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

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

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

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

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

1994

Hoop Dreams

7.592/343

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

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

1961

On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

10/1

A direct-cinema portrait of Indianapolis 500 driver Eddie Sachs, filmed before, during, and after the 1960 race as he competes from pole position. Usi...

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On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

1990

City Streaming

8/1

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there. The consciousness o...

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City Streaming

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

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

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

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

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

1948

California's Golden Beginning

9/1

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.

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California's Golden Beginning

1970

Chicken Real

7/2

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

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Chicken Real

1974

Pasadena Freeway Stills

6/1

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

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Pasadena Freeway Stills

1976

Harlan County U.S.A.

7.57/122

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

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Harlan County U.S.A.

1966

Atol

0/0

A documentary abstraction recorded at night in Los Angeles backed by the music of Stockhausen. It is a preliminary effort to organise camera and audio...

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Atol