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The Window Cleaner is a charming U.S. Government Office of War Information short that presents the common man during the period of World War II,…
MORE ›The most widely seen footage by an amateur filmmaker, these seconds record the assassination of President John F. Kennedy during a motorcade through Dallas, Texas…
MORE ›Mark O’Brien, who was severely stricken with polio at a young age, believes disability to be a social problem, as it can happen to anyone.…
MORE ›It’s Peter’s first day of third grade. He’s excited and scared, like 46 million other children on their way to the first day of a…
MORE ›This is an early fiction film of strong social comment. Through use of parallel editing, the film contrasts the harsh life of farmers and the…
MORE ›A lyrical impression of a rain storm in Amsterdam, this “city poem” observes, as the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens put it, the changing face of…
MORE ›Land Without Bread is Luis Buñuel’s only documentary film, and just as startlingly original as his fiction films. It is an uncompromising revelation of the…
MORE ›An extraordinary, disturbing film that probed Nazi concentration camps in an exercise of memory, using camera tracking to evoke mood and theme. Actual photographs and…
MORE ›John Grierson’s documentary unit of the British General Post Office produced gems such as Night Mail. This film brings to life the nightly run of…
MORE ›Commissioned by the Roosevelt Administration, Lorentz made this film for less than $20,000 and it transformed U.S. government film production. His photographers rivaled the fine…
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