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...
See moreA 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...
See moreCrisis: 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...
See moreFaces 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...
See moreSimon 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...
See moreThe 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...
See moreWho's Out There?
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of...
See moreAdventures 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...
See moreAmerican 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...
See moreJane
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...
See moreOn 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.
See moreAga 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...
See moreYanki No!
After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.
See moreSusan 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...
See moreOn 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...
See moreNehru
The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.
See moreThe 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...
See moreThe 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...
See moreStorm 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.
See more784 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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