One Hand Don't Clap

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

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'...

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...

Short by Stuart Schulberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A historical film contrasting the two Germanies – the good and the evil – which struggled for power between the two world wars.

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there. The consciousness...

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox...

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

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...

Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest to write a hit tune brings him to the wacky world...

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documents a spontaneously improvised concert by musician...

This short on movie sound men starts with a short history of sound in the movies. We then see how the different jobs in the sound department...