Preserved Film Movies

  • 1960
    The Savage Eye

    The Savage Eye

    The Savage Eye

    5.71960HD

    Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights...

    The Savage Eye
  • 1941
    Churchill's Island

    Churchill's Island

    Churchill's Island

    6.3751941HD

    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...

    Churchill's Island
  • 1941
    Women in Defense

    Women in Defense

    Women in Defense

    4.81941HD

    Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific,...

    Women in Defense
  • 1987
    Who Killed Vincent Chin?

    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...

    Who Killed Vincent Chin?
  • 1954
    Thursday's Children

    Thursday's Children

    Thursday's Children

    6.6361954HD

    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....

    Thursday's Children
  • 1945
    Appointment in Tokyo

    Appointment in Tokyo

    Appointment in Tokyo

    5.81945HD

    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...

    Appointment in Tokyo
  • 1927
    The Blood Ship

    The Blood Ship

    The Blood Ship

    01927HD

    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...

    The Blood Ship
  • 1943
    Five Film Exercises: Film 1

    Five Film Exercises: Film 1

    Five Film Exercises: Film 1

    4.81943HD

    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...

    Five Film Exercises: Film 1
  • 1986
    Somewhere in the Arctic...

    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.

    Somewhere in the Arctic...
  • 1988
    Technological Threat

    Technological Threat

    Technological Threat

    5.81988HD

    Human fear of technology is portrayed in this very amusing futuristic parody. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

    Technological Threat
  • 1917
    Triumph

    Triumph

    Triumph

    01917HD

    This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into...

    Triumph
  • 1996
    Wat's Pig

    Wat's Pig

    Wat's Pig

    6.61996HD

    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...

    Wat's Pig
  • 1999
    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

    7.31999HD

    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...

    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour
  • 1966
    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    5.81966HD

    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...

    Skaterdater
  • 1970
    Necrology

    Necrology

    Necrology

    5.71970HD

    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...

    Necrology
  • 1945
    Tuesday in November

    Tuesday in November

    Tuesday in November

    01945HD

    A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution. It is...

    Tuesday in November
  • 1991
    Andrey Svislotskiy

    Andrey Svislotskiy

    Andrey Svislotskiy

    5.91991HD

    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...

    Andrey Svislotskiy
  • 1947
    Motion Painting No. 1

    Motion Painting No. 1

    Motion Painting No. 1

    6.21947HD

    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...

    Motion Painting No. 1
  • 1962
    Blue Moses

    Blue Moses

    Blue Moses

    4.91962HD

    One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against...

    Blue Moses
  • 1944
    The Fighting Generation

    The Fighting Generation

    The Fighting Generation

    4.91944HD

    A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred...

    The Fighting Generation