Preserved Film Movies
- 1960
The Savage Eye
The Savage Eye5.71960HD
Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights...
- 1941
Churchill's Island
Churchill's Island6.3751941HD
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...
- 1941
Women in Defense
Women in Defense4.81941HD
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific,...
- 1987
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Who Killed Vincent Chin?51987HD
This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him...
- 1954
Thursday's Children
Thursday's Children6.6361954HD
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent....
- 1945
Appointment in Tokyo
Appointment in Tokyo5.81945HD
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner...
- 1927
The Blood Ship
The Blood Ship01927HD
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a...
- 1943
Five Film Exercises: Film 1
Five Film Exercises: Film 14.81943HD
Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...
- 1986
Somewhere in the Arctic...
Somewhere in the Arctic...5.61986HD
A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
- 1988
Technological Threat
Technological Threat5.81988HD
Human fear of technology is portrayed in this very amusing futuristic parody. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
- 1917
Triumph
Triumph01917HD
This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into...
- 1996
Wat's Pig
Wat's Pig6.61996HD
In a Medieval castle, a marauder tries to kidnap the twin infant sons of the lord. He makes off with only one, whom he drops about a mile away. A pig...
- 1999
Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour
Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour7.31999HD
A little nachtmusick, a deep blue overture to the series. Breathing in the cool night airs, breathing out a children's song; then whispering a prayer...
- 1966
Skaterdater
Skaterdater5.81966HD
The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes...
- 1970
Necrology
Necrology5.71970HD
The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...
- 1945
Tuesday in November
Tuesday in November01945HD
A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution. It is...
- 1991
Andrey Svislotskiy
Andrey Svislotskiy5.91991HD
This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Russian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of...
- 1947
Motion Painting No. 1
Motion Painting No. 16.21947HD
Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 experimental short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann...
- 1962
Blue Moses
Blue Moses4.91962HD
One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against...
- 1944
The Fighting Generation
The Fighting Generation4.91944HD
A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred...