Preserved Film Movies

A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with...

Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe...

Using clips from several unidentified films of the preceding decade, featuring many well-known stars of the day, this short demonstrates that an...

Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing...

A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Shut Up... I'm Crying is a 1970 English language short film directed by Robert Siegler, starring Sal Catena, Kevin Michael and Carolyn Schultz. It is...

Experimental film woven around a poem about Chicano culture in the U.S. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

An instructional video that teaches, through stop-motion animation, how to build a bridge over a gorge that can hold heavy military equipment. ...

The film reflects Dewdney's conviction that the projector, not the camera, is the filmmaker's true medium. The form and content of the film are shown...

Similar in style to First Film, Tamblyn filmed a journey to Rio. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures once drawn by contemporary artists including...

Chris Columbus's NYU student film follows a naïve freshman from the Midwest as he becomes acclimated to his first year at NYU. Preserved by the...

Documentary short film detailing the history of the American Women's Army Corps, the WACS. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film...

An animation (long before there were such things) for Oscar Brown Jr’s track “But I Was Cool”, from his 1961 debut album Sin &...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

One of the most shocking documentary films ever made. A young anti-war American, to avoid the draft, calmly aims a rifle at his foot and shoots. For...

United Nations, 1947 - In this film one crippled child learns to walk: first to move, then to stand, and finally to take his first steps. The film...

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga...

A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in...

Mister Mugg is a 1933 short American pre-Code comedy film directed by James W. Horne. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 6th Academy Awards...