Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

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.

Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created a mythical, highly masculine freestyle wrestling...

Philoxenia is a short documentary highlighting the synergy between the Greek notion of philoxenia ("friend of the stranger") and Southern...

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

People are interviewed in Dresden, Ontario, to sample local attitudes towards racial discrimination against black people that brought this town into...

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'...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became...

Biologist Scott Gillingwater works to prevent the extinction of the endangered Queensnake.

The Kennedy dynasty that has mesmerized generations. To this day their legacy lives on. Plagued by tragedy and scandal, they continue to bring...

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color...