Primary

Primary

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

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A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy

A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy

Bringing to life an American President who was widely respected by his countrymen and celebrated around the world. Composed from four break through...

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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F...

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Faces of November

Faces of November

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

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Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America

Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America

“Songs of America” shows the two on stage, in the studio and on a concert tour across a turbulent country. Their ambitious Bridge Over Troubled...

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The Chair

The Chair

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...

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Who's Out There?

Who's Out There?

Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of...

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Adventures on the New Frontier

Adventures on the New Frontier

A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term...

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American Football

American Football

A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an...

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Jane

Jane

Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for...

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On the Road with Duke Ellington

On the Road with Duke Ellington

Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.

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Aga Khan

Aga Khan

In 1960, Robert Drew founded his production company Drew Associates; joining him were a number of well-known or soon-to-be well-known documentary...

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Yanki No!

Yanki No!

After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.

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Susan Starr

Susan Starr

Susan Starr is a talented young concert pianist preparing for the biggest competition of her life. She also happens to have a terrible cold that...

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On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race...

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Nehru

Nehru

The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

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The New Met: Countdown to Curtain

The New Met: Countdown to Curtain

Backstage with Franco Zeffirelli and Rudolph Bing as multiple mechanical difficulties snag rehearsals. Marc Chagall stops by only to see that his...

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The Sun Ship Game

The Sun Ship Game

Flying hundreds of miles a day through wild weather with no engine requires feats of airmanship unprecedented in human history and known before...

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Storm Signal

Storm Signal

A documentary record of the day-to-day existence of a pair of young married heroin addicts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

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784 Days That Changed America

784 Days That Changed America

Ten years after the Watergate scandal, this television special condensed two years of American history into a two-hour retrospective report.

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