Preserved Film Movies
- 1965
Lord Jim
Lord Jim6.81965HD
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...
- 1945
The Battle of San Pietro
The Battle of San Pietro61945HD
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this...
- 1942
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway5.81942HD
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox...
- 1959
Window Water Baby Moving
Window Water Baby Moving6.91959HD
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her...
- 1983
El Norte
El Norte7.21983HD
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...
- 1920
The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro7.1691920HD
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...
- 1952
Scandal Sheet
Scandal Sheet71952HD
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
- 1980
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe71980HD
Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever...
- 1967
Eye Myth
Eye Myth5.31967HD
After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid...
- 1979
Asparagus
Asparagus6.61979HD
A symbolic reflection on issues of female sexuality, art and identity constructs.
- 1972
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes6.31972HD
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific...
- 1960
Devi
Devi7.51960HD
A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.
- 1959
The Crimson Kimono
The Crimson Kimono6.71959HD
A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.
- 1965
The Coward
The Coward7.21965HD
Amitabha Roy is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter, driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town....
- 1953
The Moon Is Blue
The Moon Is Blue6.31953HD
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her...
- 1977
The Chess Players
The Chess Players7.11977HD
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich...
- 1965
Two
Two7.51965HD
This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at...
- 1966
Death of a Bureaucrat
Death of a Bureaucrat7.31966HD
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film...
- 1961
The Substitute
The Substitute6.51961HD
With magic inflatable objects that spring to life to fill his every need, a flippant beachgoer wants for nothing. Well... almost nothing.
- 1963
The Cardinal
The Cardinal6.51963HD
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.