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How to Bridge a Gorge

An instructional video that teaches, through stop-motion animation, how to build a bridge over a gorge that can hold heavy military equipment. Preser

1942

Moon Breath Beat

Moon Breath Beat is a hand-drawn experimental 2D film that depicts a woman and her two cats and how external forces such as birds and the moon impact

1980

Reform School

A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with add

1939

The Stronger

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film

1976

The Moon Is Blue

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedd

1953

Food and Magic

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America'

1943

That Man of Mine

Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases tendernes

1946

The Matinee Idol

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally

1928

Drums Along the Mohawk

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper

1939

Drylongso

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

1999

Moonbird

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

1959

An American March

Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

1941

Hotel Cartograph

The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible environ

1982

The Deadlier Sex

The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly d

1920

Come On, Cowboy!

Mr. Wilson hires Mantan to travel out West and clean out an old property. Mantan runs into trouble in believing the house is haunted while a gang uses

1949

Why Man Creates

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

1968

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive i

1950

Muscle Beach

Muscle Beach was shown in competition at Cannes in 1949 and won a prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1951. The short became a cult

1948

Johnny Come Lately

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will b

1943

The All-Star Bond Rally

Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits. Preserved by the Academy Fil

1945