1960

Primary

6.476/42

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

1944

The Town

6/3

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 mic...

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The Town

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

1971

Sikkim

6.667/3

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 f...

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Sikkim

1968

God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

5.7/14

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

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God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

1963

Showman

6.7/3

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

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Showman

1969

The Sun's Gonna Shine

6.875/8

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

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The Sun's Gonna Shine

1963

Shoppers Market

0/0

UCLA Student Color Film. "a documentary film of marked lyrical and experimental tendency which was photographed and recorded in a L.A. supermarket. It...

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Shoppers Market

1945

Appointment in Tokyo

6.4/5

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

1972

Manzanar

6.5/2

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

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Manzanar

1979

Soft Fiction

8/6

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

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Soft Fiction

1950

The Costume Designer

10/1

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

1975

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

6.762/21

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

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The Man Who Skied Down Everest

1956

The Wormwood Star

6.375/8

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems. Preserved by the A...

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The Wormwood Star

1963

The Chair

7.5/2

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy...

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The Chair

1972

Marjoe

7.6/35

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

1979

Kristallnacht

9/1

A bewitching, mysterious work of enveloping beauty, the film’s ominous title and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its haunting...

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Kristallnacht

1971

I Don't Know

4.4/5

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

1994

Hoop Dreams

7.594/342

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

1949

The Art Director

6.667/3

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