Preserved Film Movies

A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style. Preserved...

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...

A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love. Preserved by the Academy Film...

In the 1936 short Allegretto, diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The...

A small fish doesn’t pay attention in school, and ends up getting caught on a hook. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to...

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end...

After marauding and sinking another ship, a band of pirates capture a female passenger, then send her overboard as punishment for her defiance. She...

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The film tells of a music hall impressionist who caricatures personalities from the second world war. Animated by Barry Bruce at Will Vinton...

Explore the events of the Mexican Revolution as they are recreated through the use of archival material and interviews with participants and...

Three fellows dream of prize money and a chance for a real Hollywood contract by winning the Liberty-Pete Smith amateur movie contest. They work on a...

Documentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures...

Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUX EX.

Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast...

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...

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

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....