Number Our Days

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

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

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary...

Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of contributed funds for the previous year. ...

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...

Possibly the most lucid, vivid, and awesome demonstration of the building up of still images to create moving ones, Pasadena Freeway Stills simply,...

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

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A historical film contrasting the two Germanies – the good and the evil – which struggled for power between the two world wars.

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In.

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 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'...