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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...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Cha...

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee),legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of...

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the lac...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Preserved by the Academy Film A...

The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds...

A toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he luck...

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Li...

Henry Browne, an African American farmer, and his family are profiled in this film. The important job of a farmer during times of war is highlighted,...

A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Made in an environment and at a time when frequent and gratuitous images of nude women permeated the work of her male counterparts, director Penelope...

An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society. Preserved...

Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971),director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows us—via...

Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970),Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality with full...

One-time carny, bartender, and married 10 times, director Penelope Spheeris’ mother was an uncommon woman. In this sweet, funny, and moving video por...