The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk

1942

The Battle of Midway

5.8/71

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox F...

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The Battle of Midway

1971

I Don't Know

4/3

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 betwee...

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I Don't Know

1924

The Last Word in Chickens

7/1

This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print. M...

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The Last Word in Chickens

1968

Permutations

6/18

An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer graphics as dynamic, swirling art. Preserved by th...

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Permutations

1945

The Battle of San Pietro

6/71

This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this locat...

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The Battle of San Pietro

1978

Scared Straight!

7.3/10

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

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Scared Straight!

1980

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

7/62

Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever c...

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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe